Yep

For sure

There are WotC videos?

I watch Duke from One Shot Questers react to the video then wait for Chris

Even from Italy , we still keep more info from Chris❤

this sucks, let's fluffing do something about this! and then they change it, and now it's better yeah, imagine if devs actually enjoy playing their own games, crazy

that's actually really funny. I definitely had a ton of moments like that in BG3 and immediately jotted down notes for my own homebrew of mechanics that I really did and didn't like. Glad to see the actual devs did they exact same!

It's funny to imagine JC actually playtesting stuff...

Can someone explain why he thought Produce Flame was hard to cast in 5e? I personally have loved the flavor of the spell even if it is slightly under powered.

@@teraxe You lose your light source when you throw it. Also, the range on the spell doesn't line up with the vision it grants. You can see up to 20 feet in the dark, but can throw it 30 ft?

Accurate comment is accurate

Aaaargh. I'm late to the party!

I’m late! I’m late!!! 😻

I rolled a nat 1 on my watch initiative. 😢

Because we love him

crawford is blackmailing us

Yeah, I kind of suspected that would be the case. I wonder the extent though. Like, does not taking it far enough mean they adjusted a lot of spells, but not enough, or does it mean they adjusted an insufficient number of spells sufficiently?

wall of force, polymorph, shield these outliers are all going to be exactly as powerful as they were before *but at least* polymorph finally is temp hp, my goodness, that spell made no sense before, but temp hp there are rules for also stuff like maxhp reduction mechanics, instant death at x hp, when you are knocked to 0 hit points, wildshaping while shapechanged, etc etc etc, also what the heck moonbeam actually does also, if they aren't going to nerf outliers on the high end, the very least they can do is buff outliers on the low end, granted both is ideal, the latter at least helps something like simulacrum, aint no way that spell was one of the many lucky survivors, heck that spell might be summon simulacrum, concentration lasting for 1 hour now, and using a preset statblock that would be my fantasy, I hope it works like that so so so so so so bad

Can you explain why polymorph made sense?​@nyanbrox5418

@@nyanbrox5418 definitely adding concentration to simulacrum. I'm quitting dnd over the lack of nerfs to save/suck spells that I know is incoming. I don't want to huff copium, I know that encounters being essentially shutdown by a heightened polymorph or hypnotic pattern is enough for me to quit.

I’d be willing to bet shield will be nerfed in some way. They CAN’t blind to its effects on the game, it’s simply impossible (if I’m wrong, send someone to my house to resuscitate me on 8/1. I’d be willing to believe they missed the buck on a bunch of other spells.

The latest quicken spell says that you can only cast one leveled spell on your turn. So if you bonus action level spell you can only action cantrip.

@@bobbobby475 While this is true, this is the reason a change is suspected. Previously, this language was apart of the general spellcasting rules and not in the quicken spell section. It's inclusion in the quicken section, has lead some to speculate that the restriction on casting a leveled spell with an action on the same turn as a bonus action spell is being removed.

​@bobbobby475 without any additional detail, this means you can't counterspell in response to a counterspell if you were casting a a leveled spell initially in the same turn

I imagine him doing a 24h long video going page by page of the book 😂

​@@razzy6593can he do that? I mean, I'm all for it but copyright will be a pain

I'll be spreading out the videos, but my plan is to cover everything you need to know before the book is released.

@@waltercosta2067I mean probably not😂 but I can dream!

@@razzy6593 Well couldn't he just record them before, but only start uploading them on 1st august? This way he could drop like 20 videos in a single day. (not an actual expectation, but just an example number)

I was hoping they would dive into the details more.

Yea, when they said they could talk about this for hours, I thought to myself, "then why don't you." Far too short and not detailed enough to get me excited about the changes to spells. I wanted to know about the changes to Hunter's Mark and Hex, since they've literally designed two classes around their use.

(Kidding) Anybody wanna kidnap Jeremy and Todd and put them in a room and say, “You’re gonna talk about spells until I tell you to stop.”?

Crawford had nothing. He was asked like 3 times for exciting spell changes and he thinks we wanted to move cloud of daggers?

@@chade6514 actually I have wanted to move cloud of daggers, it was annoying that you couldn't, I am happy you can *likely* use an action to move it now, I'll take that

Just one level too high for ‘em 😂

I multiclassed my Alchemist with an Evocation Wiz! the Cantrip damage of Toll the Dead and Chill Touch felt OP! I didn't get to high tier play! but I had great fun as a "blaster"! Hope that play style sticks around in a way!

