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[@ManlyPicnics]

I love Legendary Creatures getting a special Initiative Bonus. I always gave my legendary creatures a set Initiative of 30, so they would almost always go first, but a player with enough investment could potentially beat them out. Nothing sucks more than your legendary creature rolling a 2 for initiative and being at the mercy of the entire party before they can even act. If your Lair Actions are going before you, there's an issue.

[@backonlazer791]

It could still take legendary actions, no? The only time when it can't is if it's surprised (or under some incapacitating effect).

[@ManlyPicnics]

@backonlazer791 Yeah, but most legendary actions are kinda ass (I cannot fathom the use case for perception checks to the point where Id want to spend a legendary action doing it), and any good ones are either 2 or 3 actions. Meaning, you get maybe 1 good legendary action a round. The damage on any attack LA is just pitiful and would never turn the tide of a fight, in my experience.

[@ryanconnor3480]

That ‘reverse meaning of what you say’ thing is devious. That’s the type of fun powerful stuff I want to play with.

[@chrisg8989]

12:35 Arch What? 😅

[@MrEragonArgetlam]

Representation is important 🏳‍🌈

[@SerenM-m1p]

It "used tongue twister to cast counterspell" 😆

[@NutronicAtomic]

You know a creature is powerful when it can affect the real world!

[@DrgnDrake]

Glad I'm not the only one that heard something very different there.

[@MrEragonArgetlam]

​@DrgnDrake he almost certainly was trying to say archfey before realizing it was hag lol nbd

[@EpicRandomness555]

9:20 I mean considering it’s a plant mass with bodies inside, it should be a plant, not undead. It’d be like calling that one golem thing that collects bodies on its spikes an undead.

[@portsyde3466]

Fungus isn't actually plantlife though, it's a separate thing. Granted, I don't think DND has ever made that distinction so...

[@EpicRandomness555]

@ I’mma need ya… to hush lol. I’m well aware. Pokémon does the same thing. Violet Fungus was a Plant originally that’s the point lol

[@nightwolf1805]

this channel has always been so clutch for me with new info and all things dnd. Thank you for the hard work!

[@EpicRandomness555]

7:22 That’s not what poltergeists do though, they just throw stuff, they don’t control entire houses. I like the creativity. Let it be a revenant.

[@evinoge5834]

Yeah. If he needs to understand it, just watch monster house. Its the perfect monster to represent that.

[@paulpower9959]

What if it was an Arch-Poltergeist

[@EpicRandomness555]

@@paulpower9959 No

[@chrisg8989]

My only problem with the Revenant Haunt is that it has a movement speed. I just imagine a house chasing you on tiny wooden legs. So bizarre.

[@TheGameVerse]

​​@@chrisg8989I would picture it more as sliding lol. Though if I were running it Id probably describe it as moving between blinks of the characters, seems creepier to me

[@qwerty098cool1]

Regional effects confirmed to still be here. Thank goddess.

[@jeevesosiris]

Ted, I appreciate you and all you do for us

[@wizardsling]

damn that jacket is wild dude. you look like a higher up in the Empire ;)

[@YawdroGaming]

Loving the new monsters! Thanks for sharing your perspective. Really want to try the arch-hag!

[@quillogist2875]

I like the change back to legenday actions. It avoids a bunch of complications.

[@KevinVideo]

The blob seems interesting, but given that they said they wanted even the tarrasque to hesitate fighting it, I'm guessing it's at least CR 25 or 26. Dungeon Dad covered both cyclops in a video a little while back, and it was nice to see the classic cyclops get a glow up, and the oracle make its debut. When I thought of the revenant house, my immediately response was, "So, the Amittyville house." The Simpson's did a parody of it too. It feels less like a revenant possessing the house, but more a gateway to the realm of the dead. When it comes to poltergeists, I was thinking The Shining. Regarding the new owlbear, I think I'm most disappointed in that. Kobold Press added the flight (although it's basically the hadozee glide), as well as the rend and charge ability. I feel like I've seen the screech ability somewhere before as well, but can't recall where from.

[@innocentBystander19]

Violet Fungus Necrohulk is an awesome band name.

[@urza1alpha]

It feels like they are trying to support higher teir play more with the 2024 vs 2014. Makes me hope we get more modules that chain together to get 1-20 like the terany of dragons books did.

[@wesleyvalk9129]

Why give OWLbears the ability to screech? Aren't Owls famous for being SILENT, I think a owlbear having an aura of complete SILENCE is much better.

[@michaelmuirhead910]

This is DM power creep! I’m all in on this.

[@majinsole8554]

Blob of Annihilation is actually terrifying. ~_~

[@trexdrew]

In theory the Necrohulk could be the end boss level threat for the plant type. I mean what else would it be right?

[@NerdImmersion]

Fair point!

[@levimote]

Re: Centaur Trooper: I'm all for removing monster stat blocks that are a static representative of that creature. I'm happy to replace a Centaur stat block with Centaur Trooper or Centaur Archer stat blocks.

[@Redneckemtb]

So what are the odds on how long until Slop becomes an oracle?

[@Magic__7]

In some ways I think man those are some cool monsters on the other hand I will probably never run them because who plays to that level The second thing is more personal to how I like my games to feel I don't get adding such high numbers to a d20 roll +19 at that point does rolling the dice even matter? Saying this monster "always goes first" is against the spirit of the game but this monster has plus a bazillion to its initiative is fine. It's just weird to me

[@theindiefox347]

It's a lot easier to get high initiative bonuses in 5.24 than 5.14. Namely with Alert being a background feat for Prof that also gives you initiative swap, then there's all the subclass features that influence it. Additionally if you want to try some high level monster fights I definitely recommend bossfight one shots. I have a Discord Server dedicated to em were I run games for random people I meet on other servers and then snip pictures of the party next to the defeated boss like Trophy Hunting Pictures. Thanks to this (and having weirdly good luck when it comes to DMing for and being a part of long running campaigns) I weirdly have more experience in Tier 3-4 than 1-2.

[@ミミッキュ-q9t]

Did you add sound tracks on different languages by yourself? Or this some new youtube tech, cus thats very cool

[@NerdImmersion]

@@ミミッキュ-q9t KZbin auto dubbing!

[@douglaspope-gz1eq]

I love new toys to play with

[@ReComicWhale]

All the news!

[@Shdwgeist1031]

[@wesleyvalk9129]

Arch-Hag is just Baba Yaga, never liked the Animal Lords, just give us one Animal Lord for all animals...

[@chrisg8989]

Early Bird!

[@KariFeRawri]

Please can we call this edition 5.5e or 5r and refer to 2014 as 5e or Base 5e

[@bloodyirishman9155]

Honestly that's all I refer to it as because 5e 2024 is not only a mouth full, but just dumb.

[@drzander3378]

@bloodyirishman9155, My friends and I call them ‘5.14’ and ‘5.24’ in writing and ‘five fourteen’ (or simply ‘fourteen’) and ‘five twenty-four’ (or simply ‘twenty-four’) spoken.

[@simonfernandes6809]

Officially it's called 2024 D&D.

[@bloodyirishman9155]

@simonfernandes6809 Officially I don't care; lots of things have an official name yet everyone calls them something else. You know it wasn't suppose to be 5e originally either right?

[@Mark-ki7ic]

Arçh, - Hag my ex Mother-in- Law RIH