How to Play Iceman in Dungeons & Dragons (X-Men Build for D&D 5e)

[@mason-.]

The Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Fandom is gonna LOVE this video

[@danielmcpherson3891]

I remember that show... Weren't all spiderman s friends jerks?

[@DareMurdok]

i was waiting for a clip from that but alas

[@dorca9308]

Hes right, I do

[@BlandoGaming]

I had the "A Firestar is Born" episode on VHS.

[@DareMurdok]

@@BlandoGaming I think i have that one - i know i have the one where they both meet Peter and shakes his hands and freeze and burn him for some reason

[@FoxyGekkerson]

One thing I really like about Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything is that they released Transmuted Spell metamagic, which lets you spend a sorcery point to convert one damage type to another as long as it’s acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder. It’s perfect for expanding limited spell lists, and getting around resistances and immunities. I’m gonna take it through the Metamagic Adept feat for my current sorcerer build, who is also coincidentally a cryomancer.

[@Lrbearclaw]

I feel that is SUCH an underrated MM too but yeah that does literally everything you need for Iceman.

[@melonyb4659]

I love this metamagic, though I wish it let you use others at the same time the way empowered spell does.

[@Smashblood101]

I’m surprised it wasn’t in here, that would have been perfect

[@TBoring]

A sorcerer with transmuted spell and a 2 level dip in Tempest cleric is absolutely terrifying. Not only do you gain heavy armor and shield proficiency but you could do something like this: “I cast Cone of Cold, I transmute it to thunder damage and I use my Channel Divinity so I do max damage instead of rolling. So that’s 64 damage, 32 if they save.”

[@-Offstar]

And they created a wizard subclass that can do that for free.

[@kingdomkey01]

Ice-focused characters are my favorite elementalists, but their options are woefully lacking. If WotC could add more frosty spells, that would be great.

[@SodaPopBarbecue]

Frost Fingers, the Dragon-focused and the new Strixhaven Mage UAs can help with that.

[@phantafalconpunch]

Yeah! The decided we need, like, six fire sorcerer's but we can't get an ice sorcerer :P

[@kingdomkey01]

I can work with what we’ve got in terms of class options, I’d just like to see cold damage spells for every spell level.

[@SodaPopBarbecue]

@@kingdomkey01 I'm just shocked Tulok didn't say that WALL OF ICE, if directed the right way, could be an ice ramp... And I think Warner Media, by way of Netherrealm Studios, may own the Cryomancer concept verbatim, copyright-wise. So...SUBZERO WINS...LEGALITY.

[@RaulDiaz-mp8ms]

@@kingdomkey01 In Tasha's, you can take the Transmuted Spell option for metamagic so that you can change the other spell types into cold damage.

[@teksnotdead902]

The “Jim’s School for Talented Teens” sent me into a chuckling fit. Thank you.

[@troperhghar9898]

Well now i know how to make queen elsa in dnd Just change the cloistered scholar background for noble

[@dragonhearthx8369]

And pick up the transmute metamagic, I don't know why he did not mention that here

[@SH-qs7ee]

And pick up performance; because she's a disney princess, so for some reason has to be able to sing and dance.

[@LordSanquil]

Id switch out the fighter levels for bard since she isn't a fighter

[@aaroncoffman7267]

I had a sub-zero version of the cryomancer build for Decent to Averness that ended at 7 levels of sorcerer and 2 levels of monk. He was a surprisingly effective melee character with shadow blade. My favorite memory was dropping a sleet storm right in front of the group of hell riders that were chasing us that we’d bunched up. Fortunately our DM was generous to rule that the vehicles had to make dex saves. Glorious carnage.

[@gaidencastro9706]

I'd thought that we'd made the "Ice, Ice Baby" joke somewhere on his channel before, but I don't remember where.

[@joshualemmon5806]

I thought that was Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat

[@batwaynebruceman2490]

Captain Cold?

[@patdav56]

Now im just confused that you broke your time-honoured tradition of making Mutants as Half-Elves

[@feralart]

Mostly that was for the charisma boost.

[@HPgirl]

I hope saying "hot take" was a deliberate joke, because I loved it.

