Handbooker Helper: Elf (Quick Build)
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- Dungeon Master Satine Phoenix has all the lore and stats you need to learn how to play an elf in D&D 5e!
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I really hope the Half-Elf Quick Build is Liam and Laura fighting, like siblings do, to get their lines out first and get as much screen time as possible.
The occasional elf also gets paid to sit on a shelf during a winter month.
ay man 20 silver is 20 silver
No..
You're my hero.
Not to be confused with Gnome on Your Dome - an excellent thinking cap, or socks called Kobold with a Toe-Hold. ;)
"I once choked out a beholder with my bare hands and now I'm making human children behave...BEHOLDERS DON'T EVEN HAVE NECKS! What am I doing with my life?"
"Don't forget having children with humans."
"Go home, Vax. You're drunk."
Even without the ears, Satine seems like a real elf.
She is one of the few people where you can take her day to day look, just add long ears and you get a convincing elf cosplay.
She is a real elf, she just use Elven magic to hide her ears day to day. That's what her actual ears looks like
Her porn scenes are awesome, if you’re curious.
I'd love to hear from Satine on Between the Sheets S3!
I think we would all shed a few tears if she told us her life story.
I would love for her to guest with the M9. Maybe she will play a drow.
@@blazejcholewinski2566 Please. Satine will settle for nothing but full Eladrin in all their feytastic glory :P
That said, Drow rule. My "main" character is a Drow.
I wonder if she'd talk about her time in porn
@@oOPPHOo you spelt "drool" wrong
D&d can sell me "short elves" all they want but they will always be tall for my games. 😂
They always seem like they are between five to six feet tall. They could be a little pudgy, but i cant see an overweight one.
Samantha Mansfield Literally the only thing I don’t like about official D&D, I always change that as well
Making them tall just makes them even more of a Mary Sue race tbh
@@megavore97 I don't think you know what that means to be honest.
@@megavore97 A mary sue race? Seriously? Being tall doesn't affect anything, there are plenty more things you could use that comparison with. Being a mary sue means you're powerful for no reason. Height doesn't affect that.
High Elf: Swanky rich elf
Wood elf: Tree-hugger elf
Drow: Edgy rebellious elf
Eladrin: Extroverted wear-their-heart-on-their-sleeve elf
Shadar-Kai: No one wants to talk to them goth elf
Sea Elves: Swimming team kids.
Pallid Elves: Kids that think they are detectives.
I am a moon elf 😊.
I had forgotten about the highelf extra cantrip. That's going into my think pit for when I make a new PC
Made one on dndbeyond with the light cantrip. I like to imagine he uses it on his sword to make it look like a lightsaber and he makes his own sound effects.
I made a mute High Elf with the minor illusion cantrip. When he needs to say something, he creates an illusion of a sign where what he wants to say is written on it. Or sometimes he plays pictionary with his party members.
aeeeeldriiitch bleeeeaaaast
@@jelliefishr2336 Wizard cantrip, not Warlock cantrip. Only Warlocks get Eldritch Blast.
@@OpDDay2001 oh, okay, fair. eldritch blast is pretty OP
Also, because I know it's going to come up in the comments... Trance does actually equate to a full long rest for an elf. It's been errata'd for clarification: it used to be ambiguous and people felt that elves still had to rest for 8 hours, four of which they'd be conscious for.
Elves are fully rested after four.
Can you link the source of this?
@@Rawilow the player's handbook
@@Rawilow The most recent printings of the PHB; DndBeyond.
It's one of the things I struggle with in my world building. Elves live incredibly long yet youthful lives and sleep only for half as much as humans. Even without their magic, they should rule any world they inhabit if they so desired.
Obviously, the struggle is overcome by saying they don't really desire ruling the world and would rather dedicate decades of life on practicing how to recite the just the first stanza of a piece of poetry. Even when it comes to the military, by the time a human fighter has gone from private soldier to seasoned war veteran, the elven fighter has finally become pleased with how they unsheath their sword.
@@oOPPHOo That's, imo, the correct way to view it. It's difficult, but we have to face that we have a very, "human," perception of time.
Elves aren't humans with a couple of centuries tacked on, you know? They're weird alien fey-relatives that know they're going to live for nearly a millennium.
First character (and the only one that still sees consistent play) was a High Elf Ranger, a running joke is that everyone confuses him for a Wood Elf due to his natural affinity, and lack of natural affinity for magic.
Hahaha. I like that. I imagine it is good for roleplaying.
