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  • @kuroshinigami9143
    @kuroshinigami9143 Před 4 lety +4364

    Step 1: Get a ring of spell storing
    Step 2: cast Tenser's Floating Disk into the ring
    Step 3: Have your familiar attune to the ring
    Step 4: Have the familiar cast the spell
    Step 5: tell your bird to fly
    Step 6: NOW THIS IS PODRACING

    • @hambalidikko6688
      @hambalidikko6688 Před 4 lety +153

      Kuro Shinigami that’s awesome

    • @Narabedla4
      @Narabedla4 Před 4 lety +227

      players always find a way

    • @aetherblackbolt1301
      @aetherblackbolt1301 Před 4 lety +270

      The disk does have a height limit, so it's necessarily flying, but yeah, hovering pod racing is wonderful.

    • @StrudelKitty5527
      @StrudelKitty5527 Před 4 lety +42

      Same thing with a Monk

    • @helloeverybodization
      @helloeverybodization Před 4 lety +290

      @@aetherblackbolt1301 Few feet off the ground? Struggling to get over holes? Dodging falling rocks and avoiding sand people? Yeah, that's podracing. Also, who in their right mind decided to let a child participate in that?

  • @Berd
    @Berd Před 4 lety +1801

    I've never been part of a REAL d&d campaign but your videos are SUPER entertaining and I love them lots. Thank you for these videos, Mr. Zee

    • @MrMaddog994
      @MrMaddog994 Před 4 lety +44

      The fact no one saw this and liked it makes me angrier than that time Philbert stole my mango

    • @thedraggingon_9261
      @thedraggingon_9261 Před 4 lety +20

      Yooooo dude i really appreciate your interest in dnd!

    • @SomeFreakingCactus
      @SomeFreakingCactus Před 3 lety +7

      You remind me of a friend of mine, and he loves D&D, so you might as well.

    • @chickenfryz
      @chickenfryz Před 3 lety +10

      Bruh...Berd? Hi dude you doing swell?

    • @emmlenius4167
      @emmlenius4167 Před 3 lety +2

      Berd ?

  • @JaceSeren
    @JaceSeren Před 4 lety +712

    I recently used Tenser's in a game where our party was wandering around a freezing cold temple up on a mountain. I ritual cast it, gathered up a bunch of scrap wood and built a fire on the disc so we had a pet campfire to follow us around and help keep us warm.

    • @clockworkkirlia7475
      @clockworkkirlia7475 Před 3 lety +90

      That's a brilliant idea! Not too much of an exploit, just a clever, helpful use of a utility spell. Nice!

    • @FarothFuin
      @FarothFuin Před 3 lety +5

      But you can Ritual cast it, its not a ritual type spell

    • @0_Body
      @0_Body Před 3 lety +3

      I would love to do this in Genshin

    • @hadeskingoftheunderworld7010
      @hadeskingoftheunderworld7010 Před 3 lety +14

      @@FarothFuin it is though

    • @theincarnationofsin
      @theincarnationofsin Před 2 lety +1

      My players did this exact thing. I was really proud of the creativity.

  • @goyasolidar
    @goyasolidar Před 4 lety +517

    "Tucker's kobolds firebombed your followers along with your pack mules."
    Every goddamn time.

  • @jevanking4768
    @jevanking4768 Před 4 lety +2691

    “It doesn’t tolerate much player fuckery” damn the devs are learning

    • @superbunnybun
      @superbunnybun Před 4 lety +192

      this is gygaxian magic. They dealt with "how can I abuse this" logic even back in the 70s. Probably has the most player testing of any spell that's survived this many versions

    • @platypusbuk
      @platypusbuk Před 4 lety +64

      Challenge accepted, If I can break it, I will. Nothing is more satisfying when you circumvent a danger with clever use of spells.

    • @Zakumei
      @Zakumei Před 4 lety +56

      this is a very old spell.
      this is more a testimate to how fully aware the original creators of the game were that people would try to find any exploit or advantage they could to get ahead and use spells as effectively and efficiently as possible

    • @dirtbagwizardry4109
      @dirtbagwizardry4109 Před 4 lety +10

      I am the definition of player fuckery.

    • @henryeberman6342
      @henryeberman6342 Před 4 lety +4

      Apostle Brimstone ever played a wild magic sorcerer

  • @James-hj5ov
    @James-hj5ov Před 4 lety +1422

    Don't know if anyone pointed this out already, Tenser was played by Gary Gygax's sone Ernie (Tenser is an anagram of Ernest)

    • @FanOfMostEverything
      @FanOfMostEverything Před 4 lety +82

      And here I thought the name had been chosen specifically for the pun of Tenser's Transformation.

    • @a00019217b
      @a00019217b Před 4 lety +16

      Thanks for the cool random knowledge

    • @eros5420
      @eros5420 Před 4 lety +40

      Where do people hear about their I guess canonical adventures?

    • @MetaKaios
      @MetaKaios Před 4 lety +4

      @@FanOfMostEverything What pun?

    • @Backup_Dice
      @Backup_Dice Před 4 lety +4

      That’s adorable

  • @kanonymouz
    @kanonymouz Před 3 lety +418

    Tenser's floating disk covered in dirt and foliage that will get too heavy and disappear when something steps on it. Weaponize the disk.

    • @bradley4465
      @bradley4465 Před 6 měsíci +8

      Can’t be over holes more than 10 feet. You’d have to be below it for this trick to work.

    • @jacobwiens659
      @jacobwiens659 Před 6 měsíci +7

      Spike Trap

    • @fernando47180
      @fernando47180 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Yep, sounds like a trap. Attach it to a wide plate 10ft below it, and load the disk with stuff until the total weight is short of 500. When someone steps on the disk, it disappears, and around 500 pounds of assorted items would fall on the victim. You could even engineer a way to have the falling objects be higher than 10ft above the plate, if you raise them above the disk somehow.
      Only downside is the restriction on distance to the caste. It still disappears if you go to far away, so, perhaps not the best tool for the job.

