Top 10 D&D 5e Feats | Nerd Immersion

[@NerdImmersion]

My Top 10 D&D 5e Feats: 01:06 Dwarven Fortitude 03:13 Wood Elf Magic 05:00 Abberant Dragonmark 07:29 Heavily Armored 08:53 Flames of Phlegethos 10:52 Elven Accuracy 13:39 Observant 15:05 Tough 16:28 Infernal Constitution 18:12 Resilient 🎁 Theros Giveaway link: gleam.io/wOAFe/mythic-odysseys-of-theros-giveaway

[@NerdImmersion]

@@gamecavalier3230 there is art for 2 feats so...

[@Faircrow]

There was a dwarf barbarian in my party with this fortitude feat, while everyone was failing to take down the aboleph minions, he stayed there tanking more than 100dmg, if it wasnt for him taking all the damage i dont think i would have enough healing word for the rest of the party

[@strongsmith1897]

Rogues can't dodge as a bonus action

[@Law-of-EnTropy]

@@strongsmith1897 this reminded of the fact that he never got the chance to ever roll Rogue as a player. I think he just mistook a rogue feature. Could be disengage, sincd disengage is technically dodging, but not quite the Dodge action.

[@Glaringatyou]

Heavily Armored, not heavy armor master.

[@binolombardi]

The alert feat I think needs some love. It’s completely passive, and mitigates or fully negates a lot of what random dice rolls get players killed. You get a +5 bonus to initiative, meaning you have a much higher chance to respond first to threats. Taking away completely the chance to be surprised firmly solidifies your ability to respond to creatures. this also almost fully negates the reason most players want perception as a skill which frees up a skill choice. Not granting an attacking creature advantage against you for you not seeing them is also incredibly strong. The majority of ways creatures gain advantage against PCs boil down to utilizing some form of heavy obscurity. Because all of this is completely passive it boosts your defensive capabilities quite a lot. It indirectly boosts your offensive capabilities by allowing you to act faster, ensuring you consistently take your actions earlier and more often. It’s almost like a chance to have an additional turn.

[@harrisonpayne50]

I feel like weapons of warning are in direct competition with it though. If you're hard up for atunement slots, maybe the feat is better, but you essentially get the feat for an atunement slot which is really good and it works for your party within 30ft.

[@binolombardi]

Harrison Payne The features that negate surprise overlap, but the other feature synergizes with the alert feat. A source of advantage in initiative that you already have a +5 bonus to from the feat further solidifies your chances to act first. The feature of alert that negates unseen attacker advantage is still very useful. It can even be used defensively for spells like fog cloud since most attackers would then get disadvantage on their attack rolls, since advantage and disadvantage normally given are no longer canceling each other out.

[@marmato9332]

I dunno, I took it once because I was playing a blind Cleric in a short campaign. Honestly, it was fine, but that +5 to initiative could nothing against bad rolls anyways. Also the other benefits didn't really matter that much, but I think that's more because the DM didn't follow the rules for surprise and sight so strictly.

[@binolombardi]

Marmato Well, I would imagine a feat designed to boost player chars effectiveness based on rules the DM doesn’t use wouldn’t feel very useful.

[@Sceadusawol]

Agreed. If you want to go "beast mode" Alert, might I recommend taking it for the UA Ranger? The revised Ranger (far superior to the vanilla version) has a tweaked "Natural Explorer" feature which states, in part, that: "You have advantage on initiative rolls." As well as: "On your first turn during combat, you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures that have not yet acted." Now, say you are going with a dex-based ranger (why would you not?), specifically a wood elf. You have +2 dex (elf), so you may well start with 18 dex out of the gate. That gives you +4 modifier to Initiative checks. At level 3, take the Gloom Stalker archetype. This gives you the ability to add your Wisdom modifier to Initiative checks (wood elves have +1 to Wisdom and, being a ranger, you should have at least a +1 bonus to that stat, we will say a +2). You get your first feat (if going pure ranger) at 4th level, and you choose Alert, giving +5 to your Initiative checks. This means that, conservatively, you will be rolling Initiative checks with +11 bonus *AND* Advantage. Further more, consider that second element of the revised Ranger's Natural Explorer feature, having advantage on attack rolls against creatures that have not yet acted. Combine this with another feature of the Gloom Stalker: "If you take the Attack action on [the first] turn [of a combat], you can make one additional weapon attack as part of that action. If that attack hits, the target takes an extra 1d8 damage of the weapon's damage type." All this, at level 4.

[@GoodOldGamer]

Magic Initiate is probably my top feat, even though I'm not big on most spellcasters. It can help customize almost any character. Who doesn't want a familiar or a steed or the ability to put Hex on an enemy in a fight? Plus fun cantrips too? Most versatile feat in the game imo. I also like that Mobile makes it so rogues don't have to waste their bonus action on disengaging. (Maybe a few other classes too.) And RP wise, Tavern Brawler is great. Again, almost any melee oriented character can benefit from this chaos.

[@tiossi4490]

Steed?

[@GoodOldGamer]

@@tiossi4490 My bad. I thought Find Steed was 1st level but it's 2nd. 👍

[@trapical]

Magic Initiate is the best feat for any non-caster, and in a similar vein, Ritual Caster is the best feat for most non-wizard casters. You get a familiar, you get detect magic, and you get potential access to a dozen other Ritual spells (Leomunds Tiny Hut, Identify, Water Breathing, etc) all of which won't count against your spells known cap, and also won't require you to spend spell slots. Playing a Sorcerer, Paladin, etc, and being able to get an extra half dozen spells added onto your normally limited spells known list is awesome, and being able to do utility spells without wasting spell slots makes the feat feel amazing. Not to mention, again, having a familiar is absurdly useful and even just getting one makes the feat worth it.

