i'm curently playing this champaign as a Winged Teifling Paladin who in her backstory was polymorphed in to an Aasimar before she could form memories so... *good Girl Confused Screaming*
Now I am imagining an order of paladins whose sole mission is to reclaim the sword of Zariel, redeeming both Zariel and rearming the forces of good in the process. And thus a character concept was born. 😇
So my character for playing through this is an evil paladin. So while i see comments complaining about alignment restrictions and drooling over the artifact I was like "gonna get a horse, gonna destroy that terrible artifact sword, gonna make it rain soul coins."
The Gauntlets make any weapon you're holding magic period. Only the extra flame damage is once per day, pick the weapon back up and it'll still be considered magic.
I wish there was a way to get past those evil alignment restrictions. Like what if you are a necromancer and you deal with souls all the time. Actually that might be an interesting idea for regular games. What if traditionally dark magic made a "good" aligned person evil for game affects. Like if you are a warlock detect good and evil would say you are evil because it senses the patron, or somthing simpler with the negative energy from a necromancer.
I don't see how animating the dead and trapping souls in coins are in anyway different. Both manipulate the dead persons soul for selfish intent. If the act of murder is evil surely ripping someones soul out of their afterlife just to be murdered and twisted by the dark energies of the negative energy plane. Necromancers have to be the most unemphatic careless sons of bitches to do what they do. Closest they can really get to good is being a highly functioning sociopath. You shouldn't have any issues filling your coin purse
@@dittmar104 animating skeletons and zombies or other undead has no effect on the soul. Especially in 5e. Only the crawling claw and a lich make reference to a soul and a demon which eats souls cannot use that ability on constructs or undead.
it technically kills your, tho. Because you loose any personality your character has and is replaced by celestial orders, you bascially become an npc without any real freedom and with a permanent lawful stupid alignment (even if you unattune it, the changes are permanent).
now i want both fey (netural) and "infernal" (evil) versions this is such a great artifact and an awesome template for other aligned and themed high end weapons (shadofell version, maybe elemental ones, etc)
In fact, in my friend's campaign i was a mental kenku sociopath who was also insane and he had Zariel's sword as his patron. But the worst part? He made a deal with Zariel about if he could kill more demons than zariel has in her immortal lifetime. When he got killed eventually, his soul went to her, and he became a bone devil for the rest of his miserable life.
Fane-Eater is missing this probably took it out for balance or something but it is a legendary weapon come on You gain an additional use of Channel Divinity between rests while attuned to this weapon. When you bring a medium or larger living creature to 0 hit points with this weapon, you can expend a use of your Channel Divinity to gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your character level.
I know im late but I don't think people get the point of the Sword of Zariel. It forces your character to take on an entirely new persona in exchange for so many benefits. The sword essentially turns you into Zariel and gives way to so many story lines, like a character seeking to return to themselves and come to the heart break realization they can never be who they once were. Maybe if the sword is sentient it's strong desire to be reunited with Zariel it turned you into her as if to ease it's loneliness and feeling of abandonment. The sword isn't meant to be a free powerful magic item, it's meant to be a story hook and a strong one at that.
That sword would be great for my Tiefling Paladin who's Vengeance is to destroy evil (especially Fiends and Devils) from the multiverse. He broke his horns off (yes insert hellboy reference here) at a young age and I am imagining his holy form being crazy with like gold gilded horns that grow in there place heavenly wings would be pretty epic
I am so ready for this. I got my Aasimar Paladin with a tragic backstory and emotional baggage ready to go and save her city. Me and my DM worked on their backstory before we knew much of the plot of the book, but basically she and her Tiefling twin sister are descendant from Zarial.
My protector aasimar paladin of devotion would love to have a boost to her Charisma and permanent wings. Her incorporeal wings had helped her greatly from an aboleth's watery lair actions (plus she was immune to its Enslave power and diseased tentacle attacks).
Half Drow Paladin(Oath of heroism) plus Sword of Zariel + Obsidian Flint Dragon Plate + Knave's Eye Patch(Waterdeep Dragon Heist) for the sunlight sen. thing hehe
can you picture a paladin of any race wielding the sword of zariel and the shield of the hidden lord...... talk about busted combo's, plus can you picture the two sentient weapons having arguments over what to do in a situation in the PC's head?lol Sounds like a great opportunity for a wild roleplay session of a schizophrenic paladin.
I suppose that's correct because say you attack someone and roll a natural 20 but a Grave Cleric negates the critical. Then you would only roll 2d8 necrotic damage, not 4d8. Likewise, if a Champion Fighter with it rolls a 19 on an attack, they crit but don't get the extra nectrotic damage.
