"it must choose whether it gets a move, an action, or a bonus action" the creature decides not the player

I like the spells we got... I just feel like... That's it? For a book named after the daughter of Baba Yaga, the rival of Mordenkainen, the binder of Graz'zt... This is all the spells we get?

I like the spells we've got, I think I was just expecting a few more

The operative words of Dream of the Blue Veil are "such as," meaning the spell isn't limited to those four destinations; those are just examples. The target of Tasha's Mind Whip makes the choice, not the caster.

The reason i like the summons is because its a safe meatshield where you dont need to worry about it going crazy when concentration is broken. Obviously if you're confident, the more risky summons like greator demon has their perks and varies from situation to situation. Obviously these are a massive buff to a conjuration wizard with their ability to never lose concentration on conjuration spells.

I know that comparisons are your thing, but I think your personal opinion is more valuable then the comparisons

I'm not saying that Tasha's Otherworldy Guise is my new favorite spell, but Sickening Radiance doesn't give me 2 immunities

Dream of blue veil + trinket table's 9v battery = It's time to conquer Earth!!!

If you’re a wizard with a ring of spell storing and you know you're about to fight a mind flayer or some casters, you could prepare intellect fortress and cast it into the ring at 5th level but hand it off to your high constitution/non caster buddy to concentrate on for the fight

Tasha’s Mind Whip has the creature choosing between move, action, or bonus action, not the caster. You can’t force it to only use a bonus action or anything like that, so there’s no metagame issues with it.

The book came out right as I was finishing up Descent Into Avernus as a Bladesinger. Tasha's Otherwordly Guise changed my outlook from "We might have to talk our way past this..." to "Watch me solo this."

5:28-6:20 Regarding using Shadow Blade in combination with Booming Blade or Green-Flame Blade. Technically speaking, a spell scroll containing the Shadow Blade spell (being a consumable uncommon magic item) would cost around 250gp. And spell casters in general can typically charge anywhere from 10gp-50gp per spell slot level for every spell they cast for you (i.e. the spell slot/magic alone is that valuable) and this is considered normal/reasonable within most DND worlds. So in a sense, despite not being a physical object, if the requirement is that the weapon has a monetary value then I would argue that Shadow Blade does. Otherwise spellcasters wouldn't charge for their services nor would the spell scroll cost anything.

Acid Stream is perfect to lock out an enemy caster, since they have to make the save on their turns.

The First World... so like the home of the Leshay, Aboleths, and the saurian/serpentine creator race? I like it 👍

I would let using reach weapons, or Bugbear+polearm master, anyway if the player ask for it.

Just noticed Tasha’s otherworldly guise is no longer a cleric spell Bruh

9:55 "First World" I have only heard of in Pathfinder before. But it is similar to what is told there, afaik.

Summon Fey is an awesome spell. Take Eldritch Adept: Devil's Sight, and the Fey can go smack an enemy and then teleport back to you and put you in magical darkness. Or charm an enemy that is focusing you down so it can't attack you or the Fey. The damage scales really well with upcasting as well. It's actually worth it to cast at 8th level (4 attacks).

Tasha's Otherworldly Guise did change it used to be a cleric spell but now it's not

It is crazy how Bards got so few new spells in Tasha's. I was partially hoping for Green Flame Blade and Booming Blade to make it on their list as Valor Bards and Sword Bards are a thing, but I guess WotC expects Bards to use their Magical Secrets on cantrips.

The first time I used Tasha's Mind Whip, I took a couple wyverns completely out of a fight. INT saving throws are awesome, they failed every single one and could basically do nothing to my party. It's excellent against low-intelligence enemies.

What's good about Tasha's Mind Whip is that it does not cost your concentration and deals psychic damage (very few creatures are resistant). It allows the caster to make a break for it through enemy ranks cause they lose their reaction. Each level upcast lets you target an additional creature. But it's not the caster that chooses between action, move, or bonus action, it's the creature.

Otherworldly guise is a great spell. I use it with my Warlock. She has a mace that she had enchanted with hellfire, and that combined with this spell makes her as fearsome in melee as she is at range.

Spirit Shroud is amazing 3rd level self buff spell that paladins can use prior to getting holy weapon. As for warlocks it's a huge upgrade from hex as long as you're fighting up close, so that'll depend more on the character build.