[@francescopassero8369]

My Eldritch Knight has greatly appreciated the possibility of casting Hex: guaranteed extra damage on multiple attacks AND the ability of giving disadvantage on checks against my Grapples and Push abilities! You ARE getting prone, sir

[@yuvalamir3226]

@@trapical the reason I would sometimes take magic initiate instead is that rituals are increased by 10 minutes. aka can't be used in combat. It doesn't matter for the first level spell since it doesn't scale, but take booming blade for example. Absolutely amazing throughout the whole game.

[@TheWalkingDrews]

Man I wish rogues could dodge as a bonus action. That would make them the best tanks in the game lol

[@HankJ666]

@@gamecavalier3230 Even *MORE* OP

[@HankJ666]

@@gamecavalier3230 Luckily mystic is *dead*

[@bojackhorseman4176]

It'd also allow them to far outclass any other melee build. Would be cool, but also OP as shit

[@fftere]

@@Wolfphototech we dont talk about monks here

[@supercalifragic1551]

@@Wolfphototech "Just"

[@bouboulroz]

My high level heavy armored paladin has a total of 6 Dexterity. My high level heavy armored paladin also has Alert, Resilient (Dexterity) and her Aura of Protection. My high level heavily armored paladin has a +3 to initiative and a +9 to Dex saves.

[@trapical]

Ritual Caster (or Magic Initiate) end up being the most fun for me. They give you a familiar and access to a few other really awesome spells of your choosing that can instantly make your character feel more memorable and stand out from others of the same class. Magic Initiate especially, in my opinion, is perhaps the one feat that can completely change the feel of your character. Other feats like Tough, Alert, Lucky, etc, are all great on paper and make your character more effective number wise, but giving your character a familiar and a few utility cantrips/spells is a night and day difference to how your character can act out of combat. You're no longer just another barbarian with an axe. You're a barbarian with an axe who has a tiny crab for a pet that he can talk to, and the ability to spontaneously light things on fire with his mind. That's a hell of a lot more memorable than "barbarian that has +2hp per level"

[@marmato9332]

I feel you. But sometimes, people just wanna play efficient, powerful character even if maybe they're more anonymous, and that's fine too. But yeah, loving my Eldritch Knight with Owl familiar.

[@riccardoconti6682]

Hey, Dwarven Fortitude Story Time! Once, my Dwarf Battle Master got surrounded during a really tense and hard fight, but, thanks to Dwarven Fortitude Dodge + Riposte, he managed not only to survive, but to kill all the enemies, they were like 2 Knights in Full Plate and 4 Brown Bears XD

[@campellodasilva]

2:34 I believe you were referring to cunning action, and it doesn't allow you to dodge

[@NerdImmersion]

Yeah that was my bad

[@SadBoi_1066]

@@NerdImmersion it would work with a monk tho!

[@brianfehr5456]

@@SadBoi_1066 Dwarven drunken fist/berserker barbarian go frenzy recklessly attack and then dodge for a heal and negate the advantage against you

[@jelte3754]

@@brianfehr5456 no that isn't how it works. Take a look at the barbarian class

[@brianfehr5456]

Obviously the frenzy/rage can't happen the same turn as the heal but theoretically you shouldn't need to do both because by the time you need healing on a barbarian you should already be raging And reckless attack doesn't require you to use actions, its a multiclass with monk to gain access to the monks abilities or in my case multiclass into barbarian for its resistances

[@braulioservodedeus]

I'm currently DMing a campaign and one of my players took Dwarven Fortitude for his Barbarian and yes, it is awesome. One time he just surrounded by skelletons and kept dodging/healing himself every other round. It was tense and epic, and yes this is a very good feat! My top 10 as well for sure.

[@mattbriggs3364]

Stops rage if you don't hit or don't get hit. But is a good replacement for tanking when rage runs out

[@braulioservodedeus]

@@mattbriggs3364 Oh, yeah true that... I basically keep forgetting this rule and kind of assume that rage is "on as long as the battle lasts". Because, in practice, that's usually what happens anyways. But you're right that dodging might actually prevent it from keep going.

[@matthewjennings7645]

One house rule that I've really enjoyed thematically has been the Wild Soul Barbarian being able to cast in rages specifically with the Aberrant Dragonmark. The chaotic unstable magic innate to the user, as well as being a bit tanky, is just too good of a fit.

[@Howler452]

One of my players is a Tiefling Sorcere with Flames of Phlegethos. He's had a lot of fun with it, and recently used his first Fireball, rolled a lot of 1's, then rerolled them and got a lot of 5's and 6's. It was a fun time.

[@JackieLovesToDraw]

Not sure if anyone mentioned this already, but I really appreciate you breaking the video down in sections so it's easy to go to the part you want to know more about. Thank you for doing the little things and make it easier to naviagate.

[@patrickhobing8785]

My Dwarven Fortitude build I called the Tarrasque Ulcer. 20 levels of straight Redemption paladin to get passive health regen and their retributive capstone. Then take the durable, dwarven fortitude, resilient con, and tough feats as a hill dwarf to absolutely maximize health. Pick up a periapt of wound closure and then you can just sit back and let enemy destroy themselves while you heal. Effective 50HP Regen between passive, dodging, and aura of vitality with resistance to ALL damage. Enemies take 1/4th of the damage they deal and eventually either give up or die

[@henriquessmil]

Man I'm afraid of your build, like really afraid

[@ataberkdedemen9802]

This is a really solid build! Well done.