[@bassetthound1394]

Transmuted spell would work on some other element spells to make it cold

[@reloadpsi]

So go all in with sorcerer to make ice meteors? If that doesn't kill the dinosaurs I don't know what will.

[@GrandDuchessTaco]

I felt all the Midwest winters in my bones during this video.

[@Lrbearclaw]

Michigander here... yeah. Big same.

[@hella_lugosi]

I wonder how many people noticed that you've been making builds of LGBT characters for all of Pride month

[@creed8712]

I still remember when Jean outed him against his will and when they asked older Bobby about it he lied and said something about thinking the school full of allegory’s wouldn’t have been tolerant or something

[@electronsympathy]

Is it all LGBTQIA+? I don't rmember any bi-inclination for Rick O Connell and I don't recall there any details about Alex Armstrong's love life.

[@Ghilannugs]

@@creed8712 It started out real bumpy, but they managed to slide into a good landing for it by the end

[@boxtupos7718]

@@Ghilannugs Yea seeing as the person that forced him to come out was the person who can not only read other's mind but also manipulate it; Still don't know why Marvel thought it was a good idea to do that. I think Cyclops was the only one who had a fun and well written story out of everyone from the X-Men Blue series.

[@brendenfromthenorth6670]

Finally! A cryomancer! I've been wanting this for so long

[@robertedinger9060]

THE ICEMAN COMETH!

[@hexshadowman]

I definitely thought that thumbnail was Silver Surfer for a second before I actually read the title.

[@tylerclark9822]

I like this build! I tried making Iceman into a D&D character once. It was almost the same thing except I multi-classed into Warlock so I could get Armor of Agathys and the Tomb of Levistus invocation.

[@Stevethepirateyarr]

Pardon me sir! Curling is the only Olympic sport that allows you to drink beer and eat pizza!

[@aganaom1712]

Wait Have we seriously gone this long without Iceman in this series That can't be right. Can it? I could have sworn this already existed

[@reloadpsi]

It's really similar to the Sub Zero build, so...

[@JaelinBezel]

Perhaps the archives are incomplete

[@bskec2177]

The slam against curling at the beginning of this was uncalled for.

[@erikwilliams1562]

i guess you could say, he’s on THIN ICE....

[@WanderingRagabond]

Nice. Though it's a bit sad that cold damage is so often resisted in DnD, especially with how awesome ice powers and magic tend to be.

[@ADdude]

I was wondering how long until the obligatory Frozen joke and you got it in early at 1:09 good work

[@AzraelThanatos]

You know, I don't really see Bobby going for calligraphy...he's basically the slacker/joker of the X-Men in most periods. Sculpting actually kind of fits his skill set

[@sinistertwister686]

This is really *cool* video, I'll be *chilling* while watching it

[@joshualunn32]

Kinda sad Iceman doesn't have Armor of Agathys - feels like that spell would've been perfect

[@andrewpaul8732]

D4 made a cold mage build 1 level in sorcerer for con saves and frostbolt then goes warlock using all the cold spells it all comes together really well

[@JCinLapel]

I could also see Ice Man being an Artificer Armorer changing the lighting to cold damage

[@Cybermash16]

Oh boy, Thursday is gonna be episode 300, I wonder who he'll make

[@connordutton674]

Didnt know that maybe someone like Thor, Merlin, Rand al'thor, Dracula

[@hocusmocus5901]

You could also take the Icingdeath's Frost spell from the Draconic Options UA (if your DM allows it). It's a 2nd level spell, which is available to Sorcerers and Wizards. It forces a Con save in a 15ft cone, dealing 3d8 Cold Damage on a failed save, and reducing the target's speed to 0 for a minute (or until it uses an action to break the ice). It deals half damage and doesn't freeze on a successful save. And, as the ICE-ing on the cake, it doesn't require concentration. Not as useful as Hold Person, but it can be useful in certain situations.

[@aetherspiralknight]

4:47 "They have Strength covered" Bobby stills throws out a Colussus headbutt just to flex tho 🥶😎

[@DavidAnderson-cw7oq]

So, I haven’t watched the video yet, but I’m gonna assume that it’s going to be a really cool build.

