One thing is wrong. You can use Portent only before dice roll. You replace roll, not result. "You must choose to do so before the roll, and you can replace a roll in this way only once per turn."

My friend is currently playing this, but flavored as a time wizard who has trouble remembering if he's in the past, future, or present. So when he fails a saving throw he says "wait I thought I dodged that..." and switches the roll. Same for spell attacks, "ok I definitely remember hitting that attack" then he rerolls. It's pretty entertaining

"A nearby divination wizard who rolled two 1's this morning replaces your rolls."

look at me....I am the DM now

Barbarian: "I roll to punch the halfling" Halfling: *"I FORSAW THIIIIS."* That one sword: "Iiiii Waarned youuuu"

Welp, I finally ran this character. No joke, it's my primary one now. It's *That* good. Best off top of head example was the first fight. Our party of 4 VS 14 goblins and a couple bugbears. One of the bugbears gets clever, climbs up nearby ledge, and proceeds to try n push a giant stone slab onto us. I had a 1 rdy, slapped it onto the bugbear, and boom: 12 flat goblins. Our DM added to the fun by explaining away each enemy's badluck via Todd's (my half-ling) insanely good luck. That stone slab, for example, fell early because i tossed a rock i found in my shoe, that proceeded to bounce off 3 things b4 landing perfectly in the bugbear's eye, making him thrash n knock slab over. Srsly, I owe you big for this character build. Endless hours of fun.

No wonder Frodo made it all the way to Mordor.

I once played a halfling drunken master monk who'd actually had no fighting training at all. He'd been blessed by a god of luck, and he always happened to stagger out of the way at the right moment (High AC), and always happened to hit them at just the right moment/spot (martial arts). He was basically a crazy drunken homeless guy, it was great.

Divination wizards using portent to replace rolls like "Hey, I've seen this one! It's a classic." "What do you mean, you've seen this? It's brand-new"

"Why do you get to re-roll again?" "Groundhog day."

Y'know.... I made this build completely by accident. My 17+1 INT high elf wizard died heroicly at level 1. His friends felt so guilty that they knew they HAD to revive him. They went to the town cleric, they between the 7 of them(huge party) had enough to pay for the herbs and oils...... For a reincarnation spell. I had specified that my elf was abnormally tall and we'd all had a laugh about it earlier, but when my DM rolled for my new race. He was crying laughing as he showed me that I was now a stout Halfling. I decided that my character was completely terrified of death, so from now on he would do anything to prevent it. He took divination and the lucky feat so that he would never be caught unawares again.

Hafling with lucky feat. 6 levels wild magic sorcerer, 2 level divination wizard, 12 levels lore bard. I play him like a fifth dimensional being, able to view all realities at once, and never really knowing which one he is in.

Had a player in my campaign do this. His character survived to level 15 and killed two dragons. Fun and hilarious build. Would recommend 10/10.

Dear god what have you done...

If this build were wanted for a crime, would it be a small medium at large?

Don't forget that as a halfling you can also take the second chance feat, which allows you as a reaction to force someone who hits you with an attack roll to reroll.

I used this character as an evil character (only the DM knew) and my favorite part was at the end when I a robot Bill Marie (go watch hellsing abridged you'll get it trust me) revealed my true self to the party as the end game boss. (Most of them paralyzed except the paladen whom was my brother and I wanted to break his rule of not killing) Rinal (paladen): your not human are you? Me: I am no less a man than one with a prosthetic leg or arm. Remember what you told me all those years ago. What truly makes a man? "Its his convictions and his willingness to fight to protect the innocent and not to murder." Wasn't it? Well then I ask you will you raise that blade and strike me down, proving me right? Will you leave me alive to- Nef2 (our rogue): wait! You planned all of this? The rocks? The giant sword? Even awakening an elderlich God to slow us down? Me: no i was just really lucky. We laughed so hard. It was fun thanks for the character template.

Love this. I once was a part of a group called the Lucky Misfits. 5 people who all used this build, with slight changes. One person took two levels of tempest cleric for heavy armor and destructive wrath (not wave), and another took two levels of bard for more support spells. Yes, our DM *hated* us.

