(animated) 5E D&D a great utility spell!

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"Play Song" by John Deley and the 41 Players
Duggers tome:
(homebrew magic item)
A Duggers tome is a large leather bound book. Each Duggers tome can only be used once.
If a Duggers Tome is set on any book, it will transform into an exact copy of that book. From that point on, any adjustments made to either book will be reflected in the other.
It's primary use is for keeping track of an enemy's records.
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[@vundoqweep3812]

I really do enjoy playing the "utility" spellcaster more than a nuker. Keep one damage cantrip, then fill the rest of my slots with nonlethal goodies.

[@zeebashew]

^This is the guy, this is the sorcerer from the video!

[@michaeladams3762]

you are a rad wizard

[@DimitriFilichkin]

Utility wizards are best wizards no contest. Nothing is quite as good as the feeling of being a batman-caster.

[@kevinbarber2795]

DimitriFilichkin now I want to play as a wizard that looks like Batman; maybe sounds like Batman from the movies, you know, like I’m gargling marbles

[@Chrono_Mitsurugi]

Vundoqweep Thanks for showing off the amazing things magic can do in the right hands.

[@billyweed835]

There's also the famous"Cleric's Feather Fall." Namely, let the dude land, then, if he's still alive, use the appropriate healing spell.

[@goldfencer]

In a game I played recently, our party got attacked by a roc while we were crossing a bridge over a deep ravine. Our cleric ended up falling several hundred feet, but halfway down he cast death ward on himself. Dropped to 1 HP, then hid inside a portable hole until the roc left.

[@Joshua12450]

Or use revivify if it comes to that

[@breakfast3006]

Or the Paladin feather fall, casting death ward or yourself while falling

[@HowlingGale]

And please don't forget the Necromacer's feather fall. This is where he tells the rest of the party to jump off with the loot whereupon he fakes them out, stealthily exfiltrates the area, and raises the mess at the bottom as his undead servants. To truly pull this off, you need to actually prepare the feather fall spell and not use it. Chaotic Stupid at its finest.

[@supersonicgamerguru]

@@HowlingGale chaotic MEvil.

[@halt1931]

Feather Fall: The spell nobody wants to have taking up a spell space, until they... suddenly really wish they HAD it.

[@KuraIthys]

Isn't that true of most situational spells though? Spell with situational effect + magic system with fixed number of spell slots = nobody wants this spell, but everyone regrets it when they don't have it.

[@andusz5518]

"Featherfall: You won't need it until you'll REALLY need it."

[@psychronia]

The sweetest application of Feather Fall I've ever seen was when someone used it to make their paper plane glide for far, far further than any paper plane had any business being able to glide. Thanks to house rules enabling the spellcaster to reduce a little weight with the spell as they level up, we eventually got to use it to spread an antidote to an entire capital city within an hour using nothing but pouches crudely stitched from a curtain and 30 sheets of fraudulent loan contract paper.

[@noskalborg723]

aahahahaha

[@thisjust10]

What were paper planes called when there were no planes?

[@psychronia]

JKL Actually, the party later named it after the member who "invented" it on the fly. "Jeltler Parchments" sold decently well with the kids. Profit wasn't high because it was priced to account for the kids from low-income families, but it spread fame and basically gave our party a good starting impression with most child NPCs from then on.

[@Mr.Ford3350]

Your sorcerer player seems like one clever bastard, I'd love to see what other trouble he's bailed the party out of in your future videos.

[@SMon42]

This spell is a prime example of "it's better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it"

[@MoonPatch]

Feather Fall is the sort of spell that even if it NEVER came up once during the entire campaign, I'd still keep prepared just in case. Fall damage is real nasty unless literally everyone is a Monk...well even if that is the case actually.

[@TheSilverPhoenix100]

Feather fall is one of those spells you never think you need till my god do you need it, gravity is the greatest foe of any PC in D&D

[@Eddie42023]

what about 'beware the water?'

[@TlalocTemporal]

This is true of most games where you can take fall damage.

[@Athkore]

Holy shit, those two NPCs were going at it for 100 rounds... Fight of the century.

[@twingemios5139]

Or they’re both drunk and can’t get any good hits in. It’s just like two nodules slapping against eachother

[@Athkore]

@@twingemios5139 Or they are two wizards with a negative strength score.

[@chikenugets9165]

Unarmed attacks do 1 damage and they probably missed a bunch since they were drunk

[@kjj26k]

That's ten minutes

[@Athkore]

@@kjj26k Yeah. Zee said the fight started 'about 10 minutes' before the heist, hence they were fighting for 100 rounds.

[@funk8782]

The aesthetic of this episode is so awesome I love the music!

