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"The artificer can make all of these!" We now cut back to an artificer, creating a mastiff.

I had a mastiff mount from Conjure Steed as a Dwarf Paladin. He was a big floofy Tibetan Mastiff and he was the goodest Celestial boi

Use the sidekick rules in Tasha's to make your mastiff pup a bit stronger and make him feel more important to the group. One of my players got one in Icewind Dale and essentially we chose the cleric sidekick class. He has a big keg under his neck that they fill up with potions and concoctions for his "spell slots". Such a ton of fun

Actually playing a paladin with Clockworkamulet at the moment and its pretty cool. it had saved me from 2-3 difficult situations. I mostly play support and therefore increase mostly my defenses, having an option to just hit and use smite once a day is awesome.

The reason people don't often take advantage is because the more a character gets attached to their mortal pet, the more of a burden they often become to the party. Especially big ones that are hard to take in tight places. Trinket from Critical Role is probably the biggest example of what typically happens.

All of these items are valued at 100 gold or less! Stonks! Much Value! What other common items are under appreciated?

Mastiffs really are the MVP mounts! I was so impressed with them, that I have a regimen of halfling knights riding mastiffs as a defining feature of the castle! It's a heavily wooded area, so it makes them a fun element of the setting.

0:08 - Mastiff: Dog that can carry a bunch of items and sometimes even a creature or a PC. Can attack. Also 18 passive perception 2:00 - Clockwork Amulet: Skip rolling an attack roll and get a 10 instead (once per dawn). Can also get multiple to use several times. 4:51 - Moon Touched Sword: Gives light. (Can be abused for light tactics) Counts as a magic weapon to bypass resistances. 6:33 - Enduring Spellbook: Spellbook that cannot be destroyed. 7:32 - Hat of Wizardry & Dark Shard Amulet: Spellcasting focus & allows you to use any wizard cantrip for a DC10 arcana check. Usable once per long rest. Dark shard Amulet: same but for Warlocks. *All prices are 100gp or less*

Dragon Magazine once published an article of simple items for effective dungeoneering. One was a sphere with a continual light spell cast on it [that spell doesn't wear out, whatever it's cast on just keeps emitting light] and encased in a clay coating. Light bombs for tossing down dark corridors. When thrown, clay shell shatters exposing the light and lighting up the hallway. Cast the same spell on a rod, slip the rod into a hollow tube with a lid on it, arrange a thinner rod in the bottom of the tube to act as a push-uo mechanism Hey Presto, heat-less torch that NEVER goes out, but can be turned off by slipping it back down inside the tube. The article had around 100 such handy items suggested. All for the AD&D volume 1 system, but very adaptable.

Question: the Mastiff as a beast that is loyal and goes along on adventures with you could be turned into a warrior sidekick correct? Upping it's health and giving it a few extra tricks

Actually, now there are some new common magic items that are awesome -Cuddly Strixhaven Mascot (adventatge to fear effects) -Feather Token (one use of feather fall) -Illuminator's Tattoo (free ink for wizards, makes things 10gp cheaper) -Potion of watchful Rest (you benefit for a long rest after 8 hours but you can craft or do other things) These common items are really good too.

Yeah, having a mount is pretty amazing with the extra movement alone. This is a good reason to be a smaller race, especially if you're going to be in dungeons a lot. Also, don't forget to "reskin" the moontouched sword for your players not using swords: Moon Touched Greataxe, Dagger, Spear, etc.

You've given me a reason to take Animal Handling proficiency on every character

One thing that always gets missed about what makes Moon Touched weapons even stronger than what was said. It can cut through magical darkness because it's light being produced off an item and not a spell. So someone casts a Darkness spell? Moon Sword cuts right through it

For the next rarity up from there, I love the Bloodwell Vial as a spell casting focus for Sorcerer. At its lowest quality option, it's only Uncommon. So with proficiency in Arcana, you can easily make it yourself. In addition to +1 to Spell Attack and DC, you now replenish 5 Sorcery Points on a Short Rest! At low levels, this is almost CoffeeLock level of unlimited power (insert Palpatine), and without having to multi-class! With this item, my 5th level Sorcerer is almost never out of spell slots and can consistently do decent damage through encounter after encounter.