I played a campaign where the DM introduced an NPC who was the literal luckiest person ever. No dice rolls, and he was just always in the right place at the right time. We were introduced to the character when we were in a cave seeking shelter from an extreme lightning storm, and this guy just walks straight up to our cave, lightning consistently missing him. We later found out that this came at the cost of a spirit that possessed him to try to murder everybody in sight, and awakened whenever he saw blood. It took us a while, though, because he kept avoiding fights (he called the spirit an "allergy to blood" -- he didn't know it was a spirit, he only knew that he went crazy in fights and often attacked his allies as well as his enemies). It's not technically condoned by the rules, I think, but it was an interesting character.

So the wizard does puns now. Fuck sake.

This sounds like the trolliest character of all time

That's nothing * Go Hafling Sorcerer, than chose wild magic for Tides Of Chaos * Take your next two levels in wizard, go diviner, and get portent * Go the rest of the way down sorcerer, at fourth, take lucky, than by 8th level you'll have Bend Luck, don't forget to dig into Xanther's Guide and take the halfling racial feet, second chance. * Now, go into warlock, chose fiend for your patron. You kind of suck as a spell-caster, but because your started warlock as ninth, you can take badass cantrips like Sculpter Of Flesh, Servants Of Choas, Otherworldly leap, to give you access to higher level spells and abilities. compensating a little but for how much you screwed yourself multiclassing * At twelfth level, take bountiful luck, just cause' * In the unlikely event this character makes it to 14th level (more likely your making it for a game that starts that level if your doing this) as a sixth level warlock, you can take Devil's Own Luck * At this point you should have all the evocations you'll ever want or need. Just go down sorcerer and start farming sorcery points for more uses for Bend Luck --- Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the entropomancer. Master of fate.

Ergh, this monstrosity, otherwise known as the "Hey DM, go fuck yourself!" build.

I have a similar character, a kobold who got struck by lightning and gained magic powers from it. she has no idea how magic works but the other members of her tribe think she's some sort of genius and makes her their shaman. she basically just fumbles her way through magic like a medieval plague doctor stumbling his way through science. "you have sickness? um... this wood has... healing properties... I'll just, carve in magic runes..." *accidentally makes magic totem* "surprised kobold noises"

Clint Eastwood: you've gotta ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?“ Punk: *rolls D20*

This... This character base... its the Mr.Bean of D&D... *GLORIOUS!*

And because of this there are more halfling diviners than any other halfling wizard out there.

I made a halfling divination wizard. I LOVE playing the character. Nope, you did not roll a one. you rolled a 15. It is always one of the guys rolls a one, and the dm says starts laughing and I always say, hold on old on... ACTUALLY he rolled a XX. And then the dm sighs and says oh yeah.... you.

Then you multiclass into sorcerer and pick Divine Soul. Your first ability lets you add 2D4 to any failed saving throw or missed attack once per short rest.

i told this concept to my freshman science teacher and he went pale in the face and said that it was a glorious idea and to do it to my DM if my Monk dies

Bruh one of my friend's character is almost exactly this and made the joke of "I reject your reality and substitute my own"

This remains one of my favorite videos. I keep coming back to it every so many months just to enjoy it. I even rolled up an NPC and advanced him out to level 14 so that my party could interact. He is quite the influencing, charming rascal with a heart of gold.

As a halfling, you can also pick up Bountiful Luck and Second Chance. Congratulations, now you have less chance of getting hit and none of your companions can roll 1s

I actually made this character with minimal offensive spells, just divination and defensive. And it actually worked! It was the most our DM was annoyed at a character to say the least.

My Divination wizard rolled an obscene number of 1s for portents and he'd yell "I KNEW that was going to happen!" when I used them on enemies. I'd also do that when my party rolled natural 1s or just something terrible happened.

Multiclass into wild magic sorcerer to get advantage on pretty much everything at least once per long rest

I think Silvery Barbs could surely be a boon to this build, you know?

You know, now that Silvery Barbs exists this build just got more busted.

