What amusing phrasing quirks do you enjoy in D&D?
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- What amusing phrasing quirks do you enjoy in D&D?
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Flash of Genius stipulates that you add the Int modifier. However it does not say that negative modifiers are null or ineffective. Flash of Stupidity exists.
In addition, INT 4 is probably the lowest you could run a operational character as Baboons have INT 4 on their stat block and primates have more or less the same capabilities as a humanoid only on a lower and narrower level.
More so, Feeblemind is a thing. Friendly now-idiot artificer can "help" for a staple -5
Flash of Genius is only available via a class with a minimum Int requirement...
@@jamestaylor3805 you don’t need to meet your minimum multiclass requirements if you never class-out of it.
@@kcrad1527 so butcher every ability in the class with a negative mod primary stat... 🙄
Not in DnD offically but related.
*"Up above, thunder rolled. It rolled a 6"*
That's some Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams writing there. 😆
@@meatballguy1 Terry Pratchett. One of the lines that stuck with me XD
One thing I find weird is that the spell “see invisibility”, RAW still gives you disadvantage against them, because they’re still invisible.
That’s stupid.
The Lich, giving you a cold stare, reaches into his cloak and pulls out an eight-sided die. You dare not approach, for it was clear this was no ordinary die for gambling. 'Care to cast lots?' The Lich echoes into your head.
Chills run down your spine as the die is cast, the possibilities of The Lich's implications running through your mind. A great randomness of unknowns awaited you in a few mere moments and a great randomness of terrifying power The Lich awaited.
Then, in horror, you blink and find... Oh, what's this? The die is laid across the cobblestone floor with an impossible value. A cheated die lay before you... It's topside revealing its numerical inscription... A "9"...
Nothing is heard... Not even your breath. You only hear The Lich's voice utter a single word, one so muffled yet clearly identified in its meaning.
"Kill."
No thoughts. You are simply no more.
In a campaign where I played an artificer, our DM found an Unearthed Arcana subclass called "mechanic." It allows the construction of vehicles up to a certain scale, that have various properties depending on what the artificer is trying to make. When implementing the subclass, though, there was no real specification of what a vehicle IS. Land vehicles specialized in speed and agility, for example. I believe the dimensional limitations on it were 20 feet in all three axis. So, by the way it was written, a 2009 Toyota Camry was technically a perfectly valid vehicle choice, so long as it could be produced using magical means, and reasonably developed through careful research. My DM was not amused by that idea, but it was worth the shot.
Pulling up to the BBEG fight in a 2009 Camry is peak DnD
About the only one I can think of offhand is for Pathfinder. Comprehend Language stipulates that you can understand one language that you can read or hear. Upcast, it allows the caster to also speak that language. Normally not an issue...till you realize that eldritch languages are languages you can read or hear. This resulted in my Dwarf going temporarily insane when faced with an eldritch horror that he could *actually understand.*
Not phrasing, but one quirk I find interesting is in the Mummy Lord stat block. A mummy lord has the 6th level spell Harm prepared. However, the mummy lord is a 10th level spellcaster, meaning it doesn't have a 6th level spellslot.
While that’s certainly weird I always assumed Monsters use a more or less different framework of magic than players and NPCs. Also spellcaster is not a real class or did I miss something? I’m fairly new lol.
Since it is a undead made by a ritual, i'd bet its either casting it as a final part of some kind of ritual. Or maybe one of the ceremonial wraps is a 6th level harm scroll.
Yo, have you tried Fucking reading? The mummy lord is a 10th level spellcaster, which is only used for purposes that require a level. Other than that, it has an 11th level Cleric’s spells and slots.
If you’re a spell caster you get spell slots at certain levels a mummy lord is a lv 10 monster so it shouldn’t have access to lv 6 spells as a player wizard for example wouldn’t get lv 6 slots till lv 11 so the mummy lord could only cast spells at fifths level bg3 is my source for this and I have never played a true ttrpg so take with a grain of salt
interesting, way back in 2e, iirc all mummies used to be at least lvl 14 divine casters... mind you, that was a while ago, 3e i don't quite remember if they even had to be casters at all, though there was a statblock for 'mummy priest' iirc.
when you roll a perception check and roll too low: "it fucken wimdy"
when you roll a persuasion check and roll too low: "he/she/it looks at you like you grew a second head"
when you make a terrible pun: "DM takes 1d4 psychic damage"
The Dhampir stuff, I have done that as a Paladin. My DM is hell bent to avoid that situation.
Almost all phrasing around the barbarian's rage.
I would like to rage.
Can I rage at the moment?
Would it be considered uncooth were I to fall into a blind rage given the situation we've found ourselves in?
It just tickles me that getting angry is a choice and a barbarian could be too tired to be furious.