[@Jay-kr7kt]

Dwarven Fortitude actually compliments one of my builds well. Forge Cleric Tank, Using Spirit Guardians + Spiritual Weapon. Bonus action each turn to attack with spiritual weapon while using action to dodge. Making you extremely hard to hit while also dealing constant damage. Add Fortitude to this and any damage you DO take can be healed by doing what you're doing already

[@lachlangraham6826]

Been playing in a consistent game for a few years. Started the character at level 1, currently level 13. My class is totem barbarian. Mountain dwarf. And took tough at level 8. As long as I get into the fight first to block enemies I just let the casters rain AOE spells on top of me. And since then haven't dropped below 100 hit points.

[@gohantanaka]

I just leveled up and took an ASI (level 4). It bumps my CHA to 20 and STR to 18. I was very tempted to take Heavy Armor Master. I’ve been knocked out 4 of the last 5 sessions, and that 3 hit point buffer would have helped. I WILL be taking Resilient Constitution at level 8.

[@hachi9404]

War caster is probably my favorite feat. works really well on clerics the best, better then wizards. but honestly good on every caster

[@logancuster8035]

I loooove it on my Eldritch Knight. Booming Blade as an attack of opportunity? Yes please 🙂

[@LunaD9]

Had a friend that played a Dwarf Drunken Master Monk and made some really good use of Dwarven Fortitude to tank hits.

[@doubleg281]

Elven artificer(artillerist) Eldritch cannon(force ballista) as a bonus action, then cast true strike. Repeat this every turn and all attacks will have super advantage. Depending on how hard to hit the enemy is you could deal more damage then if you used 2 attacks. A functional true strike build!

[@Ismail-kv3ex]

Haven't been playing for long but so far Lucky feat is my personal favorite It doesnt really slow our group anymore then like 5 seconds max watching the dice roll as I always know before I make a roll if I'm going to use lucky if I roll too low Hasn't always saved my ass but where's the fun if I always succeed right? A close 2nd will have to be Infernal Constitution as it really helped my low con Rogue hit 10 con and not so much of a glass cannon and let's him stay in the fight longer/save healing spells for later Also having 3 resistances and advantage against being poisoned? Hell ya

[@yooooo8600]

A lot of DMs ban the Lucky feat because it’s way too overpowered. It also makes no sense from an RP standpoint. Players might take the Alert feat because their character has a high wisdom and is generally very aware, while a fighter might take crossbow expert because they’ve trained with the crossbow for years and years. There is no RP justification for Lucky and the feat itself needs balancing

[@ep9335]

I have played a hill dwarf Sun Soul Monk with the dwarven fortitude feat and it was a blast. I picked it up as the first ASI. I was the defacto tank of the group, with the largest HP pool but an AC of 15. I would charge recklessly at our main targets and use Stunning Strike + Dodge as a bonus action (Help + Dodge prior to lvl 5 and when low on Ki), which was perfect setup for our ranged rogue and warlock. In hindsight Kensei or Long Death would have been better, but the radiant damage helped since we had an undead centred campaign. One thing to keep in mind that the Rogue Cunning Action doesn't actually let you dodge as a bonus action.

[@PuppetMaster1791]

My forge domain cleric had resilient for constitution and war caster feat, it was rare for him to loose concentration on a spell

[@unwithering5313]

Resilient with Constitution is also nice if you have 19 con so it can go to the big 20

[@TerrariaGolem]

Gonna post this here too... Nothing beats observant for the aspiring inquisitive rogue. Got my 24 passive perception and 24 passive investigation. Also loving that minimum roll of 17 insight. I'm level 6.

[@nickschile4807]

It only took one fight with a Void Dragon for Ashwon to take Resilient (Wisdom) to avoid being charmed again XD. I am also a fan of Feats that synergize well together, like Polearm Master and Sentinel. Also, as a quick note, Lucky is NOT a re-roll. It's an additional roll, then you decide which to use. This also allows for you to use Lucky on a roll with Disadvantage, roll 3 dice total, and choose which to use. dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/sageadvice_feats

[@anthiondel]

My half-elf sorlock has elven accuracy , casts darkness and then decimates the enemies with triple-advantage guiding bolts and eldritch blasts

[@BistoYeti]

As someone who likes to a combat wombat I always find the great weapon master + pole arm master feats work really well together especially if you can push for advantage.

[@littlekittyphantommadness9049]

My favorite top 3 feats are healer, inspiring leader and magic initiate.

[@mathiasiversen7848]

In my current group I'm playing a Life Domain Cleric and focus on buffing up our Fighter - usually with Shield of Faith and Warding Bond adding a 3 AC to his already rather high AC. Combining my Warding Bond (Resistant to all Dmg) with his Heavy Armor Master means that more often than not, when he is in fact hit, he takes 0 dmg. Our DM is obviously a little frustrated at the situation.

[@bobertson_jr]

I can back up liking Heavily Armored. I was playing a Blood Hunter and took it at 8th level so I could even my strength to 18, and the session after I got a set of adamantine plate armor. That feat changed everything and I still look upon it with my respect

[@marmato9332]

I feel like the 6 armor feats do their jobs well enough but they're still not that interesting. But I've never played them before so I could be entirely wrong...

[@johnutsler1517]

You mentioned that Resilient is less than ideal for the monk. I would say it is also unnecessary for the paladin with their CHA bonus aura to saves.