I created a character like this, Lucky Bart, he was a human so lucky that some wizards thought he was naturaly gifted to predict the future inconsiently and called him to their school, as a noble, he got to study free of charges (he said it was luck). He now travels wildly cause he believes "the chances are in my favor". Roleplay is basicaly throw a lot of times he recognizing his luck, hes prety chill and oblivious.

You:makes dragon reroll twice Dragon:legendary resistance You:casts gust Dragon:nat 20 save You:1, take it or leave it

Don’t forget giving him “mirror image” with that cast there’s even more of a chance that he won’t get hit.

Then tech into 3 levels of Bard for the college of Lore, they have the ability to subtract their inspiration dice from enemy rolls.

This was before the other Halfling luck feats came out. I am loathe to see what this character could look like with all of the luck-based effects built onto them.

*What.* *The.* *_EFF?!_* That is absolutely brilliant! Bumble your way through everything and slowly drive the DM completely stark-raving _mad._

Me as a player: HA YES! Me as a DM: NO! WHY?

We actually have a guy in our party who is genuinely using this build, just with no spells in his school.

I once got a 1 and a 20 as my foretelling numbers

I did this with a buff wizard. My rules, I couldn't do damage directly with magic... so all my spells have to have buffs, debuffs, denials, or tactical effects. Every combat is for me a puzzle, and my party are my game pieces. The whole table is in love with Bosco Toadhill, because I'm always setting them up for glorious things.

survive to 8th level, take the "second chance" feat. "when you get hit with an attack roll, you can use your reaction to force that creature to reroll" use is once per initiative. if you cant you can survive to 12th level and take the "bountiful luck" feat. basically you can give your lucky trait to an ally within 30 feet of you when they make a nat 1 for any ability check, attack roll or saving throw. but in doing so you cant use your lucky feature for yourself before the end of your next turn.

"Man Who Knew Too Little" is so underrated.

with my luck, this is likely the only viable build for me.

"Luck isn't very cinematic" I beg to differ

For anyone who doesn’t get the Bill Murray reference, it’s a movie called “The man who knew too little” and it’s perfect for this scenario.

I once had a Bladesong Wizard who had such insane AC and Saving Throws that he was nigh untouchable, so the DM threw a Diviner Wizard enemy just to portent the shit out of me

Another addition is dip levels into bard for the bardic inspiration as well as 'Cutting Words' so you can mess with the dice even more than you already do, adding to friendlies dice rolls and subtracting from enemies attack rolls. Divine Portent + luck feat + lucky trait + bardic inspiration + cutting words = you rule the dice even more than the DM will.

Multi class into bard and inspire yourself

The luckiest character ever? This sounds so funny for a one shot

Silvery barbs just makes this even stronger

I wanna get a whole party with this kinda setup and bring it to a public DnD session just to say, "No DM that monster rolled a 1." Or "No i didn't roll super low i actually got an 18." And generally fudge around plans the DM had.

Multiclass rogue and bard for extra skills/expertises, and have fun never failing a skill check ever.

I'm finally playing this character in a campaign! Got to replace my character after an unfortunate incident with a trapped fridge, so the Dice Master joined us at level 9, all pre-built and ready to go! Also getting the halfling feats from Xanathar's for EVEN MORE luck. So now I have the Lucky trait, the Portent feature, the Lucky feat, and the Bountiful luck feat, ready to get the Second Chance feat at level 12!

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Reminds me of how I had the silly idea of taking a Fighter or Paladin, specing them for two-weapon fighting, including the feat, then put them on a mount so they can dual wield lances. Since the RAW says lances can be used with one hand when riding (intended, yes, to be used with a shield) and the feat allows any 1-handed weapon to be used for your two-weapon combat.

"You're not strong! You just make everyone who tries to fight you SUCK!"