    • @badideagenerator2315
      @badideagenerator2315 Před 5 měsíci +15

      ​@@bradley4465 the disc doesn't require a surface that will bear the weight of its load.
      therefore you can create a really flimsy floor 3 ft below the disc, which collapses when the disc's load drops underneath it.

    • @rainingcomplete3018
      @rainingcomplete3018 Před 5 měsíci +4

      @@badideagenerator2315that is vile.
      I love it

  • @SomeFreakingCactus
    @SomeFreakingCactus Před 3 lety +94

    "For people who have started playing since 2000 or so."
    You know how sometimes, you hear something, and it makes you feel old?
    That had the opposite effect on me.

  • @VahnCruz
    @VahnCruz Před 4 lety +82

    I rolled a wizard in a game once my team harassed me to get this spell. Instead I coerced a young bandit to become my apprentice rather than go to jail. I called him Tensor, and he joined us on all of our adventures. Our squad loved him, he carried all our stuff and helped the best he could in fights. Even managed to learn a cantrip eventually!

  • @lonktheherooftim2675
    @lonktheherooftim2675 Před 4 lety +1085

    The best use of the disc is to keep the resting party members moving

    • @unclebadger597
      @unclebadger597 Před 4 lety +27

      Nice!

    • @lonktheherooftim2675
      @lonktheherooftim2675 Před 4 lety +37

      Uncle Badger it’s so helpful, and no one ever thinks of it

    • @noahnicholes8626
      @noahnicholes8626 Před 4 lety +105

      Quick thought, two wizards, one casts disk and another casts tiny hut, you now have a safe moving home

    • @SirStanleytheStumbler
      @SirStanleytheStumbler Před 4 lety +42

      @@noahnicholes8626 Ok so you cast the hut, the outside wizzard starts walking and the disk hits the side of the hut and keeps going right through it. Objects inside the hut when cast can pass through it and since the Wizzard is sitting on a disk when it is cast the disk is not restricted from leaving nor does the hut rest upon it.

    • @crownlexicon5225
      @crownlexicon5225 Před 4 lety +13

      @@SirStanleytheStumbler except magic cant pass through the disk

  • @scienceface8884
    @scienceface8884 Před 4 lety +448

    At level 5, the Wizard casts Phantom Steed as a Ritual, then he and the Arcane Trickster cast Tenser's Floating Disk. Trickster and Cleric sit on the Wizard's disk, the Paladin sits on the Trickster's disk, while the Wizard saddles up on the steed and starts riding at 10 miles an hour.
    Summoned Convoy.

    • @Saiavinn
      @Saiavinn Před 4 lety +69

      "Alright. I like what you're going for.
      Roll a dexterity saving throw."

    • @nephdrummond3168
      @nephdrummond3168 Před 4 lety +26

      I wonder if you could break the back two legs off a chair, but leave the front two, then set it on the disk with the front legs hanging off, then sit. At that point, the only thing keeping you from falling is the strength of the front two chair legs, but the friction of your weight on the chair base might alleviate a lot of it

    • @josephperez2004
      @josephperez2004 Před 4 lety +4

      I think the disc can only move 30 feet per round though.

    • @nephdrummond3168
      @nephdrummond3168 Před 4 lety +11

      Joseph Perez Why? That’s not stated anywhere in any rules I can find

    • @josephperez2004
      @josephperez2004 Před 4 lety +6

      @@nephdrummond3168 Hmm, I may have been misreading it. I saw 20 feet mentioned a lot, so I may have misread it as having a speed of 20 feet and disappearing if you move over 100 feet away.

  • @Backup_Dice
    @Backup_Dice Před 4 lety +237

    The line “The disk is immobile while you are within 20 feet of it” answers a few of these questions

    • @Team_BaM
      @Team_BaM Před 4 lety +28

      My thoughts exactly. It's also limited in that it "can't cross elevation changes of 10 feet or more" which, given that everything in DnD is based on a five-foot grid means crossing a pit of more than five feet deep is a no go and if it's longer than five feet it would sink two feet into said pit, just in case anyone was thinking of using it to cross a pit of acid with a flying wizard at the lead.

    • @hugofontes5708
      @hugofontes5708 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Team_BaM what the heck would happen if the wizard got back within 20ft over the pit?

    • @Backup_Dice
      @Backup_Dice Před 4 lety +11

      @@hugofontes5708 the disk maintain 20' of distance. Following or being repelled by you. It does not have an intelligence score thus steering it properly to where you want it to go can be a bit of a task

    • @Team_BaM
      @Team_BaM Před 4 lety +24

      @@Backup_Dice Nah, the spell description tells us it is "immobile when you are *within* twenty feet of it" which to me means when you're less than twenty feet away cannot move or be moved. I presume if it came within twenty feet while over a pit it would stop dead in the air but as soon as your caster left that range it would fall same as anything else affected by gravity to stop exactly three feet above the ground. Of course, getting it to fall might be a trick all on its own since I'm noticing it says it "can't cross an elevation change of ten feet or more" implying it would just stop when it got to a ledge too high to float down from.
      If it backed away from you to maintain a twenty-foot range how would you load it? Personally, I view it as something that tries to follow your footsteps and stops when it gets twenty feet from you or comes into contact with anything not loaded onto it (Yes, even a half-open door *Jeremy* ).

    • @kamille286
      @kamille286 Před 3 lety +10

      That one actually makes sense though since the wizard may want to unload/load the disk and can't do that if it constantly moves away from them

  • @onesaltydoge3105
    @onesaltydoge3105 Před 4 lety +464

    I grabbed this spell when I found it in a spellbook, and have mostly used it to carry all of my allies unconscious bodies around.

    • @Lamefoureyes
      @Lamefoureyes Před 4 lety +111

      BRING OUT YER DEAD
      *klonk*
      BRING OUT YER DEAD

    • @jakeman3659
      @jakeman3659 Před 4 lety +6

      i love this

    • @ldobehardcore
      @ldobehardcore Před 4 lety +30

      @@Lamefoureyes
      Old: I'm not dead!
      Son: Oh he'll be dead in a minute.
      Carter: I can't take him like this.
      Son: Do us a favor?