[@justinbent9320]

Just letting you know I'd never think to hear The Cure referenced in an X-Men video but I'm so glad you made it work so well lol

[@bloodhexesillustration1977]

I did this kinda build a few months ago trying to make a “Mr Freeze”, I made him a Levistus Tiefling Scribe Wizard. That way he could just transmute every spell into cold damage. I gave him the “Infernal Resistance” (I think that’s it’s name) feat for cold resistance, and the elemental adept feat for cold as well. I feel like it works, but we really just need more ice spells and maybe even a subclass, I was hoping that would come with Icewind Dale… but nope.

[@rustythebard]

Hey Tulok, could you consider building Kipo from Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts? Assuming you haven’t seen it already, it’s a great show to watch as well, and it’s one of my favorites.

[@HavocTheWendigo]

Having not even seen the show but just knowing of it this would be an interesting build

[@Gabe600]

I don't know how he would make the mega jaguar form, maybe wild shape and polymorph with rune Knight and enlarge/reduce i think.

[@rustythebard]

@@Gabe600 well I was actually thinking something along the lines of moon Druid or path of the beast barbarian, but I am very interested to see what Tulok would do, plus he needs to watch that show lol

[@rustythebard]

@@Gabe600 plus I’m pretty sure in Tasha’s Cauldron, Druids get access to extra spells, and I’m pretty sure enlarge/reduce is one of them

[@dragonmaster613]

Iceman x Pyro? Talk about _steamy!_

[@reloadpsi]

Sounds pretty _sublime_ if you ask me.

[@KumaChrisVT]

Before I re-read the title of the video, I thought this was a Silver Surfer build lol.

[@berserkerciaran]

Hold Person? More like Cold Person

[@maxmanramfan]

One vid away from #300! Thanks for all the great content Tulok!

[@matts6359]

Iceman is my favorite superhero, and has been for pretty much my whole life. FINALLY

[@jignaciovitale3460]

Love that intro with Boys don't cry.

[@Blaqueword]

(Pyro and Iceman did date in the comics. But it wasnt THEE pyro but someone using the name).

[@embergeos]

Hell yeah what a COOL build!

[@dalepalmitier7114]

You know, I was just picturing a Mr. Freeze build with an Artillerist Artificer gets a cold cannon, but I'm liking this even more. Very "chill". Also, this will be Day 9 of me requesting a build for the Soldier from TF2. I'd love to see to see how you would translate his skill with rockets (despite not being the brightest apple in the bunch), ability to zoom across the battlefield, and uttter recklessness into 5e. Love ya, man.

[@jacobweinstock2180]

Did anybody else think of the "Grease" spell when Tulok mentioned a way to slide around and trip up enemies, a great way to use a low key spell

[@sordcooper2]

good build, though i may have personally gone for eldritch knight and one less level of sorcerer, you end up with more spells and spell slots that way and you get war magic so you can toss a cantrip and a punch in the same round. you may also be able to convince your DM to let you take wall of ice since eldritch knight gives you access to wizard spells and you'd already have 6th level spells at that point. you'd also loose the dragonic wings, but you could just take fly and cast that instead for more consistent flight anyway

[@crash5522]

OMG, that was so bad ass. Iceman is my 2nd favorite X man right behind Nightcrawler

[@Rictavio27]

I bet this video was made before the most recent unearthed arcana, but I think the Prismari subclass would be great for iceman, the level 1 ability really makes it so when you run fast, you make people slip on your ice

[@Rictavio27]

It also adds ice damage to your attacks, and makes you really dexterous

[@av7501]

After this summer solstice, this was the refreshment I needed.

[@an8strengthkobold360]

Well, now I just want to make a ice scate spell.

[@jessicapatton6523]

I’m stupidly glad Tulok is also a shipper

[@gavrielmiles6829]

Oh my god that clip in the beginning was brutal 🧍🏻

[@ArtGuyCharlie]

I need to rewatch the 90's X-Men cartoon. Because I haven't seen it since I was a kid and I've forgotten a lot of things from it. LIKE A FIGHT WITH X-FACTOR, APPERENTLY.