[@hexagal4754]

"Are you ahead of me yet?" He casts magic to move the crowd under them to break their fall!

[@orionl.8491]

You're not ahead of him, but the npc's are definitely ahead of the players.

[@XPator]

my bard used Featherfall to save himself from the vengeful Strahd, who tried to drop him off the highest tower of the cathedral. this surprised both my DM and him, since he didn't know/remember I had that spell in my book. That was my 5 minutes of glory, as I mockingly shrugged at him while gliding away to my teammates over there.

[@abouttime837]

this spell sounds like it would be situational but almost always ends up being used in something cool so many style points for exit through feather fall

[@SangTheCryptek]

I'm a first time player, currently playing a wizard in my first campaign, and this spell has earned a permanent preparation slot. It was one of the first spells I learned, as I saw its usefulness immediately upon seeing it in the PHB. We're only level 8, but so far I've managed to use it to save every single one of my party from hefty falling damage, and one point saved all of us from certain death after causing a castle to fall out of the sky.

[@MoonPatch]

Feather Fall is the spell that you'll always pick and never use, but if you ever DON'T pick it... Well, you're certain to regret it.

[@eoinstanley1188]

IMPORTANT! If you are playing pathfinder, feather fall only targets one person. Please realize this before you tell your party to jump off a cliff

[@GameReaperFilms]

Is that true for pathfinder 2e? Cause 1st edition it's 1 medium creature per level, though I may be looking at an updated version.

[@smugpittbull]

I'm thinking about having a home brew greater feather fall. It will basically be a 4th level spell that targets the party.

[@couragew6260]

@@smugpittbull I still find it surprising that feather fall can be used on 5 people as a first level spell. I don’t really see any drawbacks to having this spell besides it taking a first level spell slot.

[@smugpittbull]

@@couragew6260 I aim to fix that. I plan on changing it to a radius centered on the caster. Anyone, ally or not, gets the effect of feather falling.

[@Florkl]

People who hate the max of 20d6 fall damage because certain beefy mid-level characters can survive a fall at terminal velocity seem to forget that this spell exists for squishy level 1 wizards.

[@elbruces]

The higher level your party gets, the greater the chance and frequency that falling from a great height is going to become an issue. Because it's a classic epic tropey wild shenanigan, and that's what higher level play is all about.

[@davidstratton696]

El Bruce What r u talking about? It’s the complete opposite. Their is a max fall damage u can take (20d6) so at early lvs everyone’s in danger from falling damage but at later lvs everyone is going to have enough hp or more then the max u can take from fall damage. This is y feather fall is such a low lv spell. I mean all the damage is still not fun to take but u won’t have to worry so much about dying from it unless you’ve already taken quite a bit of damage.

[@elbruces]

@@davidstratton696 Whay I was talking about is the situations your party is likely to find themselves in. The fact is most DMs are less likely to put low level characters in situations where there's a high chance of falling in the first place. Low level schlubs trudging from village to village aren't likely to have to worry about falling off a flying airship or off the back of a pegasus or metallic dragon, for instance. That's what I was talking about.

[@davidstratton696]

El Bruce Yea but like I said at later lvs everyone’s gonna have enough hp to the point where u don’t have to really worry about it (tho the dmg u do take is not gonna be fun but your not in danger of dying from it). Unless of course your playing with a Dm who doesn’t say theirs a max fall dmg u can take then it’s a different story.

[@elbruces]

@@davidstratton696 They have more options, but I have seen cases where they didn't think of that.

[@bardofvoid174]

I sneezed right at the end right as his face changed, and it looked like I just offended and dissapointed him by sneezing at that exact moment

[@austinzhang6964]

Time stamp pls this is top good😂😂

[@bardofvoid174]

@@austinzhang6964 about 2:04 is when it switches lmao

[@apparatus_3934]

1) Make a warlock with dimension door and eldritch blast. 2) Take the Spell Sniper feat and Eldritch Spear invocation 3) Have a friend with feather fall 4) Cast dimension door on yourself and your friend (going straight up 500 ft) 5) Have your friend cast feather fall on himself and you 6) Profit as you cast Eldritch blast 500ft in the air unable to be hit by any melee attacks for about 8 rounds and most ranged attacks for around 6 rounds

[@DaussPlays]

If I was GM I feel like I'd have to counter this after a while by having the commotion stir up the attention of airborne predators if the party kept doing it. It's clever though, I'll give you that.

[@apparatus_3934]

Dauss Plays Yeah I agree it can be pretty powerful but you also can only use it in open spaces, and it relies on a bunch of things to create one powerful synergy.