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Před 4 lety +3

      @@ldobehardcore Yes, you are!

    • @FlameDarkfire
      @FlameDarkfire Před 4 lety +11

      I’ve seen it used to let spellcasters rest to recover their spell slots. Now I have an idea for a pair of twin wizards that take shifts on magical duty while the other guy rests on a floating disk.

  • @g.alvarez3140
    @g.alvarez3140 Před 4 lety +1415

    I actually got startled when I saw you, not because you look scary or anything but in my mind I just accepted you being a little cartoon dude.
    Nice beard

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Před 4 lety +63

      Shhh!!! Everybody knows Zee and his wife are gold dragons sent here to delight us and show us how to play D&D correctly.

    • @henryeberman6342
      @henryeberman6342 Před 4 lety +10

      Gabo Alvarez dude he looks like my dm who is a ginger with a great bread but he is bald

    • @WarDragonOfTheLight
      @WarDragonOfTheLight Před 4 lety +11

      His character is pretty close to what he looks like.

    • @Zilegil
      @Zilegil Před 4 lety +26

      Nah the little animated gnome dude is the real one. That fella is all done with CGI

    • @jamescanjuggle
      @jamescanjuggle Před 4 lety +4

      I got scared because this cartoon self was the exact same as his real self

  • @Kaipyro67ALT
    @Kaipyro67ALT Před 3 lety +27

    The part where the wizard goes "Christopher..." fucks me up laughing every time to this day. Just, so unexpected!

  • @michaelthomas2804
    @michaelthomas2804 Před 4 lety +546

    He said, "Tensor's Floating Disc though" and I heard that as "Tensor's Floating Disco", and I liked that better.

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Před 4 lety +41

      Cast Tensor's Floating Disk. Put a bunch of mirror pieces on top of it. Cast Light on the paladin's shield, park it by the disk. Spin the disk. Thank the DM who gave you the idea.

    • @Team_BaM
      @Team_BaM Před 4 lety +8

      Shake your groove thing.

    • @Eunostos
      @Eunostos Před 4 lety

      Tenser does have a disco ball spell! Level... 7?

    • @siegwardinspirit
      @siegwardinspirit Před 4 lety +4

      Instead of following the caster, you have to dance in a direction to move.

    • @Zappygunshot
      @Zappygunshot Před 4 lety +1

      Tenser's Disco Volante.

  • @GringatTheRepugnant
    @GringatTheRepugnant Před 4 lety +501

    It's incredible to see how much his animation skills have developed, especially the part at 2:36!

  • @smartmovestephen5390
    @smartmovestephen5390 Před 4 lety +92

    For a second I thought this was a 20-minute long animation and I was like damn no way

    • @MrBizteck
      @MrBizteck Před 4 lety +7

      The Arsehole in me saw the animation finishing @ 3 minutes and thought ... ' He put a fucking 17 min advert !!'
      Glad Im wrong !

  • @Talladarr
    @Talladarr Před 4 lety +80

    You almost touched on Wizard Sailing, you were so close!
    Step 1. Have a half long/gnome wizard
    Steep 2. Have someone heavy, preferably 200+ pounds
    Step 3. Wizard casts Tenser’s Floating Disk
    Step 4. have the strong person put a 30 foot ladder on the disk with 25 feet of it off the front of the disk.
    Step 5. Have wizard sit on the end of the ladder.
    Step 6. Flat at increasingly faster and faster speeds as the disk moves toward the wizard while the disk tries to catch up while the wizard never gets within 20 feet causing a forever acceleration mode of travel that will only stop when the wizard climbs the ladder back closer to the disk.
    Step 7. Wizard fails to fleet closer to the disk causing the disk to accelerate so fast you’re flung into space.

  • @zakd2124
    @zakd2124 Před 4 lety +296

    Step 1 (don't forget to do this before the DM knows what you are doing): Ask your DM if TFD accelerates when moving from 20+ feet away to within 20 feet of you, or if it moves at a constant velocity (and if so, how fast).
    Step 2: Cast TFD
    Step 3: Fasten a board to the floating disc, at least 20 feet beyond the outer circumference.
    Step 4: Sit on the end of the board, more than 20 feet away from the disc (not *on* the disc technically)
    Step 5: The disc accelerates as it attempts to be within 20 feet of you but cannot achieve it, resulting in infinite acceleration.
    Step 6: Shift ahead of and behind the 20 foot line to modulate speed and ride your creation into the sunset
    Alternatively, you still have a flying machine that moves at whatever speed the DM told you.

    • @lordsheogorath3377
      @lordsheogorath3377 Před 4 lety +108

      "You experience many hundreds of Gs as your floating disk uncontrollably accelerates and die instantly as your body turns into a fine meat paste."

    • @marvinhubregtse5776
      @marvinhubregtse5776 Před 4 lety +12

      nah tenser would just disapear since it counts as a 20foot pit

    • @Cheesusful
      @Cheesusful Před 4 lety +11

      @@lordsheogorath3377 too much acceleration forces you backwards, stopping the acceleration :)

    • @danielgehring7437
      @danielgehring7437 Před 4 lety +30

      Ugh, why did you have to include that part about trying to sneak it past the DM? This sounds like a fun idea I'd want my players to experiment with... but if I got caught by surprise when my players tried to get all sneaky-sneaky with it I'd probably have no choice but to tell you your face just got sheered off by wind resistance once you hit 5 G's or so.

    • @Malbutorius
      @Malbutorius Před 4 lety +25

      @@danielgehring7437 Agreed. My general Step 1 would be "Ask the GM how many silly shenanigans with powers and magic does he want in the game", and adapt accordingly.