@@dittmar104 eye of veccna (no good) Book of vile darkness (no good) Hand of veccna (still no good) Mask of the dragon queen (not an artifact) Wyrmling skull throne (admitidly useful, but not great for paladins) Dragon orb (maybe) Sword of Kas (any port in a storm I guess) Book of Good (I mean in this is good for any good aligned character) So far it seams to me the only one which is great for paladins is the new sword.
@@dittmar104 Yeah I will admit I forgot about the Axe of the Dwarvish lords. Blackrazor is an excellent weapon. Unfortantly unless your playing an evil paladin your going to have a hard time justifying the use of that weapon. Especially when you have to kill once every two days with it to my knowlage. Great Item. It just has a big drawback.
Just glossed right over the hellfire weapon that violates the Pact Primeval and cosmological law. Yeah, we’ll just skip right over the most broken enchantment in the game lol
So. Why would Zureal even destroy her sword? Sure she won't use it but it's still a potent weapon against Demons. She fell specifically so she could be better at fighting the war against chaos and took the front line against the Tenari
The sword won't attune with her anymore because she fell and discarded it (it chooses), maybe she doesn't want anyone to wield it and got a different weapon that fits her devilish form.
@@NerdImmersion I also just kinda realized that despite being a celestial being of immense power she was so misinformed and short sighted she forgot that the only reason why Devils exist is to fight the forces of the Abyss. I mean Avernus and the other 8 Hells are basically just the lid stuck on top of the preserves jar of madness that is the Abyss. Zurael was best girl but she was an idiot.
@Kathy Kat which is kinda funny considering that the two, demons and devils, are two sides of the same coin, two halfs of the same whole fighting each other.
Magic Weapon. The Blade of Avernus is a magic weapon that functions as a vorpal sword. Random Properties. The sword has the following randomly determined properties, as described in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide: 2 minor beneficial properties 1 major beneficial property 1 major detrimental property, which is suppressed while the sword is attuned to an archdevil Ruler of Avernus. As an action, you can point this sword at one devil you can see within 60 feet of you. That devil must succeed on a DC 22 Charisma saving throw or be charmed by you for 1 hour. While charmed in this way, the devil follows your orders to the best of its ability. If you command the devil to do something it perceives as suicidal, the effect ends and you can no longer use this power of the sword against that devil. Infernal Recall. As an action, you can use the sword to cast word of recall. Creatures transported by this spell appear in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of the current ruler of Avernus, or a sanctuary you designate if you rule Avernus. Destroying the Sword. The sword can be destroyed by casting it into the River Styx or melting it down in the forge that created it.
@@NerdImmersion I like the weapon, but simply casting it into the River Styx seems far too easy to me to destroy it considering she lives on the banks of the darn river. Some random demon drops her into the river and, Whoopsie, no more blade. Legendary and artifact weapons usually are far harder to destroy than that. Something like, " Immersing it in holy water for a year before taking it out and casting it into the River Styx while Wishing (spell) for it's destruction" seems more like what it would take. It would also give her time to hunt down and murderize the fools who dared to take her weapon and Symbol of Office from her.
I have a problem with the sword. I wish they would have told us about its personality, instead of giving us the bare minimum of it. Maybe there is more to it in the book and I haven't read that far, but if it's not in the swords description I doubt it's somewhere else. That would be counerproductive.
I'm noticing in several occasions there are things not contained in the appendix that are new to the book, this I bbn one such item. It's the same with monsters
It’s funny how in 5e legendary items are practically just really good in pathfinder like really I’m in level 6 and have a +4 sword that’s very close to that legendary axe
You shouldn't have a +4 weapon at that level. It is worth 4x the amount of gold you should have at that level. You could craft it by level 8 if you don't buy anything else and you could buy it by level 11 if you don't buy anything else. Your GM is over tuning you guys.
Darien Sampson ever heard of the spellsword or bladebound or soulknife it’s not very hard to achieve +4 for 6000gp in pathfinder and the builds are pretty viable not this shity demigods that can at best do plumbing
Darien Sampson also very incorrect on the calculations there I have no clue how you made those but even by WBL you can craft 1 in level 6 and buy 1 at level 8 you do realize I’m talking about pathfinder the system that actually cares about you reading the book
@@feritperliare2890 First of all a +4 weapons base price for crafting 32,000 gp in the magic weapons section. That means purchasing it costs 64,000. In the Gamemastering section it lists wealth per level. Level 8 is 33,000 just enough to make a +4 weapon. Wealth at level 10 is 62,000 gp just under what you would need to buy one. The only thing I could find for spell sword was a 3rd party class and a fan made class so no I haven't heard of them. A soulknife doesn't get a +4 weapon until level 9 and a bladebound doesn't get a +4 until level 13. If you are going to be ignorant at least have the decency to not talk shit when you are ignorant. Maybe you need to work on your reading comprehension. You know this is pathfinder right? Where reading the book actually matters?
