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@Dream-Reaver 19 сағат бұрын

Now they need to fix the arcane archer.

@LiteraryDM 19 сағат бұрын

I imagine it'll show up again in a future release. Like Eldritch Knight it was right there, but had a few things holding it back overall.

@LiteraryDM 19 сағат бұрын

Also quick clarification, things like the teleport ability were around in the 2014 subclass. It was hinted at in the video but not as clearly stated as I initially thought. Either way, still a fun ability.

@friday8531 3 күн бұрын

It's easy to forget; some of the best fun can be had through the use of imagination.

@LiteraryDM 3 күн бұрын

Nothing like a night with friends, rolling dice and imagining we're fighting that massive dragon.

@cayladevries4227 4 күн бұрын

🪄⚡️ I CAST BOOST VIDEO!!! 💥

@LiteraryDM 4 күн бұрын

This got a solid laugh out of me, haha. Thank you for the support.

@Scalesthelizardwizard 5 күн бұрын

The idea of giving a player something only to punish them for using it will never not make me face-palm 🤦‍♂

@KingsBard 5 күн бұрын

1:44 Thank you for mentioning players with Aphantasia, I have it and it sometimes makes theater of the mind a little bit challenging, also art, which is ironic as an artist.

@LiteraryDM 5 күн бұрын

No problem. I learned about through Distractible. Bob has it, and talks about it from time to time. So it's been interesting to hear about his experience with it. Since learning about it. It is something I don't think is brought up enough in the RPG space. Especially in the discussion of theater of the mind and maps. And you know, that is the ultimate irony as an artist, but makes it an even better encouraging story to tell others.

@LiteraryDM 5 күн бұрын

Got a little early gift for you all this holiday season. Two videos in a week! Hope you all are having a great day, and season. Keep being awesome.

@Sluxslol 5 күн бұрын

"Doesn't suck" really is the highest level of quality we expect from DnD now huh?

@ggwp638BC 6 күн бұрын

I personally hated this change, and I'd much rather just keep running berserker with the hb rule that it doesn't stack exhaustion. Having another attack as a bonus action never felt overwhelming at my tables, specially given everyone already considers drawing two swords for dual wielding as one interaction. BG3 actually did this Path really great by removing the need of strength base weapons AND removing the constraint of the exhaustion (and I will certainly pitch that to my players the next time they are making characters). It might also feel more frustrating (specially for new players who gravitate towards easier martial classes) when their "big damage" first hit keeps missing and they feel like they aren't using all their potential. I also dislike how it forces a certain playstyle. Wizards made an effort to decouple certain classes from set worldviews, so players can experiment with different themes, but now berserker HAS to be the madman attacking wildly. I mean, this is all flavor, but just feels an unnecessary step back. Sure, it's nice they are trying, but c'mon man, just give them the one extra attack, fighters and monks are losing count of how many times they are attacking each turn and my barbarians can't count to 3.

@threetatos5631 5 күн бұрын

As An Orky Berzerky Barbarian meselves. I honestly don't know what your Complainin about. I like bein a wild man and hitting fings hard, wid me axe. Plus More dice equals mor maths. Im like a rogue but betta

