Kwalish Krabs! Krazy Krustaceous Kontructs! Krabberatus Of Kwalish

I thought it was a Dethklok song.

I’d pay to see that

Hey Jocat👋

Jocat, what is your favorite music item in dnd? Edit: I meant magic item, but this too, I guess.

This is 100% accurate and I don't care who disagrees

Nah, Cloak of Displacement, gust cantrip.

I had one once but as the "Cloak of dramatic entrances". Automatically activated whenever I entered a room.

@@trueblueflare does it swoosh behind you

@@Sleepy_Cabbage yes.

That is cool af, I might try to incorporate something similar. Thank you!

Warlock's mask of many faces is my favorite invocation for the same reason

I mean yes! Scooby doo and shaggy disguise sequence with a minion or a bbeg's underling.... The chaos.... The bullshit lol.

Throw a bag of holding into the mix and you don't even have to find a hiding place for the bodies.

@@gurbo8734 and then you have a snack for later!

@@BigShoornlo Or if you're a fan of necromancy you've got bonus minions.

Deck of many illusion

Happened to me haha

I did this to my group however they DID draw a card and it was an Adult Red Dragon they pulled so I had fun with that by making it into an encounter

My first campaign, session zero, my DM ended it with a reward safe with various items, including a random deck of cards. Everyone was freaking out, but I had an intuition, so I drew a card and threw it, and it turns out he created a magic deck (called a gambit's deck) which basically turns any thrown card into a dagger! Had it till the end of the campaign, and it saved me a few times. Also the only time I've used my gaming set: card proficiency (he let me use it to gain proficiency with the card attacks).

Morning Dusk niiice, there should be more DND items that make you into an X-Man

you do that, well I do this! oh you do that, well I do this!

Ah! Exodia! That's impossible! No one's ever been able to summon him before!

Screw the rules, I have money

@@stratigangames508 yugioh was the ultimate foreshadowing of the modern gaming landscape..

"You're a third rate DM with a fourth rate dragon."

I mean his weaknesses include running water so a boat hitting him makes sense.

Ah, yes. The classic bat-boat-bop gambit. Perfection.

"Ehhh, what's up, doc?" - That Rogue, probably

tell us the long story

@@Wingdings_man he most likely had a cloak of bat which allows its user to transform into a bat, you can also fly in dim or dark areas and have advantage on dex saves. That’s just a guess tho.

oooooh... stealing this concept immediately

Moom, the pcs are breaking the game again

OH I AM STEALING THAT THANKYOU SIRE

@Alastair Valyocsik presumably the warforged artificer found a way to rebuild himself in such a way that the rods buttons could be pressed within his body simply by “flexing certain muscles” so to speak.

I applaud your creative genius. Bravo, clever soul, bravo.

When I heard that I just had the Bill & Ted "No way!" play in my head.

I thought it was bludgeoning is it not?

@@alertpenguin8403 Force is basically magic Bludgeoning anyway

Wicked witch of the west got a fortress yeeted at her by dorothy

@@NStripleseven and pretty much NOTHING can resist it.

Let him talk about magic because he bad at using it.

Counter spell

@@hunterrhoades1813 Reflect

Don't worry the bard is afraid of making his players powerful. Oh no the fighter has 30+ac Well looks like i gotta bring out the big guns. POWER WORD KILL!. or my favorite homebrew trap the hidden trip wire with a potable hole and bag of holding dropped. into it

The Caffinator - Puggly Love damn...

I like it! Char Person sets them on fire Harm Person does physical damage Chart Person makes a map to their location Charm Pets On makes your cat less indifferent toward you

POWER WORD SUN

@@nategwrightPower word Fun

That is honestly one of the coolest ideas I've ever heard

Fold Person.Old Person Cold Person. Mould Person. Disguise elf. Cone of Old. Wall of Horse. So many good options. Me and my group have discussed the idea as well, and it's hilarious.

