Thanks was nice video. I want to try d&d and now I'm very convinced to do so.

Here's my new idea for an historically accurate campaign beginning. Your characters are all young townsfolk and the local authorities conscript you to work on the King's road as his prerogative. The party can opt to obey or become outlaws, but if they work on the road they meet other NPC's and have to defend from marauding orcs or whatever suits your taste. In a way it is more likely than strangers meet in a tavern and suddenly become staunch allies.

Since I have no time or friends I told chatGPT to be my DM lol that’s how I decided to start learning.

Im starting dnd tomorrow and thankyou that was amazing 😍😍🤩

I've been playing D&D for a couple of years, but have never read the whole book. I had no idea that nat 1s weren't in the official rules anymore. My group still plays with them because they're fun.

24:37 The reason why I liked

Hey mark is there a place i can find your new homebrew for Ophelia and gruff from altheya

are you reading off of something? lol..

Can you say in your background that you were caused with immorality

I run a discord where we just started a dnd channel. We look forward to starting some campaigns.

Great video! Can't believe you don't have more subs

#sponsored by Wizards of the Coast? Sorry can't subscribe until you vow not take their blood money.

This is the most nerdy shit ever i love it!!

can you switch DM’s each game?

The plus scores are what are still confusing me in ability - isn’t it linear? or is it specific like bocce scores?

You lost me at that MLP poster xD Not bud for real thank you for this vid :)

Alright I’m really late to the party 😂, i am brand new to dnd. Where would someone go to learn hands on or by playing? Is there a community that is welcome to new players and would show me how to play?

this is such a cute thing to watch ❤

Wow look who is back

Thank you very much from Twitch, and it didn't disappoint me a bit. I got the information needed and gave me a relaxing realization that not every campaign needs to be long, and not every campaign needs that articulated role play

Might play soon. I hope the dungeon master lets me be a chaotic evil mimic disguised as a knight in shining armor.

The only reason I know about D&D is bc of GRAVITY FALLS

honestly i think the great old one should lean little bit away from psychic warlock and little more towards body horror warlock. i think what makes eldritch horror scary isn't so much "it's beyond comprehension" but the uncanny valley

New great old one warlock is amazing. Illusion and Enchantment without vocal or somatic components is wild. Get yourself a familiar and have it go invisible inside someone's house, then look through it's eyes and cast minor illusion and use telepathy. The familiar can only cast touch spells, but telepathy just requires sight and being within 30 feet, it doesn't say you have to see the target through your own eyes. Minor illusion meanwhile only has a 30 feet limit, doesn't even require line of sight so you don't have to cast it through the familiar, you're just using it for scouting. Sounds of children running through dark hallways, floorboards creaking in the attic, whispers in the darkness, you can sit outside someone's house and drive them mad just for the hell of it.

8:08 Soo... What if your character is asleep half the game???

Here bc of the 80s kids

If you don't like Cthulhu, I have no business here.

Create Thrall feels very misnamed given what it is doing.

I got my brothers

Just cuz I don’t need to dress up don’t mean I won’t.

My school has a "Gaming club" that modt kids just use as time to study. (I do as well, guilty as charged) But i may invest in basic d&d equipment and initiiate an actual campaign. Ive been making a character for a bit now and i want to play so bad

Glad to see another video from you ! For the subclass at level 3 thing, i agree it's a bit odd. Given the state of the game, you could make a player take their subclass at level 1 but only get the abilities at level 3 (flavour wise, they'd be part of their order but only after level 3 would they be strong or experienced enough to gain the benefits from it) or, as they themselves recommended, just start your adventures at level 3, which is something i'll be doing when i start dming after these new books are published!

For a GOO patron: the Revelations of Melech. The digital free Dragon Magazine issue about Starpact warlocks is I THINK still available online with an article "Wish Upon a Star" which is where the Star Pact (which evolved into Great Old One in 5th edition) was introduced. Fun ideas for flavor of spells and abilities, but the main reason for my comment is the Revelations of Melech. It is a lost/ forbidden scroll penned by a madman that lists a number of stars by name and claims they are actually sentient beings of cosmic insanity. Hadar is one of these stars, the only reference carried over from 4th to 5th editions. Anyways, the idea I never had until now, with mention of a "psionic crystal" being the patron....is for the scroll The Revelations of Melech to actually BE the patron, rather than the entities it records. To compare to the Lovecraft Mythos, it's having the Necronomicon as the "patron" rather than Azathoth or Cthulhu. It is in delving the forbidden tome that the magical secrets of the Great Old Ones are gleaned, as well as the madness from the hints of unveiled truth that stain the warlock's psyche. In the Revelations of Melech, new spells are discovered - not by reading a formula, but by discovering a new fundamental truth of reality that, when assimilated, alters the warlock's perception of reality thus that now, they hear whispers from those-not-there and can open the ears of the worthy victims to hear the truth as well, though it drive them to flee. Let them, too, see the Red Worms of Nihal that writhe in the sockets of their allies; squirming as they feast on the futures of the yet-to-be meat of this singular dimension. In reading of the carniverous sky, the warlock might discover the cycle of life anew, and realize that the attacks against their own mind are meager attempts of moments in time to harness the infinite mass of eternity; simply inconceivable to a temporal mind, and simply damaging to those minds that touch your own and realize they have plunged their hand into the pit of burning ice, numbed and scalded by the nature of what they have touched - reality physically encountering unreality, and discovering you do not know now, if what you encountered was the reality and you, your very concept of being you, is the true unreal.... As for the warlock, they simply read the Revelations, and try not to peek at the night sky, when the multitude of stars seem to wink back in countless, inscrutible harmony, the magnitude of which fractures the mind to try and grasp. This warlock takes short rests to scan the passages of Melech and recall the sense of Self to work a spellcasting by will, because long rests tend to be spent in restless paranpoia or manic hyper-focus.