The sword is nice except for the overriding personality bit. If I get the sword, I am going to have a nice long talk with it, and craft a magic item to remind me of who I am. It negates and counters mind and personality altering effects.
I don't see why monks need there own special boxing glove magic item... It's kind of one of my pet peeves in the game. It's like refusing to use the +3 plate armor because you think them in ring-mail is cooler. Or more accurately the rogue who is the only one who would benefit from (insert powerful finesse weapon) but won't because daggers are edgy. Yes it's your character and you can do whatever you want with it but if its getting to the point were you're like "wow my magic glowy hands aren't really cutting it" you should probably just take one for the team and grab that rare flame tongue shortsword the fighter out grew and do some damage
@@vermillionwraith7810 Calling a monk just a dude who punches stuff is just like saying a rogue is nothing more a remorseless highly lethal killer. Monks have a lot of options for really cool unique builds like an old reserved elf who bashes people with his cane, a spear master like Oberyn Martell from GoT, a dwarfish hand-axe fighter who doesn't enojoy wearing Armour in the mines built into the side of an active volcano. There are good reason people use weapons over our hands and why a punch only does one hit point for anyone else but monks. Weapons are force multipliers, you can punch the dragon but don't act like the spear of dragon slaying i handed to you was meant for the fighter with the vorpal longsword.
dittmar104 yes weapons are cool and in real life are more effective than unarmed strikes (realistically gunslingers would be the only nonmage class played), but the monk class is based around martial arts and unarmed strikes. Especially in the case of open hand monks whose abilities trigger on unarmed strikes and thus can't make much use out of a flameblade. Not to mention that the flavor of the monk class is what makes it so charming. So wanting a magic item that enhances that flavor is fully justified I believe. And it's not like other classes don't already have magic items unique to them (holy avenger). As for your reply. I agree, there are a lot of unique and fun builds monks can have. There is a whole archtype for monks that use weapons instead of fists. Hell if a player wanted to play a monk who uses gunkata I would be totally down for that. So given that monks are so versatile why is it bad to have magic items that support those players that DO want to play that guy that punches dragons to death.
@@vermillionwraith7810 The monk class is built around ki and mobility, ki works *with* your monk weapons for stunning strike. I see unarmed strike as a nice bonus action it's not a class or subclass defining feature, and you're better off treating it as a bonus action most of the time based on damage die. And well really The Way of The Open Hand is built for fury of blows which you can still do after attacking with a flame tongue. It only has one ability that specifies unarmed attack over fury of blows and it's at 17th level. I acknowledge that monks flavour comes from martial arts, but martial arts included weapons for good reasons and I believe that should be reflected in the game world like other real world reasoning we include in our games. (Also Gun kata is a sick. kensi monk hand crossbow 6, ranger 4, kensi the rest of the way and maybe a little war priest.) Less from a flavour perspective powering up unarmed strike is multiplicative. Knuckle dusters with any pluses eg +1 or additional damage die like 1d6 lightning on a level 5 monk now add +1 to FOUR attacks and level 5 or 4d6. This undermines fighters- especially because monks get crazy shit like unarmored defense, deflect missiles and patient defense on top of fury of blows and their subclass feature/s, wile fighters have things like one second wind, a fighting style, subclass and one use of action surge. I'm not saying people can't play how they want to play. But if they play a weird obscene or obscure build like two shields, low dex not armor on a fighter or deiced "Hey I don't want to use weapons to kill things. I'll just punch the dragon in the face." They shouldn't expect to find items that bolster their very specific, fun yet comical play style.
Honestly, most of these items are wack (like pretty much all magic items in dnd) they are either way too situational, way too costly or way too powerful with no in between. Also, it took dnd this long just to introduce a fire sword into the game (flaming swords are an old staple of fantasy, they're practically biblical), and when they finally do, it can only be used once per dawn.
@@spiritandsteel I stand corrected abou the fire sword thing. I still think most of the magic items in dnd are wack. Does anyone else have examples of items that are cool but not over-powerd for for mid to high level play?