Barbarian the second they get into combat: RAAAAAGE
Barbarians like, six seconds later:*extreme calm*
According to a certain thing I read awhile back, Full Cover made you, and your equipment, incapable of being seen. A tower shield grants you full cover, and is a part of your equipment.
Regarding the "that you can see" bit: spells (or other things) that blind are also great to use against spellcasters, as they can do practically nothing while blinded (my sister's group absolutely decimated a boss-level hag by doing this)
That DnD is a game where you vigirously shake ur hand in many directions then release in hopes of a happy ending😊
Flash of Genius is basically Brain Blast from Jimmy Neutron.
PANR has tuned in.
That idea that you cannot target invisible enemies with spells even if you know they are there reminds me of how 100% chameleon works in Oblivion. NPCs can still sense you, but as long as they cant actually see you they never attack.
Currently playing an artificer, and I flavor my Flash of Genius as my character looking at the situation and offering up brilliant and creative solutions to other party members when used on others.
When used on himself, it’s the Sherlock Holmes “discombobulate” meme, except how it actually goes in the movies.
10:59 XP To Level 3's Wizard is quaking in his boots rn
Every time my PC gets angry or emotional, he goes full southern american.
_Goodberry,_ the creation of the berries is instantaneous, after the spell has been completed the berries retain their magical properties for twenty-four hours.
6:59 the thing that stops you from drowning someone are the drowning rules, because it would take forever.
Hell yeah! New video!
The lich could roll a magic die as a way of casting some kind of spell with a random component.
The rules of the deck of many things state that you need to say how many cards you will draw beforehand, and doesn’t say what happens if you don’t. Therefore, we can assume that nothing happens if you just don’t announce the number and start drawing cards, meaning that it is technically 100% within the rules to stack the DoMT, and know what’s in each spot, so you and your teammates only pull the good cards.
the cards dont have any effect on you and reappear back in the deck randomly the only cards you can remove doing this are fool and jester
@@ss3nm0dn4r8that’s a valid interpretation, but never stated in RAW.
You literally CAN’T draw cards unless you announce how many, it’s physically impossible.
@@algotkristoffersson15 nope, unless they updated it since i last checked, rules as written say that the cards don’t have an effect unless you say how many you draw.
_Fireball_ is an Area of Effect spell, every creature and every object within the Area of Effect is a target of the spell.
Bearbarians can't concentrate on spells while rage
A 12 minute and 24 second video on how to cheese your campaign harder than holding it in the dairy section of your local grocery store, and using a giant cheese wheel as the table.
I just found out that improvised ranged weapon uses dexterity. I guess we always used strength 🤔 Not like it comes up in the game often.
It's a bit off-topic, but it's kinda sad that you can't use a broken chair as your spellcaster focus if you are a tawern brawler sword bard (improvised weapon is neither martial nor simple, even if you are proficient with it). I probably would allow it, because it sounds hilarious, but I don't run D&D, and there is no analogue to it in ICRPG.
When used for melee, improvised weapons are strength based. Only when thrown are they used for dex.
@@pungoblin9377 I understand that. But we use strength for both thrown and mele.
@@nabra97 I’m sorry man I can’t read today I just re-read your post literally saying that you just learned that
You can use improvised weapons as a weapon similar to it. So if you can convince your DM to let you use a chair as a club, you can use it as your spellcasting focus.
What is ICRPG?
Nice new video
would argus from greek mytholgy have blindsight? or would it be teiresias? what is sight?
My dm always makes it get creatures with innate spellcasting because of my wizard.
I know you want to "unalive" me.
Context is that I play a wild/chaos magic kenku who uses chaos as if it was nothing.
Has helped and screwed over the party in many situations.
As an example of this. Our blind paladin lost their bat friend that let her "see". For that particular combat, she got her vision back, but had the goddess of vengeance in her head.
Meanwhile my bird brain (in game and a little out of it.) Goes. I didn't cause this... with the force of chaos literally using me as an anchor to stay alive (long story)
Another one that comes up, not really said but implied. "A long corridor spans infront of you..." all look towards the bird, "Oh right, I'm the canary"
I wanna do cool moments. Probably something that's already done but hey everyone wants a chance to gloat so im gonna try and get mine.
So here's the set up. We were playing in a Theros campaign, though there were some edits made to the setting. Allowing all the races, and classes. The DM was also a big greek mythology nerd like i am, so we just used them instead of the Theros gods who are close enough but different enough. We got a prophecy at the start of the campaign about how there was a sickness in each of the different Poluses and we had to root them out to save the setting. Cool.
So fast forward to the actual story. I was playing a Minotaur Barbarian named Granite who had some religious ties (He came from a temple of Athena in Labyrinth city of Skophos.) The Issue with this Polus was that, despite its ties to Demeter, the local government was beginning to strip the land of its resources. This was because the Apprentice to the Oracle here, Lorne, had taken over after his master had mysteriously fallen ill. He was 'weak enough that an audience had to be carefully considered.' i'm certain you all can see where this was going and so did we. We managed to convince the counsel that we needed to talk to the Oracle, against Lorne's wishes. So we did. And being the most religiously inclined, i volunteered to go inside.