[@snowingfate6100]

Pretty sure with expanded rules 500 feet/round is how fast you fall

[@Ev432]

Snowing Fate feather fall states that you fall 60 ft per round

[@apparatus_3934]

Snowing Fate the whole point of feather fall is to counteract that

[@HarryPotter-uv8yp]

Playing as a wizard gnome, I snuck up to the barbarian in our party while we were spying on a group of enemies. I told him to throw me as high as he could after I cast the featherfall spell, and from about 30 or 40 feet up I was able to spot all the hidden enemies ready to pounce on us. Then I floated down, informed the party, and our bard snuck away on his own to put all the hidden enemies to sleep. Meanwhile the rest of the party handled the outside enemies. Had a blast hopping on the barbarian shoulders, firing fire bolts left and right, and telling our barbarian, “you’re our tank, I’m your turret.” DnD is great. Thanks for your work on the animated spellbook, really inspired me!

[@tuptastic304]

How does he know what a tank is

[@werecoth]

@@tuptastic304 Lots of potential ways One the character is a Gnome Would be really suprised if a mad inventor Gnome hasn't made some kind of mechanical tank before. Also you assume the time period of the campaign setting.

[@deadshields8561]

Had a cool Feather Fall moment myself once. My Barbarian was on an airship being raided by pirates. We managed to capture one and found they were carrying single-use totems of Feather Fall. The pirates had a massive, chained, wooden harpoon lodged in the airship and were pulling it down. I faced our Druid and said: "Fly with me, bird-man!" and dove off the airship and Feather Falled onto the harpoon and, with the help of the Druid that had wild-shaped into a crow, started hacking away at the harpoon. With the final step from our Sorcerer's ice spell, who had won over an enemy gryphon to help us, we broke it and went into freefall. The gryphon just barely managed to save all of us at the cost of its life. As soon as we made it to civilisation, I found a blacksmith and had him carve a gryphon symbol onto my handaxe and wrapped some of its feathers to the handle.

[@Truex007]

That's badass dude! TBH, I wouldn't mind having a handaxe like that myself...

[@issacwhittaker3687]

I love the animation for the wizard narrator. No clue why it’s just great.

[@pancakegod666lol]

alot of people don't realize that feather fall at 60ft a round is sprinting towards the ground for most characters, that's dash distance towards the ground lol

[@thanesgames9685]

In a similar vein - Party was tasked to disguise themselves as a returning patrol, jam the gates of the gate house and keep the gates from closing for 10 rounds while the rest of larger force rushed to it and through. They broke the gates easily enough once they were inside, but instead of waiting for the rest of the force, three of them started an attack up onto the walls. They quickly got overwhelmed, and the minotaur player was knocked unconscious. The spell caster put levitate on the minotaurs body, and they leapt off the wall riding the unconscious minotaur to the ground.

[@animegx45]

I love how much trust they had in the sorcerer.

[@JohnDickinson]

A friend of mine created a spellcaster "game" that he would chalenge other casters to show who had bigger "ion stones". Simply put it was feather fall chicken. You jump off roof, cliff or other high thing together... And the LAST ONE TO CAST is the winner. You can have multiple players and he used often to belittle other casters.

[@Vinemaple]

Oh, yeah... druid players used to do that with Travel Form (Flying) in WoW... Fly up high, turn travel form off, try to be the last one to recast it. "Druid Roulette," we called it.

[@matejbina626]

My party's Wizard decided to use Feather Fall + Gust of Wind as a pseudo-jetpack. Couldn't say no to that.

[@DarkMan307]

dude that sounds awsome

[@armorclasshero2103]

A duggers tome is instantaneous communication. Beyond light speed comms. It creates a temporal paradox.

[@LanceThumping]

If that's the case then there is probably a particular arrangement that'd let you contact the past.

[@McDonaldsCalifornia]

​@@LanceThumpingif you accelerate yourself to relativistic speed and then write something in the tome, technically the person reading on the other side would get information from your relative future. No wait that doesn't make sense. But there is something there. Maybe time dilation between planes could play a role

[@sampersonguy5337]

I gotta say I think one of the appealing parts of this channel has to be the fact that there is always a story, he doesn’t just explain the spell (Edit: grammatical error)

[@LamirLakantry]

We were one too many for the spell, but had a bag of holding. One of us got in the bag and held our breath while the rest jumped down a cliff. They then nearly forgot to bring the character back out. We go deep into role-playing, so the player didn't remind anyone else, because his character couldn't. Luckily, they remembered in time.