@@irontemplar6222 I don't believe magic items are under-powered. At least I can't think of one that seems underpowered for a high level item. Sure it'd be cool if they did more but 5e was made so you can play from 1 to 20 with no magic items. Your party will probably die a few times each but thats dnd. It really depends what you're trying to do as to how powerful you can make an otherwise underwhelming effect (like the defender, rather shit if you get it as a greatsword but on a short sword and its best offhand weapon in the game). Team synergy and cooperation go a long way to meeting cr. Sure my paladin could cast holy weapon on his sword but your fighter makes more attacks. Sure bobby could cast shield of faith on himself with his 21 ac or give it to the wizard who's counterspelling the hold persons coming at bobby's face and getting sniped.
@@dittmar104 I was more pointing out to the guy above that their are very few to none "over powered" magic items at high level. The only 3 magic items that are close to being OP at high level is Holy Avenger (which is restricted to paladin, and really the only magic item they get that is ment for them) Vorpal weapons (which only matter on a roll of a 20, and if your opponent dosnt have regeneration) Moon blade (you must be an elf, and you must get lucky with its creation, and its sentiant so hope you get along with it) Other than those. Eh their are ones that are good no doubt but for high levels they are hardly OP.
fane eater is like the lamest legendary weapon ever lol. if it wasn't a named weapon from wizards precious golden boy It'd be a high end ultra rare battle axe... whatever.. maybe this is for DM's suffering the mat mercer effect. appease their players for a few more sessions before they stop coming to go watch more critical roll lol
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Tiefling Paladin + Sword of Zariel
= Confusion
Protector Aasimar + Sword of Zariel
*Extra Good Boi*
currently playing level 18 Tiefling paladin of redemption and just kinda slid the sword stat block and info to my DM
My paladin is half demon, half celestial (Deathpact angel), so I'm assuming that the transformation would be a bit different.
@@PhangTabai I miss the ol nighmare-esque angels in the days of yore. So... Cool.
i'm curently playing this champaign as a Winged Teifling Paladin who in her backstory was polymorphed in to an Aasimar before she could form memories
so... *good Girl Confused Screaming*
@@theprinceofawesomeness o nu
I was happy to finally see an actual good artifact in D&D 5e massive change of pace for artifacts in 5e.
Now I am imagining an order of paladins whose sole mission is to reclaim the sword of Zariel, redeeming both Zariel and rearming the forces of good in the process. And thus a character concept was born. 😇
So my character for playing through this is an evil paladin. So while i see comments complaining about alignment restrictions and drooling over the artifact I was like "gonna get a horse, gonna destroy that terrible artifact sword, gonna make it rain soul coins."
The Gauntlets make any weapon you're holding magic period. Only the extra flame damage is once per day, pick the weapon back up and it'll still be considered magic.
Imagine if you fight Zariel with her sword and in the middle of the fight she disarms you and breaks it that easily... Oof
I wish there was a way to get past those evil alignment restrictions. Like what if you are a necromancer and you deal with souls all the time. Actually that might be an interesting idea for regular games. What if traditionally dark magic made a "good" aligned person evil for game affects. Like if you are a warlock detect good and evil would say you are evil because it senses the patron, or somthing simpler with the negative energy from a necromancer.
rolay 7 could the thief ability get around it? I don’t have the rules I front of me to read RAW.
N. Magic aura might be able to help
I don't see how animating the dead and trapping souls in coins are in anyway different. Both manipulate the dead persons soul for selfish intent. If the act of murder is evil surely ripping someones soul out of their afterlife just to be murdered and twisted by the dark energies of the negative energy plane. Necromancers have to be the most unemphatic careless sons of bitches to do what they do. Closest they can really get to good is being a highly functioning sociopath. You shouldn't have any issues filling your coin purse
@@dittmar104 animating skeletons and zombies or other undead has no effect on the soul. Especially in 5e. Only the crawling claw and a lich make reference to a soul and a demon which eats souls cannot use that ability on constructs or undead.
SWORD SOUNDS SO SICK
Wtf kugo you play dnd as well?
it technically kills your, tho. Because you loose any personality your character has and is replaced by celestial orders, you bascially become an npc without any real freedom and with a permanent lawful stupid alignment (even if you unattune it, the changes are permanent).
Now see, that sword makes me want to imagine what an Archfey/Feywild version of such a weapon.
now i want both fey (netural) and "infernal" (evil) versions
this is such a great artifact and an awesome template for other aligned and themed high end weapons (shadofell version, maybe elemental ones, etc)
I love the idea of the villain wielding the ultimate heroic weapon. The Sword of Zariel seems like it could be a Hexblade patron.