@DB-ku7vu 5 күн бұрын

Berserkers are madmen attacking wildly, there the entire subclass fantasy

@ggwp638BC 4 күн бұрын

@@DB-ku7vu That's kind of the problem, they AREN'T. The original berserkers were religious/cultist zealots who performed rituals to channel animal powers and fight furiously achieving supernatural strength and endurance. They would wear pelts of the animal they chose (usually bear, but boar and wolf were also recorded), and while they would fight in a trance, they were still fighting as proper warriors. Mad and super strong but not stupid. At least that's the historical and mythological basis. If anything, flavor wise, the Wild Heart path should be the berserker path. In Tolkien, berserkers can turn into beasts, at which point they do lose sanity, but that's also not really in line with DnD either. There is the Marvel version of "berserker rage", but it's more about Thor/whoever is in that state being so driven with rage they can't distinguish friend or foe, which also isn't part of DnD berserker. Famously we also have the Berserk manga, which is a lot closer to our version of the path, but Guts is not just swinging wildly at things, he is still a proper warrior. So, the berserker path is not the "berserker" fantasy. The Barbarian class is actually the "Berserker" class - you rage to channel magic powers to aid you in battle, tank a lot, deal a lo of damage. The berserker path is just a spin on it where instead of magic you enhance your body through sheet anger (ergo why thematically you'd get exhaustion from frenzy). Now, there is no problem with a berserker who loses all reason and keeps attacking and tanking like he doesn't care. No magic, just raw strength. That's a fantasy I feel a lot of people want to play. My problems with the change are: - Attacking less but doing more damage once is not delivering the idea of a ruthless beasts cleaving through the frontline. At least to me it feels way more interesting to be in frenzy delivering several blows with a big weapon, than swinging twice and passing. - Tying the path to this one particular fantasy (which is not true to the name and it's not even delivering that fantasy itself) is just less "freedom" to the player (it's DnD, we can all do whatever we want, but I'm specifically talking about what the book is incentivizing here, difference between "flavor how you want" and "this is the idea we are giving you"). The berserker path ends up even more diluted in concept with the barbarian class, while curbing other ways to imagine a berserker. As I said, Wizards are doing a lot to de-couple certain subclasses and classes from this pre-conceived fantasies. The idea is to allow the player a set background of abilities that they can apply their idea of a character onto. For example, they are pushing Monks away from being JUST religious south east based asian monks into more general martial artists. This isn't at the detriment of that fantasy, it's to more easily allow OTHER fantasies to coexist.

@Chiryx 10 күн бұрын

Heckin' yikes, Lit! So glad to hear you are on the road to recovery! Hope you have recovered even more between the posting of this video and this comment.

@VengefulJarl 11 күн бұрын

Whips have a 10 ft reach that's whybthey have the reach property

@LiteraryDM 11 күн бұрын

Yup. A previous comment mentioned this. I got wording mixed up in the scripting process, and failed to catch it during editing.

@halowar0520 12 күн бұрын

i was allowed to play as a homebrew race. an Avali, short bird/rabbit/raptor with 4 ears. and my class was a fighter. for a short character description, they were 2'5 and weighed 45 pounds as of the campaign. they were also blind past 30ft. this little bird also had/has a 30 in strength and can throw the 30 ton Tarrasque at least 15ft, i was also allowed to dual wield great swords

@Indigo42Kitsune 12 күн бұрын

As a DM and a player, I think that the peasant railgun, might be fun to use once to resolve a very specific situation at the end of a campaign. However it’s something that I can only see myself using once because it not only sounds very silly but also epic, like something that might be a good solution to a problem in a game that is drawing it’s inspiration from something like Monty Python.

@LiteraryDM 12 күн бұрын

You know, a Monty Python inspired game would be so fitting for the Peasant Railgun now that you mention it.

@s.dalner7245 13 күн бұрын

While D&D never intended for itself to depict physics accurately, there still seems to at least be an attempt to have the mechanics make sense with what you'd think would happen in the real world. Sure, fall damage and how it scales in the game is not accurate to how falling in real life works - but they still introduced the concept of fall damage in the first place, because it still had to feel like it made sense that when you fall, you could hurt yourself depending on the drop. Lava radiates heat, to the point where in the real world, people in full suits still need to stand far away, like another commenter remarked, but not in D&D. You will have to touch it first, but that still means that they made lava hazardous to you, because of course it is. It's lava! The line drawn between creating believable, consistent physics and adhering to real world physics to the point of carving into the fun of the game seems rather arbitrary when looked at through this lens, and at least partly, subjective. Some people LIKE the peasant rail gun, believe it or not. We like to get frustrated when people interpret the rules through the lens of RAW instead of RAI, but I understand why it is done - who is to say what the rules INTEND beyond the obvious cases? "Rule of cool", they say. But who decides when something is cool? The DM? The players? Do we put it to a vote? These paragraphs border on ranting now, but I wanted to underline how nuanced this discussion is. TLDR? Communication at the table is paramount. Cliche? Sure, but it tends to work.