[@xdragoonzero0]

Except Resilient (CON) is phenomenal on a Paladin, as it easily lets them get a +9 Con save.

[@ataberkdedemen9802]

@xdragoonzero0 , there aren’t many ways for a paladin to utilize high con saves as much as a full caster. But still viable for some smite spell.

[@aaronsummers2292]

Almost to 50k subscribers! Keep putting out great content!

[@dennerickaknow7502]

For a truly annoying damage sponge, I've had plenty of fun with a moon druid hill dwarf with Dwarven Fortitude: tons of hp, dodge action and spend your wildshape's hit dice, which recharge with your charges of wildshape, anyway. 30 damage per round at lvl 4? yeah, bring it on!

[@jurekro]

I'm still fairly new to the game so here is the ones I like and why: - polearm master: it is not an unusual choice, but I really liked it for my dwarven mutagen blood hunter. Fighting with polearms works against the -5feet from being a dwarf. Till level 5 you have only one attack, so if you tend to roll bad it can get really frustrating. I got this at level 4 and I couldn't have been more happy. I first thought the d4 was too small damage, but thanks to the mutagen I got a +5 in str and I also got my blood maledict going. So the damage die was anyways not that big of a deal. At level 5 I got one extra attack and really felt powerful and the attack on reaction helped even dishing out more damage. This really helped me embrace the glass canon idea of being a strength bloodhunter. - inspiring leader: I took it as a Varian human bard and this constantly safed people from going to 0 in almost every fight. Last campaign our characters were going down all the time and there was always one character responsible to get people back up. Now it just takes so much longer to get us down. It is perfect for our barbarian because she gets even double the amount out of it and especially for my low con bard it helps him not getting smashed. Also we play with a home rule where when you get more than half your hit points of damage or get to 0 hp you get an injury. This feat also helped a lot with that. - fey touched: I didn't use this and don't know if it will be good, but I really like the idea of going to the feywild and coming back with this feat. I hope it will be in Tasha's.

[@CappuccinoSquid]

My favorite feat is probably Sentinel if I don't have a ton of stuff to use my reactions on already and if we have a pretty healthy frontline. Being able to hold down a point as a monk or as a fighter that's not Cavalier opens up different flavors of fantasy fulfillment. Shield Master's also nice, the bonus to Dex saves can make or break a fight, plus even though it's a contest it's potentially a bonus action disengage against one enemy with that shove, plus knocking enemies over railings and off ledges, while situational, is really satisfying to do.

[@samuelbroad11]

dwarven cleric, sanctuary bonus action, dodge action with dwarven fortitude, block a 5ft wide corridor or party flank. Nice round of not attacking. bit of this bit of that.

[@thecactusman17]

Still always shocked that Actor doesn't get much love. Bonus to Cha and advantage on performance and desception rolls is ridiculously powerful in social encounters if you have an ability to quickly change your appearance like a changeling or warlock with Mask of Many Faces.

[@The-0ni]

Its because its just advantage on acting like your someone else. You don’t actually get the advantage for just telling lies. Still a good feat though for what it does. Had to explain to a friend theres a difference between telling lies about who you are and if someone asks if you stole that bread.

[@blakecryer8425]

Crit build idea: 15th level Fighter, 5th Rouge. Use a Moonblade, if your DM lets you. If you get a better crit as one of the runes, all the better. Fighter levels are as Champion, boost that crit range. You are an elf or half-elf, so you could use the Moonblade. Now you take Elven Accuracy. You get Advantage on at least 1 attack per turn, with Cunning Action. Three-die advantage, you get a crit range of 18 (Or, 17, if you have a crit-boost moonblade with Finesse) to 20. You now have a 60% chance of crit, if I got all that math right. Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.

[@chrisjohnson1021]

One of the builds I want to do using elven accuracy is a half elf hexblade warlock. +1 to charisma charisma as your attacking skill and hexblade has a way to give you advantage

[@AdamOwczarek]

In our homebrew campaign, which is over 40 sessions in, one of my players is a Hill Dwarf Barbarian Monk with the Dwarven Fortitude feat. Works fairly nicely with Patient Defense. He very much has the feel of Marvel's Wolverine. As for a story::: The group (The Crass Menagerie) at level 6 were in a war-room like meeting when the protector assimar druid noticed the few mice in the room were patrolling in the same pattern and his discerned they were listening in on the meeting. He altered the groups tortle wizard subtly and the wizard mage handed one of the little mice. Using speak with animals the druid learn the mice are always watching for "her." At this time the group was beset numerous phase spiders. Yaddie-yaddie combat, the hill dwarf barbarian monk is tied up with one of the said spiders, and it bamphs itself along with him into the Ethereal-Herebetween. There he dwarf is basically stuck and fights off the sniper but then realizes that beyond the vale in the ethereal that here is a massive web strung cavern and nest of the phase spiders. Solo, he manages to sneak, fight, and most importantly dodge+heal for survival; until a means of escape was presented the following session. /tldr::: Level 6 Dwarf Barb Monk survives multiple encounters solo in Ethereal-Herebetween in a Phase Spider next by dodging!

[@vinx.909]

i don't have a story with dwarven fortitude. i do have a build i'd love to try in a game: dwarf monk with dwarven fortitude(especially in a game with my normal group where we always start with a free feat). +3 con total (+probably hill dwarf so +1hp per level) so you'll be healthy, bonus action heal+dodge.