  • @TheEbonlilly
    @TheEbonlilly Před 4 lety +804

    Step 1: Get a speed cat. (Tabaxi + Monk + Haste + a whole bunch of other stuff, and enough levels in wizard to cast Tenser's Floating Disk)
    Step 2: Speed Cat casts Tenser's Floating Disk
    Step 3: Load up the disk to capacity, ~500lbs
    Step 4: Speed Cat runs towards a target at 5,400ft per round
    Step 5: Speed Cat drinks a potion of gaseous form to harmlessly disperse through the target right before impact
    Step 6: The disk, weighing 500lbs and moving at 614mph would strike with 62,225.2 newtons of force
    This was not my idea, but I just had to share.

  • @Bakamoichigei
    @Bakamoichigei Před 4 lety +456

    Zee: It doesn't tolerate much player f**kery.
    Also Zee: EMBRACE THE CHAOS! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

    • @zeterzero4356
      @zeterzero4356 Před 4 lety +15

      Tenser's Flipping Disc

    • @Th3BlackLotus
      @Th3BlackLotus Před 4 lety +6

      ┬─┬ノ(ಠ_ಠノ)
      Please don't flip tables

    • @kylethomas9130
      @kylethomas9130 Před 4 lety +3

      On my phone, it looks like he's screaming because the table ripped off his arm.

  • @Zappygunshot
    @Zappygunshot Před 4 lety +53

    I like the idea of a wizard continually casting Tenser's Floating Disk throughout the entire dungeon, a new one every 6 seconds, and the party being continually confused and annoyed by this. Then they get to the boss room and are about to be devastated by a horrendous monster, but then the wizard teleports to the opposite side of it and fifty disks of force slam into and kill it in an instant.

    • @lexslate2476
      @lexslate2476 Před 11 měsíci +20

      The discs move to follow you, and the monster roars in frustration as it is now surrounded by a waist deep opaque layer of shimmering magic pizza pans. The discs do not damage it, because it's not that kind of spell, but the creature can only destroy one per round by jumping on it, and since your party's rogue is a gnome, they can get a sneak attack in every round by attacking unseen from under the discs.

  • @georgewalton7734
    @georgewalton7734 Před 4 lety +71

    One time during a semi-technology DND session, I used tenser's floating disc as a riot shield by turning it on its side and it could stop bullets because none of them could exert enough force for long enough to dispel the disc. The fight ended when everyone got in a car and I cast grease while someone else cast firebolt on the road behind us and it went up in flames. Good times!

    • @gmradio2436
      @gmradio2436 Před rokem +4

      I want to say that does not work, but hey. Your table, your rules, and it sounds like you had fun. How did the rest of the campaign go?

    • @Seth9809
      @Seth9809 Před rokem +4

      Any handgun of 9mm or more powerful, has over 500 ft/lbs of energy.

    • @badideagenerator2315
      @badideagenerator2315 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@Seth9809 it's specifically ft/lbs, which is a measurement of force rather than mass.
      The 9mm bullet itself is of negligible mass.

  • @bobfrancis123
    @bobfrancis123 Před 4 lety +353

    I’ve always allowed TFD to be used as a combat stretcher.

    • @ratholin
      @ratholin Před 4 lety +45

      I think that's it's original intent. hauling out your dead team mates to get rezzed.

    • @m2pt5
      @m2pt5 Před 4 lety +25

      @@ratholin Nope, the original intent was to haul a chest of 3000 coppers.

    • @Th3BlackLotus
      @Th3BlackLotus Před 4 lety +20

      @@m2pt5 3000 Cooper. The DnD equivalent of paying your taxes in pennies.

    • @dddmemaybe
      @dddmemaybe Před 4 lety +5

      @@Th3BlackLotus Makes me want to play a dystopian level 1 campaign where you have to pay monthly taxes or eat the axes.

  • @TaberIV
    @TaberIV Před 4 lety +163

    Children's CZcams videos will be unlisted
    Zee: _Starts swearing_

  • @Nydidia
    @Nydidia Před 4 lety +31

    "I'm going to turn off my recording now."
    This is the best way to end a video. This feels like Skyping with Dad. 😄

  • @LecherousCthulhu
    @LecherousCthulhu Před 4 lety +14

    Love what you're doing using the animations as an intro and then moving it into a larger explanation. It allows someone to enjoy the digestible information as well as the deeper understanding if they want it

  • @dokidokiduckie
    @dokidokiduckie Před 4 lety +113

    2 minute animation, 18 minute post notes. Peeeerfect. PEEEEEERFECT!!!
    (Holy shit Jim Davis looks different without his beard lol)

  • @rossfryer3902
    @rossfryer3902 Před 4 lety +47

    Your beard ate Jim Davis’s beard!

  • @independentconfederate6604
    @independentconfederate6604 Před 4 lety +24

    That’s reminds me of conversations with my dad who played adnd where he and his fellow players would bring an army of people into dungeons who would all die basically every time.

    • @utility63
      @utility63 Před 4 lety +5

      We once had a dungeon where we spent all the treasure we found going back to town to hire another dozen henchmen to help get us to the next area. Rinse and repeat. As we progressed we found increasingly more gold, but the mercenaries kept asking for more gold because the last guys kept dying.

  • @sirrliv
    @sirrliv Před 4 lety +47

    Since y'all mentioned using this spell as a mode of transport, riddle me this: Tenser's Floating Sedan Chair.

    • @ajsparx4133
      @ajsparx4133 Před 4 lety +11

      Tenser's Floating Lay-Z-Boy
      Tenser's Floating Porcelain Throne
      Tenser's Floating Tailgate BBQ and Kebabs
      Tenser's Floating... wait.
      Can you hook a cart to a floating disc for more carrying capacity?
      Tenser's Floating HORSELESS CARRIAGE
      A CAR
      WE COULD MAKE. A. CAR.

    • @gubbin909
      @gubbin909 Před 4 lety +4

      @@ajsparx4133 This guy can wizard

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ajsparx4133 very nice.

  • @CrazzyJ-iw5rc
    @CrazzyJ-iw5rc Před 4 lety +122

    oh my god he looks just like his profile pic. i love it.