Thanks for clarifying some things me and my friends and about to do session within a month I'm dming so I appreciate how simple and to the pint it is

Do I make and name cities and towns and such?

Do you seriously think Americans pronounce the word "pants" as "peeyants"?

I wish they had given warlocks a small amount of low-level spell slots, equivalent to an eldritch knight or arcane trickster, to fuel lower level utility spells. I plan on using the Goolock to portray psionic warlocks - maybe with a "Great Overmind" patron.

Great breakdown and analysis, Mark. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this!

Has Hex been changed to now affect Saving Throws? I thought it was only ability checks, and saving throws do not come under ability checks. (11:11 into the video)

Thanks for making this I’m glad because this taught me so much

This is good Advice easily some of the best But some of it felt like it would be good for the bedroom as well love you mark

Damn I don’t know if I’ve ever disagreed with you harder. All warlocks need/needed a combat buff and less ribbon RP features to alleviate or diversify their reliance on simply using eldritch blast. I hope they keep pact of the blade warlocks getting three attacks at 11th level to help this problem since the removal of my favorite warlock the Hexblade.

I’m glad you shit on the theme of great old ones. I mean I like it, but that doesn’t matter right? I happen to think what you like is naff. I was about to sub but I really didn’t like that.

Yay, new video! I'm watching your Lightfall campaign, so all I could think of while watching this is squishy Trellimar and his awesome mask. I just watched the episode where the githyanki show up because he wore it for too long. Also, is Tharazdun an actual patron? I thought he was just a deranged beholder roaming the Underdark. On second thought, that would be awesome for a warlock patron... 😂 Seriously, great video! I love that you gave a balanced take on the subclass even though it's a sponsored video. I also really appreciated the DM tips for establishing patron relationships during session zero to ensure the player gets what they want out of the class. Hoping to see more videos soon!

Dope Apple Jack picture! She’s my second favorite MLP character. Pinkie Pie #1😎

New player here. Thank you for this. Made a huge difference.

Im not sure I agree that theres no out of combat utility here. Infinite tekepathic communication, and infinite subtle cast minor illusions is *wild* out of combat utility in the hands of a creative player, not to mention things like subtle cast Charm Person, Suggestion etc. Bearing in mind as well, this is a Warlock subclass, and warlocks can get a decent amount of out of combat utility from spells and invocations already. Yes, i know warlocks have limited spell slots, but it's generally much easier to take a short rest in non combat situations so thats often a non issue anyway. Then there is the ability for a warlock to get an invisible familiar through pact of the chain. Built correctly, this subclass can be an absolute god at exploration/scouting and social encounters, whilst also being very strong in combat at the same time, making them powerful in every pillar of play. Not many characters can claim that

One clarification? The new Hex imposes disadvantage on Saving Throws, not just Ability Checks. You dive into the most interesting aspects of "how does this all work" @11:00 minutes in, which is very very much appreciated, but I don't think this was explained in this video

Warlock was my favorite class . . . emphasis on the word WAS. To me, your patron was NEVER your subclass, it was just where you got your powers from. Your subclass, IMO, was ALWAYS the pact you chose, Blade, Chain, or Tome (and later, Talisman). I loved that you can have warlocks with the same patrons but very different builds and party roles. If what they've done to the warlock is what they had on their very last warlock play-test (and so far it looks very similar) not only did they make it so you choose your patron at level 3 instead of 1 (which, I agree with you, makes ZERO sense from an RP perspective; who the hell (sometimes literally) is giving you that power for the first two levels if you don't choose who you sold your soul to?) but they also made it, instead of having three or four unique warlocks with the same patron, now with enough invocations you can pick every pact, some of which are HEAVILY nerfed (tome specifically). With the GOO specifically, even though the telepathic communication was one-way only, there was no language restriction, you could speak in any creatures brain and use that to at least have some rudimentary conversation (one tap for yes, two for no) and it made for a fantastic roleplay scenario. You could even use it to taunt creatures, make them think their crazy, or even cast or use certain spells or abilities that require them to understand you. Now, I have to waste skills or feats to learn as many languages as I can to speak with the same amount of creatures? No thank you. Not only am I not pre-ordering this book, but, if my fears are true about the warlock, I'm not ever going to buy the book or play in campaigns that refused to let me use the 2014 warlock character creation rules . . . And this coming from someone who literally built and designed his house to play D&D. Might be time to try another system. /sigh

One example of an unusual patron-warlock relationship I like to use is from Bayonetta. Umbra witches are kind of a mix between Archfey and Fiend warlocks while Lumen Sages are definitely Celestial Warlocks. Most of the time, the witch/sage must sacrifice creatures of the opposing side to their patrons (angels for witches, demons for sages), but part of the pact is that not only can the witch/sage summon demons/angels respectively, but they can also summon their own patron in battle if need be. Bayonetta's Wicked Weaves are nothing more than her summoning the arms and legs of her patron to strike enemies. Their relationships with their patrons may also vary quite a bit. Bayo herself has a friendly but respectful relationship with her patron demon, Madama Butterfly, while Balder, Bayo's father, has a bit of a crooked relationship with the angels he works with, as they had their own agenda in the first game