Super not happy Tasha's Otherworldly Guise got taken from Cleric. It was gonna be a very thematic spell for my cleric and now that storyline is dead...

I think the first world stuff could be a reference to the original world of the Spellweavers. They were referenced again in Frostmaiden's ending with the obelisks

Note on Mind Whip: you don’t get to choose what kind of action the creature gets, it gets to choose

The room behind looks now a way better :)

It's really frustrating how sorcerer/wizard centric the new spells are. As if their spell lists needed more options...

Tasha's Mind Whip doesn't let you choose what the enemy does. The target gets to choose what type of action they take. It is good when the enemy is in something that has a constant area of affect that allows people to use their action to remove the affect. If someone is dick in a Web spell, they have to use their action to get out of it but if they've been Mind Whipped, they then cannot use their movement to get out of the Webbed area so next turn they will have to save against the Web again.

The Traveling to other Worlds block sounds like the DND version of the Big Bang

With all the summon spells, why aren't there summoning spells for all the other creature types. Summon Ooze would be really funny to get. Powerful ones like Summon Dragon or Giant at high levels would be cool. Summon Plant for your Druids for a Poison ivy Builds. You could have some fun with a Summon Humanoid spell, create a random goblin or kobold out of thin air for an hour.

Your comparisons are great and since you already gave your opinion (as you stated with enough emphasis) in previous coverage and you interject changes in the opinion ("That's huge" "A big buff there" etc.) when needed, don't listen to the people demanding the same content again from you. You're great Ted.

the first world feels like it could be talking about gary gygax first created world from wich would inspire so many others.

I am playing an Arcane Trickster with Booming Blade and Shadow Blade. At level 12 with Shadow Blade up, Booming Blade and Sneak Attack I am doing 4d8+6d6+5 damage with every attack. I have War Caster and can make that attack as an Attack of Opportunity as well. I am fairly happy with Jeremy Crawford saying he would allow my build to keep working at his table. It worked for my DM in that game too.

I love ALL of the "psionic" (i.e., psychic-damage) spells, and agree that Tasha's Mind Whip ought to be on both the Bard and Warlock spell lists, and will house rule them that way in my campaigns, especially since both get both Synaptic Static from XGtE and Mind Sliver from this book. While I agree that the best Summon spells from this book are the 3rd-level choices as far as utility or "attack plus special effect" functions go, and I DON'T dislike conjuration spells the way you do because they add meat shields to the field AND weaponize a spellcaster's bonus actions (though Spiritual Weapon is probably better, at least for clerics), frankly I strongly prefer the various "Conjure X" spells from the PH and Xanathar's. I also agree that simply giving the Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade cantrips a range of "Self," thus allowing them to be added to reach weapons (or if you, for example, become an 18th-level Runic Knight and add five feet to your reach) is appropriate. These options are so limited (multiclassing with a class that can use Martial weapons, or REACHING 18TH LEVEL AS A FRIKKIN' BARBARIAN, which means the character will never be much of a spellcaster) that they're not really worth worrying about. If a character wants to be a Pact of the Blade warlock and use a Glaive, well, even if it's a Hexblade; it's really not that worrisome a build. I MIGHT have been a bit more worried about giving reach to somebody who could cast Enlarge IF Enlarge increased reach, IF it was available to warlocks AND if getting to 18th-level Runic Knight allowed a Warlock to cast second-level spells, but none of these is true. So ... yeah. Changing the "Blade" cantrips to a range of Self? Not a problem for me. Finally ... Dream of the Blue Vale? This is a DM/campaign adventure hook, and NOTHING more. The DM will NEVER let a spellcaster get away with casting this spell unless (S)HE WANTS THE SPELL CAST, and it does absolutely NOTHING useful for the party. What it does is allow the DM to change his or her campaign setting. I would never, EVER learn this spell as a bard, sorcerer or druid, and frankly, if it was offered to me in a scroll or spellbook as a wizard, I'd sell that scroll or spellbook before allowing a DM to tempt me with it. If a DM wants to change his or her campaign setting, I will gladly go along, but THE DUNGEON MASTER has to come up with the hook for changing the campaign setting. The PLAYERS don't have to, and should never, surrender precious resources in order to indulge a DM's whims.