My absolute favorite magic item of all time is the decanter of endless water.. it's a source of water when thirsty and a way to knock down opponents using non lethal methods. I had a goblin character years ago that put one on the butt end of a spear and used the geyser function as a jet propulsion in water environments.

I'm in a campaign currently with a goblin and her mastiff mount, we just imagine it's a fluffy big dog with a skull face (I saved it after beating a lich with friends, was going to be sacrificed after a ritual complete but we stopped it) and they've been such a good boy, helping us find treasure & enemies~ I used my gold to make them a metal helm with working jaw, to match my own storm knight armor ❤ (mainly because people kept freaking out and trying to kill my pupper 😭 )

I’m fairly new to D&D (still in first campaign) and these videos have given me tons of inspiration for characters and what items to pair with them. Love the channel!

Ahhh, yes, the celestial wardog mount for my halfling paladin...all the way back in 3.0, no less. My GM was...less than thrilled about it. Especially since we were starting with lvl 7 characters, and I'd taken mounted combat and similar feats, and could turn on a dime, literally charge, lance, & trample down my foes...in a standard 5' wide corridor... ♥.♥

The clockwork amulet is a life saver.

Just getting my feet wet into the DnD world, but I absolutely love your videos. Extremely informative and helpful. I've had a DM already deny a few of your "weird" combos...lol.

Not me making a rogue with mastiff companion. I see real Aladin/Abu potential

Glammered leather armor is also very underrated Mixed with a changeling roge you can now sound look and have the same clothes as almost any npc

One tiny correction, Fireball specifies that it does not set alight items that are worn or carried, so your spell book should be fine as long as you wear or carry it.

I’m playing a blind wizard with a mastiff as a service dog. Its proven incredibly useful to just have another creature to carry things for you and also be your eyes, ears and nose.

I once played a shadow sorcerer and bought a mastiff so my DM flavoured it as just getting to keep my hound of I'll omen out at all times

I love the Hat of Wizardry, I makes me kinda said that Tasha’s gave wizards a 3rd level feature that lets them change their cantrips whenever they finish a long rest.

My favorite common item interaction is the pot of awakening for a genie warlock. You take the pot inside the room while it is growing, and when it is finished you get a little plant butler, which will likely be the only other creature in there for a very long time, unless you get multiples.

I got a lot of mileage out of my Wand of Conducting. 1812 Overture (which featured cannons) if you want to be heard was my favorite, but plenty of classical pieces could be used for intimidation purposes. And if another party member is going one-on-one with a baddie, time for Duel of the Fates!

I have the book of random tables 1-4 and YES they are amazing and worth getting! Please also when doing videos please consider listing the book (and maybe page #) each thing is found on for the viewers use, thanks. It would be very helpful. Great video, thanks.

I actually own a Great Pyrenees who likes to sleep under the table during our sessions. One of my players adores him so much that she bought a mastiff in the game and, being a halfing bard, does indeed use him as a mount.

I gave a clockwork amulet to my players. They never used it. At the table, any once per day ability tends to go unused because players hoard these abilities out of excessive caution.

Speaking of D&D dogs and the games you run, thanks for not killing my Doggo mount last game! If it weren't for another party member, he might have come through unscathed...

My party all bought matching Cloaks of Billowing. No use other than when we walk into a town we go slow and those babies flutter in the wind epically making us automatically certified badasses.

Couple of corrections: - You don't have advantage against small or tiny creatures while riding a mastiff unless you have the Mounted Combatant feat, which was mentioned later in the video than the advantage bit. - 2 creatures that cannot see each other attack at a normal roll unless one has the Alert feat. You get advantage from being unseen, but disavantage from being blinded relative to your target. This is the same mechanic as if one or both are in a fog cloud, or both are invisible, or both have the blinded condition.