Honestly one of my favorite build concepts for D&D involves being a late-game Divination Wizard. Going far into the Wizard class is necessary, as this idea requires the Wizard only spell: Magic Jar. Magic Jar is a 6th level spell, in which you transfer your soul out of your body into a jar (or other container). Once done, you can only project your soul up to a distance of 100 feet, either to return to your body or to attempt to possess another humanoid's body. If you attempt to possess another humanoid's body, they must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failure, you take over their body and their soul enters the container. If they succeed they aren't possessed and you cannot attempt to possess them again for 24 hours. You take on all of the creatures statistics, except alignment, your mental scores, and class features. If the host body dies, you must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. If you are within 100 feet of the container and succeed your save, you are safely brought back to the container and the host dies. If you fail or the container isn't within range, you also die. If the container is destroyed or the spell ends, your soul and your victim's soul (if applicable) return to their respective body. If the body is dead or more than 100 feet away from their soul's current location, they die. If the spell ends, the container is destroyed, though the spell's duration is "until dispelled". This is where Portent comes into play. Essentially, you should hope to roll a low number and maybe a high number (determined by build). This allows you to FORCE your target to fail, almost guaranteeing that you steal their body. Then, with your potentially high Portent roll, you can guarantee that you succeed the save to survive the return trip if you get your new body killed. However, if you want... you could always build to be a Charisma Wizard, so you're very likely to survive your shenanigan's regardless... as that would also lower your spell save DC... which is nice, as you don't need a high DC if you can just force a failure regardless...

after this put 6 levels in to wild magic sorcerer and rest into lore bard

Why stop there? Add in Lore Bard, Wild Magic Sorcerer, and Fiend Warlock along with the Bountiful Luck and Second Chance feats and become the D I C E K I N G

You could also multiclass into Monk, take way of the drunken master and be absolutely shitfaced the entire campaign

If you take the bountiful luck feat, the D20 is basically yours to command.

I wish you didn't take down some of your earlier videos. I really wanted to re-watch the episode on the secret level of play for D&D. Something about the memories of playing D&D and what you take away from it the most.

this build is even better in Baldur's gate 3, since in that game portent actually functions as described in this video.

Pretty good, not to mention that if your DM allows the Tal' Dorei Campaign Setting book at the table, you can pick Fate-Touched background. Fate-Touch gives you the feature: Fortune's Grace, which gives a lone Luck point as if it were from the Lucky feat. 1 Point as a Halfling 2 Rolls for Portent as a Divination Wizard ( 3 Rolls at level 13 ) 3 Points of Lucky from the PHB & 1 Point from the Fate-Touched background. My DM has told me that I can no longer play this character unless it's for a One Shot.

My brother and I are doing this tomorrow for a one shot. The game starts at level 5. Hah.

_It’s the D&D version of Mr Bean._

I did this before with a halfling named jynx. She was also a wild mage sorcerer (They can reroll 1 d20 and it triggers a wild surge for even more randomness). There's also a lot of other classes you can fuse. Getting warlock just for eldritch blast is great though, because you'll have a scaling cantrip that never devaluates at higher levels while you become an absurd multiclass just for extra dice roll.

And if your DM allows it, Silvery Barbs

This build with the addition of silvery barbs...

also if your DM lets you use the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, your Wizard can pick up the spell fortune's favor, which of course can be cast as long as you have the time, money, and spell slots for it, and is therefore quite renewable. It can also be upcast to share the wealth with the party.

So I'm sitting here bored and decide to pull up DnD Beyond to roll up some characters, just to see what kind of neat combinations and stuff I can come up with looking over class features and the like. A Dwarven Ranger who hates trees with a burning passion, a Warforged Monk, a blue Dragonborn Sorcerer specializing in weather magic, that sort of thing. Then I get to Wizard. I pick Halfling because of the hijinx that can ensue from a backpack caster, and I roll out the ability scores. No joke, none of them are lower than 10, and four of them come out to 16 before modifiers. With a streak like that I instantly know what to make, and thus in the spirit of this video Murray Tealeaf the diviner con-man is born.

My DM allowed all races to take a feat at the start.... I was a halfling, took lucky, and then at level 2 I became a Chronurgy wizard. 5 rerolls, and I can reroll any 1s. 2nd level I was the highest roller at the table... rather, the most frequent.