This is incredible

That is a very fun idea. I love it

@@heinrich8711 yeah, it stems from an idea I had a while back to encourage exploration and "side questing" in my campaigns. I have a habit of making these hyper elaborate and large scale worlds to play in, it's really more like a giant sand box. So I include Easter eggs and rolled events and side missions to encourage exploration from my players.

How…how have I never done this?

I actually ran a one-shot dungeon run by Sheogorath. They didn't use the Wabbajack. Basically, it was an item they could cast spells at a higher level, but it would also cause a wild magic surge.

Oh hey I was that DM lol Awakened trees, but yeah. I was proud of the ingenuity.

So that happened in a campaign i was in, accept it was a bean with a random magical effect from a bag, i decided i was going to be cool and catch it in my teeth, unfortunately the random magical effect was spawn a treant where it landed. so thats how i built a high level treant rogue.

Just imagining that particular Treant looking like the tree equivolent of Mike Tyson just knocked his teeth right out.

Make something that has no intended use, so that the players can give it one

@@Atlas_1127 The wand of thing: It has no purpose whatso ever, it doesn't provide or alter anything. But you can certinly change that. Once it is given a purpose however it is forever bound to that purpose.

Holy shit that's amazing I'm stealing it

Mimics can change size?

That's not a normal Tuesday?

@@stefanomartinelli7344 theoretically yes, but also they'd take time to fully grow wouldn't they? (I always thought of a mimic being able to not shrink, but fit itself into a space generally smaller then it true mass would make you think, kinda like how squids can do)

My wizards mentor has a mimic as his spellbook. It only reveals the text to people it likes and regularly changes the encryption of the spells so other wizards can't copy his spells.

I really like sending ink, I'm stealing it.

@@spaceblockb5284 absolutely, it’s able to used pretty creatively. Unlike sending stones, you can send an image, or a diary entry, or if your wizard is REALLY smart…. A spell

*Whomever*

@@freyrgrimsson4607 thanks. What do you think of the actual homebrew tho

@@bookbook9495 The ink is like a messaging app in a phone, and those glasses can be used as a detect magic, but if these are in the right hands, it is good stuff. However, if a klepto rogue gets those glasses the party will be wanted *everywhere*.

Reflavor the cards as 4-inch orbs. Play pokemon

That is awesome. I have often wondered if/how I could introduce trading card games to a fantasy setting. I may just borrow that.

Dude i could just in-universe hand my platers magic the gathering cards

You wanna get banished to the Shadowfell? That’s how you get banished to the Shadowfell.

Underappreciated moment. Spencer knows how to speak to people's hearts.

I never knew plain Spencer could sound *that* sexy!

Does anyone knows her IG user...?

I came to the comments to find this

7:39 Wow you even quoted it the same way I did. That whole scene was so cute!

"Something bad will happen today."

@@dgmbomb "you will face challenges today" omg my horoscope is coming true!

My EK had sword of warning. It was extremely useful

Literally saved our lives more than once!

Take a level of wizard for find familiar

Pact of the Chain Warlock her patron is Glinda

She also should have a level in bard (Over the Rainbow)

I love that this comment is slowly becoming a communnity episode of Tulok The Barbarians Building Chatacter.

"There's no place like home!" **Throws a house**

The best thing is, it can be cursed.

@@dracosfire7247 the worst bit is, it could be cursed...

Got a fireball necklace from a Yuan-Ti. Bad thing: Entire tavern we frequented was eviscerated and it only had 3 charges (Although to be fair one would still be plenty) Good thing: Used it to help kill a young white dragon and turn a random encounter of goblins into ash in one round. This was supposed to be around 10 goblins and 10 hobgoblins with a hobgoblin captain. The description alone of all the goblins being turned into nothing more than a dark patch on the ground was worth the loss of our favourite tavern.

now picture being able to capture a summoned skull in a cave in a small stone card

Go! REGULAR colored-eyes white dragon!