In regards to the First World origin of the multiverse, there are lore hints here and there to suggest it all began at a central point or world. Some are more direct than others. Some have to be inferred. In short, let's just say that the world of Theros has more in common with the D&D multiverse than is let on. Either way, I am now curious to see if my other theories are correct. Such as the source of the "cataclysm" and how the multiverse first grew, its life cycle and how we gamers have interpreted it through mechanical shifts. 🤔

I really like the new summon spells, but mostly as a DM instead of a player. I'd love to push my players towards using this new spells INSTEAD of the older ones. The problem is that almost all older ones are exploitable in one way or another - the older spells weren't really made for balance but more for theme, and that would result in stuff like conjure animals for hordes of little critters or conjuring a bunch of feys with concentration polymorph - on the other hand there was stuff like conjure elemental where they conjured creature can be freed by losing concentration. This new spells are much better for a DM to manage during combat and for preventing crazy exploits. Plus, while the new spells have a component cost, the components are not consumed, so you only need to craft that trinket once.

The true strength for Spirit Shroud is that Wizards get it, which gives it's hex effect to bladesingers and Eldritch Knights (also scorch ray

I feel like ranger should get access to the melee cantrips, but I guess that's what magic initiate is for.

Barovia isn't its own planet like Toril and the others. It is just a demiplane in the Shadowfell.

I own that exact same Bob Ross shirt.

Dream of the blue veil is definitely leading somewhere. Not sure where, but wizards is planning something

Spirit Shroud is a good replacement for Shadow Blade if you want to keep using Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade

booming/greenflame blades were changed to nerf polearmmaster which prevents creatures from moving into 5ft

You can still booming blade your shadowblade, the 1 silver weapon is just a material cost

What about booming blade with the armorer's armor attacks? The fist would be way more than one sp by itself.

What happened to the extra familiars that were teased before release, are they in the book or did the just disappear?

Summon shadow spirit and maybe even spirit shroud should both be made into shadow sorcerer origin spells if they every do that. Doubt they will update older sorcerers though sadly

I do like what you do here.

Thank you.

Tasha's Mind Whip is possibly the MOST bard spell, in my mind. Flavoring it as a single discordant note from your instrument that burrows into someone's mind and distracts them is just so obvious. Maybe it's because it's thematically similar to dissonant whispers? I don't know, but in my games that's a bard spell 100%

I would swap out Flame Strike on the Celestial Warlock expanded spell list for Summon Celestial.

The first world is our world where all these myths and legends come from in the beginning of the forgotten realms third in the forgotten realms used to be part of the same thing until they converged answering point taking all the magical stuff with them

I think First World is a bit of D&D meta history, not necessarily in-universe lore. Just the concept that every DM's dungeons were all in the same world and PCs could move from game to game.

Did you forget about Magical Secrets, if you have a bard you can use your magical secrets to get any spell from any spell list.

Also, the blade cantrips now don't work with reach weapons.

I thought plain shift already did what dream of the blue veil does

Man Mind Whip isn't a Warlock spell anymore I love that spell for my Warlock well the UA version is Warlock Sorcerer and Wizard so I'll keep it with that

Booming Blades component requirement also limits my Monk/Sorcerer from using it as a bonus action unarmed strike. Such a bummer. :-(

Tashas mind whip is a short range aoe for wizards. I dont know, sounds 'sorc and 'lock to me. Can see it helping a wizard get out a bad situation tho.

I'd argue spirit shroud is a better holy weapon for melee fighters.

The best spells are the friends we made along the way. All my otherworldly friends come when I call.

I played a Sorcerer and Booming Shadow Blade was my go too tactic. Twin the Booming blade then quicken another while using Shadow blade. It actually made me feel useful as a Gish Sorcerer and now it's gone. Wack.

Mind Sliver is an intelligence save. Laughs in Druid

Is Spirit Shroud a good magical secret for Sword/Valor bards?

Summon Aberrations casting price seems a bit hefty considering revivify only costs 300 and that spell basically brings someone back into the world of the living.

why don't clerics get otherworldly guise?? I totally agree with you Ted, who gets what spells is totally bonked.