@@BrianWilkersontheAuthor Oh yes, he's great fun to play. About a month ago he died after getting caught in a room with mimics, but he's right in the sweet spot of smart enough to know what he's talking about and wise enough to know he's a moron, so he had to be convinced that he had actually died, and then had to convince the bard that it's okay to stop babysitting him while he was recovering from all the -stats that come from being resurrected.
He's also extremely lucky in the way of circumstantial fortune as opposed to getting good rolls himself. In the dungeon he died in, the rogue had gotten petrified, so he was on temporary rogue duty. One of the treasure caches he found (the specific contents of which were rolled a little after he died, as a character dying is a very emotional moment) turned out to have a diamond of the minimum required value for the spell, so now he's a little dead set with idea that "Sure I died, but I found the thing that we needed to bring me back so it's not like I did anything incorrectly". This isn't even bringing up Animal Handling his way out of combat encounters, making arguments that the DM doesn't even ask for a Persuasion check, or the time the Fighter volunteered to take a spell (turned out to be Finger of Death) that would have killed him.
I'm going to make a wood elf that was brought up in the city and everyone thinks he is a high elf because of how he acts and dresses but whenever he's with an animal he's like "which one would be your name?" and the thing is like "unholy screech" and my elf like "a good name for such a creature indeed" then proceeds to politely and respectfully feed it. He would be the type of guy to call his dog sir xD
So the elves species are basicly
Nerds
Track team
Emo kids
Got it
...You know, you're actually not wrong in that.
That's just the PHB subraces. You're missing one with the Eladrin. They, i assume would be the Theater/Arts kids. Just look at them in Volo's Guide.
There are like, 17 elven subraces at this point. It's nuts.
Eladrin Bipolar people
Shadar-Kai EMO EMO EMO kids
Sea Elves swimmers
Pallid Elves detectives
Mans been watching too many shonens.. but true.
I love all the Handbooker helper episodes, but the amount of enthusiasm Satine shows talking about High Elves' free Wizard cantrip is just too precious! I can't get over it. Satine is an eternal delight and I envy anyone who gets to play at her table!
*dwarven voice from way in the back*
AND THEY ARE STUPID ELVES
*laughs*
pointy-eared bastards think they're better than everyone!
@@HerrBenny Because they are. I for one welcome our Elven Overlords
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To quote a wise man
"Don't start me on Elves. My perennial bugbear. Elves are basically "What If Aryans were right about there being a master race?" Fucking Elves"
Though in D&D they actually kind of suck, they live close to eight times as long as humans and still wind up with less skills, simply because humans learn skills that much faster.
Elves live 10 times longer and do ten times less than humans
"thinesELVES".... WOW, I'm gonna need a minute for this pun.
Always fun to look for, those Handbooker Helpers! You guys and your nerdy friends are a delight to watch!
I want to hope that Sam wrote that one.
For those who continue to doubt, Pheonix's description of the elves' Trance ability in the video is correct. Elves finish a long rest after 4 hours in a trance.
The 4 hours meditating + 4 hours light activity part of the rule was always a misconception due to the Player's Handbook being worded, as Brian Wayne Foster would say, fuckerdly. It was corrected in 2017 and all PHB publications since.
You can find all of the updated Player's Handbook rules on the Sage Advice PDF from the official D&D website here: media.wizards.com/2019/dnd/downloads/SA-Compendium.pdf
I have a phb from 2017 that doesn't make any additional distinction. RAW would suggest a long rest is 8 hours, regardless of how much a character spends sleeping...
sebastianwillows The Sage Advice PDF I linked is from 2019, but the actual errata on this particular rule was published in 2017; so not all PHBs will contain the update, depending on when the physical book was published.
@@JustinTotino ahh- that's fair!
Use of the term "demi-humans" a throwback to 1st edition...!
@cak01vej back in first edition Demi Human didn't mean half human. It was a blanket term for certain humanoid races such as Elves, Dwarves and Halflings but didn't include some humanoids like Orcs. It was dropped primarily for being redundant.
@cak01vej Congrats about pointless talking. The genre, like many RPGs, uses the term "races" where it should use "species," but there's a reason people don't go around with their nose stuck up in the air while typing on the internet about how "races" is incorrect.
@cak01vej n. race A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics
The rest of your pedantic text: TL;DR
@cak01vej Cool story, bro. Kthxbai
You forgot the second half of the saying. It's "Knowledge is power, guard it well."
Keep it secret, keep it safe!
Alt: “Hide it well”
Oooh, I can get so much more procrastination done with 4 extra hours!
Lets not forget Shadar-Kai and Eladrin. If you want to in essence play as either an undead type or fairy type these two are great, though only if you have mordenkainens tome of foes.
or like. can find pdfs online
Watching this reminds me how much I miss GM Tips with Satine.