@laserkirby9373 13 күн бұрын

This is a great video style! - The quick answer to physic breaking is just any spellcaster. Teleport goes brrrrr after all. - Other than that, running or flying at a high movement speed doesn't increase physical damage on impact. - Fall damage caps at 20d6. - Getting eaten and chewed on by a moon-sized creature, is about 24d10 damage according to the DMG. Pretty physics breaking as well. For Exploits and such usually comes hand in hand with engineers, such as they are making arrows that makes portable holes fall into a bag of holding or another portable hole, upon arrow impact.

@LiteraryDM 12 күн бұрын

Engineers, both a blessing and a curse at any table, haha. And also, thank you.

@wrlrdqueek 14 күн бұрын

The physics thing I like to point out is lava. Real lava is ridiculously hot. Volcanologists in full heat protection suits have to stand a fair distance away from an active lava flow. D&D rules state you can stand in the square adjacent to lava and as long as you don't touch it you're fine.

@LiteraryDM 14 күн бұрын

Great example. It's more fun and epic to have a fight near a river of lava, Mustafar style, than to worry about the protective gear to make it happen

@LiteraryDM 14 күн бұрын

So what was a fun physics breaking moment in your games?

@BlairsVaultOfStarsAndDreams 14 күн бұрын

There was one time in this group I was running years ago, where the Wizard and the Paladin in heavy plate wanted to magnetize the Paladin's armor so projectiles would target him, and they decided that the Wizard casting chain lightning on the Paladin's armor while he wasn't wearing it would work. I allowed it, because I honestly couldn't find a reason not to.😂

@LiteraryDM 14 күн бұрын

I like it. Now I'm just picturing the Paladin walking into a metal room without realizing it and goes flying toward a wall, haha

@TheRavenofSin 18 күн бұрын

I just... Dont like weapon mastery or properties. They don't fix the inherent problems with martials.

@isa_noodle 16 күн бұрын

Players: We want more options as martial characters, both in and out of combat. WotC: How about one off weapon abilities that pigeon hole you into using a specific weapon because it’s effect is better? Players: -_-

@iafozzac 19 күн бұрын

The best use of nick weapons is as a monk, with light hammers and daggers you can make the extra attack with the nick property as part of the attack action and still use flurry of blows, and use you martial arts die instead of the d4 of daggers and light hammers

@LiteraryDM 19 күн бұрын

Become the IP Man you were born to be.

@im1pervert 19 күн бұрын

The weapon mastery feat has already been introduced. The 2014 Weapon Master feat has been changed to Martial Weapon Training in the 2024 PHB, and the Weapon Master feat in the 2024 PHB grants weapon mastery of one weapon you are proficient with.

@LiteraryDM 19 күн бұрын

If there's one thing I've learned doing this for a bit. No matter how many times you double check everything in the script beforehand. You will always miss something.

@isa_noodle 19 күн бұрын

My issue with dual wielding in 2024 is that it pigeon holes you into using very specific weapons with the nick proficiency. Which is fine if you wanted to be a dual wielding scimitar ranger, but any other fantasy is shot out the window. Wanna dual wield two battle axes or two war hammers? You can't.

@DrPluton 19 күн бұрын

You still can, but you will have to use your bonus action. I think that's the point. They want more cumbersome weapons to not be used for dual-wielding as much as scimitars, daggers, and sickles.

@isa_noodle 19 күн бұрын

@@DrPluton I was under the assumption that with the dual wielder feat, one of the weapons still has to be light.

@LiteraryDM 19 күн бұрын

You are correct. The updated 2024 version removed the 2014 wording that allowed for any weapon type as long as it lacks the two handed property. 2024 you can still do two hand axes which has the vex property. So you can dual wield as long as both weapons are light similar to the 2014 rules. You'll just use your bonus action for the off hand attack rather than as a part of the attack action with the nick property.

