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Holy crap, for real. I was laughing while walking home when I heard the girlfriend-monk joke

I had to replay what he said after that, missed it the first time laughing!

THAT WAS HILARIOUS KUDOS TO YOU TREANTMONK

Just played one for the first time tonight and it was amazing! Having watched many Treantmonk videos, I felt like I was more than prepared to play a halfling scribes wizard. Cheers, Chris!

As a turbo nerd, I also appreciate this

OMG. I don't think this would work in my current campaign because there's extra stuff going on with my book, but definitely something to keep in mind for the next scribes wizard I play!

Ingenious. Thanks for the heads up.

This is a solid tactic

I don’t understand how this is useful, why would enemies follow this advice/understand the language you wrote it in

@@hitchikerspie They wouldnt! Thats the joke

Yes, BUT, a typical DM would still twist the wish to ensure she's wearing monk pants.

Geralt did that once, see how that worked out for him.

Another plane of existence . . . like Canada!

“Gale used to the Wish spell to have Mystra as his girlfriend” is my new Baldur’s Gate 3 headcanon now.

Joke's on you... My Scribe Wizard *is* the girl.

DUDE I am experiencing this right now. I feel so powerful.

So damage type is a "key word". And you can switch them on the fly.

That's fair, but I will say, having played Curse of Strahd, Tomb of Annihilation, Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Out of the Abyss, Lost Mines of Phandelver, a completely homebrew campaign, and just started a Tyranny of Dragons campaign, spell books and scrolls pop up a lot. Unless your DM sets out specifically to screw you over, you shouldn't have a problem getting extra spells

I’d also like to add that as a frequent Scribes Wizard player, this is never an issue really. Typically on a level up I pick one spell to always have prepared and then a second spell I pick for damage type if I feel I’ll reliably be able to find spell scrolls when I ask. When money is tight all wizards are gimped somewhat, but you can still build a Scribes Wizard like any other Wizard and be fine. Your ceiling is higher, but the floor didn’t get any lower really.

I think it could be a concern unless you know your DM. I have a level 5 scribes wizard and have found 0 spells and only have 47 GP. There is an option to buy a scroll, but then I would have to pay for the scroll and then pay again to copy it.

Strongly agree! I always have to remind my GMs about dispensing scrolls, and often have to borrow from gold from other party members to scribe spells. Not because all my GMs are pricks (they're not, we're good friends), but because they often simply forget about this. I hate constantly having to remind them and to beg money from other PCs when I'm playing a wizard. I wish this tradition of wizards having to spend extra gold on spell scribing would just go away already. Clerics and Druids have their full spell lists available at a whim; the game won't break if Wizards could do the same. Trim their spell list to get rid of garbage spell bloat and they should be good to go.

I imagine it like the magic version of particle physics and how you have different energy levels of electrons or something.

I imagine that spells of a certain level have a similar spell nomenclature/order of components so this discerning wizard can isolate the damage type because of it's placement and replace it with the damage sequence of the same level because it can fit in the same place. A different spell level will mess up the pattern too much and would be too risky to try.

Or like the Laws of Thermodynamics, where energy can only decrease from the ideal scenario. If you cast a spell that’s normally fire but want to deliver force, if you use a lower-level force damage spell, you’d get lower-level damage. But the converse, using a higher-level spell for the damage type wouldn’t convey that higher damage level. It would be the same at best, and chaos (entropy, in thermodynamics terms) would spoil things and make it even worse.

Thanks Chris! Perfect timing haha. My next character is going to be a Battlesmith Artificer who's Steel Defender is a pair of Sunsoul Monk pants... I'm sure that's what you meant write?

Oh this is an insane combo I love it

RAW Necroball still "ignites flammable objects in the area" even though the damage type is not fire.

@@Similacrest So you have 1 round where they're taking fire damage but still held in place. Still a net gain as opposed to the damage outright destroying the webs.

Priceless!

Also, after successfully escaping the Eldritch Knight with Tavern Brawler feat weapon bonds with the bed and can always summon it to hand, massive sleepover top and tailing with the catnap spell...

This is beautiful!😢

_Makes Eye Contact; Turns Magic Missile into Fire Damage_

We’ve all probably taken damage from Tasha’s (or Bigby’s) Piercing Laughter on an airplane or in a restaurant before…

How in the *world*... Was this video member only for 4 months?!

@@CanisMythson I'm a patron. I saw the video when it was first created. 😉 Normally, the turnaround time is short. This one was in the queue for a while.

Have you considered the Crusher feat? It allows you to push people damaged by bludgeoning damage, so you can get some crowd control for your crowd control spells.

@@normal6483 I had not considered that. I intended to round off my CON mod with Res CON. Reading it, I think Crusher only works with Attack Rolls, not just all bludgeoning damage. Cool idea though.

except I bet you passed many concentration checks due to your higher AC and constitution proficiency...swings and roundabouts and all that.