No dm should need that explained to them.

I gave my friend 1 uncommon magic item at level one to start the campaign, and he chose deck of illusions. Many Yu GI Oh references have been made

I was like, "Wait a minute. Scrolls no good because just some feature you could get in another way in tangible form that makes it accessible to anyone (but not really how that works). Potions are awesome, but they literally do exactly that!" Defending this position by saying potions are one-time-use, so they won't break the game is fine, but how is that not identical to how scrolls function?

@@FlatOnHisFace wizards can use scrolls to permanently gain that spell, thats the reason i think

@@dangerous1580 That is a feature for a particular class (and some ritualists). If the DM is that worried about it, there are controls. Don't provide enough down time; cash; special inks; or whatever to scribe it. When you present the situation for that scroll to be useful, it might be used. If the player chooses to save it to scribe later, that's a player exercising agency. Also, can't scribe spells that aren't on your class list, so not really applicable to scrolls in general. More importantly, don't do this. Wizards scribing scrolls is a class feature. Characters of that class are expected to be able to do it. I've played in three long-term campaigns where the wizard never scribes anything new into the spell book because we simply don't discover appropriate scrolls, so they only ever got new spells on level-ups, like any other caster. Probably because the players never said anything, I think the DMs just over-looked it, and it likely wasn't a deliberate attempt to hamstring the class. But let the wizards have their fun. Their not sorcerers, for Peylor's sake.

Potions are better than equivalent spell scrolls because they don't need concentration and that lets you do funny things. They just work.

@@dangerous1580 Just to add on to this; A fun optional rule I place, is if an attempt is made to copy a spell into their spell book, the scroll counts as being used (regardless of success). Though some DMs prefer to make it so you have to purchase, or steal an opposing spellbook instead (which can be quite enthralling)

true

very true

Correct

to op and gamebreaking

Obviously

That is actually a really cool and interesting ability! reminds me of a cleric I played, Vistra, who used a homeruled heat metal on a specialized hammer to make the end glowing hot, and apply the damage effect to whoever she hit with it. This is, of course, super broken, but it was made up for the fact that she was a cleric with a wisdom of 7, so it all balanced out and made her a very fun fighty cleric. Also, I should add, balance was not at all a priority in this campaign, as demonstrated by out characters having an army of effectively killer drones (courtesy of Vistra, who was forge domain) and also the deck of many things making an appearance.

Fake magic made with real magic in a world where it’s real magic

@@thundersheild926 (For some reason it YT didn't tell me you'd replied) That does make for an interesting question... Can you use Heat Metal on the head of a weapon that has a wooden handle, such as a warhammer or an axe, and not take damage as the wooden handle wouldn't heat up from the spell... OR if you were wearing forging gloves, would it negate/lower the damage you'd take from the superheated item, and use that weapon to deal extra damage to anything you hit it with, given that it's a concentration spell, etc. I will have to look into using this little combo move in the games I'm in.

@@camedialdamage8180 Well, it wasn't made with real magic. It was all stage tricks, made to LOOK like real magic, in a world where real magic doesn't work in the middle of cities...

gonna go ahead and tuck this into my back pocket....

Aww!

thats cuteeee

I'm guessing wedding ring? If so, that's awesome 😁

Samurai Archer getting 3 crits a turn :L

Our dragonborn barbarian beat someone to death with the helm of terror. Does that count?

when I was playing a rogue my dm gave me a magic dagger that made no noise so you could throw it and if it hit something it wouldn't make a sound. Unfortunately, it also had the minor drawback of glowing bright blue all the time so it pretty much became useless for stealth. We later found out that the dm had simply neglected to mention the inscription on the hilt when we first found it that when read enabled or disabled the glowing allowing it to either be a silent weapon or a makeshift torch instead of less functional than a regular dagger. the entire table exclaimed 'wait. you can turn it off?!' when he haphazardly mentioned a glowing inscription about 6 sessions later.

