I came to say this

my reaction aswell

Complete Sentence " Knocked out of, I'm all 5 Colleges From."

6 if you include their wizard school

@@Typical7 Nope! He is revered as God Of Evocation and is the founder Evocation School.

They would love to burn their ultra limited resources on that instead of just using their high charisma.

In conjunction with their high af charisma *

@@federicopalacios7439 it’s only 1 sorcery point so it’s definitely worth in social encounters In fact, a level 6 aberrant mind sorcerer can cast it as a subtle spell with only the 1 spell point and not expend any spell slots

and a sor-lock gets every thing back in an hour lol

@@hippywill Does it work that way? I assumed you only get your 2 warlock spell slots back...

My response would've been: Oh right, since you are a wizard and therefore strictly bound to formulas/incantations, your incomprehensible blargh-gibberish has nothing to do with what that spell requires you to say. So you either now say the correct verbal component (which lets this spell be identifiable by other wizards) or the spell fails :)

@@faselfasel2864 defeats the entire purpose. An incantation can be literally fucking anything. You can assume their gibberish is a spell sure, but you cant assume their gibberish isnt a spell component if it doesnt give you anything to work with other then vocal components. Fucking over your players like this is just stupid. I bet you dont even have an idea of what the actually spell incantation would be, you just want to justify saying no in the worst way possible.

A wizard who's experienced enough to teach magic would recognize many people's styles of spellcasting too - especially with how many different spellcasters there are. So it wouldn't be unreasonable that that gibberish would register to her as his style of spellcasting in this case.

@@faselfasel2864 That would lessen the ability to actually distract someone because certain sentences wouldn’t work. Now, if you instead made it to where every time you Verbal Component a spell your voice is amplified or has an ethereal effect put onto it, that would allow one to identify it as a spell and still allow the caster to be versatile with a spell like Vicious Mockery and Silvery Barbs.

@@scribesorcerer4967 It wouldnt. Vicious mockery is strictly a bard spell and their verbal components would fall under a completely different casting paradigm. Silvery barbs on the other hand can be used by bards, sorcerers and wizards so that would make identifying the spell harder for people not of the same spellcasting class. (At least at my table). A sorcerer would distract different though than a wizard or a bard, but they are still bound by the casting paradigm of their class, which would make it identifiable.

Its the wizard actually rolling for insight what got me because at that point I too would just accept whatever roll they used

the best part was when he said Fireball

Not even the DM is immune to Silvery Barbs, my man.

@@thatguy8495 He has a 12+5+1? How that work?

@@__Stitchy Maybe had a ring of protection or something and didn’t put it down but remembered he did.

You could Silvery Barbs against that.

YOU!

@@TheJurzerker Of course, you could consider the shove a somatic component and it's a sorcerer with subtle spell...you kind of need to realize what's going on for it to happen.

@@AzraelThanatos all i need is to see them succeed on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, which shoving most definitely is.

@@TheJurzerker No, didn't you hear BigDickWizard6969 stating that "casting" Shove the losers into a locker is popular

Funny how players can guess at the wierddest things lol

That;s when you determine that the senior is leading the cult, but HIS boss is a professor pulling his strings from behind the scenes. So the player turns out to be right, but there's a twist. Also, bonus if the professor seems like he's helpful to the PCs...though being too helpful may be enough for a smartass OC to guess the Professor is evil.

That player will get to pop the hell off with a “I FUCKING KNEW IT” moment.

Yah it’s funny how players will read the module to get meta-game knowledge, this happened with two different players in a tomb of annihilation game I had

@@pillarsofsnow7940 you cant assume its meta, ive personally had moments like this where ill intuit something and ruin it for myself. I tend to blame tropes

That sounds like a good time.

I feel that's somewhat against the theme of Strixhaven......Do it!!!!!!!!

yu yu hakusho but make it strixheaven

give me the karate kid, but magic

There should be a hexblade warlock with a switch blade pact weapon.

i loved how he still succeeded for the meme

that was the purpose. Silvery Barb makes you reroll, it doesn't give disadvantage. He failed the roll and then got silvery barbed and succeeded the second roll.

@@Darthquackius no, the target reroll and must use the lower value. "You magically distract the triggering creature and turn its momentary uncertainty into encouragement for another creature. The triggering creature must reroll the d20 and use the lower roll." He succeeded both rolls, so he did the backflip.

I use silvery barbs on this comment.