[@Vespuchian]

That’s how I survived falling off a floating island after a gauntlet of bad rolls and failed saves: climbed into the bag on the way down. My DM ruled that a creature can still act/climb out of a bag of holding if it isn’t restrained, which totally saved my character from suffocation (we later forgot about this later when we dumped an unconscious goon into the bag, he woke up and cut his way out, destroying it).

[@notsatan5287]

I had a wizard in the party who once grabbed a boss, and dimension doored straight up and then used feather fall to not kill himself

[@The_Sharktocrab]

Dimension door only teleports someone else if they're willing

[@notsatan5287]

@@The_Sharktocrab It also teleports everything you're carrying and he was a goliath wizard who picked up the boss. Also it was really cool

[@namkhatoner6492]

​@@notsatan5287 "You can bring along objects as long as their weight doesn’t exceed what you can carry. You can also bring one willing creature of your size or smaller who is carrying gear up to its carrying capacity. The creature must be within 5 feet of you when you cast this spell." Creatures aren't objects, per the RAW (and RAI) dimension door cant be used offensively like this :(

[@notsatan5287]

@@namkhatoner6492 You don't understand though, it was really, REALLY cool

[@darkanayer5867]

@@notsatan5287 and that is the only "set in stone" rule of dnd. If its cool enough for the Dm to allow it, then its valid

[@giffkeplen2951]

"This shouldn't have worked but it was hilarious" kinda sums up DnD.

[@Phrixscreoth]

I once let a wizard player of mine use feather fall to extend their jump range- they were on the back of a carriage moving at speed, trying to jump to the carriage behind some distance away. They used feather fall to give themselves enough hang time to let the second carriage move under them. Unfortunately they flubbed their dex save to land and missed the carriage, gently falling to the ground, watching the caravan move on without them haha.

[@imhungryletseat2303]

First vid I saw of yours. The sheer *STYLE* is bowling me over! The artstyle! The movement! The jazz! And the spell highlight!

[@pepus777]

I love these videos. They cover something so simple but you put a lot of effort in to make it look and feel nice, and it really shows.

[@flamingmailman1104]

I don't know what it is, but every time I see a new episode of this, I just get really happy for some reason

[@themaddoctor5304]

I have a player who uses the spell in order to pull off superhero landings. Although he has saved the party with it a few times. I always forget he has it.

[@tadoriaselan3268]

I always take feather fall because I've had a few DMs that were always keen to remember that giant/flying creatures can grapple you and throw you a distance.

[@user2C47]

Even though RAW, although vague, permits it, I still don't like how OP that particular attack is. It should at least be limited to something reasonable, such as creatures flying without magic having a limited carry capacity (STR*4 should do). _Toootaly_ not salty about losing a fighter because it got carried over a ravine by a 15 pound _urd..._

[@cyberwarlord7363]

​@@user2C47 yeah I gotta agree. My fighter is twice the weight with armor of most flying creatures. Real or fantasy. And if it can pick me up, why not just eat me.?😅

[@CrizzyEyes]

@@user2C47 Creatures flying without magic have much higher carrying capacity than you might think. Check out videos of eagles carrying away juvenile deer, for example.

[@CrizzyEyes]

@@cyberwarlord7363 Killing animals via falling is a hunting tactic for some birds.

[@user2C47]

@@CrizzyEyes All I found were some videos of 25 pound eagles carrying 30 or 40 pound deer, which while impressive, is still sane. A 15 pound lizard hovering around with a 250 pound dude, however, is _not_ sane, but still approved under RAW.

[@Darkemperer]

That 3D effect while falling. You put a ridiculous amount of effort into your animations!

[@justmonica9253]

People say 'oh feather hardly ever comes up', and that's true... if you aren't *looking* for ways to use it.It's a tool like any other, that allows you to use verticality to your advantage in safety.

[@swadloom40]

I see this as how most Utility spells work. Sure, they may seem very specific, but there are many times that I've gone "I wish I had ____ Utility spell right now" in different situations, and it's why I don't like arguments like "Tell me 5 uses for Prestigitation right now!" They're called Utility spells for a reason.

[@DarkAthanar]

I mean, I've used it on a ding dragon that was falling from the sky so it would give people time to move. You never know when it'll come up, but when it does, you're thankful.

[@Fibonochos]

My favorite use was against bolder monster that was going to drop onto a party member with enough force to probably insta-kill them, but because they were a creature I feather falled them an they slow floated back to the earth with much laughter from my party

[@marcusdaloia2974]

Seems like you could use that against swooping enemies as well.

[@matthewlyons6544]

Just a few sessions ago our party was being attacked by a creature that lobbed smaller creatures at us. When they landed they would die and explode dealing damage to creatures around them. I was able to use featherfall to stop them from taking bludgeoning damage when they landed, this preventing them exploding. Since the spell doesn’t need a willing creature to target our DM allowed this. I always enjoy finding odd and niche uses for spells.