@FirstLast-wk3kc 18 күн бұрын

@@LiteraryDM which is not cool, because Nick is too specific. I want dual wield spears like Diarmuid(

@BLKDEVX 16 күн бұрын

@@isa_noodle same. Like I get the idea of dual weilding longswords or like axes.

@solbradguy7628 19 күн бұрын

I'm playing a dual wielder and my DM is using a homebrew rule where I can make an offhand attack without having to use my attack first as long as I use an attack action or maneuver that makes an attack in the same turn. Using an offhand with the Vex weapon mastery means I have advantage when attacking an enemy that I hit with the offhand first. So if I have Elven Accuracy, I can have super advantage against every enemy that I can hit with my offhand first.

@DMDMStudios 21 күн бұрын

Missed ya bud!! lookin forward to more!!

@DMDMStudios 21 күн бұрын

also Divirticulitus fucking sucks, both my folks have it and gave it to me -- you have my most heartfelt sympathies.

@DndUnoptimized 23 күн бұрын

Holy cow That's a lot! I'm hoping life will stabilize for you soon.

@TriagoZero 23 күн бұрын

I like 3.5e's crit system when you consider the number of attacks and the crit chance some characters can get. It's another dimension for your character to specialize in if they so desire, basically. Also, there's a bunch of item effects that happen on a 20 regardless of crit confirmation too, so that's another layer you can stack atop it all. I do agree that PF 2e has the superior system, by far. It's so elegant both how crits work and how nat 1's and nat 20's work. Well done Paizo.

@dzmitryzaitsau6471 24 күн бұрын

Where does "i didn't ask how big the room was" come from?

@LiteraryDM 24 күн бұрын

Hmmm... You know, I'm not sure. My first guess would be a meme of some sorts. Probably a post on Reddit, 4chan or Tumblr as they often do. Even doing quick searches I couldn't find an exact source. But that would be my guess. Started on one of those sites, and then worked it's way into common joke status.

@SageDarkwind 25 күн бұрын

God, it sucks that happened to you. I am going through something similar with my mom. She has bad kidneys and is currently going to Dialysis.

@pip400art7 25 күн бұрын

Love you Litty! So glad you are on the mend 💙💙💙

@LiteraryDM 25 күн бұрын

Thank you, it's nice to actually be home for a bit longer than a few days

@raphazeel2801 25 күн бұрын

Here to give love and support and cheer you on man!! ❤❤❤

@LiteraryDM 25 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@bardicdice 25 күн бұрын

so glad to see you on the road to recovery! we love you dude!!

@LiteraryDM 25 күн бұрын

Hopefully it'll be a quick road, thank you

@InsightCheck 25 күн бұрын

Holy hell dude that’s wild. I’m really glad thing are moving in the right direction for you. We’ll be here when you’re feeling good, take care of yourself!

@LiteraryDM 25 күн бұрын

Thank you. It's wild how things can change in an instant, but we're headed in the right direction.

@LiteraryDM 25 күн бұрын

Seriously, thank you all for the support over this past month while I've been away. I look forward to jumping in and talking about more D&D and RPG related content shortly, but first, wanted to get this explanation out of the way. Thank you all again. You are amazing, and I can't ask for a better community. Keep being awesome.

@TheHerrDoctor Ай бұрын

"fine, I'll teleport you back to Galeria, just try and not get sent here again"- Eziah, probobly

@dera3333 Ай бұрын

Did you steal the art for the thumbnail?

@yuogotheeliotrope9804 Ай бұрын

2:49:31 I always think about the Roman Empire

@LupentTallic Ай бұрын

I had a dm that had a mix of the two. Prepared casters used slots while spontaneous casters used points.

@Dramashadow94 Ай бұрын

thanks so much for the link to gunslinger. I could not find the misfire score anywhere thanks so much

@CooperativeWaffles Ай бұрын

Is there a playlist with all the PF² Shorts for the channel?

@envytee9659 Ай бұрын

I really hope that 2024 5e adds in atleast one new class. 5e is now 10 years old, and in all that time the Artificer is all we have to show for it. Whether it is a new Mystic/Psion or something else entirely, any new class addition would provide an absolutely amazing set of new possibilities to play around with.