Honestly, what were they thinking...

@@Jake-lc1lh they were thinking that since it is illegal for them to add artificer into the core rules, they might as well add some crafting support with feats like Crafter, new potion and scroll crafting rules, new might be a strong word, new if all you had before is the 2014 DMG, and of course spells like Tasha's Bubbling Cauldron which you can use to help evoke that feeling of being that potion maker, and spells like fabricate from 2014 for that feeling of magical item crafting basically what they are thinking is, let's do to artificer what we did to the mystic, and just build it into the base game instead of needing a class that almost nobody played anyway, (according to statistics ofc)

I hope the artificer gets some love. It's my favorite class

I mean, for the most important video, it doesn't touch on any of the most important spells, or the most pertinent changes. It's all buffs, buffs, new spells, new options... They're acting like GM-ing for 5e casters isn't an atrocious cardiac disease risk. I know, they think they can't do these marketing videos by talking about nerfs, but, I mean... they're wrong. Literally nothing would get me to buy these books as eagerly as the words "Shield now caps at AC 18", "Counterspell has been removed from the game," and, "Casting Forcecage now puts you on a blacklist of players who don't deserve a GM."

@@ikaemos preach

@@ikaemos you sound like you need to git gud? Forcecage is a level 7 spell. It requires a material componnet. It can be cast once a day. It's not that big of a deal to allow it to exist.

I for one don't want casters to get nerfed at all. High level play being rocket tag is actually fun for me. I don't want control spells to be neutered.

​@@danyalraza9707 none of what you said have anything to do with skill. The moment you play a 13th level character and you have prepared by buying the right component, a whole lot of encounters are entirely warped around that one spell, a spell which will always work if applicable and can't be legendary resisted. That is *horrible* design. There is nothing fun about that. I have played a wizard to level 17 and I refused to take Forcecage since it is obviously just broken by design.

nono, there are only a few outlier spells, there are like a dozen and several of the more outragious ones were indeed addressed polymorph is actually a good example, so, let's say you get it at level 7, the only CR 7 beast is the Giant ape, which has an AC of 12 and 127 HP the average player at this level has about an 18 AC I'd say, at least the tanks who would lose health the fastest now, polymorph would give you 127 temp hp, meaning it doesn't stack with things like the new barkskin, which would have been absurd, that's good, 127 temp HP at a -6 AC penalty, you take an extra 14.7 DPR from every CR 7 monster attacking you, which is an average of 1 at this level, the new cure wounds at this level heals you 40hp at level 7 for a 4th level slot for the same action cast, but at no concentration, a concentration 4th level spell should be a bit stronger 47.5 is the average DPR for a monster like this according to the MM, with a +6 to hit, so your player will normally take 21dpr from the monster, an average of 2 whole rounds of getting whallopped on by the big bad monster without losing the HPs, 3 or 4 if you have a spell or spells like shield to temporarily buff your defenses, or other defensive abilities the big ape don't get like deflect attacks in those 2 rounds, the beast form from polymorph, ahem, giant ape exactly, due to his lower AC, is taking about 36 DPR, and will survive roughly 3.5 turns so as you can see, if you have zero remaining defensive features, polymorph OP, but with buffed cure wounds, let's say if the person is a monk or wizard with shield slots, yeah no it is absolutely better for you to actually just cast cure wounds, not polymorph, assuming the PC has 60% over baseline damage, so if you are a monk or a fighter, you actually would very probably just rather cure wounds, *not* polymorph, if you are a wizard out of spells, yep polymorph would be great, or maybe if you were a barbarian who somehow kept the benefits of rage, also great old cure wounds was so bad it wasn't worth talking about, I just really wanted to mention that polymorph is still good, but yeah, cure wounds is actually not bad now, and remember cure wounds is non-concentration

@@nyanbrox5418 I mean that would be big news for optimizers. I doubt most casual tables have ever HEARD of simulacrum.

Answered! 😁

Blink Blink!

Remember, "high level" is anything after 9, because games end at 10th level. -_-

​@hweidigiv I mean statistically speaking DnD Beyond has shown most of them actually end around 5th. But most modules end at 10th, so most groups *aim* to end at 10th.

Yeah, he loves that spell!

It does... I'm a little concerned about it devaluing the unique power of Uncanny Dodge though. Also, given that there are apparently ways to take the non-legacied classes from previous books and use them in 5.24e, I'm really curious how something like the Earth Genasi from Monsters of the Multiverse is supposed to interact with these rules. They have a feature that specifically allows the Genasi to cast Bladeward as a Bonus Action, but I doubt that will fit in with 5.24e at all.