    • @fishjenkins7257
      @fishjenkins7257 Před 4 lety

      It caught me so off guard lol but i love it

    • @ThiccInk
      @ThiccInk Před 4 lety

      Yeah, I really didn’t expect him to be hot.

    • @EricScheid
      @EricScheid Před 3 lety +2

      oh my god, he sounds just like him too!

    • @alantremonti1381
      @alantremonti1381 Před 3 lety

      @@EricScheid ...I lol'd.

  • @chukolance
    @chukolance Před 4 lety +219

    I am reminded of the fuckery I saw in one game with a weak-willed DM allowing a ring of Knock to be used as a weapon. Turns out a Ring of Knock can be lethal when used on enemies when DMs allow a loose interpretation of "opens chests".

    • @henryeberman6342
      @henryeberman6342 Před 4 lety +33

      chukolance i wouldn’t consider that dm weak willed and more like a chill guy

    • @Inanedata
      @Inanedata Před 4 lety +30

      Jesus Christ I would have never thought of reading the text that way

    • @FlameDarkfire
      @FlameDarkfire Před 4 lety +4

      Inanedata before I make my seduction roll I will reread the description of ‘swinging knack.’ Gotta know when to be creative with your interpretations

    • @JohnDickinson
      @JohnDickinson Před 4 lety +17

      A chime of "opening" used on a person, undoing all straps and ties...aaaaand the paladins armor drops off!

    • @KuraIthys
      @KuraIthys Před 4 lety +3

      That sounds like something out of a porn parody...
      Because if you undo ALL straps and ties, well, you get the idea, I hope... XD

  • @davidtauriainen9116
    @davidtauriainen9116 Před 4 lety +38

    Tenser's Floating Segway: Create two TFD, get on some 20 foot high stilts on the TFD. Have another character brace the end of the stilts and use a rope to gently lean the wizard forward.

    • @Team_BaM
      @Team_BaM Před 4 lety +2

      If the stilts are twenty feet long the wizard would always be within twenty feet, no matter how tilted he is.

    • @Team_BaM
      @Team_BaM Před 4 lety +1

      @666NedFlanders
      My first thought would be any part of the disk, not specifically the center since it feels like that's the sort of things that would be specified. I can't really picture what you mean by the shape of the feet on the silts though. Could you paint me a word picture? That or a set of words for a search engine that'll bring up a picture so I can see what you mean would be appreciated.

    • @be1tube
      @be1tube Před 3 lety +1

      You mean 21 foot high stilts. Question: what is the coefficient of friction of the surface of the disk.

  • @sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149

    Holy shit those player deaths were terrifying.

  • @chrisshew15
    @chrisshew15 Před 4 lety +75

    Dangit Zee scaring me because I hear “Christopher” and think someone is calling me while I’m just sitting in class while listening to this! XD

  • @Akiroslice
    @Akiroslice Před 4 lety +98

    Put a bunch of diminutive archers on it for "point defense" effect.

    • @kylethomas9130
      @kylethomas9130 Před 4 lety +20

      When your PCs start hiring a large number of Gnome troops, be afraid, be very afraid.

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Před 4 lety +19

      No... the backpack wizards. Nobody would suspect five backpacks with some loot around it from hiding the BackPack Wizard Quintet.

    • @kylethomas9130
      @kylethomas9130 Před 4 lety +14

      @@jackielinde7568 now you're thinking with gnomes.

    • @Alizudo
      @Alizudo Před 4 lety +2

      @@kylethomas9130
      I live for comments like these

    • @kylethomas9130
      @kylethomas9130 Před 4 lety +6

      @@Alizudo My ideal 5e campaign is a Centaur Cavalier with the Tough feat and proficiency with a custom fit howdah.
      And everyone is Ranged Combat Gnome.

  • @breakfast3006
    @breakfast3006 Před 4 lety +7

    Seeing Zee talking to someone we can see or hear is the best thing. I’d be down to listen to a podcast of Zee doing that.

  • @kjs8719
    @kjs8719 Před 2 lety +10

    I had a 3ft tall gnome wading through 2ft deep swamp water. I really wished I had a floating disc so I could sit on the tank's shoulders and put our bags on the disc

  • @deltaphant_
    @deltaphant_ Před 4 lety +35

    I didn't realize at first the length of the video, this is great!

  • @ASLTheatre
    @ASLTheatre Před 4 lety +46

    Who else first imagined riding it like Static Shock? I did.

  • @da_BemBem
    @da_BemBem Před 4 lety +57

    "You can't ride on it"
    I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it.

    • @lindleya
      @lindleya Před rokem +2

      In 4th ed you could ride it, and move it independently. It was a cool way for a small wizard with less movement to keep up with the party, plus you look awesome

    • @da_BemBem
      @da_BemBem Před rokem

      @Adam Lindley yeah, and that's how I've always used it throughout ant game I've played. Or the GM can give me a floating carpet. Their call.

    • @beautifulnova6088
      @beautifulnova6088 Před rokem +1

      In pathfinder there's a feat to let you ride it like a skateboard and even do tricks.

    • @AvangionQ
      @AvangionQ Před 11 měsíci +1

      I mean, why not? You can ride on it, but as it follows you, all you get is a stationary platform 3 feet above the ground.

    • @da_BemBem
      @da_BemBem Před 11 měsíci

      @AvangionQ Yeah and that's lame. You should be able to ride on it for maximum style.

  • @braddalrymple8615
    @braddalrymple8615 Před 4 lety +2

    I loved the after-show think I could definitely watch this all the time. Please keep up the great work

  • @GwynoftheMist
    @GwynoftheMist Před 4 lety +28

    So happy to get another one of these so soon :D

  • @MrMelee-md1go
    @MrMelee-md1go Před 4 lety +43

    You should have a podcast, I love hearing post notes and it would be cool to have like a d&d animated spell books podcast (no pressure though love the videos keep it up)

    • @timmbruce99
      @timmbruce99 Před 4 lety +2

      Heck yea! These are super interesting

    • @derphurr8814
      @derphurr8814 Před 4 lety

      Webdm is pretty similar to that.

