How can i get consistent advantage?

I am a warlock

What about duel wielding identical weapons with an ambidextrous character... ie no 'off' hand. DnD has never dealt with this well. Always one weapon gets a negative of some sort or less attacks. Been home brewing solutions to this since AD&D...

Fake dual wielding. No fighting styles. Just a second weapon and Menacing, replace the bonus dual wield attack with a Menacing effect. Doesn't suffer penalties for being a second weapon and targets insight which is rare on stat blocks.

The way it should have always been. Then make the dual Wielder Feat add that modifier back to your damage. Makes it actually a usable feat and setup

I just do that in 5e with my players anyways.

Healing word is hot garbage compared to bless

Hey dude, glaring omissions include Aid, Prayer of Healing, Mass Cure Wounds and Heroes' Feast!!

I use the 0hp one regularly - I’ve tried the casting one and liked it - I don’t think I’d use the action surge one, but maybe to get an extra single attack

Spare the dying is not good. get a healers kit, and you can pick another cantrip

Does this work with versatile weapons like longswords?

Very Nice video dude, good night from Brazil👍

always so refreshing to not hear an american accent

I still think that you should do an honorable mention 2nd level spell video anyway because one spell I think that you should have mentioned is the Aid spell!! Lasting EIGHT hours and increasing your HP maximum without concentration which also means that you could even stack this spell with the Inspiring Leader feat AND Heroes Feast!! Talk about buffing you and your teammates with HP ad nauseum!!!!!

You forgot for 7th level for life cleric to take regenerate it a bunch of healing and you get 4d8 + 15 hitpoints every round the person gets 10 hit points a turn and it last for an hour. That is broken good,

Great video

martials have it so bad, spell casters will do like a billion d12 dmg a turn compared to their like 2d6+5 if lucky, then when they change one style of play so that you can actually use your bonus action everyones putting into question if its op :(

I just want to point out one thing. In order to use the Two Weapon Fighting feature in base 5E, both weapons have to be Light. "When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand. ..." - DnD Beyond

Armorer Artificer with Duel Weilder and thunder gauntlets means you punch with your off hand 1d8+intelligence. At level 5 you can punch 3 times

I love the contents. keep it coming

Just as a heads up, Sunbeam isn't on the Cleric spell list.

Too expensive for what it is.

I think a lot of people are way over hyping the change. You’re doing slightly less damage than previously (due to one of the attacks still having to be using a light weapon when taking the dual wielder feat) and no longer gaining a +1 to AC. Of course, the primary beneficiary of the change is ranger because they can hunters mark and offhand attack on the same round, though keep in mind they’re still loosing the AC bonus and can no longer dual wield longswords or scimitars, which is a pretty big flavor-nerf in my opinion :/

Meeting in the office of the person hiring them to go do whatever the quest is.

hex deals necrotic damage not force

I can also recommend swapping Goblins for Bullywugs. I think they're severely underutilized and can be a lot of fun to throw at the players.

I disagree with shadowblade. It's bad for any warlock really. Only pact of the blade works well for melee and pact of the blade doesn't work with shadowblade. Other Warlocks really want to avoid melee.

I have some concerns about some methods. - With Critical Initiative, isn't going first already an advantage? - With Re-Rolling initiative, what about the "untill the start/end" turn abilities, which could get wildly inconsistent? - With rolling Initiative for actions, it could allow combatants who had to announce their action first at disadvantage, since if they announce a "slow" action, it's enemies could choose their action to negate their action and made them waste resources?

The first system was 3D6 roll down the sheet in order. Allowing you to order your roll was a very common table rule to prevent people making a lot of characters and scrapping them. The second one was 4D6 and where you like. (Table rule became official) Third was in the book unearthed arcana that let you have dice pools based on your desired class in each attribute (so if you wanted to be a Wizard you could have like 7 or 8 roll and choose but for say intelligence but only 3 for strength) The standard array and point buy came about later and are effectively identical in that you can make the standard array in point buy. (The idea being you have everyone starting with fairly equivalent Stats) Other systems include: Roll 2d6 + 6 (slightly more powerful PCs) Roll 4D6 and Reroll 1 once (slightly powerful then above) Roll D20 (totally chaotic PC Stats) Roll 24 arrange in groups of three as desired. (Slightly better then standard array but really FUN). (From my memory and worth what you paid for it😂 )

Revivify is the best 3rd level spell.

Yea, Find Familiar is great, but I would assert that Bless is the best. It is a first-level spell that remains absolutely fantastic at EVERY level. It's cumulative effect if cast early can turn a combat or save a party at level 20, and that with just a first level casting! The consequence of a 1d4 bonus to hit rolls and a 1d4 bonus to saves in a "bounded accuracy" system is gargantuan, vastly outstripping the power and utility of tiny one-shot spells that affect one character for one turn or anything else. Bless and Bane by the way are not equal, in that Bane allows the enemy to resist with a saving throw which makes it a LOT less useful than a guaranteed buff.

The best choice for the 9th level arcanum can vary depending on the subclass. The big one here is the genie subclass, who likely will take Wish as the arcanum.

When this video started, for just a instant my brain thought "OMG...a Star Trek red shirt. Poor guy!" Then my brain caught up with Reality. I'm so embarrassed.