Counterspell

I told my part that if they chose to use it, so can enemy spellcasters

I have told my players the same thing with Counterspell. I’m like, “You can use it, but as soon as you do, enemies will start using it against you too.”

@@samgoggin7593 Oh you saved against disintegrate? please roll again and we’ll see if you still think the spell is balanced.

My DM allowed it I don’t think our enemies have used it so far… It honestly doesn’t get used as much as I thought it would at our table at least. It probably gets the same use as absorb elements and shield tbh.

oh look, everyone you fight is a divination wizard. They each have a 1 and a 20. Funny that

nah dude this is his origin story

@@atocanboi409 I like how ever single video with The Wizard in it gets claimed to be his origin story. The cause and effect are as muddied as Chaos in FF1.

@@Shalakor he is literally in school

@@atocanboi409 I thought his origin story was that he was a barbarian who couldn't do anything. He then went on to kill his party's wizard and spam fireballs

@@gavinrock6 it is

I was just about to make the comment. This had me losing it in public!

Mtg!

It makes sense, they're in Strixhaven.

The wizard also turns into a Yugi-Oh character at the end.

Scrolled down exclusively to find this comment.

And that nerf is a hidden buff when you realize that in high level play, you can have both silvery barbs and shield on spell mastery

Level 6 AM Sorcerer who can cast this 22 times as early: *Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power*

@@cattiston374 ho you are right, nice idea for a build of silvery barbs only

@@cattiston374 how?

@@PyrotechNick77 Their 6 level feature allows them to cast spells from their Psionic spells List using sorcery points *equal* to the spells level. (Reminder that normally converting Slots into Sorcery is not an equal trade, you need 2 sorcery points for a level 1 spell) And since you can add spells from the Divination/Enchantment Wizard/Warlock/Sorcerer, Silvery Barb qualifies for this, only costing 1 sorcery point

@@cattiston374 that's very cool. I haven't looked at any of the newer options for class so I am definitely adding aberrant mind as a class I want to play now

The funny part is you aren't even wrong

Shh, my party haven't figured out that this is basically all of my swashbucklers fun thing to do in combat lol

Acrobatics checks are the only safety for this event

@@MostLikelyMortal Silvery Barb

Even if they don't know the spell, I use the 3.5 Spellcraft rules for IDing spells (using Arcana for Spellcraft). DC 10+spell level to know what the spell is.

I think Silvery Barbs Vocal Component is just a verbal jab, some sort of insult or comment that throws a person off. Jolted with a bit of magic to really punch through their mental protections and throw them off. So I don't think the spell would be recognizable just by the verbal component.

@@ChainedFei By that logic sorcerers subtle spell has no reason to exist, since you can just hide any of your verbal components within your words and your somatic components behind your back.

@@Cr3zant or under the table, or hell wear a big cloak. Edit: Or just have a bard that mumble raps randomly. And noone ever find it weird they woke up 8 hours later 5 miles away from their house (suggestion). Or suddenly didn't want to strangle the sorcere (charm person). I mean shit you could argue for casting Blade barrier and noone having any clue where the wall of giant spinning swords came from

@@ChainedFei A master of magic would, you know... RECOGNIZE that they're being affected by a spell, and use their critical thinking ability to link it to the wizard's gibberish. If NPCs in tabletop gaming don't act like real people, it's just not fun.

Backflips! Backflips! Backflip! Backflips!

Yeah and I mean did you hear that last sequence? He actually did something cinematic as fuck and use MORE THAN ONE SPELL. Dear god, he is actually growing as a character.

Maybe since he started spamming silvery barbs he has lost those friends and even his family don't want to play with him 😉

His crippling G-Fuel addiction has strained his relationships and torn his family apart. Don’t do drugs kids.

@@InquisitorThomas lmao this video is more of a PSA and warning than anything

@@nicka3697 such a sad and unfortunate story 😞

oh that is a great idea, i want to see his family play as the characters

Sounds like pure evil to me XD

as a DM I hear this and I just think "ok so 12 ranged enemies per encounter is probably balanced"

And that's when the DM casts "9mm" on the player

@@Aredel More like 7.62x39mm

Sounds like 3 failed Deathsaves to me

He realized he could antagonize the DM even more if he used his powers to allow the entire party to be obnoxious instead of just himself.

@@JackgarPrime He learned what the power of Friendship truly means, now he is unstoppable.

yes.

*Electrum Barbs*

Adamantine barbs

@@AlexPBenton ehhh seems everyone just ignore that one these days tbh

*Plutonium Barbs*

And backflip is even worse

Right. Everyone who can hear you would know you cast *a* spell. And at a magic school, everyone would know what it was.