  • @KevShaw808
    @KevShaw808 Před 4 lety +2

    I really love the format of the video, especially the end where you talked with Jim. Learned a whole lot. Great work!

  • @lanceward5904
    @lanceward5904 Před 4 lety +4

    Hey!! Wasn’t expecting a surprise Jim Davis appearance!! Love it!

  • @starchilder734
    @starchilder734 Před 4 lety +14

    to paraphrase: "the disk is immobile until you are 20 feet from it, in which case it will follow you." immoble either implies:
    a) it is not moving
    or
    b) it can not move
    so the 2 disk wind trick will either work great, or be incredibly lame, depending on which definition your DM chooses.

    • @torymiddlebrooks
      @torymiddlebrooks Před 4 lety

      Oh. That's interesting, I wasn't thinking of the dual meaning of immobile. I went with definition 2. If you assumed it was 1,then what outside forces could you apply to the disk?

    • @williamwontiam3166
      @williamwontiam3166 Před 4 lety

      If it was number two then I could see that as quite the annoying barrier. If number 2 is used then you’ll be able to fly...

  • @sirforcer
    @sirforcer Před 4 lety +245

    "this was before Game Design was something they taught in college"
    As someone working on a degree in game design, player fun trumps all.

    • @500thCenturion
      @500thCenturion Před 4 lety +11

      Nah fam, you gotta make the game hard as nails! If it ain't eating quarters it ain't gonna make money!

    • @TheJoevakiin
      @TheJoevakiin Před 4 lety +11

      Until you work in a big studio, then it's monetization trumps all.

    • @RoninCatholic
      @RoninCatholic Před 4 lety +3

      And I find a lot of games that can be quite hostile and difficult a lot of fun. There's a big market for permadeath roguelikes, after all.

    • @sirforcer
      @sirforcer Před 4 lety +13

      @@RoninCatholic Yes, some players want hostile (just look at Dark Souls). My comment was not suggesting hostile is not fun, but that if the players don't enjoy the hostile aspects, then the DM should adjust accordingly.

    • @hugofontes5708
      @hugofontes5708 Před 4 lety +4

      @@sirforcer oh, yes. There's hostile and there's stupid nonsense

  • @Rabijeel
    @Rabijeel Před 4 lety +11

    Still loving the Warlock who went down the Mountain with a Levitation-Spell Ski-Style.
    And XP for Gold is a bad Idea if done without serious thought to it. Had this myself just recently in a 2nd-Ed.-Game.
    GM: You can pick things from the Kings Treasure. There are [insert List of Magic Items] and a lot of Gold.
    All Players went Munchkin-grabdemloot-Mode. I got nothing and was totally ok with that as I got "Gold in comparable Value to the Items each one got" - and remembered the "You get 4 XP for each Gold you loot.
    Before that I was the weakest Char missing about 2-3 Level to the rest of the Party. Now they miss 2-3 Level to me as I instalevelupped 5 Level by just getting a dammit Chest to our Boat on a frigging Island.
    GM learned to watch out for semantics about the Bonus he offers so it does not backfire - and also not to hand out Aeonstones so freely.

    • @PeterPetrowitsch
      @PeterPetrowitsch Před 2 lety

      I hate to be that guy but ... ackshually ... DnD 2e has a rule specifically against gaining more than one level from one instance of experience gained.
      Quote:
      "There is only one hard and fast rule concerning advancement. Player characters should never advance more than one level per time experience is awarded. If a gaming session ends and a character has earned enough experience points to advance two levels, the excess points are lost. The DM should give the character enough experience to place him somewhere between halfway and one point below the next highest level."

  • @morbinenthusiast6039
    @morbinenthusiast6039 Před 4 lety +5

    This brilliant exploration of how a DM interprets and allows player creativity has brought together two of my favourite sources of inspiration as a relativity new DM. I truly hope there is further collaboration between these channels, here’s hoping WebDM may become a three master production. Well done both of you 👍

  • @catintime3917
    @catintime3917 Před 4 lety +227

    Wizard *walks up to puzzle*
    "Christofer"
    ...
    WHAM WHAM WHAM!
    Other guy *Now a red paste*
    Wizard
    Hmmmm I don't think that worked...

    • @danielgehring7437
      @danielgehring7437 Před 4 lety +13

      Oh it worked. It worked exactly as intended.

    • @johndavies1170
      @johndavies1170 Před 4 lety +6

      I imagine the wizard was more confused than just stating the trigger word out aloud.. 😉
      More like this...
      *Wizard hovers his wand's light over the strange words carved into the wall*
      Wizard : "Christofer ?"
      *Other remaining party member, crushed into humanoid jam by the riddle room's trap* 😆

    • @BiningiTheBanan
      @BiningiTheBanan Před 4 lety +1

      @@danielgehring7437 I love this reply.

    • @morganb6717
      @morganb6717 Před 4 lety +1

      it didn't work because the wizard misread *"Christopher" and somehow the trap knew.

  • @calebkopp7636
    @calebkopp7636 Před 4 lety +69

    "It can hold up to 500 pounds"
    Me: **makes a spell to increase target by 500 pounds** this plus mold earth. Perfect combo.

    • @kylethomas9130
      @kylethomas9130 Před 4 lety +22

      Well, even just putting it in the ground, with some soil on top. Then your target can just tip the 500 threshold and fall in a sinkhole.
      They might not even suspect the Wizard since stuff will fall with them... well if your leaving survivors.
      But yeah, underappreciated combo there.

    • @zeterzero4356
      @zeterzero4356 Před 4 lety +4

      That's not bad. Need to keep that in mind.

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Před 4 lety +5

      You couldn't make a pitfall trap of ten feet or over, but you can make an immobilization hazard by putting the disk five feet off the bottom of the hole and then putting five cubic feet of loose soil. (Loose soil is around 75 to 110 pounds per cubic foot). The soil would fill in around the unlucky person to step on it, kind of acting like quicksand. They fall in the hole, the soil pins them in, and maybe does some suffocation damage.

