Dear DM's: every once in awhile, maybe just once a campaign even, please oh please give your 5th level Clerics a room full of 1/2 CR undead enemies to fight. Bonus points if you act like you kinda forgot about Destroy Undead.
Sincerely, your favorite Cleric players.
#dnd
When I started this channel 3 years ago, getting to 100k subscribers seemed like a pipe dream. I’m not gonna lie, getting there feels pretty awesome. But I never would have dreamed that the people who made up that 100k would be so kind and lovely. ❤️❤️❤️
I honestly never thought I’d ever have a video hit a million views. Thank you all so much! I can think of no better way to celebrate than with my two favorite dudes (
@dungeon_dudes
) at the *amazing* nerd heaven that is Storm Crow Manor in Toronto.
@KaiInRealLife
@montycmartin
🥰
Apparently a lot of people want to see some
#pathfinder
builds? Guess I've got to start working on something for two weeks from today! That feels... exciting :).
I spent so much of my life believing that love was something I had to earn. That it would only come if other people thought I was what they wanted me to be. Learning that I am inherently worthy of love has been transformative. Oh and guess what? You are too ❤️.
I couldn’t be more excited for my favorite Dudes about this! Also: can’t wait for Sebastian Crowe’s to come too so I can more easily make my Arcane Hand and Serpent Monks 🥳🥳🥳
After *weeks* of trial and error I feel like I’m *finally* nailing down the lighting and color of my new little recording space and it feels soooo good.
I literally just saw a YT video and thought to myself: “I need to watch this.” Then I literally said, out loud: “Oh it’s an hour long? Never mind.”
The hypocrisy is real. Ima go watch it RIGHT now. (On 1.5x, naturally.)
16 years I held out. Despite all the begging and pleading from my kids. Today, I finally threw in the towel. It was a good run. Welcome home, little Ewok. Your Kung-Fu skills are impressive.
@DnD_Shorts
Devil’s advocate: I got to hang out and laugh with a cool, bearded man from the UK for several hours chatting about D&D - I can think of worse ways to spend an afternoon! 😉 Thanks again for sacrificing half of your day 😂
In my first ever character build for
#Pathfinder
2e, I try to create a stealthy, sneaky, silent but deadly Monk, and *spoiler alert* - in Pathfinder, Monks are freaking awesome.
Are you interested in learning how to play Pathfinder 2e? Are you wanting to know all the major differences between
#Pathfinder
and
#dnd
? Time for a PF Deep Dive!
DMs: if one of your players has fireball, please PLEASE just throw an encounter at them at least once of tightly packed ~30 hp enemies. They will love you forever ;).
#dnd
Over the past few weeks you, the community, have made your voices heard. And we’ve listened. OGL 1.0a will remain untouched AND the entire SRD 5.1 is now available under a Creative Commons license.🧵
Me: Uploads a
#dnd
video
Many of you: “Finally, not another
#BG3
video! Yay!”
YouTube: Never do this again 😡
Ha ha don’t worry D&D-only people, I’m not going anywhere. Thought this might give a little perspective and a laugh 😉.
So, obviously Karlach is the best ever (
#BaldursGate3
) But I've kept her out of the party because *I'm* already taking up the "destroy everything with big sword" role, and I wanted to keep her rage intact but duh! Now she's a fire mage! I love respec'ing! I love this game!
This is just to say... I have played with the Bladesinger and 5e spells mods in
#BaldursGate3
and... it feels like all of my wishes have come true. Holy crap is it good. (Artificer is almost as fantastic btw... Armorer is living up to all of my Vi fantasy expectations ;) )
Her: helping me decorate my office so that it's warm, cute, and super feng shui.
Me: buys this lamp
I think I may have lost her future assistance but I mean... it's a dragon! Perched on a dagger! What am I supposed to do? Just *not* buy it!?
Our new puppy is a Golden Retriever / Poodle mix. Most people call this specific breed a “Golden Doodle.” Makes sense, but I much prefer the alternative:
“Poo Retriever.”
Super excited to welcome my friend
@dallin_rogers
to the d4 "team" - he's going to be helping me out with video editing and channel member benefits, among other things. Please everyone, make him feel welcome :) (And let us know your thoughts on the editing improvements tomorrow!)
Today I'm joined by
@KaiInRealLife
and
@montycmartin
from the
@dungeon_dudes
to talk about their new book, "Sebastian Crowe's Guide to Drakkenheim," and do a build for one of my favorite subclasses from it. Get comfy 'cuz this one goes loooooooong ;).
A wish for
#onednd
: get rid of some classes requiring two ability scores at 13 to multiclass into/out of. Those “hybrid”-like characters *already* encourage us to have a strong ability score in a non-attack stat. Let that suffice and let the player have more freedom please.
@Nonat1s
Me: I really need to reach out to Nonat and see if he'd want to do a collab sometime...
Nonat: I'm just a super cool guy who says kind things about people out of the goodness of my heart :)
🥰
I just finished reading the final book in
#TheWitcher
series. And you know what my one, aching, over-arching desire is now?
To play the games again so I can set the record straight on this whole Triss/Yen nonsense. “Love” forced from a Djinn isn’t real love.
#TeamTriss
In
#pathfinder
2e, if you want to be a melee damage dealer who can pretty much ignore Strength to focus on finesse, there is one best option: the nimble, backstabbing, lockpicking but hard hitting Rogue Thief.