[@Runescythe9852]

As a bard, I used this spell on a fellow Kobold player. You see, there was a rope bridge that was destroyed in an encounter previous from a group of monsters that pursued us, but we needed to go back across to study some ruins that we were tasked to explore. So we had a Fighter with a very high strength and Athletics skill. After having cast Featherfall, the fighter tossed the light kobold rogue animatedly high into the air, well over the distance of the gorge, and he screamed, forgetting that he was simply floating towards the ground and softly tapped his snout into the dirt.. It was a fun experience, and its interesting to see how people can cleverly use spells and abilities to overcome obstacles and certain deadly encounters.

[@DIGITALxCOW]

Could you do just a video series of awesome stories like this? I’d love to know just how they started that fight, or why and how they even got security alerted in the first place! But I love these videos so far

[@ScribbleCrow]

In one encounter with bulettes, I used a crafty featherfall to neutralize their Deadly Leap, an attack that has them jump 15ft into the air and body slam what was at the time my orc wizard. Another party member, inspired by this, did some quick math to figure out his carrying weight. After taking in his very high strength score, his feature that let him carry as if he was a size category larger, and with the aid of the Enlarge spell, we convinced the DM that it was possible to catch another of these feather falling land sharks and hold it grappled over his head. With some amazingly lucky rolls, he held that bulette over his head the entire fight.

[@danwardspiral1794]

Imagine if the sorceror was a wild magic sorceror, and after casting feather fall he got a magic surge and casted fireball on himself. Lol that'd suck

[@DarkAthanar]

I'd rather take 8 dice of damage than 20.

[@vinnypiazza4851]

So far I've seen "How to exploit the hell out of cantrips" AND I LOVE IT

[@Sindal55]

Vinny Piazza feather fall isn't a cantrip ya goose

[@Tin_Suit]

Zee, Dude, each video keeps getting better and better. Thoroughly enjoying this series.

[@doncoyote68]

In the swedish rpg drakar och demoner, there is a spell "Trip" which is fairly cheap but does exactly what it says. You trip one creature in range, making him fall down prone in a direction of your choosing. You can boost the spell with mana to affect more people at once, but this makes it more difficult to succeed casting it. Trough a somewhat generous ruling of the rules by the gm, I managed to combine this spell with the monks class ability in that game, which is to concentrate for up to sixty seconds to get a +1 for every five seconds concentrated to a skill check. (A spell is a exactly like a skill, except instead of a skill value it has a spell value). By concentrating, I could then lower the difficulty enough to offset the extra difficulty from the boosted spell. Once our party was ambushed in a ravine and held at crossbowpoint by a number of orcs. While the party tried to fast talk their way out of it, I closed my eyes and started to concentrate. As negotiations broke down, I snapped my fingers. Bam, seven orcs tripped forward, and fell to their deaths. The fight was afoot! Then the remaining seven orcs killed me. Then they killed the wizard. Then the wizard, in a last dash of suicide empowered arcane might used his specially crafter, super charged magical staff and blew up the mountain. That killed the rest of the party. But for a little while, it was awesome!

[@Soldier4USA2005]

That has to be the most epic self-inflicted TPK story I have ever read!!!

[@Limrasson]

Meanwhile monks: "I'll just walk off the cliff, thank you."

[@piratekit3941]

Had a party with a sorcerer and a monk, and the monk would NEVER wait for spells like featherfall because 'they could handle it' (and they could, but it would basically put her off on her own adventures of stupidity while the rest of the party caught up).

[@Limrasson]

@@piratekit3941 What a coincidence, that's pretty much what I'm doing as well! Altough my character did fall like 800 feet off from a rock in one session (after which the maximum fall damage was increased substantially since at lvl 12 a monk can absorb 60 fall damage anmd 20 d6 avarages at 60 meaning that on average I take no fall damage) And then we found a mysterious magical pond in which I jumped and then found myself in the feywild. The cleric contacted me to come back and the last line of the reply I gave was. "I'll come back but I just saw something, I'll check it out."

[@GreyAcumen]

I've long since switched to keeping 2 scrolls of featherfall on any character capable of casting spells. Featherfall is INCREDIBLY useful, crucial even, for an extremely niche circumstance. It's not worth tying up a prepared spell for, those need to be kept free for things that get used on a daily basis, but when it does come up? ABSOLUTELY worth the 10-35GP that a typical 1st level scroll costs.(as per Xanathar's Pricing for consumable common item) or 25GP and a day to scribe it directly. If your DM is super anal, you may want to specify that you invest in some sort of springloaded scrollcase or something, so you can pull the scroll out as part of your reaction that is used to read from it. It's a lot like a fire extinguisher, you wouldn't want to just clip one to your belt, but it's always nice to have one within arms reach wherever you go.