And how much I want her to make an appearance in the campaign.
Knowledge is power, guard it well.
I've been playing First Edition D&D for 40 years! And I found this explanation of 5th edition Elves to be wonderful and informative! More, more!
0:12 Yes, you made me look indeed.
Deleting this wouldn't be much of a loss for you folks. I don't see as much issue with the AWNP episode with her as a secondary guest but that's just my opinion.
if yall want to roll a wood elf try rolling a monk! it works really well in terms of stats and flavour imo
Is like 1 or 2 whole points to your AC and maybe 1 for your DC for saves and spell bonus if 4 elements
@Follow the howl lol i always see the variant tiefling monk! if we are being more "weird" id like to try rolling a firbolg monk
@@Bawinni Wood elves make the best rogues because they can hide easier. And you get access to that 1d8 longbow. Of course the High Elves get access to the _Mending_ cantrip so you never have to worry about arrows breaking.
But yes, the wood elf monk is the most common monk, due to Point Buy being the official Adventurer's League rules.
My first proper character was a Wood Elf Four Elements Monk, but I made him before reading much about popular race-class combinations. It just made sense for what I imagined he looked like.
I feel you shouldn't shy away from a particular race just because it's popular. When I'm making characters, I go for either the class or the personality first, then tack the race on once I know what I want for them.
The party monk in the game I DM is a wood elf monk, and he also took the racial feat that lets him cast longstrider once a day. At level 4 he's already pretty much The Flash.
I can’t wait to see Matt Mercer do Tortles soon. I want to hear the Stuttering Cajun Captain of the Ball Eater again.
Navigator*
OF COURSE THE QUEEN IS DOING THE ELF GUIDE
I'm a simple girl. I see Satine Phoenix, I like the video.
Hope the mistreated find peace and healing.
Hope she makes the efforts to repair and amemd. Finds the help and strength needed to change.
TBH, favourite HH episode so far!
The looks of Satine is just perfect! That hair, the ears, the makeup, the (fucking awesome) top she's wearing.
Also her enthusiasm towards elves is just fun to watch :D
Thank you, all the ppls, who made this episode!!!
Elves are actually one of the best, if not the best, race for rogues. This is due to the Cantrip trait, which means you can now take Booming Blade, which can be extremly useful with cunning action disengage or swashbuckler subclass included. At 5th level, you get +3d8 damage for free every round.
Doesn't booming blade trigger only when the target moves away voluntarily?
Wood elf is also great
That +1 wis, longbow, hiding bonus and extra 5ft speed make a great set of tools for a scout
@@Ryquard1 It does, but as the cantrip grows more powerful, the initial hit gains some extra Thunder damage on top of the weapon damage.
We need a Drow PC already! I'd volunteer myself but alas...I do not live in California (anymore) and I'm nowhere close to the awesome talent of the CR cast. A guy can dream.... ;)
I started playing a month ago - these videos have been super helpful .
I'm secretly convinced Satine is an elf. She loves them and looks like one, and even has an elvish name.
Elves will never be my cup of tea, but Satine always will be! Very nice, y'all.
What race is? . . . If you say Humans I swear to god 😠
High elves are such a good match with Elritch Knight and Arcane Trickster that you'd think those archetypes were made specifically for them. The ability score boosts are already good enough on their own, but an extra Wizard cantrip is a really big deal for classes that normally only get 3 or 4, and their trance helps partially make up for having so few spell slots to work with, too. Plus, flavor-wise, it makes sense for even a martially-inclined elf to pepper their otherwise-physical fighting style with some magic.
Wow, you really could not have chosen a better person to represent elves- she is ethereally beautiful! Love her. Great video!
Love me some elves. My girl in the Curse Of Strahd campaign I'm playing in is a drow grave cleric and it's GREAT.
00:11 - "Made you look"... Well played Tolkien.
Satine needs to be on Critical Role and/or Between the Sheets.
Her between the sheets would be great but it would take an extreme amount of guts for her. That said she is an incredibly strong woman so you never know.
@@TOAST-FACEKILLAH Pretty sure she isn't ashamed of working in the sex industry. Nor should she be TBH.
My first character was a drow circle of the moon druid and it's fun to play him, cause everyone thinks he is a bad guy while he is truly a cinnamon roll.
Forgotten Realms elves being *shorter* than humans bothers me to no end.
Elflets BTFO
Elves aren't the Ubermensch in DnD unlike in many other worlds
Actualy I find that refreshing. At least they are not the same tall blonde perfect bulshit elves they are everywhere else.