Hat of Vermin

What’s the dread helm?

@@Ilzhain Yeah Im 98% sure that the dagger you have is called Reszur, and it's from Princes of the Apocalypse. Cool dagger, my players never use it other than for stabbing in combat, the sound thing never really comes into play because they hate throwing weapons that aren't easily replaceable, and they all have darkvision.

cackles in 24+ AC

@@woagwoag My AC30 Warwizard would like to disagree

Love this!!

I ran a game with an Artificer (3E, original Everton release), the party was very well set up, and he had one very powerful Item Familiar crossbow.

Ua armorer artificer be like

"10d10 force damage"

Had a group tpk with that. Fun times

We stan Spencer

Used it in a battle Royale and when the wizard used the 9th level "you can't kill me" spell, I sat in there like an angry bitch for the whole duration

Laughs in monk

equivalent of the "I'M TOO WEAK" palpatine scene from star wars

@@dementodoc *Gets the AC Items* "UNLIMITED POWER!"

Yeah; I make sure the squishy players get the AC items first, save items go to the weak-of-will, and whenever there happens to be enough for the whole party, everyone gets em'.

@@SW337x7007H That is the best policy.

My wizard druid had 8 dex because I messed up when rolling. All my AC is based off of magic armor and special items because I could get merced BY EVERYTHING

Just Roll With It?

I haven't listened to that one, but reminds me of Dungeons and Daddies where some-one just threw a whole bag of magic beans down an elevator shaft.

@@Somethingbloody i love that podcast! what do you think of season two?

It's vldl

Somebody chose violence that day. Love it

Add that to a tabaxi with some rogue levels. I did the math and clocked him at 0-60 mph in 6 seconds if he dashed twice in a turn. The DM just stopped having me count squares because he could run around our grid 3-4 times in one turn lol. He was also a kensei monk for the longbow proficiency and I gave him the sharpshooter feat and played him as a hyper mobile sniper that could hit you from 600 feet away and reposition

Same here. My epic level monk has ridiculous speed. 160 feet when boots of haste and sudden speed are active. These boots are one of the best items in pathfinder.

Gotta. Go. Fast.

Is it blue?

Pathfinder has good structure for character wealth by level, with no one item being worth more than half a character's total suggested wealth. So, a 5th level character should have no more than 10,500gp in a standard setting, with no one item being worth more than 5250gp. Combined this with Pathfinder's approach to bonuses of the same type not stacking, and it's a very balanced and pragmatic approach to loot. (ie; an Amulet of Deflection and a certain kind of Ioun Stone both give an "enhancement" type bonus to AC, so only one can be in effect at once)

Had a Grippli(frogman in pathfinder) Who had to be around water and used one of those to be able to adventure long distances. We ended up getting trapped in a sealed room with a hard BBEG. Was really fast and hard to hit...so i told the group to pull their crossbows and hold their breath and flooded the room. I ended up using some of my frost magic to freeze him in a huge chunk and reopened the bag to get the water back into it.

I, as a DM wouldn't have allowed that, simply because an aimed attack with force behind it is different than just dropping a dagger randomly hoping it does something. I think I would have rolled a 6d20 to see how many hit with the blade side and that's how many d4 you get.

i would have said the daggers fly in random directions, not only at the BBEG, but at the party. 126 attack rolls and each one would hit a random target. . . or use the "mob combat rules" and be like, "x amount of these automatically hit, now i'll roll randomly to see who they hit"

If you put one inside another, or another plane irem, it will create a portal to the astral sea and jettison everything in a 5 ft cube around it

Bag of holding is nice until the thief cuts it thinking it's a regular bag, then say goodbye to Everything your carrying, oops.

One dude being able to fly at will won't break your game, but it will add a third dimension to your player's thinking, which is so worth it. I love the name of the cape. I would think that you'd need to flap your arms while flying (maybe having them magically transformed into hawk wings) which severely limits options like shooting arrows or blasting with cantrips while out of reach.