[@himereiatsu]

My fave feat by far is War Caster. Being able to cast things like Banishment or Disintegrate as a reaction is *chef's kiss*. Context: War Caster lets you cast a spell that's an action and targets only one creature as a reaction when your opportunity attack is triggered

[@RisenRen]

As someone who loves the min/max aspect of some builds. Some of my personal favorite feats has to be Polearm Master, Crossbow Expert, and Sentinel

[@exodosthesoulbanish]

My brother uses drow magic and has been enjoying making use of detect magic at will.

[@averagefish7101]

I have a newbie player that took dwarven fortitude, and as a cleric he used this often so he could focus on healing others. And it worked great.

[@norandomnumbers]

Spiritual weapon, spirit guardians, and then spend the rest of the turns dodging. Works.

[@vibratingtaco3672]

I actually took Dwarven Fortitude with my hill dwarf barbarian. I used the bear totem, flavoring the sub class abilities as a curse. I had a twisted form of lycanthropy given by a banished archfey. I used the feat as extra flaver and it saved my ass multiple times. Being able to heal yourself as a barbarian(especially the bear totem) makes it very difficult to kill you.

[@fortunatus1]

For Elven Accuracy... It's MUCH more useful if your DM uses the optional Flanking Rules. If you're a caster, remember to use your familiar to gain advantage so that you can maximize your Elven Accuracy advantage. I recommend the Owl because it has Darkvision and the Flyby ability. If it flies out of reach of an enemy the enemy does not get an attack of opportunity. You can have your Owl flying in and out of their reach (especially effective if they fly up a little).

[@danimaldm1739]

Flames of Phlegethos on a Tiefling Red Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer is quite nice. A PC has this in my current Strahd campaign.

[@nicholaslinton6540]

I have a build utilizing dwarven fortitude and oh boy is it a beast! So I have a battlerager with the feat and the periapt of wound closure and a piercer. Together I can use the dodge action and heal 34 hp, and if I'm raging I can still use my spiked armor to attack as a bonus action. Every time I play him I keep surprising myself just how hard it is to take me down when I have so much hp and can heal fairly easily.

[@eliasvernieri]

y played 1 Dwarf Monk.. and Dwarven fortitude was amazing :P (hill dwarf, Way of the Long Death) it was unkillable :P really

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

My favorite Feat is Tough. Just a classic WYSIWYG Feat. Love it.

[@LordZeebee]

Wood Elf magic could probably make an Eldrich Knight into a pretty cool Ranger. As early as 6th level you can have 3 Druid cantrips, 2 Wizard cantrips(maybe Mold Earth and Shape Water), 3 Druid spells and 4 Wizard spells(of which you can take stuff like Featherfall and Snare for example). All while having Fighter hitdice, Second Wind, Archery fighting style, Extra Attack and two weapons that cannot be disarmed and can be called to you at any time. This sounds like a pretty cool Ranger-like character tbh.

[@kingbirb7290]

You should try too 10 magical secrets next time

[@mattbriggs3364]

My dwarf drunken master took dwarven fortitude. Good times. He's now dead.

[@ataberkdedemen9802]

How did he perish?

[@mattbriggs3364]

@@ataberkdedemen9802 green dragon from tyranny of dragons (i can't remember its name atm). I couldn't make the game on time and my buddy played him. When i got there he was making death saves and i rolled a nat 1. Took out an entire room full of cultists single handedly first.

[@yamatohekatsue9143]

I've played a dwarf fighter with dwarven fortitude, and durable feats. I also had a 16 con and the Periapt of Wound Closure. Basically I gained a minimum of 12 to a max of 26 hp every time I dodged. I also took the tough feat to give myself even more hp.

[@Trueforger]

I was playing a Dwarven Drunken Master Monk, and took Dwarven Fortitude as soon as I could. And indeed acquired Periapt of Wound Closure. And I played him a lot like Rocky Balboa or Mickey O'Neil (from Snatch). I'd let myself get pretty bloody. and then BAM! I'd come out of nowhere, and heal up to just about full, and come back from behind to get that "W".

[@valasafantastic1055]

Strange list! Fun to hear your personal opinions. I'd like to see the 'ultimate fire tiefling build'. Also I wouldn't really want to play 5e without sharpshooter; and Lucky is terrific! Thanks.

[@ZetaNiGHT]

Dwarven fortitude seems great with the cleric spirit guardians plus spiritual weapon combo if you are taking hits, since your action is actually not a super contested resource with that setup.

[@brittanyanderson97]

5 Ways to annoy the DM without taking lucky 1: Get expertise in perception, take observant, take alert, get lots of languages. Always be aware of everything, read everyones lips, always know everything, never be surprised again, make all you DM's ambush attempts null. 2: Take sharp shooter so every time the Dm says they have 1/2 or 3/4 cover you get to say well I ignore that. Also no penalties for long distance so If you can see it you can shoot it. (also sharp shooter applies to any ranged weapon attack not just bows and crossbows) 3: Get expertise in deception and performance, have dope charisma, get disguise self (preferably a hat of disguise or mask of many faces), take actor feat, be the best liar, infiltrator, con artist ever and get anyway with everything. 4: Get proficiency in con saves (through class or resilient doesn't matter), have good con, take war caster, never lose concentration again 5: Be a barbarian, take tough, take great weapon master, abuse reckless attack and flanking, rack up damage and be and unstoppable monster.

[@ataberkdedemen9802]

For point 2: Sharphooter applies to just ranged weapon attacks, not all ranged attacks. Ranged spell attacks (for example eldirtch blast) is unnaffected by this feat.