Pre-Tolkien Elves were diminutive beings. Elves being *taller* than humans bothered me for quite awhile.
@@Rathkryn Pre Tolkien Elves were what we now call Forest Gnomes basicly XD
Now we need Sumalee on firbolgs.
Hmmm... She missed out one important trait of the High Elves: they got one more extra language. If they get another extra language from backstory or class, they can be very knowledgeable when you travel places, where the natives might not speak common, or you just try to spy on your enemies: goblins or orcs will not use common among themselves, just as well in the Underdark or in a Primordial plane, where they might not speak common at all!
Satine is the obvious and perfect choice for the elf explanation. So beautiful!!
That was a great introduction. Thanks a bunch. I also hope that one day you could introduce the other elven subraces just like this.
You have to appreciate how she kept making Tolken comments- when D and D elves are about as different from Tolken elves as you can get while still calling then "elves"!
Man this one was the first scary Handbooker Helper. She should join a police squad. :D
Greetings I'm new to the channel really enjoying it this satisfys the deeper nerd in me. Please do a hand Booker helper on the dungeons & dragons psionic handbook!
🖤❤️💚
Ah Tolkien's great opus "The Rings of the Lord". I know it well. lol!
Elves my fave race. Was my very first PC rolled when I began D&D in 1980.
Why do i all of a sudden want Vedius from the LEC cast to host an episode of Handbooker Helper?
Now I'm just waiting for the half elf video. : )
I'm thinking of making an wood elf samurai fighter with the bow archetype.
Able to add the wisdom modifier to persuasion + the nice +2 to dexterity and with some flair that he's a hunter that uses nature as a camouflage, a pretty solid character I think
I come for the great knowledge dropping guides, I stay for that Crazy OP/ED.
My favorite character I play is a Wood Elf Monk named Rael, why 35 base movement +35 unarmerd movement at high levels quickly becomes broken.(especially when you dash as a bonus action)
Played a in a one shot last weekend where everyone made an elf. Recked havoc with the DM’s time tracking
I'm just really glad they spelled out that last joke
How to elf: Step 1: Stop bathing. Step 2: Think you're better than everyone else.
Clean yourself with prestidigitation
Who needs to bathe when you have magic?
@@martinpringle2127 Elves do. They smelf. (A dwarven slang term meaning "Smells as bad as an elf")
My party makes that trance joke every time my wood elf takes a long rest. Makes it even more relevant that I actually am a raver (although I go for faster tempos than trance). :)
Could you talk about monstrous races like the Eladrin (Fey Elf) next time?
They're trying to stick to the basics here since this is for beginners and I think only covers what's in the PHB.
This Tuesday my new character will be entering our home game: A Drow Light Cleric, because fuck optimization.
Kind of wished she would have said good day or bidet at the end ... just for the giggles
So ive noticed the character builders online if you go wiz or sorceror with a high elf you cant actually keep the extra cantrip. Just something that bugged me.
I forgot to put the Perception proficiency on my elf rogue ;-;
I'm kinda excited for a Genasi video if that will ever be a thing owo
Elves are naturally granted proficiency in Perception
@@taylor222888 I meant I forgot to put it in my sheet. But I rechecked it and it's there XD
Thanks anyway ^_^
Geneasi aren't in the Player's Handbook so that probably won't happen. :)
@@Rathkryn Ah, I see. Thanks for telling me ^^;; I'm still kind of a noob to DnD
Elves don't regain spell slots any quicker than other races, they just don't need to spend 6 hours of a long rest sleeping...
Elves complete a long rest after 4 hours of uninterrupted Trance. A long rest restores all of their spell slots. Thus an elf regains all of their spell slots quicker than other races.
@@Rathkryn elves do not get the benefits of a long rest from 4 hours of trance. The ability description says they get the benefits of 8 hours of sleep, which is NOT a long rest, based on the long rest description, which says as much.
I should stress that while Trance does mean they need less "sleep" than other races, it does not provide the benefits of a Long Rest in a shorter amount of time. However, while another creature would need to sleep for at very least 6 out of the base 8 hours of long rest periods for sleep, elves need only 4. Freeing them up to do other light activity in that time, including but not limited to, watch duty, cooking, scribing, petting a kitten, petting a puppy, feeding the gaggle of pets the party inevitably adopts, fishing, prayer, dance, or any other such none strenuous work or leisure.