[@xh1263]

Ive been waiting for this build for so long thanks!!!

[@WryAun]

Respect for how well you knew X-Men lore

[@jebron319]

Iceman did hook up with the new pyro in the limited iceman book a few years back.

[@Teddy-fx3ql]

You should do one for Bane or Bullseye

[@MetaGrave]

All those 90s X-Men clips? Now I kinda wanna see a Jubilee build. :3

[@МолчаливыйКлинок]

A really cool character on this hot day. Shame that he is not a half-elf, because I still view CL as too human for a mutant.

[@1originalaccountname]

Hear me out, you do a build for one of the most well rounded Pokémon, Jigglypuff. -spells to induce sleep -various elemental magic, Jigglypuff has always had an insane learnset in Pokémon -Floating for insane jump distance -Tons of HP, next to no AC

[@zEr-ne5ri]

first off dumb pun Second half challenge accepted

[@SodaPopBarbecue]

How do you do the Melee Wall of Pain in D&D 5e?

[@Bladezer3000]

Yeah, higher ice spells being locked to other classes foes suck, but I can easiky see a cool DM letting you grab ice spells from those lists, or letting you reflavour a spell. Like you can easily make fireball, iceball instead o for example

[@AverageLilac]

Requests: Shantae Filia Travis Touchdown Hat Kid

[@Blaqueword]

I think i might use my last 6 slots for Druid Shepherd instead to reflect his polymorphing and ability to create living ice constructs and spread his conciousness into them

[@reloadpsi]

Wisdom isn't high enough :(

[@Blaqueword]

ReloadPsi tbh that sounds like Bobby, so it fits.

[@nicholasmahaffey6285]

At first glance I thought it was the silver surfer 😂😂please consider the doctor from “doctor who”

[@stephencooksey4071]

Love Iceman! Would love to see some people from the anime Fairy Tail!

[@rararasputin8608]

Oh no, ice puns, my worst enemy... we could use a fire build to counter this, because I rather get smoked than iced. An Uncle Iroh build, I hear more ice puns than fire ones.

[@ryudragon7]

That joke about curling and the janitors made me bust a gut, laughing.

[@JonnyStarwind]

I know you also consider UA material for builds, so with the Draconic Options UA from earlier this year, a perfect spell for Bobby DRAKE would be Icingdeath's Frost.

[@mabonator]

Hey Tulok, superhero builds are cool. You should do some other ones like Martian Manhunter, or Batman Beyond. Or maybe even Darkwing Duck

[@RIVERSRPGChannel]

I like ice man cool build

[@GingerObiWan]

I'm sorry I'm late, I was busy working and sleeping. I love X-Men, I appreciate this video. I would also appreciate a Godzilla build.

[@willnelson9906]

i am once again, requesting you to make a build for The Doctor, or a Time Lord build in general,

[@anasb.8647]

Fellow DMs, add static effects to your games, like being frozen, burned, paralyzed or dizzy/shaken so players can get more out of using a character that focuses on one type of element

[@christopherbacon1077]

Curling is basically hockey played with brooms instead of sticks and with much less violence and much bigger pucks. It is to hockey as cricket is to baseball.

[@Fetch26291]

Iceman was also in 'Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends'. In that, he had left the X-Men while he was attending college.

[@dulcedog7589]

I don’t know what the nicest way to say this is but the princess peach build isn’t in the smash bro’s playlist

[@arizonaranger4454]

A part of me would have liked to see you use a ability score improvement to take the eldritch adept feat and then tomb of levistus but I don't know how much it would help the build.

[@Quarataia]

So, Tulok, when are you making Hellsing's Alucard?

[@BlandoGaming]

While I would love to see it, I don't think you can. He is the very definition of overpowered. Every ability score would need to be at least 30.

[@Quarataia]

@@BlandoGaming As Tulok says, he is an anime character, so 20 in every stat, but if there is someone who can make an Alucard that fits in 5e it's Tulok.

[@OrangeyChocolate]

Shame that cold is so woefully underrepresented as a damage type, because cryomancy is one of my favourite kinds of powers.