Even though soulknife also has psi-dice, they are to be considered completely seperate resources, imagine one was called psi-dice and the other force-dice or whatever. So there is little mechanical reason to combine them. If you want to do it anyway, it isn't like your character will be bad though. A quick look at psi-knight shows us, that we want a good intelligence. Unlike eldritch knight, who can pick spells that don't care about what your intelligence is, psi-knight features do care. So you probably want strength as your main stat, and int and con as your secondary stats. After that, dex helps initative, and wisdom is an important save, you should probably let others do the talking, so charisma goes last. For feats it is the usual suspects for a fighter: - heavy weapon master (You don't have any inherent boost to accuracy, goes up in value if your party can help you out with a bless spell or similar, also if you plan on multiclassing barbarian) - polearm master (Very strong early game, goes down in value if your reaction and bonus action is going to be used a lot, eg. if you multiclass wizard and pick up the shield spell, and misty step, or if your race gives you a bonus action or reaction) - sentinel (mostly if you chose polearm master) - resilient wisdom (probably never your first feat, but around level 8+, having good wisdom saves is amazing, very sad to run away from the dragon rather than towards it). - fey-touched (Nice way to pick up some spells, and also round up your int, if it was an odd number, bless can be an amazing spell) - telekinetic (Nice way to round up your int if it was an odd number. Especially good if your bonus action is not otherwise spoken for, and also good if you have spellcasters with nice area spells to shove people into.) Obviously you cannot pick all those feats, it depends on what you want to do, and watch your action economy, try to make it so you have some good reactions and bonus actions, but don't overstuck on one of them. Eg. telekinetic and polearm master don't go together, because they both grant you very spamable bonus actions. For multiclassing, you can consider: 3-5 levels of wizard, you already have the good int. Picking up the shield spell is always nice. I like the warcaster subclass when dipping in, but divination is always strong choice as well. 2-4 levels of barbarian: Reckless attack is really good with heavy weapon master, just be aware you cannot wear heavy armor and rage, putting you in medium armor, meaning your probably low dex will hurt you. But you get to use your psi-abilities even while raging, which is cool. (probably don't do this with a wizard dip, pick one or the other.) Really good if you somehow get decent dex. eg rolling for stats. Most other multiclassing you probably won't have the stats to do, but picking up bless is nice if you can. Anyway, all this is just ideas or a starting point. Most advice about building a good fighter will also apply to psi-knight. The biggest difference is your int will be higher. You also do get more flexibility than most fighters, eg. If you pick something like polearm master, that spends a lot of your reactions, use your psi-dice for damage boost. If on the other hand you pick something that doesn't eat reactions, such as the barbarian path, you already have a nice built in reaction for protection and won't miss the shield spell quite as much as another fighter would.

I had an idea to multiclass Psi Warrior 5/Artificer Battlesmith 3/Psi Warrior X. It gives you INT based attacks, Shield and Absorb Elements, and the options to do a version of Treantmonk's "Chuck" build that throws axes. Haven't tried it out yet though.

@@jacobstevens7548 I can see this working rather well. Sounds like fun.

excellent tips and summary, also with Int high your background and or ancestry you can choose Intelligence skills unlike most warriors which is a nice little lore dump for you and the DM.@@peterrasmussen4428

Check out Coby from D4 Deep Dive. He has a video on this exact combination.

I took arcana expertise via Skill Expert. (And Acrobatics Proficiency and INT+1).

for a maths comparison, the average damage for acid arrow, scorching ray and shatter (all 2nd lvl), with and without Element Adept, assuming a 60% change to hit/fail save. Acid arrow w/o EA: 15 on hit, 5 on miss, average 11. Acid arrow w/ EA 16.5 on hit, 5.5 on miss, average 12.1 (+1.1 from feat) Scorching ray w/o EA: 21 on hit, 0 on miss, average 12.6. Scorching ray w/ WA: 22 on hit, 0 on miss, average 13.2 (+0.6 from feat) Shatter w/o EA: 13.5 on fail, 6.75 on success, average 10.8. Shatter w EA: 13.875 on fail, 6.9375 on success, average 11.1 (+0.3 from feat) also worth nothing that acid arrow scales by 2d4 (1d4 on miss) each spell level (average +4.4 per spell level with EA and 60% chance) which is exactly the same scaling as scorching ray with EA. If you have a lower chance to hit Acid arrow looks better, the tipping point being at 50% where acid arrow deals equal damage to scorching ray with EA at 2nd lvl, with better scaling +4.125 compared to +3.666. obviously higher chance to hit or advantage scorching ray remains the stronger spell. Not that I would recommend upcasting any of these spells really. Regardless it makes Elemental Adept much less of a feel-bad feat for the terrible "treat 1s as 2s" feature. (apologies if I made any mistakes with the maths, put it together pretty quickly)

Acid arrow does not scale by 2d4 each spell level. It only scales by 1d4

@@miguelangelus959 To quote D&D beyond "At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage (both initial and later) increases by 1d4 for each slot level above 2nd." To me "(both initial and later)" means when cast at 3rd level it does 5d4 on a hit and 3d4 at the end of the next turn. for a total of 2d4 extra damage on a hit.