The first character concept I got excited about was a Gnome knight riding to battle on a mastiff. The problem is that it only 'works' in specific circumstances. Like against kobolds in a cave and none of them have spears you can ride your mastiff where a horse wouldn't fit and have advantage on your attacks, attack with a lance from 10 feet away and then retreat without giving them opportunity. But if the target is medium or larger then your advantage goes away. Also, as a small gnome you can't practically use a heavy weapon, so no Polearm Master or Great Weapon Master. And if you're sad about your mount dying then you should be a Paladin with Find Steed but that doesn't even come online until level 4 and then you might as well stick with Paladin and not fighter/cavalier. And if you want to hold the front line and protect your backline ranged allies then you aren't using your mount's speed.

That 3rd one was FANTASTIC. The reveal creeped the absolute fuck out of me!

I love the adverts. So nuts, I'm laughing my ass off at the whole "Holding a dying rabbit."

Shiftweave on a changeling. In 6 seconds can change your entire appearance and clothing plus is non-attunement.

Great video overall, very entertaining. Most of the "underrated items in DnD" videos are just items that either just arn't underrated or that are just bad. I think this video has some really creative ideas. Just wanted to comment on some of the tips: First tip is great! Altho I would recommend the mule over the mastiff, because its 8 gold, has more carrying capacity, more hitpoints and a bit of help against common traps with shure footed. The mastiff sounds great untill you realize that the only advantage it has over the mule is the perception (and the stronger attack, but if it goes into melee it just dies to some AOE). If your group has a character with decent perception take the mule. The mule is also cooler in my opinion. The clockwork amulet (like all other common items) is a cool flavour item. It will help out in a few situations when you really need to make a check and avrage is enugh. With this tip you need to realize that it is still magical. So if you somehow aquire 50 of these your GM is either really inexpirienced or WAAY to generous with magic items. Of course its OP to have 50 magic items duh. Number three is the secconed the best item on the list. Its a magic weapon, thats really strong. All the cool light shananigans will never work in a real game because 60% of mobs in the entire game have darkvision and everything that fights in a dark place either has darkvision or a lightsource of its own. And most enemies with resistance or immunity to nonmagical attacks are faught at a level where your martial characters should have magic items. In rare cases of a cruel gm or an hard encounter you will of course fight these things earlier, in wich case this is really usefull. Also if you dont have another lightsource and play as 5 human fighters this is really usefull. Enduring spellbook is really usefull if you play a lot underwater and cant stand leaving your spellbook behind on the ship while you go diving. Have your spellbook out all the time + your GM hates you and wants to incinerate it imidiatly. Also you can always copy your current spellbook and keep the coppy somewhere secure. The hat / amulet is the strongest item here. It gives great utility. if you ever have the oportunity to get it, take it.

Seriously, i LOVE your video edition. amazing!

Actually the dog can be made with battle smith

I'm old as the five common items that I found an insane amount of uses for back in my adventuring days would be: 10' pole; rope, caltrops (or ball bearings if I could get them), mirror, lock picking set, and a chicken, more specifically, a hen.

Goddamn that editing is smooth, awesome job as always!

One of the most underrated items one can possess in dandy is livestock. For use of livestock one can largely replace a rogue in the party. Simply have a small herd of pigs walk in front of the party and they will trigger any traps if they are there, and then they become fresh rations, they also make wonderful bait for monsters

Love them all. I've already been making extensive use of a Mastiff for carrying gear. The Hat of Wizardry is definitely on the list now.

You gave me an inspiration for the next character: a Goblin cavalier fighter who fights with two short swords on top a of a mastiff.

Amazing content! Ty!

I love the idea of a rogue with a bunch of clockwork amulets in his coat like the shady watch salesman. LOL

You're definitely the most entertaining D&D content producer around. If you don't mind much, I would say you are the Beakman of D&D

I love that most of these ideas are If your DM is bad. Or if you wanna be 'That guy' at the table.

Staff of flowers is great when your druid is casting a plant based spell where there aren't any plants.