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The large array of summoning spells are cool until you realize that they cost at their weakest, an object worth 200 gold to cast. They don’t get expended, but if that golden encrusted flower you have gets stepped on, Wizard, you won’t be able to summon any more fairies.

The blade spells and lightning lure were reworded so that they don’t work with war caster, also. Idk if you mentioned it later in the video (I’m at booming blade rn) but booming blade and lightning lure specifically were very powerful opportunity attack spells for more front lines casters

'The first world' is surely referring to D&D 1e right??

First world is a Pathfinder concept. pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/First_World

A friend of mine says: all spells are Bard spells.

Really feel like the dream of the blue vail should be available to druids..you know, circle of dreams and all

Artificers got access to the blade cantrips, but the armorer can't use them with the gauntlets because they don't have a gold price??

I don't understand the summon construct / stone, ability to slow a creature's speed until the start of its next turn. I get the point of stopping it's reaction until then but limiting its movement until the START of its turn is just wasted ink, things can't move before their turn.

It's a bit weird that list at the start doesn't list Sorcerer on the summon spells when the class 100% gets 75% of those spells.

I do think Bards got a little shafted by this. I’m playing a bard now and was using several of those spells to great effect. Having them no longer be bard spells is disappointing. I agree that psychic and thunder damage should be bard spells

No, bards don’t need every psychic and thunder damage spell, they have magical secrets to get things not on their spell list, if they want more they get to pick them up anyway.

Is summon undead better than animate dead?.....

Jorphdan get on it boi

You misread Tasha's mind whip. You don't get to choose what action they take, the creature does.

First world is I think the original one that asmodius and the other world snake made with Aio, It was split and seperated into different worlds and planes when the gods were little bitches.

If you have two casters, one cast caustic brew, the other cast mind whip so they can't use their actions to get rid of the acid

Ted is awake with us normies? Preposterous!

Summon undead with conjugation wizard XD 9th lvl putrid spirit XD

booming BLADE.

Worth noting is that booming blade would not work with a sorcerer unless they multiclassed and gained enough levels to make two attacks per round. Twinning Booming Blade may give you two attacks, but you still need to be ABLE to make two attacks per round.

Where's the love for Bards:(

It feels like a real flavor fail that clerics dont get otherworldly guise.

Not having Mind Sliver on bard is disappointing.

Sorcerers don’t get any of the summoning spells

SPELLJAMMER im preety sure they are gonna release that together with Critical Role. That would be so good :D There are so many theories for how it actually is implementet do im not gonna point any CR Spoilers for the people who are not cought up :D

Spirit Shroud is nonsensically overpowered, my wizard has dealt insane amounts of damage at low levels, as in, in the 100-200 range. Spirit Shroud + Jim’s Magic Missile or Scorching Ray He hasn’t even dipped into Hexblade for Hexblade’s Curse to literally double his damage.

Why did they take other worldly guisr from clerics?! Let us attack twice!!!

Spirit shroud is a game changer for my hexblade let me deal alot of damage quickly and shut down healing is really good. Dreams of the blue vail is so wierd like why the heck would I use that ??? why not just use plane shift twice ??? all the tasha spells are not related to tasha at all like the heck .... doesnt feel like that and tasha otherworldly guise WHY the f did the remove it from the cleric list ??? like really why because it has tasha in the name... you couldn't let the cleric casting a 6th level spell act as a paladin for few rounds ? I do love it for my hexblade. making able to use other weapons but having immunity for two damage types is really REALLY great.

The summon spells would be better if they weren’t concentration.

Range self with a 5 foot radius is perfect for Sword Burst. But the other SCAG cantrips? Really? Lightning Lure is a single target ranged attack, requiring a ranged attack roll would make sense, but range self with an area of effect makes no sense. A range of self for Booming Blade and Greenflame Blade makes sense, the 5 foot radius does nothing but exclude reach weapons and ensure that Eldritch Knight builds will be even more uniform than the already are. If they hate these cantrips so much why include them at all?

I think they made the mistake of prioritizing balance over fun when making the summon spells. Being able to choose creatures from the monster manual and stuff was super fun because it gives so much versatility, and they were balanced because the dm gets to say yes or no to the what you choose