Have we considered casting in a language the enemy doesn't know? @@Kylora2112

DM got antagonistic cuz he couldn't gottem the players, DMs like that deserve it.

@@ArmoredChocoboLPs Therapy

So... an average wizard? Gotcha.

Wait, since Silvery Barbs can be cast as a reaction... does that mean you can cast it on the same turn as Fireball to, say, disrupt a Dex saving throw?

@@Spiritnick yeah

Fortunately, it can only flashback once, then it's exiled.

@@Bluhbear Unless you cast Runic Repetition, then the exiled flashback card is returned to your hand.

*past in flames burns ominously in the background*

Perfect reference for Strixhaven.

Nah. That honor still belongs to the Barbarian episode

It’s been confirmed that Silvery Barbs doesn’t cancel Legendary Resistance. Legendary Resistance is an automatic success, rerolling has no effect.

You fool, the Wizard can’t be overused… just like Fireball.

I see what you're doing here

Just standing there doing armpit farts to conceal your spellcasting.

That's what I was thinking. Subtle-spell that thing.

That's just wrong. It's not the words that are the source of power, but the sounds. So it would be quite difficult to know if a spell is being cast if it only has a verbal component.

@@ashtonhoward5582 It may be difficult to know which spell is being cast. But a skilled spellcaster should be almost guaranteed to know that one is being cast. Otherwise Counterspell would be useless for spells without somatic components, which is not a part of the rules.

@@frantisekvrana3902 counterspell specifically says "when you see a creature" and there's an argument to be made that that excludes verbal only spells. For sake of ease of use, fuck that shit. Which, thinking about it, goes both ways. So, carry on, you're right. But now that the wizard has argued that a verbal component isn't obvious enough to counterspell, the next natural step is to make him regret getting pedantic. I mean, you can't tell Power Word Kill is a spell because it's just a word, right? And therefore it can't be counterspelled.

Wild magic sorcerers can use a first level spell slot to recast feeblemind. I underestimated that subclass.

Yeah or the grave cleric negating crits, or the rune knight forcing rerolls on attacks. All just a first level spell now AND you give advantage. Come on. Just a fun ruiner.

and the attunement 3/day item guardian emblem

@@nicka3697 While I must say that Feeblemimd is a powerful spell… Sorcerers don’t learn Feeblemind lmao *Insert Nick_Fury_Council_gif*

shield is still a better spell most of the time, Silvery barbs has a ton of flexibility but nothing beats shield when a wizard is in a tight spot.

Doesn't that just let them wind up casting both Shield lvl 1 and Silvery Barbs lvl 2 free/at will at high levels? like 18-19?

Yeah, the idea of a spell that can, effect the luck of any action feels weird

Which is basically if you spoil the odds of my carefully balanced encounter with that badly designed first level spell I will spoil your fun and make your character look hopeless. The spell kills fun I suggest you kill the spell not the player characters.

'Rolled a 20 on my death save!' 'Silvery Barbs.'

@@nicka3697 it doesn't kill the fun. What does though are players that think only they get to use cool broken spells.

@@doms.6701 It's not a DM vs player game. The DM facilitates the fun for everyone.

Effects of multiple spells don't stack, unless they deal damage

It's debatable whether Silvery Barbs can be cast on the same roll multiple times, since the condition for its trigger is succeeding on a check. That trigger already occurred when the first one was cast. Rerolling and still succeeding is not a new success. I would argue that multiple people can do it at the same time for the first trigger, since reactions can occur simultaneously but be resolved sequentially, but you can't do it one after the other. You have to decide how many of you are casting it then and there.

@@anthonyatanasoff3703 if a spell is instantaneous, their durations won’t overlap

exactly. silvery barbs will not stack with itself. but you can still use it on someone with disadvantage forcing them to reroll. (the question then is just if they would reroll both dice or just one.) either way even at 3 rolls taking the lowest, that is quite the blow.

@@AnaseSkyrider one way it could be “stacked” would be if the trigger roller succeeded multiple times in a row, using the new roll as the new trigger.