Yesss I love the clockwork amulet! So nice to guarantee a hit (in most situations) when you really need it

New to the channel; love the content; love the editing; love the mastiff; good boy

I think the hat of wizardry awesomeness extends to it's uncommon version, the mizzium apparatus (aka) my most favourite item in the game

Awesome video. Subscribed.

0:07 wait wait wait wait! "I gently open the door"

The mastiff takes the dodge action in combat mounts are pretty survivable in game.

In regards to the sheathing of the moon-touched sword to make it dark, it won't give disadvantage on attacks (if nobody has darkvision). While the enemy can't see where you are at and would roll disadvantage on it's attack, you as the player can't see the attack coming and as such would give the attacker advantage. As such, it's still a straight roll. This applies for both parties.

I once picked a mastiff while playing a low level Rogue to solo a mission. Little buddy allowed me to melee sneak attack before I got my Swashbuckler archetype. He survived and lived rent free in my caravan forever after.

I actually didn't know about those amulets. I'll have to see if I can get both of them for my next warlock.

didn't know about clockwork amulet, that would be very helpful for spell attacks especially. Nothing sucks quite as bad as missing on a guiding bolt or inflict wounds, especially if you upcast it.

6:39 That "SUUUUCKS" was so very real. His Wizard has definitely lost at least one spellbook

Fantastic ideas - but that 3rd eyebrow on your hat - flippin amazing! ;)

Nice thanks this is really useful to know

major thumbs up for this video, Ioved having a Mastiff with my character. I am still working on things like animal handling and being able to ride it during combat, but the 18 Passive perception is great. Not to mention it can bark to alert other party members Having a Moon Touched Sword is great too. Having a magic weapon that early is as handy as you would think. Thanks for the heads up :)

"...except for the dog, an Artificer can make them." New challenge unlocked.

Going into a one shot and we are allowed one common magic item. This is a great video reference :-). Took clockwork amulet for my cleric and suggested our warlock take the dark shard amulet as they have proficiency in arcana. 😊

So you telling me, I could buy a dog this whole time?! * running into fantasy pet store *

A really devious DM would make it possible to overdose on Clockwork Amulets. Example: A house rule that causes an increasing chance of alignment shift to Lawful Neutral, and if the character is already Lawful Neutral, an increasing chance each day to turn into a modron or other clockwork being of an equivalent CR to the character and begin journeying to Mechanus to serve Primus. Basically, a creepy backstory where all the Clockwork Amulets are basically fishing lures extending tiny tendrils of Primus' power to various planes, which is why they're so easy to enchant, so cheap to produce, and the knowledge of how to make them is so widespread. Using just one once a day will never cause the shift, but add a 1% chance, cumulative, for each use of an amulet after the first each day, one roll a day, then the counter resets to 0%. Each failed roll shifts the alignment one step toward LN, and a check with disadvantage against Wisdom is required to notice it (allow priests dedicated to gods other than Primus to negate the disadvantage, as well as classes dependent on specific alignments than a shift toward LN would violate). If the shift is detected, it can be reversed with an atonement ritual. A failed roll when already LN causes the polymorph, and a save against spell (Wisdom based?) to resist the urge to leave for Mechanus, which has to be repeated each day. The compulsion cannot be removed unless the polymorph is undone, and that requires either a Wish or a Remove Curse followed by Polymorph, with an atonement ritual required within a day to completely break the effects. Just a thought. Because anything that seems to good to be true (like commonly available Clockwork Amulets) probably is.

I feel your love for the game. Subbed my brother.

As a rock gnome wizard, I once had a spellbook that consisted of a bag of rocks with spells inscribed on it. Idk how in the rules that is but it was a an amazing help.