“Let’s take one of the rogue’s best features and give it to wizards as a cantrip from first level” lol

from the understanding I had of some subtext, it has been made a reaction that grants you resistance against the physical damage type, rather than all damage types by giving disadvantage, and still only works for melee attacks as such, it is basically a worse uncanny dodge, but for level 1s which is resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing 1 melee attacks damage, which is pretty great, but most wizards probably *NEVER* want to be in melee anyway, and for the 1 turn they are, shield is better cause it stops all attacks I would only take blade ward on an eldritch knight or bladesinger who actually is a melee combattant, not just an old fart in a dressing gown

The play test version gave the triggering attack disadvantage. Of that's what they stick to, it'll be fine.

@@nyanbrox5418 You're forgetting that Magic Initiate is a background feat. Literally any / every character can easily get access to Blade Ward, and why wouldn't you? Fighters, Rangers, Paladins, Bards, Warlocks, Druids, Clerics, they can all grab Blade Ward. Combine it with a weapon that has Sap, and you've got enemies attacking you with disadvantage and if they hit, you can half the damage.

lol!

well the buff is that it is unchanged from 2014 since it wasn't reprinted, so if your DM allows you to use every setting specific anything ever released, then you will have the OG barbs to haunt your tables

@@nyanbrox5418 Silvery Barbs came out in Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos which came out in 2021, not 2014.

For sure.

me too, but mold earth was OP and you literally know it

I think it absolutely sucks. Can't have a "specialized" mage anymore, like a Pyromancer or waterbender that only uses water/ice spells.

This edition never had enough to really sell anyone other than a pyrokinetic without using tricks to change damage type. Using a spell with multiple elements and limiting yourself to one is better than releasing only one elemental spell

7p NM 7 ​@@hweidigiv

It's such a cool idea but I've never seen anyone actually using it.

Its in Xanathar's guide, and we already know what 23 out of 30 "new" spells are. So there is a tiny chance that it is among the 7 unrevealed, but chances are super low.

I've seen 1 DM use it on a homebrew Warlock. Namely, he forgot greater invisibility & TT were concentration.

The one thing they convinced me of is they potentially fixed the usability of spells. People think the guidance change here is bad but I think it allows it to be used in more situations. It's not every type of rolls but potentially multiple rolls of that type.

It is also very easy to fix: 1) Remove concentration- its already not letting you canst spells, just make it break current concentration to prevent stacking. 2) Instead of weird proficiency gimmick- just set AC at 20. At 11+ level 20AC for a 10 min, without ability to cast spells is fine. 3) Let you use your spellcasting ability modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls. Every charisma and wisdom casters can do it at level 1 or 2 now, so not a big deal at 11th level. Or... let you cast current version on enemies, as it is great debuff against caster bosses.

Thank you! I will need to consume some maple syrup in celebration!

​@@TreantmonksTempleTry to get a bottle of Sortilège, whiskey mixed with maple syrop. A little bit like the Lays chips; when you start, it is difficult to stop (be sure to be in a safe location 😉).

You won't be pleased

​@@Wonderwall627let the man have his copium, I'm hoping too

@waltercosta2067 lol. I am not setting my hopes high with how little the changes are to the game. It's just the intent Jeremy said concentration was left to prevent double holding. Though maybe it's just to block bless from cleric dips or feat adds and the ranger list will be better

@@Wonderwall627 as they said in the video about spells, the have the spot to have clarifications, a simple line on HM saying that you can't use with Hex would be enough , but we already know it is not happening, the only thing to hope for is a change to the casting time of HM, but maybe even that is too much to hope for