@@FlatOnHisFace he put it on his slow, tanky mount, which given the way I wrote it, I decided should work. So this dude basically turned his mount into a fighter jet.

...

Your imagination, and random narrative, tells me that you would make a great D&D player.

@@Bluemilk92 I don't have anyone to play with anymore, so now I just watch D&D KZfaq channels and create characters I'd like to play some day, rip

@@anastasijahabarova1533 I've never played, and I watch DnD videos and make characters I want to play one day. **cries in no friends and dnd-is-demonic parents**

@@doubleslashkarma **also cries in no friends** Yeah, I feel that. I wonder what percentage of us watching these channels don't actually play, but wish they could.

i agree

2 dogs for the win

Can't beat the legendary A Door.

or.............the hole (pit)

I recently killed a water elemental with a ladder from the robe of useful items, so I have to agree. Also there is a decent chance that it'll just give you enough money to go and buy a new one, which is the only gambling I can recommend.

^^ also, this same cleric had a wand of quoitwil, 100% my favorite item so far. It's just a wand of pranking people, and sometimes it backfires onto the user, it's great

Now I want to put the fortress in the evil guys food.

As a DM, this gave me a great idea on how to surprise my players in combat

Yeet will be the new command word for Darren's insta-castle. Forever.

I believe that was the term used for my pixie’s indestructible crystal birdhouse home thing lol

@@teglasiadam6258 It's about the size of a bottle of coke, so you'd need to be serving it to a huge or larger enemy to effectively hide it in their food.

That is hilarious

@@shemaiwooldridge7640 Since commenting this my snake on a stick ran away ;-;

@@dungdefender8162 :( Hopefully you can come up with another creative weapon idea

@@dungdefender8162 Holy shit noooooooo. R.I.P Snake on a Stick, Snake will be missed

This reminds me of the Franklinator. Where Benjamin Franklin tied an angry badger to a stick and used it to beat on the red coats.

Fuckin terrifying.

Until you balance it by making the DC higher and higher cause you don't want your bbeg to be oneshot

@@Jackdiddly1 chugalug until you overdose!

@@macenanoro826 facts... the drink gives him a heart attack from all of the adrenaline

Plot twist; You can only gain one extra attack per source. So he only gets two extra attacks. One from haste, one from the potions.

Wait wait wait... Immovable boots? How do the boots stop moving? I thought there had to be a button to activate/deactivate it?

How exactly do those boots work?

@@Basshead004 on the tongue like the pump up Nikes

@@Basshead004 i'm just guessing but maybe he activates both so he is still in midair then turns off the foot he wants to move, activates it again and repeat so you're basically walking but really slowly

@@alessandrocoatti5186 a broom of flying does that way better though

Wand of wonder?

​@@sealedtugboat9965 Well yes, but actually no.

It's a good fortress. Goodbye Mr. Burton.

Strahd:If you can dodge a fortress you can dodge a ball!

@@arsenelupin5424 If you can dodge it slowly you can dodge it quickly!

Better than him just keeping it.

Felix from Red vs Blue “one... two...”

I once gave my party a box that shines a small ray of incredibly bright light out of one of its sides as a joke, and then the rogue started using it to temporarily blind his enemies.

Ok that's cool as fuck

Balanced... BALANCED?! the rakdos riteknife is extremely powerful

@@silmeerman9471 It's also Legendary

That's amazing

@@silmeerman9471 By legendary standars? it's kinda tame

Clearly you need to look up "4 Chords" by Axis of Awesome.

This gives me... so, so many emotions that I never asked for. Why would you do this?

why would you say something so controversial, but so brave?

I'm confused

I hear this a lot, but I don't think anyone is really thinking about this. It would only be a two rung ladder, unless you are somehow hanging from the higher rod to reach down and move it. It's not as practical as every thinks.