[@Hobofish11]

Iceman is one of my favorite mutants! I wish 5e had better ice spells, but this build is still really cool 🥶🧊☃️

[@bacovey]

Wife and I are watching His Dark Materials on HBO Max. Thinking I would enjoy a Lee Scoresby build.

[@ipsumquaerere6927]

Lets go Silver Surfer! Oh, Iceman? Thats cool too.

[@thomasdevine867]

Still pulling for Eglentine Price (Bednobs and Broomsticks), Winifred Sanderson (Hocus Pocus), Prince Vultan (Flash Gordon), Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, Counselor Troi, Mary Poppins, and the Reverend Doctor Syn (The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.)

[@unironicallylikesranger7122]

I kind of thought this would use the Prisma college from that new UA, ice skating is one of it's features

[@dcyphermanplays8233]

Maybe clockwork sorcerer would have worked a little better since you can switch out those clockwork spells with wizard or warlock spells I'm just saying give it a go 😊

[@stevencooper564]

God, if only being sad and listening to 80's goth rock was a superpower.

[@TheTravelerww]

I would have taken some levels in scribe wizard. With ice spells in all of the levels you have and a little learning from Professor X you could turn elemental spell into an ice spell and still have them as normal if you come across a white dragon or something. Think; ice missile, ice ball, ice wave, ice arrow, icey ray, ect.

[@benry007]

I'd take a warlock level for armor of agathys and that new metamagic that lets you switch elements on spells for 1 sorcerer point. Now you are free to chose the best elemental damage spells and just change them into cold damage.

[@AutumnWoodham]

"Iceman is going to be using cold" le gasp!

[@HorrorMetalDnD]

Are you doing Leonidas for Episode 300? “THIS!!! IS!!! SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!”

[@Kilo6Charlie]

Ice is really kinda shafted in 5e, which is sad because it's my favourite element and there USED to be so much more for them... Heat Metal used to have a reverse of Chill Metal for instance. Surprised to not see Dragon's Breath though, you can make it Ice and it's a REALLY good spell despite concentration

[@crosbywk]

You could even go with 8 in wisdom for more flavour. Iceman was a school dropout.

[@chrishubbard64]

Question, for all the lovers of casting out there, would you prefer it if wizards of the coast basically made a different elemental version of each spell so no element gets left behind, but each element gets a side effect the others dont as a reason to pick and choose? Or should they just create more unique spells to make each element equally viable? So in the first case, you have fireball ice ball, lightning ball, earth ball. Each has similar direct damage, each has its own side effects such as frost ball blocking an area for a round or two until it melts, fireball doing damage over time to anyone who enters the field of effect for those rounds, earth ball having a knockback effect (think boulder trap in indiana jones) Lightning ball stunning those who fail the save for a round, etc. In the second case, they just create some ice magic for the upper tiers as well, that sort of thing.

[@dragonhearthx8369]

I think that why they gave us the transmute meta magic and the scribe wizard. So that we can change damage types.

[@erikwilliams1562]

3:10 - Tulok knows something we don’t know....

[@Rain593]

As a Canadian... I take that jab at curling personally

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@chatyxd6078]

Hey tulok, I hope your having a great day and I have a build suggestion! So ice been playing children of morta(an AMAZING roguelike dungeon crawler with an awesome confidence on story) and I've been trying to build each character in dnd. Alas I've had some trouble building john, hes a sword and board character but he rains down swords from the sky! I've thought of paladin, eldritch knight, or tempest cleric. You should look into it and give some professional advise, great vid!

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

A real cool build

[@spartan_md8295]

Love your Cure joke

[@raygunner8643]

Might be a random call but, Bigby from the Wolf Among Us? would be a fun character to play in DND

[@obijuancolombi]

Two I want to see are the Shining Gundam and Roland Deschain (that one's relatively easy because he's a gunslinger, but there's some other things he does too)

[@SageRobinTalks]

I wonder what a John Carter of Mars build would look like? High strength, firearms, fighter, swordsman?

[@romulosalomon290]

Amazing build man!! Could you make a how to play Nanashi (from the anime sword of the stranger)?