Entangling strike and such are likely non-concentration, but almost half of the total spell list will be that being said, spells like speak with animals, detect magic, beast bond, detection from poison and disease, barkskin, locate object, pass without trace, silence, spike growth, summon beast, conjure animals, summon fey, stoneskin, grasping vine and the like, these ones are obviously still concentration spells, I mean obviously, the only ranger spells that *should* stack with hunters mark, are the "ranger smite" spells, and the arrow spells, what I hope has changed are spells like lightning arrow, flame arrows, hail of thorns, ensnaring strike, spells which by themselves are usually just spells that affect 1 arrow anyway, and are an instantaneous effect, or an effect that lasts for 1 round, these are the spells that should no longer be concentration, because you literally never concentrated on anything, you just cast the spell, and it broke concentration on what you had concentrated on before, and now your concentration is over instantly concentration should be for lingering effects which last at least 1 minute flame arrows is just... it makes 12 arrows deal an extra 1d6 fire damage... it's literally hunters mark, but only for exactly 12 arrows!!!!!!!!! it is not a lingering effect, it doesn't make your arrows deal 1d6 extra damage for 1 hour, like hunters mark, it makes the first 12 arrows you use deal 1d6 extra damage, ie, for 6 rounds of combat, as this is a 3rd level spell, also an action to cast, aye yae yae yeah, flame arrows was in elemental evil, I hope it made it into the phb with a way to just bonus action give all 12 arrows 1d6 extra fire damage for an hour, with no concentration or something, since it is a 3rd level spell, so you get this at level 9, a total of 29 fire damage to 1 target is the same kind of damage as fireball, and this is a 3rd level spell, so that part is fine, it just doesn't stack with hunters mark which literally deals more damage in a more reliable damage type, force, so to justify the 3rd level slot it should be non-concentration, or be concentration but do just, more damage than hunters mark

have you seen the con saves on the arc mage? it's like a +2

@@nyanbrox5418 If you can cherry pick singular creatures like that then I can tell you that CR 5 Balgura's have a cumulative +9, CR 9 Glabrezu have a +14, A Drow Priestess has a +5 (essentially making it a 50/50)... The reason why arch mages have low con save is because they are humanoid and humanoids are created with the stats of player characters in mind. Humanoids in the monster manual almost always have lower stats, particularly to Con. Humanoids are in the minority of spellcasters. It's not wise to base your entire view of the monster manual on the creature type that is one of the least populous in it. Look at any of the fiends, monstrosities, elementals or celestials that have spellcasting then come back and tell me monster manual con saves are low.

The thing is also they're taking away actual spell slots from monsters anyway and everything is just a "spell-like ability", so it's not worthwhile at all even if it's still a check.

@Lycaon1765 spell slot monsters will still have slots, the high level spells that weren't cantrip, those are spells The cantrips and 1st level spells? Yeah lots of those have just become at will powers, and the damage "magic" they use is now an at will ability, so they have more consistent damage than fire bolt

@Lycaon1765 also counterspell going from the strongest spell in the game to an ok utility spell that you should still probably take but it's optional is perfectly good with me

the lady with fireball is going pew pew!

Considering some of the other changes to some of the other classes, wink wink abjurer wizard, wink wink illusionist wizard, and some of the wording changes to some features, wink wink quickened spell now specifies no non-cantrip action spells that turn wink wink, and wink wink 18th level wizard no longer getting bonus action spells that they can cast with spell mastery, almost as if the only thing stopping that being OP before now was the innability to cast a levelled 2nd level spell as your bonus action on top of an action spell wink wink wink wink wink wink wink!!!!!

I would like that.

That would be fantastic

This video did not generate the excitement of the class videos IMO

this kind of thing is one of the biggest changes to the game for the purposes of it's popularity imo also, look at 3rd edition, 5e is just so much of an improvement over that it's completely insane, the fact that there is more room to improve is not surprising at all

Tell me about it

likely 90%

Don't trust Nerd Immersion ever since he fabricated all of those lies about the OGL for clicks. He was one of the first to really speculate and make stuff up and stoke fear.

@@hawkname1234 what's wrong with speculating on something you don't know? like if he knew what he was saying was wrong and said it anyways that's one thing but if he didn't know and asked questions and ended up being wrong that's not the same

​​@@hawkname1234 How was it stoking fear it was literally confirmed that it was accurate lmfao wotc APOLOGIZED for petes sake.

A minute after uploading. I appreciate your confidence in me!

This one was more vague than the class videos. I was hoping it would provide a lot more details.

@@TreantmonksTemple Yeah, this one was the worst. Still, he even goes to pains to avoid specifics when discussing Class Features by name. He's killing me. I'm impatient. 😄

I mean, the books aren't even out yet, they aren't obligated to share stuff like that, which to them are legit just minor tweaks and enhancements, even though some of us seem to act like it's the be all end all of the world maybe it's because they are leaving things in suspense on purpose!

yeah, it means even if you spam guidance, it doesn't give a d4 to *everyting*, just the stuff you actually were trying to achieve, like history checks

@@nyanbrox5418 Yeah - and you don't end up with those edge cases where you meant to help the character avoid traps but the guidance gets burnt on some unrelated check and then the trap blows them up. At my table we usually rule that you can save the guidance up to a minute, kind of like bard inspiration, but this makes it nice and simple.