    • @DoABarrelRol1l
      @DoABarrelRol1l Před 4 lety +1

      It’s 20 ft behind you right? So you’d need a mirror to see when they step on the trap since a wizard couldn’t look at their own Disk..?

    • @kylethomas9130
      @kylethomas9130 Před 4 lety +3

      @@DoABarrelRol1l where does it go if you have to double back down a tunnel?

  • @nkordich
    @nkordich Před 4 lety +6

    1:17 - The spell was listed in D&D as "Floating Disc" - AD&D rendered the spell as "Tenser's Floating Disk." The SRD went with "Floating Disk" to keep the setting-specific character out of third party books, etc., using the open system.

  • @TexasGodot
    @TexasGodot Před 4 lety +8

    Holy shit I laughed so hard when the wizard said Christopher and the dude got mashed

  • @koriarchen
    @koriarchen Před 4 lety +38

    "*standing exactly 20 feet away from a doorway with a 9 foot hole in front of it*": oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy

  • @worthasandwich
    @worthasandwich Před 4 lety +10

    I love the moments when GMing where a player asks what would happen if they do something weird/interesting with a spell, ability, or item and they ask "what will this do?" and my only repose it to say "I don't know, you should try it!"

  • @death174128
    @death174128 Před 4 lety +2

    This is one of your best videos to date. The editing is spot on, the animation/ very informative and entertaining, and the discussion with Jim D was unexpected, but very welcome!

  • @stretch2796
    @stretch2796 Před 4 lety

    I like the new longform thing you got going. You get the same fun animated shorts at the beginning but then a nice long ramble afterwards if I want to hear more(which I almost always do). It works and I'd love to see more, or even you going back over old spells you've done with this new approach.

  • @AubriGryphon
    @AubriGryphon Před 4 lety +168

    I take it you've inserted these occasional F-bombs to avoid CZcams's absurd "child-friendly" system.

    • @OdaSwifteye
      @OdaSwifteye Před 4 lety +7

      Watch it not work for one video.

    • @Candlemancer
      @Candlemancer Před 4 lety +76

      It's hilarious and absurd that CZcams has suddenly gone from "no swearing" to "you must swear" if you want to make money.

  • @raidmaster6879
    @raidmaster6879 Před 4 lety +14

    Dude! Your animation is insane!

  • @cf6909
    @cf6909 Před 4 lety

    Love the new format and post notes. I like hearing your ideas about dnd

  • @WATERMELONpuppy1
    @WATERMELONpuppy1 Před 4 lety +1

    love these kinds of d&d talks, Jim’s awesome i watch web dm all the time

  • @Gondorf5
    @Gondorf5 Před 4 lety +18

    When D&D goes from "How To Murderhobo/Farm for XP" to "How Cortez Conquered The New World."

  • @D_Boone
    @D_Boone Před 4 lety +8

    Tucker's Kobolds. Nice!

  • @angrymushroom26
    @angrymushroom26 Před 4 lety

    Gotta say. Love your animate but your interview / postnotes / discuss part of this was really awesome.

  • @adammoffat6797
    @adammoffat6797 Před 4 lety

    Excelllent video. I really enjoy the typical format with the cartoons and gags etc, but this concept of tagging an interview / contributor on the end is genius. Very enjoyable show, love to see more discussion between Zee his up coming guests!

  • @miscellaneousshadow7452
    @miscellaneousshadow7452 Před 4 lety +6

    Did Zee Bawshee steal Web DM's beard to make his own beard more powerful?!?!

  • @looploop7705
    @looploop7705 Před 4 lety +6

    These Videos Are Always The Best

  • @TheRukisama
    @TheRukisama Před 4 lety +2

    Very cool to have Jim on to talk about things! I love this.

  • @elsquisheeone
    @elsquisheeone Před 4 lety +1

    I'm digging this new video format
    5% animation
    95% fantastic beard time
    it's the best of both worlds

  • @geoleo965
    @geoleo965 Před 4 lety +17

    Glad to see you back... And boy, you sure have the beard of a Greek god.

  • @spot6532
    @spot6532 Před 4 lety +17

    Gold for XP just makes me want to make an Artificer character that just immediately abandon adventuring in turn for becoming the best / richest Magic Items and Trinkets(tm) merchant across the lands.

    • @danielgehring7437
      @danielgehring7437 Před 4 lety +4

      "Alright let's begin this week's session. Alabrecht I think you had something to say?"
      "Compatriots, I have been given a holy quest! We must find the mad monk Zardoz and slay him, as well as his demonic minions! Come, we must equip ourselves with potent weapons and relics! Steel your hearts as well, brave companions, for our adventure will be perilous. There are even rumors that we may encounter a vile vixen known only as the Succubus Queen, who will seek to entice us to rapt slavish servitude as long as everyone is over 18!"
      "Cool, cool. Bob, what are you doing?"
      "I see how much gold I made! 20! I went up a level!"
      "That's great Bob. See you next week?"
      "Hell yeah!"

    • @nonya1366
      @nonya1366 Před rokem

      Sorry for the extremely late post-
      But you'd survive at least.

  • @nitroglitch45
    @nitroglitch45 Před 4 lety

    I love your animations, but the direct conversation of this video is awesome. And your buddy is a perfect addition!

  • @ashley587
    @ashley587 Před 4 lety

    I'm loving these post notes! Please keep doing them!

  • @luckybuns7628
    @luckybuns7628 Před 4 lety +4

    Thank you for the post notes. They feel like we just get a bit more Bashew per video :)

  • @gentrygilpin5851
    @gentrygilpin5851 Před 4 lety +3

    Always happy to see more Jim Davis, and I really appreciate being able to hear more of your thoughts on this kind of stuff. Still love the animation, but talking heads are nice too.