The Pixie Dust in Wild Beyond Witchlight warrants mention. A pocket full of dust sprinkled on oneself or another grants flight with the option to hover for one minute. The enchanted will land SAFELY if falling when the enchantment ends. This is as good if not better than Featherfall for no spellslot and no attunement costs. Here's the interesting part. It isn't consumed and has no mention of charges. It's just dust, so it's assumed that one cannot gather it back up for multiple uses. If you CAN get it back, you can keep reusing the same pixie dust without limit. How many times will your DM allow you to use wind gusts and cleaning effects from Prestidigitation to gather up the dust before ruling that you've lost too much for it to be effective?

this was a pretty interestinf set of items

9:16 "...and lycans subscribe!" Me: *slowly draws moon-touched sword*

So my plan for a mastiff was he's a fey spirit dog, think black shuck or the Grimm from Harry potter if he "dies" he fades away but can be resummoned like a familiar for the 25 gold that's how I get around the loss of a puppy.

Ok now I just want to make a houndmaster PC with a bunch of dogs.

In a Pathfinder Kingmaker campaign, I bought a Heavy Horse for 200g. It can hoof-strike and bite (which landed... a few times), carry 1000+ lbs, and has the "Scent" ability, which can make it your party's best tracker. It is also crazy powerful for low levels. After some hijinks, training, and a Leadership feat in which it was declared my cohort, it was significantly leveled up to basically an almost full party member.

can confirm mastiffs are great. first session of a campaign we dognapped one from the local guards (who needs to pay the gold) few train animal checks by the druid later and we got a very very good boi we named Chad. Also I can also say Corgis are very good at calming down traumatized NPCs and convincing them to spill their secrets.

A gloomstalker ranger wielding the moon touched sword is terrifying. Remember, if a creature relies on darkvision to see the gloomstalker, the gloomstalker cannot be seen

I was a V. Human BM with Shield Mastery feat, Disarming Attack and Riposte maneuvers. I took the Mastiff early on and basically spent the entire early levels proneboning every large and smaller encounter.

One of the best items I ever got in a game was a bedroll that guaranteed the character a good night's rest, regardless of conditions. Everyone else had to sleep unarmored or uncomfortable, I was warm and cozy always.

I regularly use all of these except the clockwork amulet. Which I’m gonna start using now.

Hat of wizardry makes you prepare one cantrip, you cant just choose whichever you whenever you want. You get 1 cantrip a day from it. Its not bad its just only useful as a spell focus once you stop using cantrips as primary damage dealers

The entire party must acquire scrappys.

Please make more of these lists.

The image you used for enduring spellbook is actually the book of spells from ninjago 😂

Every time I've ever been in a game with pets, they became a giant pain in the ass for the other players and the GM. Which translates into death. And then, everyone was happy

DnD shorts: "The Artificer can make the items on this list except for the dog-" Artificer: *Laughs in Battle Smith*

Thank you for reminding me to look up the advantage modification to passive skill checks. DM didn't think it did anything. It makes some of the runes that extra bit sweeter(Stone Rune, +5 to passive insight) and cloud rune(+5 to passive deception and slight of hand.)

the amount of times I've thought of just grabbing hundreds of clockwork amulets.

1. Be a LVL 3 Artillerist Artificer. 2. Buy a Mastiff. 3. GUN DOG GO BOOM

jabs at mat mercer got me laughing real hard

Halflings being able to mount smaller creatures is amazing, one of the members in my party has a large chicken she rides

The mastiff brought a question to mind... how much gold does a monkey cost?

"That is an amazing lookout that will outperform any player character-" *Laughs in Observant Loxodon with proficiency in perception and a +3 wisdom mod*

So, one thing I do is have a wizards spell book bound to their magic, and soul making the book very hard to damage with a base AC of 25, a resistance or outright immunity to most damaging effects like water or fire, and an HP stat that is 100+(20*your overall character level). To top it off the book has an auto recovery of 1/5 of its max HP every round and these effects persist even after the wizard in question dies where another wizard can pick it up and use it doubling the HP, and increasing the AC by 10.

Staff of adornment as written is a drill of infinite power if you put unbreakable daggers on it. Use enduring spellbooks as armor when fighting dragons.

The way you talked about the advantage attacking enemies smaller than your mount made it sound like it was an always thing. It’s part of the Mounted Combatant feat