[@ataberkdedemen9802]

Point 3 = Be Jarlaxle Baenre

[@brittanyanderson97]

ata berk dedemen I thought that would be implied but I will change it to be safe thanks for pointing it out

[@novaiscool1]

I honestly really enjoyed using Great Weapon Master on a half orc zealot barbarian. The on demand advantage from reckless attack helps counter the -5 to hit, and the half orc and barbarian brutal critical mechanics stack really well with the ability to bonus action attack on a critical hit/kill.

[@nimrodram7507]

Would definitely love to see your take on a Tiefling pyromancer!

[@larmoth401]

Phoenix Sorcerer Tiefling with Flames of Phlegetheos and Elemental Adept, I am Fire, I am Death.

[@Scorpious187]

If you're the party scout, you can't go wrong with the combo of Observant, Sentinel Shield, and a Weapon of Warning. Your party will *never* be surprised. lol.

[@jgr7487]

if a Magic Initiate Barbarian with Find Familiar is fighting in the dark, does the Familiar's Help action negate the disadvantage given by the darkness? if so, can this Barb attack with advantage if she uses Reckless Attack?

[@iHaveOneArm]

Tough might be one of my favorite feats. I had a Dwarf Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer that due to extremely lucky rolls had more HP than our tank, a war cleric. I had a +3 con score starting out. So the lowest I could roll ended up being a 7

[@ASquared544]

Why does no one ever acknowledge Ritual caster?

[@UnableToFindName]

Top worst feats next? Or at least, least favorite feats.

[@riccardoconti6682]

Dwarven Fortitude Maximized Build? 3 levels in Chain Pact Warlock, Gift of the Ever Living Ones Invication, to maximize the healing, then you can choose either a Martial Class (maybe Battle Master for Riposte), for the higher Hit Die and hope your DM gives you the Periapt of Wound Closure, or you can choose an Artificer and Infuse It yourself at 10th level, for maximum healing. My level 10 build was: 4 levels of Celestial Warlock (Pact Of The Chain) and 6 Levels of Battle Master, for an average of like 140 hp of self heal per day, considering only One Short Rest (without the Periapt). Needless to say, he was a beast of a tank, unfortunately I only did a One Shot with him XD

[@HankJ666]

I like the healer feat, healing your comrades wounds before a short rest can help them save some hit dice and you could roleplay it as you being a field medic back in the day or something Also I would like to see "eldritch adept" appear in Tasha's even tho some invocations _might_ be too powerful to just be able to get them for free without any kind of side effect, the ones with prerequisites require you to meet the prerequisite and be a warlock, but I think stuff like "you can cast disguise self at will" or devil's sight don't have them so I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't make it into the book I would also like the "Artificer initiate" to be getting one artificer infusion instead of one artificer spell and just change Magic initiate's wording to include the artificer

[@digitaldevil696]

My favourites are polearm master and sentinel for sure. I am a big fan of martial classes and reach weapons, and PAM makes an already strong weapon, such as glaive or halberd, even stronger, increasing the damage output and providing interesting options. Sentinel just adds utility to the damage of PAM, but I also like sentinel on its own on a tanky build, like a cavalier dwarf with a shield and defence fighting style. Although to get the most of sentinel you'd want reach weapon anyway, so I very much prefer them in conjunction, taking PAM first.

[@jordanflutes]

Do you limit Resilient to be taken once by a character, or do you allow it to be taken multiple times?

[@frostdragonking5336]

I love the combo alert and observant mind on warlock with Aspect of the moon so it's hard to choose between these 2 since i like them both.

[@thomashowland1785]

Resilient is a great feat for a cleric. I'm using it for mine!

[@NoSteppie]

Dwarven Fortitude is fantastic. Love it with my monk-barbarian dwarf. Combined with Periapt of Wound Closure which doubled healing. Later stacked with Durable Feat for 24~50 HP. Allowed me to tank red dragons, giants and basically solo tank and stun through Storm Kings Thunder. Eventually picked up the Giant Belts to offset the mad stat spread. Second build was Dagger of Blindsight, Eversmoking Bottle and Wound Closure which absolutely ruined Mad Mage

[@bskec2177]

If you are making a human wizard, first level take Arcanist (+1 Int, doubles Arcana prof, Prestidigitaion, and Detect Magic, with the ability to cast it once without a slot) Almost all Wizard builds take one or both of these spells at the beginning, so this means you a free to pick any other cantrip and first level spell. The fact that you get 1 Detect magic with no spell slot is great, and it come with +1 Int. It's a great wizard feat, IF you take it a first level. These two spells are so useful that most wizards have one or both already at 4rth level, and so it looses it's attraction.

[@typoko]

I had a duergar barbarian that went from 5 to 20. The dwarven resilience was so good that he was considered almost unkillable. The reason why I went battlerager is that they can do a bonus action attack without having to use action for Attack. The fact that you also get Con mod amount of Temp HP every turn makes you even more tanky. Key items were Periapt of Wound Closure and Adamantine Spiked Armor from start to around level 18 or 19. At level 20 the barb could heal 20 * 28(average roll) HP and gain 7 Temp HP every turn. When you start with 325 HP pool and halved damage from physical... When this is combined with potions of healing, you end up getting to a point where you just have so much healing that you can just go in without any care. You can out grind just about anything even if they deal physical damage. At higher levels when I was doing 3 damage to enemies every time I was hit, it got even better. 3 might sound like a small amount of damage, but when you need to be hit 30+ times, it starts to stack up. Greatest feats could be said to be wrestling a huge demon (duergar enlarge lol) off a cliff and when the party couldn't decide what to do and had been discussing should we try to fight an Avatar of Tiamat, I made the choice for us by saying "I rage and run in." Thankfully the others didn't just leave. :) The characters only redeeming factor was that he could take a hit as he was a complete asshole and half the time had disadvantage to everything due sunlight.