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

What kind of potionary has a shindig on the second floor in the middle of the night? Why, the best dang potionary in town!

[@Funfuncutie1]

I just had a campaign where I was playing a sorcerer and the party encountered a masked man who was the guardian of a forest. We had just beaten up some bandits when he came in, thanked us, and then moved in to finish them off. Being "lets not kill unless absolutely necessary" types, we didnt want that, but the way the DM described this guy, it seemed like he was pretty high level and we probably wouldnt have gotten out of fighting him unscathed. I came up with the bright Idea to have our paladin and barbarian grab the guy, and throw him into the air, from which point I could cast feather fall, which would make it so that he would hit the ground safely, but *very slowly,* giving us enough time to grab the bandits and run before he could kill them and/or us. It worked. I love spellcasting.

[@TheJerbol]

It's still 60ft/6s, not that slow. Generous DM

[@crazybunnyproductions7287]

I have maliciously abused feather fall so many times. Uppercut a squad of orcs into the air, turn myself into a ballista projectile to one-shot a titan, cling to a ceiling while everyone yelled, the options are nearly limitless.

[@chicago928]

I love these video's, your animation style blends really well with the content. Keep it up dude. Also a great way for a newb like me to lern spells and mechanics.

[@MultiSteveB]

It's *extremely* useful. I (18 wizard) used it to save a rogue in our party when he triggered a pit trap with spikes while exploring the Tomb of Horrors.

[@morphman86]

Our group managed to weaponize Feather Fall once. We had a rather large and strong Fighter and a very light Monk and a utility-focused Bard. I think you can see where this is going. Big cave, spiders descending from the ceiling. Fighter grabs monk, bard casts Feather Fall on monk, fighter throws monk into the air and monk gets in range to throw his darts at the spiders well before they are in range of attacking any of us, then he just sails back to the ground. We got 3 good rounds of damage in that way before the spiders could counter it.

[@foolwise4703]

My players once had to get a feather from a bird rock nest high up on a cliff. They cast feather fall on the halfling bard, making him really light and bound him to a makeshift kite to fly him up there. He had a spell ready to talk with magical creatures and just politely asked the bird for one of its feathers. Darn that was a better solution to the adventure than I could have ever imagined or was foreseen in the adventure (it was serpents skull, book 2).

[@joule400]

Not gonna lie i was half expecting you to tell how you then fired the halfling from a catapult towards the nest

[@foolwise4703]

@@joule400 They did not yet have their ballista then.

[@aliciacordero7436]

@@foolwise4703 Implying that the ballista would've been their first choice. Love it

[@Fanouriou]

My GM homebrewed å high CR old school humungous Sword Spider who had managed to climb above the party and would get a nasty manylegged multi attack with its 8 sharp swordlike legs. As the bastard dislodged itself from the roof ready to bring falling impaling death to the party, my Mountain Dwarf Wizard shouts Feather Fall and he rules that the Sword spider gets his attacks but without the the extra falling impalementt. In effect two caracters took 24 fewer hitpoints each. Saved both characters since that left them at positive hp. The whole party and GM laughed heartily at my creativity. Proud moment!!

[@elbruces]

Wow, it actually doesn't say the targets have to be willing. Interesting...

[@juanfranciscocordova746]

One of the reasons I love to play a class with utilitarian spells, like the wizard, is that you can get very very creative, as shown on this series of videos. Keep the good work up

[@johanejp]

I once used this spell to essentially eliminate a whole group of pirates in a single round! They were boarding our ship by using ropes to swing across the gap separating the vessels so I took the opportunity to cast my newly acquired spell on them. This resulted in them overshooting the deck and falling into the sea on the other side of the ship. They didn't climb back up...

[@kylestanley7843]

I've always wondered if feather fall reduced momentum in all directions or just downward. I would reckon just downward, in favor of hilarious stories like this, but i could see it going both ways too.

[@trebot9292266]

@@kylestanley7843 if it didn't just work Down then wouldnt they not make it to the ship? As instead of overshooting they undershot.

[@StarshadowMelody]

@@trebot9292266 Personally I find Feather Fall halting momentum in other directions a little... difficult to believe.

[@trebot9292266]

@@StarshadowMelody looking at the skill it seems like it only counts falling. Slow momentum would be more of a slow in all directions.

[@TheREALGalamineGary]

I just want to hear your buttery voice tell me D&D stories. Please be my dad.