My wife and I are having a nice feast for supper!

most players never got to see tasha's, similar to how 1-2% of people know the rammifications of AI this is why the artificer is a class most players have never even heard of, and it is the least popular class by so much and it is not close

blade ward is weaker than uncanny dodge the hunters uncanny dodge lasts for the entire turn and vs all damage types the rogues uncanny dodge lasts for 1 attack but all damage types blade ward lasts for 1 attack but only against attacks within 5ft which deal bludgeoning piercing and slashing damage enemies after level 7 are *ALL* dealing hybrid damage now, so legit don't worry about it, this is a spell for eldritch knights

​@nyanbrox5418 so it still sucks?

if simulacrum is a concentration spell, lasts 1 hour, and has a premade statblock but is otherwise identical to you, I will be a happy bunny remember, new illusionist wizard buffs illusion spells, and simulacrum is an illusion, imagine getting +60ft range and getting to cast simulacrum subtly, that would be so cool! and instead of using wish to cast simulacrum, just getting to upcast simulacrum to 9th level cause it upcasts like the other simulacrum spells if it works like this, I will be so fluffing happy

Chaos bolt does more damage in exchange for a random damage type.

The Lady of Pain text is just weird. What a waste of space. 🤦🏻‍♂️😄

​@@elementzero3379Its basically a "Get out of Jail" card for DMs so they can say your wish wont work because someone is too powerful without causing arguments

@@deonowl7773 That's a good way of looking at it. 👍🏻

nono, chaos bolt has evolved into chromatic orb chaos bolt is gone, and chromatic orb has turned into both spells! also, chromatic orb is now a chaos spell, ie, it will be on the chaos sorcerers spell list more than certainly

Thank you! 😃

Improving existing spells is one of the most important things they had to do in the 5.5 edition. If you want new spells, you can buy an infinite number on The DM's Guild.

@@hawkname1234 I don't care about new spells they gave no information, only few and that's what I pointed

silvery barbs is setting specific, please just do not let this spell be in your non-strixhaven games xD

edit, also yeah it looks like shield, wall of force, allllllll the same power level as before, eldritch knight is eating big tonight, but so is the wizard with the medium armour and shield proficiancy background least they don't need to have multiclassing to get that anymore, huh-hah! yeah that stuff was always unintentional, but smite became a bonus action and the entire community became an arms race, if they did nerfs across the board, even if it's for the health of the game, there would be so so so much backlash, so they only cracked down on things that were just blatantly disrespecting the rules and basically ruining sessions I haven't seen the shield spell ruin games at my tables, because my players don't go out of their way to abuse it, but yeah simulacrum is just a built in campaign ending disaster due to stuff like the wish spell, so it *NEEDED* to be corrected, and if it is a 1 hour concentration summon illusion spell for my illusioner wizard, I will be so fluffing happy

@@nyanbrox5418 All very well said. I brought up shield because I was spit balling with one of my DMs about a year ago about how OP I thought Dex was (and still do a little), so I made a wizard to kind of test it out. I made a Orc wizard with a 9 Dex, no multiclass and played him aggressively. What I found surprised me in that I was more resilient in combat encounters than even the other martials in our mini campaign despite the insane dex score. That was because of all the various low level spells that when mixed together and played well, makes the wizard insanely tanky even when built pretty poorly. When built well, well, you know. Still, while dnd 2024 isnt turning out the way I had first hoped it might, it is turning out quite well overall. It is looking like there will still be a bit of a martail to caster divide, but maybe a much smaller one this time. Also, as a Pally main, Paladin's are fine. I think the only real people that are upset about Smite belong to a subset of dnd players that only play to min/max combat, like dnd was nothing but a combat board game. No hate on them as I hope they continue to enjoy, but the game hasnt been that for nearly 50 years and shouldnt be balanced around that kind of taste.

True Strike was a melee weapon cantrip in the last playtest.

@@nschoenwald ooh, ok I'll take a look at that!

booming blade and green flame blade are indeed probably not in the book, the books redesign of that sort of spell is true strike, which is actually better designed and has better flavour imo than those two spells

we will first hear about it, unironically, from treantmonk! but seriously they actually could be waiting for that vid next week to drop that nugget, good shout

Easy. You Grapple them. Drag them away.

they didn't and now casters can get tank AC with just their background!