  • @BertyBadass
    @BertyBadass Před 4 lety

    Absolutely love this content, please do more!!

  • @billyl4413
    @billyl4413 Před 4 lety

    Great video! Always happy to see Web DM collabs

  • @johnb8265
    @johnb8265 Před 4 lety +17

    "Christopher!"
    Thanks for making me spit cereal at my laptop screen, Zee.

    • @polishjack1984
      @polishjack1984 Před 4 lety +3

      I don't get the reference. Care to help?

    • @arcangleGabriel
      @arcangleGabriel Před 4 lety

      I think its a reference to Alan Turing and the first computer, but I could be very wrong.

    • @elliscor001
      @elliscor001 Před 4 lety

      @@polishjack1984 its a reference to how Christopher Hardwick died in Force Grey, he was playing like a murder hobo up to that point so it was deserved

    • @Wereflea
      @Wereflea Před 4 lety +1

      @@elliscor001 How who died in the what? Google isn't helping. (Yeah, I don't get that reference either).

  • @Nikolapoleon
    @Nikolapoleon Před 4 lety +21

    2:50
    increadible(adj.) - that which can not be read because it is too difficult to believe

  • @PangoriaFallstar
    @PangoriaFallstar Před 4 lety

    This is a great format. Please keep doing this.

  • @wearevenom951
    @wearevenom951 Před 4 lety

    Im really digging this post chat thingy. (didnt pay attention... too lazy to rewind) Keep up the good work and awesome content my dude!

  • @pierre-mariecaulliez6285
    @pierre-mariecaulliez6285 Před 4 lety +18

    It's not concentration, it's a fixed time limit...
    DM : "After all that setup, just as you were about to FLY ABOVE the chasm, the timer expires and you fall ! (: ])"

  • @jackielinde7568
    @jackielinde7568 Před 4 lety +3

    Yay! The golden dragon named Zee has gifted us with more of his ancient knowledge of the game Dungeons and Dragons!

  • @natee2666
    @natee2666 Před 4 lety

    I love this kind of more 'podcasty' style episode. Makes great watching when doing something else and this was super easy to follow

  • @Closi
    @Closi Před 4 lety

    This was very fun! Please do more videos like this

  • @OnionZest
    @OnionZest Před 4 lety +41

    "Christopher?"
    *terrible bashing stone against flesh*

    • @Kryptnyt
      @Kryptnyt Před 4 lety

      Mashed right down into paste form!

  • @fishemojifishemoji4602
    @fishemojifishemoji4602 Před 4 lety +5

    Mammon tiefling monk with haste, everyone else piles on. Nyoom

  • @Lucurtega
    @Lucurtega Před 4 lety

    I love this type of videos, cant wait to see more

  • @vashm87
    @vashm87 Před 4 lety

    This was remarkably enjoyable to watch, the animation was awesome as usual but, that post chat was really fun and quite informative. Fantastic stuff dude, thanks for gracing us with such content! :3

  • @woodrobin
    @woodrobin Před 4 lety +49

    Now I kind of want there to be a Tenser's Floating ---- for each level:
    Level 1: Tenser's Floating Disc
    Level 2: Tenser's Floating Globe (makes a spherical force that protects the contents; only the caster can reach into the globe to add or remove items)
    Level 3: Tenser's Floating Chariot (can carry people, including the caster, moves as the caster wills -- at up to the same speed the disc can move, and the same height)
    Level 4: Tenser's Floating Carriage (is the size of a merchant's wagon, can carry any amount of weight than can fit, can be towed by a person or draft animal as if it's weight is it's actual weight divided by the caster's level + the spell level slot used (e.g. cast as 4th level spell by 16th level caster = 1/20th weight)
    Level 5: Tenser's Floating Friend (essential T.F. Globe plus Unseen Servant -- the Globe can be told to move on it's own, dump objects out, etc.)
    Level 6: Tenser's Floating Battlement (essentially the floating carriage, with protective side with crenelations to allow firing missiles or spells from partial cover)
    Level 7: Tenser's Floating Home (Tenser's answer to Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, it's a force-based encampment protected from weather and casual intruders)
    Level 8: Tenser's Floating Fortress (larger version of the home, with a rooftop battlement)
    Level 9: Tenser's Floating Realm (the entrance is the size of a floating globe, but anyone the caster permits can enter a much larger interior space not visible from outside -- basically Tenser's Floating TARDIS, if the TARDIS only moved as fast as a floating disc, if at all).
    I'm imagining Tenser finally getting fed up with Bigby getting all the credit for taking a theme and beating it to death with a series of progressively more powerful hands, and saying "F*** it! Two can play at that game!"

  • @AdraTheGhost
    @AdraTheGhost Před 4 lety +4

    0:48 comedy gold!

  • @domingosszabo
    @domingosszabo Před 4 lety

    Woow thought I was getting another sweet yet short animated spellbook and we are treated to 20 minutes of insightfull discussion :) thank you very much!

  • @Erikreaver
    @Erikreaver Před 4 lety

    Loved the post-note, I found it quite insightful and both of you to be be able to hold a pleasant and engaging conversation. Huzzah!

  • @bthsr7113
    @bthsr7113 Před 4 lety +12

    Combine this with technomagic/lost technology heavy weapons, and you can have a mobile turret.

    • @kylethomas9130
      @kylethomas9130 Před 4 lety +3

      I think the Artillerist units could be transported in and out of combat that way.

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Před 4 lety +4

      Screw that. Five backpacks, each with their own little backpack wizard. You're Welcome.

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 Před 4 lety +1

      @@jackielinde7568 I'm a little confused.

  • @lukemartinserrano4765
    @lukemartinserrano4765 Před 4 lety +6

    I love Post notes, KEEP IT UP PLEASE. Or bro even better, create like a podcast or longer videos of you just talking! Whatever you do, I'm all for it!

  • @demont7574
    @demont7574 Před 4 lety

    love this new format with the mini podcast

  • @ngbrother
    @ngbrother Před 4 lety

    Great interview! Love the content variety.