I'm sensing some negative connotations with "Power Gaming" here I'm gonna try and change your outlook real quick Bruce Lee Min-Maxed for Dex - Str - and -Wis, multi-classed from Monk into Fighter, into Rogue, etc. etc., all so he could "Power Game" in real life Do you think negatively of Bruce Lee for Power Gaming? Probably not, no : most people look up to him for Power Gaming He did his best, to make the most powerful character he could play (himself) I know it's not 1:1 - but what I'm getting at is, Power Gaming isn't bad. Power Gaming shows that you have an understanding of both your character, AND the world they exist in, and you building a Power Gaming, Min-Maxing masterpiece, is just them becoming the best version of themselves they intended to be, in that world. Stop thinking you have to stat/build your character like background Ninja #12,086 from Naruto (look, I know he's the guy that rushed Madara in the Great Ninja War, and that's like, really cooool, and really braaave... but he dead now, and nobody even Learned his name). Start building that Main Character you deserve to be.

@@SunWukongSonGoku Not reading all that on a comment that's almost a year old ☠️

Sometimes, the Dice Gods just make their will known, and there isn't anything anyone can do about it.

And god said, "get crit on, bitch"

RNGesus giveth, and RNGesus taketh away. He especially taketh away of it will result in a TPK.

See, I dont see the issue with Div wizard cuz it only effects 2-3 creatures per day and its an entire class feature. SB can be spammed as many times as you have spell slots and effects 2 creatures.

@@blademonkey29 oh yeah it’s definitely the more balanced of the two…that being said I’m using both the class AND SB which is why my DM probably hates me lmao

Just play a lucky halfling divination wizard that also uses silvery barbs. Rolls mean nothing to you! xD

@@incendiarypoprocks8700 you’re a very evil little man and your DM has my pity Farewell

@@Emelion1 "I AM THE DICE!"

The opportunity cost is high for Silvery Barbs since you can't cast Shield/Absorb Elements or make an opportunity attack in the same round. Powerful, but only when you can negate a crit or something similar to that effect (in a social situation, everyone looking at you would know you cast a spell [RAW] even though it's just a verbal component).

That alone bust a gut for me.Its only a matter of time till more jokes like that are implemented in his skits

Is this from another system? If so, which one?

@@VittorGuidoni Magic the Gathering Card Game. There is a mechanic called "Split Second" that basically ends the stack, so no one can react to it.

@@VittorGuidoni I'd like to know as well.

How could it _not_ be on the stack, though, is the question?

Backflip?

@@jaredtheastralartist2510 Backflip!!!

Meteor swarm?

@@malakai960 That's not how you spell backflip.

@@ThatManCarryingSand pilfkcab

Boon Of Quick Casting maybe? I remember I once had a Wizard with The Boon Of Quick Casting on Dispel Magic. Which I got from an Aberrant Dragonmark.

Im going to add that probably a Bard with a successful performance+stealth check can also cast a spell secretly as they can perform the somatic components as the movements they do to play and instrument, while the verbal components can be substituted for the sounds the instrument makes and instruments can be used as spell focus for them.

@@JustaSoothingVoice no. It's fucking magic. If you want to hide it, have subtle spell.

He lost the check against his own deception

“Silvery barbs!”

How do you know it's the wrong check? Who says he doesn't have proficiency in deception through a background, and a +2/3 in charisma? Or just a maxed out charisma as well as intelligence?

do uk the name of the application/ website he used?

@@THEPELADOMASTER its at 2:04 dude it literally was the conversation and joke

Does the teacher know how to speak Grung? Because I'm casting it in Grung.

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Three answers 1: “It doesn’t matter what language your speaking she can feel you trying to manipulate the weave.” 2: “Yes she would not be head master if she had not studied in many of even the strangest or other world languages” 3: “No but that’s a wierd enough language that she’s going cast counter spell just in case.”

I feel like even if the teacher didn't KNOW there was a spell being cast... they're still a trained spellcaster themselves, who is likely quite capable and KNOWS they are. If they fail at something they normally don't have a problem with after someone who they know is a caster just mumbled some gibberish... that's sus as fuck

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 As a wizard you use precise learned formulas which you as a wizard can't alter, you did not learn the spell's incantation in grung, you learned it at strixhaven, she is VERY aware of the incantation taught at her school.

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 If you want to play by that rule, just know that every time an orc, goblin, mind flayer, dragon or whatever casts a spell, you aren't going to know that they are casting spells either unless you know the language they are speaking. Also, good luck recognizing a bard casting a spell, since they are literally just weaving magic into music on an instrument.

Someone should tell DMs spells like silvery barbs werent invented by you , so the verbal component isnt your choice, it follows the inventors spells wording , which most likely was made within a high magic era by a strong wizard that had little interest in sneaking so it would b easily identifiable by other spellcasters ,especially ones that been doin it all their life.