@@Papa_Mikewith high acrobatics you could shuffle it up with your legs, or hang down and essentially just 'flip' yourself to move them.

It's overall balanced in what it gives, the true downside is that a D&D party would instantly say "we all sit down to play dice".

@@kaldo_kaldo Yeah, I'd get more specific as to what kind of rolls can trigger the effect, and also put some kind of limiter on it. Could be really great if balanced well.

I'm stealing that :) I don't even need to balance it that much, because in the campaign I play in, we have what we call "The Lottery Hat" that gives, once per day, each character who picks something inside, a random magical item from the list (it disappears at the end of the day, whether or not we used it); IRL we have a real cool hat full of little folded post-it notes so we physically pick things up, it's really fun and gives quite the 'thrill of gambling' except we don't really put us at risk, except when we pick something nasty (which isn't often). At first, the list was full of items from the book, their name coded so we players would only have the physical description, not their real name, so we'd have to either identify them in-game, or discover their effect as we use them and note it down so we'd remember if we later pick it up again. As the campaign went on though, we put in more homebrew items of our invention (most from the DM, but now the players too come up with ideas). I'll ask our DM to add The Insurance in! It's not that OP if people don't know what it is and don't manage to identify it. They'll only realise what it does when somebody makes the correlation between our thief's poor luck and the urn getting full of gold. And it'd disappear at the end of the day, and it might not be picked up again before quite some time... Also we're not very rich anyway, so getting showered in gold once in a while wouldn't harm. (Might be funny if the gold also disappeared at the end of the day... Maybe it does if it's not removed from the urn in time, or isn't spent in the alloted day. Or, maybe the gold doesn't just come from nowhere, so somewhere in the world there is a person, maybe the creator of the urn, who is very angry that their gold is disappearing from their treasure room and starts investigating - maybe by scrying on it and directly see us. Eventually if we use the urn too often, we'd get bounty hunters on us sent to make us pay our debt. Either with our lives or our service; doing a side quest to pay for the money of the Insurance, that'd be hellah fun...)

@@asilnorahc8910 Go ahead ! I might steal that hat myself for my players if we ever manage to get back to playing in the same room weekly, and not online. Have fun with it ^^

@@GrosBoulet Go ahead ! :D Also je viens de remarquer que ton pseudo est français ! Hello from France !

That line. I'm stealing it.

I got a wand of wonder once. We loved it, our characters did not. ‘I’m going to...’ and everyone would start screaming nooooooooo

Fly high circus man. Mollymauk Tealeaf my all time favorite from Critical Role.

-STARES INTO THE ABYSS- YOU HAVE CONDEMNED CADUCEUS

Too soon.

Except Jacob literally says that the periapt does not make them unkillable...

*Laughs in explosive arrow*

Alternatively, they accidentally adopt a kobold and eventually name the party after the kobold they frequently forget is now following them around. Nat 20 Intimidation. They finally found him again in a magical portal in the town they're in hanging out with a kobold tribe running a fight club under the direction of some metallic dragons.

Gave me an idea for a summoner who uses a deck of summoning to fight the pcs.

I put a Deck of Probable Illusions in my game. There is a small chance (5%) that the creature is summoned instead of being an illusion. This curse is not discoverable using identify (like a curse).

I now draw... POT OF GREED!

Your fate is sealed with this VOID CARD! Now your soul will be eternally trapped in the SHADOW REALM!!!

Omg now I know why I get good draws because I don't believe in the heart of the cards

"It's free real estate."

Aww... Was gonna say that, but you did first..😅

well then they didn't catch an enemy now did they?

Have you heard of the Bag of Tricks?

@@josephmorse3089 how to be a beast master ranger. Be a bow fighter. Get a bag of tricks.

YU-GI-OH

ITS TIME TO D-D-D-D D-D-DUAL!

@@weathermangohanssj4 why? Just play the battle smith

I’d buy it

Did you do it?