I've built a character like this before. I went variant human with the lucky feat instead of halfling and basically fumbled my way through the campaign. The dm and I even reskinned the spells as acts of fate/gods/luck instead of my guy purposely casting the spells. Alas he did eventually die after being seduced by a medusa, although some say even in death he was lucky

I always thought that would make a great fantasy story protagonist. A main character who isn't very smart, strong, or skilled at anything but has the luck of the fool and just kind of spongebob's through every situation

Add in bard levels for inspiration and cutting words to give you the most die manipulation possible

Halflings can also pick Bountiful Luck, allowing fellow players within 30 feet to re-roll a Natural 1 (your friends will love you for it). The Second Chance feat also allows you to force re-rolls for attacks you can see that hit you, stretching your luck further. Both can be found in Unearthed Arcana/Xanathar's Guide.

Now that it's been a few years, the new cheese version of this is level 4 Halfling Sorc (Soul of Order/Clockwork Soul) with Luck feat. All the rerolls in the entire multiverse. Just bumble through life with not a care in the world. Edit: throw in the halfling racial feat from XGTE for spreading your luck to your friends at level 8 for good, DM infuriating measure.

I have a player using this build right now... He had my villain polymorph into a bunny without getting a say in the matter.

This combined with backpack wizard

I did a similar build once but I told everyone I was a remarkable Scholar. I was "just so smart I could predict and counter your moves before they even happened"

Now with strixhaven you can do silvery barbs to keep the dice going.

One of my players is doing exactly this, but he decided to raise the stakes by dumping literally everything except constitution. Yes, even intelligence, his save DC is 9

i'd multiclass this into monk with the drunken master school

This was recorded before *Bountiful Luck (Prerequisite: Halfling)* feat was published, now the lucky halfling is even better.

I took this character into a gladiator arena online dnd server we had a while back. He didn’t win all his fights but he was the most beloved gladiator to grace the blood soaked arena, reaching the respectable level 7 despite having a 50% win rate.

So how do you start him off? Picture this: Murray is a 1st level Wizard. He got kicked out of wizard school for goofing around and his parents stopped paying his rent. So now he's on his own and decides to go adventuring. One evening he and his pals are headed down a path and they see some Orcs eating mutton around a fire. He uses the cantrip "Mold Earth" to dig a 15 foot deep hole and covers it with the cantrip "minor illusion". He looks again and the Orks are still eating. The he casts the concentration spell dancing lights and, from the bushes, yells, "Oh my god, there are Orks, run!" then sends the dancing lights down the path the orcs chase the lights down the path and fall into the hole. Murray looks down into the hole and says, "Hey guys, I saw you fall into this hole! Are you alright?" The orcs are like, "Grrr. We were chasing someone and now we are in a hole." He casts grease so that he can watch them slipping all over each other. Murray says, "I'll go get help." Then uses mold earth to bury the Orks. He goes back to the campsite warms himself by the fire, and has some mutton and takes any loot. My level 1 Murray build (Notice that there are no real attack spells): Stout Halfling Cantrips: Dancing Lights (Concentration) Minor Illusion Mold Earth Spells: Feather fall Grease Sleep

I LOVE the animated spellbook! I don't even play DnD, playing DSA/TDE (Das Schwarze Auge/The Dark Eye) but the animation is just lovely and the ideas are awesome!

I have a player running a Murray Character in my current campaign. Thnx Zee

I like to have it flavored as the divination wizard just knowing certain things will happen, and so not needing to be lucky. Was awesome to be attacked by bandits, walk to the front and start berating the bandit chief. For him to attack and faceplant because NAT one

Survive to level eight and give everyone luck with the Bountiful luck feat

Then, if you make it to level 8, you can take a UA feat called idiot savant, where you take a permanent -2 to intelligence and get to automatically succeed on 3 rolls a day. Attacks, ability checks, etc. All that combined makes it almost impossible for you to fail anything.

Was playing a half long warlock. Had pseudodragon familiar. Tell her to use her stun sting on a roper destroying the party. Nat 1. But I get to reroll. Nat 20. The party was saved by a tiny dragon named Cherry Pie. I will never play as anything but a halfling ever again.