[@typoko]

Most draining situation for the character was when we were against melee creatures and four casters. I tried to run in to beat the casters, but ended up being frightened and whatnot for over 10 rounds. I was around level 8 at this point and I managed to tank every spell slot from the four casters before going down, giving the rest of the group a chance to win the battle in the end as we weren't pummeled by AoE spells.

[@alexriley3488]

What’s your top 10 list for d&d/forgotten realms novels/books?

[@gabrielrockman]

In my opinion, Dwarven Fortitude works best for a Dwarf Cleric (especially a Forge Cleric) that casts Spirit Guardians in the first round of combat, and then every round of combat after that takes the Dodge Action. On round 2 of combat, it can cast Spiritual Weapon with a Bonus Action to add even more damage on top of Spirit Guardians.

[@calasurien]

As the spell in aberrant dragonmark, Psychic Shield from Blackstaff's Book of 1000 Spells is crazy powerful for a barbarian, especially if you are a bear totem barbarian. *Psychic Shield* 1st level abjuration Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you roll an Intelligence or Charisma save or when you would take psychic damage Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 round You quickly fortify your mind against a sudden psychic attack. You gain 4 temporary hit points, and until the start of your next turn, you gain the following benefits, including against the triggering effect:  You have advantage on Intelligence and Charisma saves  You gain resistance to psychic damage.

[@notorious.scoundrel]

Wood Elf Scout Rogue/Battlemaster Fighter with the WEM feat & Outlander background, pretty freaking ranger-ish imo

[@flimpeenflarmpoon1353]

Is infernal constitution better than resilient con though?

[@artemisknight8721]

Fighter/Abjuration Wizard is a fun tank build. Really enjoyed it for our LMoP & Strahd game. Now I'm curious about a wood elf barbarian using shortswords and elven accuracy.

[@binolombardi]

Elven accuracy doesn’t synergize well with barbarians since the feat leaves out strength, and the barbarians features require strength.

[@artemisknight8721]

Honestly don't care about the lack of synergy. Fishing for critical hits just sounds like fun.

[@joshuathomas7725]

Want a good high level OP Dwarvish fortitude build? Go straight Zealot Barbarian! Why? -Relentless rage: Starting at 11th level, your rage can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. If you drop to 0 hit points while you’re raging and don’t die outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you drop to 1 hit point instead. -Rage beyond Death: While you’re raging, having 0 hit points doesn’t knock you unconscious. You still must make death saving throws, and you suffer the normal effects of taking damage while at 0 hit points. However, if you would die due to failing death saving throws, you don’t die until your rage ends, and you die then only if you still have 0 hit points. Now imagine, you are raging- you failed your con save (maybe used it too many times). So you use Rage beyond death, doesn’t matter if you manage fail all your death saving throws, you only die when your rage ends and you still have 0 hp. So right before your rage ends just use your dodge action, get that d12 of healing, and continue on with your day

[@pyroblade650]

I've got a build (that no one will let me test), for Samurai that "breaks" Elven Accuracy. You make an Elf Samurai 12/Rogue 8 that has both Elven Accuracy and Sharpshooter, and wields a longbow.

[@Zyper_Sebxr]

Doesn't saving throw proficiency transfer over to the class you have the most levels in?

[@unwithering5313]

I thought you have the saving throw proficiencies of your first class

[@maxx8362]

Resilient is probably my favorite feat followed by Mobile especially if I am playing a melee character. Resilient is just so useful if you want to reinforced a character's strength or have some fun with a weakness.

[@tomcrawford3553]

I played a Duergar Dwarf Ancestral Guardian Barbarian for a one shot and took dwarven fortitude. I think I only used it once in combat, but I used it after the battle to heal up to full again.

[@kevinduke8928]

Alert! You get so much with this one feat!... * Can't be surprised while conscious. * +5 to initiative * Hidden creatures do not have advantage against you That is a lot for one little feat! Also, unlike another favorite of mine, polearm master (which is loaded as well), it is a feat that any character can benefit greatly by. As far as lucky goes, I'm with ya. Thats the only feat that is banned at our table. Besides potentially slowing things down, mechanic/optimization-wise it's one of those "why wouldn't you take it?" kinda feats. It's a bit OP. Of course one could argue the same about alert, it's just not AS powerful as lucky in my opinion.

[@Aleph-Noll]

do we know if the new books will have any more new feats? i would definitely hope so!

[@corbentimms9443]

Tasha's book is bringing a lot, probably all the ua ones

[@Aleph-Noll]

@@corbentimms9443 :D

[@thecactusman17]

There was a UA about 2 months ago with some very popular Feat options. They'll probably show up in TCoE.

[@corbentimms9443]

@@thecactusman17 there's one now isn't there? Few I can name is chef, eldritch adept, piercer, slasher, crusher, etc

[@ataberkdedemen9802]

In the announcement it is confirmed to have new feats. It is probably the ones from the UA we got more recently.

[@cassie8135]

Ted, this list is not what i thought it would be. I adore luck, eldritch adept, alert and durable in particular for the dwarven fortitude monk, and you named so many feats which i find boring. But eather way, love your vids

[@BB99730]

Are there any solo campaigns for D&D5e?