[@Vinemaple]

Not creepy at all...

[@sarahmgReal]

Just gotta say, you're my favourite 5e content creator and I love this storytime series

[@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa]

Man, the quality gets so much better with every single one of these. Great work, man.

[@Narmoriel42]

One of my favorite uses of featherfall was offensive. My target was fleeing and jumped out a window, so I cast feather fall on him, then jumped out myself, taking the fall damage and catching him when he landed.

[@jonasboel2473]

Personally I always take feather fall. It's rare that it's used, but when you need it, you really need it

[@lorddestrustor8828]

This is why I always try to keep spells that don't seem super useful at first in my lists. The times I did amazing things with grease and color spray were too much fun to risk passing up; and I'll always hope to get that magical feeling again.

[@karinkwesker]

This is the best thing that has come out on youtube this year. Possibly this decade.

[@Blue_Lunacy]

I love the jazz BGM in this video. Very fitting for the heist storyline.

[@chaosknight626]

Feather fall and fog cloud, the perfect "bail out" combo

[@andrewjohnson6716]

“Smoke Bomb!!”

[@victor8100]

when i created my bard and see that spell i immediate thought " this is going to save somebody ass " , but i was not expecting to use it on the first encounter!

[@LazyPoet101]

Damn, the animation in these videos are insane! 3D models, the expressions, stories. It's all awesome!

[@meth_squirrel]

This is such an amazing series always makes me smile

[@michaelathens953]

Featherfall has saved so many of my characters so many times. It's one of my go-to utility spells

[@TheBoundFenrir]

One of the (many) reasons I love Warlocks is they can get Levitate as an at-will from an invocation: sure, I can't catch an entire party, but the ability to *not land at all* is worth it, imo.

[@michaelathens953]

@@TheBoundFenrir I love the dragon shaman class from the 3.5 PHB 2, particularly the silver variety because they get featherfall as a class ability. It's just so insanely useful; I'm always surprised when people are either unaware of its myriad utilitarian potential or pass it over because it doesn't do damage or have some other crazy effects.

[@innenkosnarukami2450]

I dont even play 5E, I just like the stories mixed with useful tidbits, especially since spells like Featherfall are pretty common across most tabletop RPGs. The animation is filled with easter eggs and the yellowed color scheme adds a nice parchment aesthetic.I just picked up on this series this morning but I'm looking forward to the rest of season two.

[@federicopalacios7439]

The only bad thing about Feather Fall is that it is basically mandatory, someone in the party absolutely always needs to either have it prepared or learnt. You may never use it, but you never know when you'll need it. My wizard saved the party from dying twice so far with it

[@smoky-phil7694]

Which makes it an ideal candidate for having scrolls of it or having items that cast it/provide effects. I guess it depends how often falling is going to be a hazard or something you can use to positive effect weights into how accessible these kinda things are but at the same time a vertical city where everyone feather falls downwards into a big ass teleport gate that takes them all the way to the top would be interesting.

[@PenNamed]

Your art and animation style is the best on youtube. It's just so entertaining i can't stop binge watching these.

[@anubislockward3750]

I once allowed the use of Feather Fall to stop a Bulette's deadly leap

[@madmanwithaplan1826]

feather fall is also a great way to betray someones trust "come with me, i need to get you out of here!" dimension door 5 hundred feet straight up cast feather fall on self after having fell 300 feet watch them fall the full 500 feet taking 49 d6 falling damage and cleaning up the mess from range cause you got a few rounds to chuck fireballs down there without issue

[@XpVersusVista]

in vanilla D&D 5e, falling damage caps at i think 20D6.

[@madmanwithaplan1826]

@@XpVersusVista feh I Know a lot of people ignore that rule cause it's honestly stupid

[@jebchrisman9541]

add charm person to that and you're golden

[@madmanwithaplan1826]

@@jebchrisman9541 ... oh my god how did i not think of that... welp thanks for helping me break my poor dms brain more

[@Arlano76]

@@madmanwithaplan1826 In real life, fall damage have a cap too due to air friction, so I guess it's not that stupid.

[@AdorkableSmile]

Oh man, that was beautiful! Your smooth animation, storytelling and music go together perfectly, the production on these videos is always amazing :D

[@jamcdonald120]

I used featherfall to airdrop from an airship. It was passing over a Point of Interest, but not stopping there. So we payed for full passage and just jumped off over our destination. Turns our 60ft per turn for 1 minute is 600ft of falling, which is about what you go in 1 round falling normaly. This gives you plenty of time to get of this reaction spell regardless of initial drop height. At worst you can use multiple spell slots, but its a first level spell so its not to hard.