Same for cutting words aswell

I disagree. Bards spells come from their music and soul making their spells unique to them and their situations. The same goes for vicious mockery, dissonant whispers, etc that the powers in the words/intent

After all they’re charisma powered spells lol

​@@rage_squid9641You're thinking that Wizard's spell-learning lore is the same as every other caster. Bards are minstrels, they weave magic into songs and speeches - if the magic were to always be the same words for them, their entire schtick would be boring. You can't have endless sweeps of songs that sound exactly the same, y'know?

bardic inspiration isnt a spell though, its just cheering someone on and building up their confidence or playing some music to hype them up and get them in whatever mood lol. doesnt have any mention of it being a magical ability

@@JubioHDX That's exactly the problem. Nobody can agree on whether it's magical or not. It's done by a magical musician. Why the hell wouldn't it be magical?

@@DemonicEngineer wether it is magical or not, it's not a spell.

@@THEPELADOMASTER Arcane Ward, Bladesong, Portent, Hypnotic Gaze, Minor Alchemy, Arcane Deflection, Favored by the gods, Strength of the Grave, Tempestuous Magic, Wild Magic Surge, Fey Presence, Healing Light, Dark One's Blessing, Awakened Mind, Hexblade's curse and Among the Dead aren't spells either. Does that mean they aren't magical?

In older editions the lore was established that bardic music is a magical effect. However most people can't tell you are influencing someone through it to know you are cheating a duel. Not sure if 5e has changed their stance on that lore element but it's cheating. Just easy to get away with all the same.

I personally prefer the escapades of Jacob and his players Jacob, Jacob, Wizard, and their friend Jacob

My rogue just multiclassed into bard and has it. Easy sneak attack :D

Eh, I prefer goodberry, since it has some really broken combinations.

@@williamwontiam3166 okay, PLEASE elaborate! :P

Easily the best by a pretty decent margin

@@thedizzytuna Nah Gift of Alacrity is still better

So it is still amazing

I think his point is you have 4(or so) players to irritate with it instead of one dm. Feels bad. That and its easy for people to think a dm is bieng cruel when they run a campaign that even semi frequently gets their players even just to 10% hp

@@mostlymobas6630 That is fair, but it would also be funny to use silvery bards to just counter a silvery barbs

@@mostlymobas6630 Exactly. I think forcing your players to reroll their successes is not fun for them to be honest. I think I wouldn't take this spell even as a player. It just takes away from the randomness and uncertainty. Sometimes failures are amazing for the story and lead to some of the most memorable moments. Just rerolling them feels kinda too easy. After some thought we collectively shelved this spell, for now.

I have a player who uses it but thats their entire thing. They dont do any damage ever half bard half divination wizard. Their entire build is rerolling dice. Tbey even have lucky. So that im not too mad at but yeah as a dm i imagine players would get mad

But you see I cast the spell in Grung. Does your professor speak Grung?

A Prinny On Break No, but the act of casting is still apparent in your voice. The way the word is carried, how the weave shifts around the place to accommodate the casting and how you clearly looked at the fight and manipulated someone you had to look at, who directly a you spoke then without reason missed. If you have a problem with that, get metamagic and subtle spell. Or out, both viable options I‘d offer with an argument like yours ^^

A Prinny On Break I mean, nice try tbf, but casters have so much already, I don‘t think we should allow to actively remove their few weaknesses without any rule based investment.

@@embersmirage3896 An interesting opinion. However, consider this. I cast Silvery Barbs. Reroll your interpretation of the rules.

A Prinny On Break Ah, you can‘t cast a spell with verbal components via text, think again.

He multiclassed into fighter 2 for the second action (and has some homebrew for the reaction).

It was the Hold Person. Sole opponent cannot act, so multiple rounds of actions.

@@thestylemage2092even if you action surge, you can't cast 2 leveled spells in one turn

@@BattleSpew Still, he casts silvery barbs, then hold person, then the save and another silvery barbs (which is more than the 2nd level slots he had), after which he casts fireball. His turn couldn't have ended since there are two other players at the table and even assuming they do nothing, the opponent gets to make another hold person save at the end of its turn (since its turn is before the wizard). The only way the wizard would get to do that is if the opponent's turn was after the wizard, but the wizard was surprised, but in that case, he wouldn't be able to take reactions and therefore not be able to cast silvery barbs. In conclusion, too many spells, but who cares, its a skit.

you can, actually@@thismemelord4048