[@SkarmoryThePG]

Allowing Lucky is like playing against Blue in M:tG. Everything the DM says, they have to look to the player with it so they go "Resolves"

[@biancabrooks280]

If you do The Hottest Tiefling build, I’d watch it.

[@EdgedPixie]

Flames of Phlegethos?

[@yeah5895]

@@EdgedPixie And Pyromancer, from the Kaladesh Plane Escape, if he knows about it

[@marmato9332]

Yeah, everyone builds Tiefling Bards already anyways

[@ataberkdedemen9802]

@Brian Matt, Fiend Warlock will also work well for a pyromancer build.

[@yeah5895]

@@ataberkdedemen9802 Yeah, but it is not a literal tiefling connected to the Plane of Fire that can even ignore fire-immunity

[@IchirusVallad]

Hill dwarf nature cleric, playing a somewhat passive playstyle. While being on the front lines of combat, most of my turns involved dodging, using the help action, casting spells, and tending to party members all while under sanctuary. Level 4 pick up Dwarven Fortitude, nothing really changes because while I am keeping party members alive, I am not a threat to the enemies in most cases so my DM doesn't have them focus on me, especially because of sanctuary. Come level 5, I have Spirit Guardians up, with sanctuary, and dodging when I get surrounded by enemies, all the while rolling HitDice to patch myself up. Later on I picked up Durable and with my 18 Con (i put my 15 in con) and anytime i used Dwarven Fortitude, I would at minimum heal 8, doubled to 16 when i picked up Periapt of Wound Closure. There were many fights that this didn't work (like a mage just casting dispel magic/counterspell on me) but I would just fall back to my old ways of help action and dodging when i got surrounded. It was alot of fun

[@samuelbroad11]

sanctuary drops when your spells damage enemies, so no Spiritual guardians with this trick, otherwise it's all good!

[@IchirusVallad]

@@samuelbroad11 Appreciate the info, I will let my DM know, I dont think it has been a huge issue since most people get a chance to wack me anyway. In hindsight my DM might know this and let me roll it thinking I know it drops =D

[@5-Volt]

I have a Levistus Teifling Hexblade/Redemption paladin with Tough and Infernal Constitution and she is an absolute WALL of a tank. Combine all that with Armor of Agathys, Blade Ward, Fiendish Vigor and Shield and it's probably pretty easy to see why. Haha.

[@X20Adam]

Dwarven Fortitude+ Rogue+ Pact of the chain Warlock +Gift of the Ever-living one's= Max healing every time.

[@seangorby7468]

Why rogue? Am I missing something regarding rogue?

[@strongsmith1897]

Rogue can't dodge on a bonus action. Monks can though if they expend a ki point. Your build fixed: Hill Dwarf Monk (I prefer drunken master for flavor), Dwarven Fortitude feat, Durable feat, now when you dodge you heal minimum of twice your con mod, it's not maxed sure, but by not multi classing you get to heal yourself mid combat more often, (just keep an eye on those hit-dice).

[@X20Adam]

@@seangorby7468 I meant monk mb

[@X20Adam]

@@strongsmith1897 I meant Monk lol

[@willadler-connor2393]

I’ve got a build for Dwarven Fortitude. Hill Dwarf, Totem Warrior Barbarian 20, take Dwarven Fortitude, Durable and a Periapt of Wound Closure. Also maximise CON to 24. Dodge to heal with DF, which I don’t think you have to roll for as Durable makes it an instant 14 points, which is then doubled to 28 due to the Periapt. Combine this with the 300+ hp of the character, resistance to everything but psychic and relentless rage, you are very unlikely to go down

[@typoko]

Elven Accuracy almost requires you to be able to cheese out advantage. One way wizards could get it is with an owl familiar who is doing the fly by aid.

[@Mr911superstar]

you can make one hell of a tank with this build Hill Dwarf, Totem Barbarian, taking Bear, Choice, Bear and Tough, Durable, Sentinel, and Dwarven Fortitude for feats, with good rolls you have 24 AC without magic items, +200 hit points above your hit dice, if they attack nearby allies they have disadvantage and you get an attack, resistance to all but psychic, and you can dodge to heal for a minimum of 14 to 19

[@burgerchicken]

I play as a four elements monk. I took wisdom resilience to even up my odd wisdom score, bump up my AC and save DC. Plus it means having three common saving throws. But I also don't anticipate our campaign going past level 12 or so.

[@unwithering5313]

That's what I find awkward, in 3e and Pathfinder 2e one of the Monks main stand outs was that they were great at all saving throws but in 5e you have to grind all the way to 14th level if you don't multi-class and a lotta campaigns don't reach nearly that level

[@jwall1646]

The deep gnome magic feet is dope. I wish we had more race specific feats Especially for the Genasi Goliath And volo races

[@gohantanaka]

Same, Dude. Same.

[@bobertson_jr]

I've tried making a Genasi feat but I'm always stumped on what it should have

[@Wh173c0c0]

There actually *are* some racial feats for those races. It looks like the source is called "Expanded Racial Feats". I found them while looking through the DND 5 Database application. The Genasi ones, since you are curious, give you a boost to CON or another stat (depends on exact Genasi), Detect Magic at will, and one more extra ability (120 ft Dark vision for Fire, 13+Dex AC for Earth, resistance to lightning+thunder for Wind, and resistance to cold for Water). You should go check them out, if you can find the document. I don't know that they are AL legal, but there you go.

[@fftere]

@@Wh173c0c0 Homebrew, unfortunately