[@andrewjohnson6716]

As a former skydiver, I would require the PCs to roll acrobatics to stay within the spell range. Falling people tend to tumble away from each other both horizontally and vertically.

[@theNaxxas]

I used this spell a lot in Tomb of Annihilation, loved it so much I finished the camp and had this spell ready every day, you never know when gorillas with 4 arms try to throw you or other people of an airship or you need to travel down a giant mountain (saved us 1 day of travel time) :)

[@HansLemurson]

It would be cool to see magical special-forces units sky-diving into a secret facility and landing silently with featherfall.

[@Chocomint_Queen]

HALF jumping: High Altitude, Low Featherfall

[@AGrumpyPanda]

If you think that's good, you should see what happens in full on magitech settings- even mid level conjurers are potentially capable of moving entire army units instantaneously.

[@SarcasmoRex]

That Duggers Tome sounds awesome. I'd love to see/learn more about this homebrew item.

[@ResidentFurryx]

My only question is if it can be used on a spell book.

[@antaresmaelstrom5365]

Featherfall could also (in 3.5) be used for maximum laziness with the Boots of Gravity in the Planar handbook. Decide that gravity for you goes 'that way', have a ring of feather falling and you don't even need to walk anymore. Just fall towards your destination at a sedate pace of 60ft/rd.

[@copaczin3605]

Ah yes the Ender's Game strategy of "the place we need to go is down"

[@Chris-jw8vm]

@@copaczin3605 Have you read the books or just watched the film? The books go in a weird direction. For one thing the main character becomes thousands of years old from time dilation.

[@shadowscall7758]

I want to see one about one of my favorite spells, Rope Trick. It is incredibly useful.

[@tykjpelk]

My best moment with feather fall was when we had a giant spider jumpscare us from above. I feather fell it and we got an extra round for ranged attacks and positioning.

[@garysalazar5279]

my best use of feather fall was as a bard during a concert, I did a stage dive, with no one to catch me, I used feather fall, followed by a shower of fireworks from prestidigitation then boom the crowd goes wild!

[@yonatanbeer3475]

Gary Salazar *c o n c e n t r a t i o n"

[@jemmpolitics4627]

what if it was after he stuck the landing?

[@Gingerninja800]

concentration? what about it?

[@ribz4539]

I know it's not really a part of the video but a Duggers Tome is a fucking awesome homebrew item, simple and easy to understand but legitimately useful

[@FlaminTubbyToast]

This is quickly becoming my favorite series. I really like the ideas that you talk about. Particularly about the creative ways seemingly useless spells become wonderful story candy.

[@engilaru]

I play a fighter who is going into Artificer, just one level so far, but already this is my most used 1st level spell. More used than Cure Wounds, Absorb Elements, and Expeditious Retreat. If you ever find this on your spells list, take it!

[@Cratmang]

My party was staying in the attic of a building that was disguised as a tent (its previous owners were trying to avoid paying taxes). In order to get down from the attic to the main floor, we had to lower a ladder through a trap door, or otherwise fall. I woke up one morning, and decided to jump down the trap door... without checking to see if the ladder was down first. I fell down and thankfully suffered no damage, but I bruised my right arm. Just recently, I decided to pick up Feather Fall, if only for the sole purpose of not repeating this event in its entirety. Then, I came across this video. I'll take it as a sign.

[@ZlatkoTheGod]

That dead stare at the end...

[@thomasboynton1]

Love the background jazz and laid back style of the narrator (character animation and voice work!) Awesome job.

[@oliverwilhelm6171]

Admittedly, if I had access to Feather Fall, I'd probably be climbing up and jumping off things for the thrill of it. Probably yelling "MAGIC IS AWESOME!" the whole way down.

[@Rathkryn]

You do have access to it. Pick up the Magic Initiate feat at your next opportunity and choose it as your first level spell. You only get it once per day but you still get it.

[@caseyhudson4929]

I was pretty certain he meant in real life, so... don't jump off your roof next time you level up? Please?

[@oliverwilhelm6171]

I was talking about real life, but don't worry! I won't be jumping off any rooftops, regardless of my level.

[@herecomemacOnTT]

Glad I discovered your channel and binged your animations earlier today! Can't wait for more, that heist was ridiculous and awesome and giving me more inspiration for my campaign. Great learning tools, dude!

[@cursedwither7888]

0:56 I love the falling effect you added... Wait oh no watch out... You're going to miss it! It's.. *splat*...welp... No saving throw could save a wizard from that fall...

[@pblackcrow]

Have I ever told you the tale of Hans, the faithful unseen servant to William; the 3rd son of a viscount, who became a real person?