Now I was paranoid about some sort of bullshit that Lorne might do to wipe my dude's memory. After all, I was a Barbarian and despite having some knowledge his stats were not great at mental saves. But I did have an amazing idea. I had, a few sessions before, acquired myself a masquerade tattoo. At the time, I thought it would be good for some minor aesthetic things Since I had a cool magic item and I wanted to try out one of the new tattoos. So I hatched a brilliant plot and waited. The time came, and the conversation with the oracle was had. But as it concluded, and i was led just outside the room (Because the rest of the party was made to wait just outside the house), Lorne stopped me and said that while the conversation was certainly enlightening, it was time for me to *Forget* and cast Command on me. Make a wisdom save. And I failed. All of that conversation went scattering from my mind like a split bag of marbles. And i was escorted outside with a fuzzy feeling like i had just forgotten something very important. The party asked me how I thought it went, and Lorne spoke for me saying that the Oracle had been too tired to say much. We knew he was lying, but he was also a trusted member of the local government so we couldn't just call him out. So we went back to our rooms. However, that's when my plan kicked into gear. Because here's the fun thing about Masqurade Tattoos. You can control their shape, their size, howmuch of your body they cover, Whether or not they move, ect. And my dude noticed a little bit of text on the palm of his hand that disappeared beneath his fur. And so he took a dagger and shaved some of the fur back. And showed more and more words.
I had used my Masqurade tattoo to record the entire conversation like I was a scribe for a legal hearing. Every word, right up to the word *Forget*. We immediately rushed this information to the other counsel members, who took our side and said they'd dispatch the guards to have Lorne arrested in the morning. We wound up confronting him and a Boneclaw that had attached itself to him since we knew he wouldn't linger till morning. But It's a moment I am extremely proud of personally.
There was also the time that my Swashbuckler Pirate Picked a little girl up and ran her across a rope back to our ship. But Enari is a character still in play and while I have fun stories those will be told at another time.
alot of this are from people who missunderstood or didnt finish reading a rule or wording.
such as the barbarian druid. "If you are able to cast spells, you can't cast them or concentrate on them while raging."
While wildshaped you aren’t able to cast spells, therefore “If you are able to cast spells” evaluates to false and the rest of that effect is nullified. Otherwise it would just have said “You are unable to cast or concentrate on spells while raging” without any such condition.
My bard cannot pronounce the letter r
that's a really.... unique... reading of fireball...
i mean, yeah, you target a place, but it does clearly state that a 20' radius ball of fire explodes from that point, and it is that radius and everything within it that is affected.
just because you target a point in space to be the centre of the AoE, doesn't mean it has no effect within the AoE...
But it specifically says that “The target” takes damage, not “each damageable entity within the ball of fire”
Also is it just me or is it weird that that’s how “Fireball” Works. That looks more like an “Detonate” spell. And fireball sounds like it would involve throwing a ball of fire forward that acts as a projectile.
@@algotkristoffersson15 if the wording has changed to that, it's a poor rewording.
used to say that 'you target a point you can see' and that 'every creature within 20' of that point' takes damage. as it is an AoE spell, the wording should directly reference this.
5e is FULL of very poor rewordings and odd choices. making humanoid a creature type doesn't make sense... giants are humanoid, golems are humanoid.. hell, most undead are humanoid.
@@algotkristoffersson15
A bright streak flashes from your pointing finger to a point you choose within range then blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame. Each creature in a 20-foot radius sphere centered on that point must make a Dexterity saving throw or take damage, save for half. (obviously upcast table for damage dice)
so, yeah... doesn't specify that 'the target' takes damage. the wording is sound.
Whildshape isn't a spell, is it?
As far as I remember it is not, the fact that raw says that you can maintain concentration on spells cast before wildshape and prevent them from fizzling out due to barb rage.
@@goldend791 Oh, OK, I just misunderstood accents in a phrase. I'm not a native English speaker, and I was listening to it in the middle of the night)
@@goldend791it’s not enough that you can concentrate on it’s own, its only when combined with being unable to cast that it functions like that.
I gotta admit.
I hate the interpretation of most of these 😂
4:31 i can finally win this 5 year old argument! While playing as a Minetaur paladin, i threw my great hammer at an enemy, and upon hit, chose to cast Divine Smite. I was told at the time that i cant, because of the thrown hammer not being a "melee attack"
However, Devine Smite specifically says "melee weapon attack," the hammer is still a Melee weapon while thrown, and the throw is an attack, so i should absolutely be allowed to smite on a hammer toss!
It’s an “attack with a melee weapon” but not a “melee weapon attack” there is a difference. A “melee weapon attack” is a melee attack with a weapon.