There's a bunch of comments on this. *Elves do not need 8 hours for a long rest.* Elves only need 4 hours to complete a trance and thus a long rest. All other races need a minimum of 6 hours of sleep and no more than 2 hours of light duty, uninterrupted by no more than 10 minutes of heavy activity (such as combat.) The Elven Trance rule preempts the Long Rest rule, just as the Rogue's Cunning Action rule preempts the rule that requires an action to Dash, Disengage or Hide.
@@Rathkryn Except that no where in Trance does it say "Gain a Long Rest". "Same Benefits as 8 hours of sleep" does not equal a long rest. Cunning action clearly states that the options listed can now be used as Bonus Actions. There is nothing stopping you from Home Ruling it as such, but as it is written you still need the full down time of Eight Hours to complete the Full Rest. Sleeping/Trancing is just a component of it, just like how monks need to meditate for 30 minutes during a Short Rest to regain Ki. They do not Short rest in ONLY 30 minutes, but they need that mental exercise to regain Ki.
Oh, nice, I didn't expect player race specific assistance! YO WHO WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE GITH...nobody? Nobody? Dang it.
Jason Charles Miller is your guy. ;)
I'm simple man I see handbooker helper I like. I see satine Phoenix I smash the shit out of that like button
While I'm generally not a fan of the near-human races (minotaurs and dragonborn for the win), I have two beloved elven characters in my roster: A beautiful and maternal high elf divine soul sorceress and a calculating and dedicated drow shadow monk.
I just finished creating a wood elf character then this video pops up. This is beyond coincidence
The elegance ... The beauty.... Ooooooo
That was a wonderful pun at he end.
I've seen people write this phrase for years...but I've never used it.
I've never clicked so fast in my life.
Oh man I can’t wait for the Half-Orc video
My brother has a wood elven fighter who hates trees due to an incident with a treant during his childhood. He is good friends with my drow rogue with whom he bonded over their shared hatred of trees... good times.
I will admit like elves for the effect they have on the world I mean imagine being in a world were you lived your entire life learning to do something only to find out an elf has learned to do it perfectly and still has hundreds of years to live and to them you might as well be a rabbit a fast breeding vermin no wonder so many humans turn to necromancy I mean no one has heard of a elven necromancer I don't know why in more settings elves aren't more antagonistic or there is ongoing tensions between elves and humans the only setting I can think of is spelljammer.
Or a human becomes an expert in 20 years. An elf may take 50 to 300 years. I think the attics of elves would have lots of abandon hobby stuff. What a 1E PHB! We playing the twentieth edition.
I think Dragon Age elves are my favorite take on the race. They aren't perfect and well-respected like most other settings. They are the oppressed and often enslaved or forced to live in squalor of cornered sections in major cities. Or the clans wander about the woods and live off the land while being openly hostile or at least highly suspicious of every outsider that comes near their camp.
Haha "Made You Look" inside that ring
let's be real tho, it IS about the longer lifespan.
The only viable character is an elven Druid that reaches level 18 for timeless body. Oh how old am I? 5000 years old. In another 1500 I’ll think about retiring, maybe.
cool thing is that a party with two elves can get the whole party's nightly rest done in only 8 hours
3:04 really missed an opportunity to draw a little John Cena hiding behind the tree lol
Just rolled up a Wood Elf Monk, about 6 months ago, and it’s been one of my favorite characters to play.
Great job Satine!
Dwarves: "Elves? Bah! Prissy knife-ears cannae even hold their ALE"
Sez will Matt do dwarves?
Legolas would disagree.
Satine's body language and emotes are hypnotic
Satine looks like she belongs in the grand council of some sorts.
Maybe she's on the Tal'Dorei Council.
God dammit Matt, don't play with that fucking belt
this was amazing
This is basically poetry
I only get 4 hours of sleep. Guess I'm an elf!
Elfs can either be complete 🐓s or just nice people
I don't know who I expected to do this episode, but as soon as I saw Satine, I thought "It couldn't really have been anyone else"
Did someone say Trance? Ethlando is here! *brings out a Moonblade* Elves with Lightsticks, here we go! (See if anyone gets that reference.)
Working on a Wood elf Druid for my first dnd game anyone got any tips I’ve studied dnd through various sources but never actually played it yet, but my cousin is working on a campaign for me and a few other family members, probably gonna try for a more healing oriented Druid since the rest of the group is new as well and less familiar with the concepts of dnd too
It's Satine Phoenix!
Taking pee to the face on camera is a feat in and of itself.
They also taste pretty good with hot sauce
I see another Thri-Kreen showed up
@@SCarr8813 😏
satine's hand gestures are fucking magical dude
Drow can also see 120 feet in darkness
Because... MAGIC! Nothing else needs to be said
oh man, lmao with the stone in the corner at 0:21