I play a gloomstalker. It’s quite fun and pairs well with the drow race I chose too. It also pairs well with the module I chose to play in which is Icewind Dale. Since it’s Arctic that means there is very little daylight so gloomstalker can take full advantage of his ability to hide as well as his darkvision being expanded. I also made him dex based which is nice because it means he can take full advantage of his abilities. I did add a level of rogue to provide some expertise in stealth and perception. Even on a 1 he rolls decently high now. I quite enjoy playing this character and this class. I might play another sometime though I’ll have to change some things up to make it work as a new character all together.

Wait wait wait wait wait no line of sight requirement??? Hehehe me about to have fun

You can also wind up with a character with absolute crap stats when you roll for stats. Then you get to play with other players who having rolled hot, have seriously OP characters who utterly outshine you. I am VERY much not a fan of rolling. I just picked up some dice and rolled 10 10 13 10 11 9. Gonna have loads of fun... NOT.

Sickening Radiance is OP for a warlock that has taken the eldritch invocation of Repelling Blast. You cast Sickening Radiance onto a group of enemies, and when they move to get out of the radius, you blast them back in to stack the exhaustion. Put six levels of exhaustion onto anything (Tarasque, Tiamat, anything) and it is dead. No saving throws on the exhaustion, no saving throws on the repelling blast.

Heh, “rod” 😏

Bless is IMO probably the single best buff spell in the game, in that it remains extremely useful at EVERY character level. It is SO useful that I had my fighter take a one level splash in Cleric just so I could cast and concentrate on it once our regular cleric started concentrating on Spirit Guardians instead of bless.

I have two ideas for one, a silly one and a serious one. The silly one, however, is basically playing Johnny after the events of the song "The Devil went Down to Georgia". Play a variant human and take the prodigy feat to get proficiency and expertise in performance and use the tool proficiency to get the instrument you want.

Your moustache... Looks a little thick in the middle there, wich makes you look kinda like Aberdof Linkler from Rick and Morty.

I was half expecting the video to start with nothing but the word "FIREBALL" plastered across the screen.

While I agree that Lesser Restoration is a great spell, the situations where I use it are much less frequent than when I use Aid. In addition to the max hp being increased (which can be healed, unlike temp hp) it also increases the CURRENT hp. You MUST heal 3 party members this round? Aid will do that. Just remember to get some permanent healing before the 8 hours is up.

Any DM who automatically looks to "nerfing" spells or abilities is forgetting Rule Number One of being a DM, if the PCs have access to it so do your creatures. You don't have to resort to making the players weaker, just make your creatures a little stronger.

If you choose the grave domain, spare the dying really gets a boost thanks to becoming a bonus action and gaining a 30ft range. Though in general, my favorite cleric spell is spirit guardians. The visual appeal alone of having fey or angelic creatures (I don't remember what you conjure if you're evil-aligned) flutter around you, and the effect for the duration of most encounters are awesome.

I think part of the issue that DMs' have with Tasha's Mind Whip is the "DM vs Player" mentality. Honestly if the players screw up your monster, no big deal. IMO DMs that get so frustrated over their monsters being stopped should stop and consider why. I have had way to many DMs that felt like we were ruining their fun defeating monsters, and I never understood that. Yes it can suck as a player to be hit with it, but you have a team around you. As you mentioned, it's mostly for taking out the "one big bad". The other problem I see is that a lot of DMs tend to just want to throw one giant monster at players. That makes these type of "debuff" spells super strong because you are already dealing with action economy deficit for the big bad (typically). I know it's harder to balance lots of monsters and keeping up with init, etc, but it really helps to limit the power of these spells. Then you just have to worry about the fireballs. ;-)

As a bard, this is unimpressive... once spent the better part of three in-game months making a book of immolation (the dm allowed me to fill a whole journal front and back with glyphs, tear them out and use them as 'splody paper.)

I prefer spellcasters and this is my main magic items I want to throw point that if the DM lets me choose a magic item I have to make myself think of something else

In the games I run, I implement exhaustion by also implementing/enforcing the starvation rules in D&D. In almost all of the games I play, there is typically one player that takes the spell Goodberry and will state that (1) berry is enough to cover an entire meal. I have always agreed with this, as it is stated explicitly in the rhetoric of the spell, but I have a bit of a twist to it to keep the realist/survival aspects of my games. The thematic reason behind the change is that an individual can live off of a single type of food for so long before they become malnourished and need to consume other foods to gain the nutrients they need. A player can live off Goodberry for a number of days equal to 3 + Proficiency bonus + Constitution modifier rather than the standard starvation rules of 3 + Constitution modifier. I also adapt this ruling for my players that are playing as vampires that need to drink blood, the players that I've tricked and turned into illithids, and other types of monster PC's they want to be/get forced into. It's not a massive change to the standard starvation rules, but it's enough of a nerf to Goodberry that it allows the players to be resourceful with their spells but also keeps a bit of struggle in the background for the GM to play with.

2nd level Aid spell is loved in our group. I usually upcast to 4th level. Our Necromancer, our War Mage, and our Barbarian get 15 hp for the next 8 hours. Prehealing is the bomb!