Part 2 is up and much shorter :). Are you interested in learning how to play
#Pathfinder
? Are you wanting to know all the major differences between PF and D&D? Time for a PF Deep Dive!
Today I'm breaking down everyone one of my "sustained" damage builds (DPR) I've ever done, giving a brief synopsis of each, and ranking them.
According to a not very qualitatively useful and overly-simplistic mathmatical formula ;).
So, Will from
@DnD_Shorts
and I spent half the day reading, reacting to, and pontificating all about the new UA for D&D 5.5e that dropped today so, if you haven’t read through the gargantuan 50 pages yet, WAIT! Watch us go through it tomorrow morning after I’m done editing :).
You want to be an expert melee striker *and* you want to cast spells in
#pathfinder
? Look no further than the Magus: conceptually, my favorite Gish ever.
I am so in love with
#Ahsoka
Hey, um,
@dave_filoni
… I don’t suppose there’s any way you could just, like, do a complete remake of Episodes 1-9? Maybe a live adaptation of Clone Wars and Rebels? 😬 kthx you’re the best!
Someone just commented on one of my videos asking if I could do a Hexblade Warlock build.
I can't tell if they're trolling me, but if so, it was well played.
#dnd
@ChrisHonkala
from Treantmonk's Temple and I take a Deep Dive into the Unearthed Arcana Monk from One D&D Playtest 8. Spoiler Alert: It's freaking fantastic.
Have you ever wanted to play a Bladesinger in
#BG3
? How about an Artificer? Join me as I show you how to mod the game and make some builds for them (spoiler alert: they're so good I immediately started a new playthrough after recording this :) ).
I have yet to play a one shot for
#dnd
where I actually played the character for even half as much time as I spent creating them.
For the record: not a complaint :)
Just me? 😬
Wanna be a Pirate in
#dnd
or
#BaldursGate3
? How about just a really fun and potent Paladin/Rogue? Bring on the Swashbuckling. (and yeah, this is another
@dungeon_dudes
inspiration 🥰).
Today I was exploring the Musée de l’Armée and discovered Napoleon’s favorite sword. I couldn’t stop thinking about how to recreate it as a Homebrew magic item in
#dnd
. Help?
You want a build for every companion in
#BaldursGate3
that's both powerful *and* that stays true to their core character concept? I'm your huckleberry.
#bg3
10/10, genuinely cathartic to transform the hate directed at you into something beautiful, or profound, or even just funny. 🫶 Thanks to
@criticalmrs
for sparking this idea.
Today we're playing with Mushrooms. Specifically, trying to get the most out of the Spores Druid with some Gishy Spell Sword builds for
#BaldursGate3
#dnd
10 attacks in a single D&D turn feels like a lot for a martial character, right? Come see how we get there! (And thanks as always to the
@dungeon_dudes
for the inspiration on this one 🥰)
"The best Rogues in D&D never take more than 3 or 4 levels in Rogue." So goes a popular idea about 5e. Today, we're going to put that theory to the test. (And big thanks to
@dungeon_dudes
for the inspiration again this week! 😘)
Today we're building a War Cleric for
#dnd
. Ok, fine, it's *mostly* a War Cleric; regardless, they're definitely bringing the Good Word of their God to the masses via... a big huge hammer.
Which class is the best controller in
#dnd
? For my money, it's the Sorcerer *if you build for it*. Here's why :). (And big thanks again to the
@dungeon_dudes
for pushing me on this one!)
More
#BaldurGate3
builds! Today, we do a Four Elements Monk, a Spider-loving Druid/Ranger, and probably the best ranged weapon using build I've done to date...
Remember how we all used to wish that Sony would relinquish their rights to all things Marvel so Marvel Studios could "get it right"? Yeah, I'm starting to rethink that theory now. Unbelievably,
#AcrossTheSpiderVerse
managed to be *even better* than the first one. 🤯
Our D&D character build this week takes my two most popular character builds (The Bladesinger Wizard and the Hexblade Warlcok) and tries to combine them into one character. Is it the Ultimate Gish, or too MAD to be effective?
Should WotC change the rules in
#dnd
so that, when you're grappling a creature, you actually share their space? It would remove some cheese around grappling and dragging through spike growth or cloud of daggers etc. As much as I love using those tactics in builds, I'll admit.../1
Generally speaking, the people who watch and comment on my videos are kind, supportive, and lovely. Here's the best of the worst of the rest though, in case you needed a laugh today :).
#dnd
Today I combine a couple of things I've been wanting to play with on a Monk - 1: Armor, and 2: Shadow Blade. The results are surprisingly effective :).
@Critical_Mrs
There needs to be an “I like this because I want to support you but I *don’t* like that this happened to you” button on this thing. That little heart doesn’t quite tell the full story.
Just saw
#DnDHonorAmongThieves
with
@dallin_rogers
and
@prestonbfarr
and I’ll say the movie’s biggest strength, imo, is that it captures what it feels like to play in a D&D campaign pretty well! Was a fun show. We recorded a full review and will post in a few days!
Trying to decide if I should make this comment the pinned comment of the video... "I don't like your videos because they're way too long. You talk way too much my guy." :)
You want to be a SAD Bladesinger who's attacks are based on their intelligence? Fine. But what if we could freeze our enemy in place while we were at it?
Our D&D 5e character build this week is both an incredibly durable Tank and *also* a fantastic Healer. If you enjoy both playstyles, you'll love the Cleric Tank.