In fact, in my friend's campaign i was a mental kenku sociopath who was also insane and he had Zariel's sword as his patron. But the worst part? He made a deal with Zariel about if he could kill more demons than zariel has in her immortal lifetime. When he got killed eventually, his soul went to her, and he became a bone devil for the rest of his miserable life.
Fane-Eater is missing this probably took it out for balance or something but it is a legendary weapon come on You gain an additional use of Channel Divinity between rests while attuned to this weapon. When you bring a medium or larger living creature to 0 hit points with this weapon, you can expend a use of your Channel Divinity to gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your character level.
I know im late but I don't think people get the point of the Sword of Zariel. It forces your character to take on an entirely new persona in exchange for so many benefits. The sword essentially turns you into Zariel and gives way to so many story lines, like a character seeking to return to themselves and come to the heart break realization they can never be who they once were. Maybe if the sword is sentient it's strong desire to be reunited with Zariel it turned you into her as if to ease it's loneliness and feeling of abandonment. The sword isn't meant to be a free powerful magic item, it's meant to be a story hook and a strong one at that.
That sword would be great for my Tiefling Paladin who's Vengeance is to destroy evil (especially Fiends and Devils) from the multiverse. He broke his horns off (yes insert hellboy reference here) at a young age and I am imagining his holy form being crazy with like gold gilded horns that grow in there place heavenly wings would be pretty epic
That's pretty rad!
But umm the personality change however.
Wow, that last weapon is Incredible, I figure an high level character using it, amazing
Or a level 2 character who's trying to survive the hells.
I am so ready for this. I got my Aasimar Paladin with a tragic backstory and emotional baggage ready to go and save her city. Me and my DM worked on their backstory before we knew much of the plot of the book, but basically she and her Tiefling twin sister are descendant from Zarial.
DMC? COOL!!!
@@Wreckur4203 Hahaha, pretty much XD
Those flame bracers make me think of Devil May Cry, only I guess you can't use them for unarmed attacks?
Well, unarmed strikes are considered melee attacks. I wouldn't see a problem with letting a monk have some flaming fists.
My protector aasimar paladin of devotion would love to have a boost to her Charisma and permanent wings.
Her incorporeal wings had helped her greatly from an aboleth's watery lair actions (plus she was immune to its Enslave power and diseased tentacle attacks).
Half Drow Paladin(Oath of heroism) plus Sword of Zariel + Obsidian Flint Dragon Plate + Knave's Eye Patch(Waterdeep Dragon Heist) for the sunlight sen. thing hehe
can you picture a paladin of any race wielding the sword of zariel and the shield of the hidden lord...... talk about busted combo's, plus can you picture the two sentient weapons having arguments over what to do in a situation in the PC's head?lol Sounds like a great opportunity for a wild roleplay session of a schizophrenic paladin.
Well that sword will be given to my friends “gray knight” paladin character lmaoooo
The 2d8 necrotic damage for Fane-Eater does double because the damage is on a 20 not on a crit.
I suppose that's correct because say you attack someone and roll a natural 20 but a Grave Cleric negates the critical. Then you would only roll 2d8 necrotic damage, not 4d8. Likewise, if a Champion Fighter with it rolls a 19 on an attack, they crit but don't get the extra nectrotic damage.
Oh God I want that artifact. You have no idea how long I have waited for an artifact a paladin can use.
most artifacts are good for paladins
@@dittmar104
eye of veccna (no good)
Book of vile darkness (no good)
Hand of veccna (still no good)
Mask of the dragon queen (not an artifact)
Wyrmling skull throne (admitidly useful, but not great for paladins)
Dragon orb (maybe)
Sword of Kas (any port in a storm I guess)
Book of Good (I mean in this is good for any good aligned character)
So far it seams to me the only one which is great for paladins is the new sword.
Axe of the dwarvish lords (depends on you)
Turns out most of the things i thought to be artifacts were just legends like blackraiser and wave.
@@dittmar104 Yeah I will admit I forgot about the Axe of the Dwarvish lords.
Blackrazor is an excellent weapon. Unfortantly unless your playing an evil paladin your going to have a hard time justifying the use of that weapon. Especially when you have to kill once every two days with it to my knowlage.
Great Item. It just has a big drawback.
@@irontemplar6222 well only if you're not keen on hunting. the sword doesn't care what type of soul it gets just souls.
Just glossed right over the hellfire weapon that violates the Pact Primeval and cosmological law. Yeah, we’ll just skip right over the most broken enchantment in the game lol
Do you think a warlock packed of the blade could use the sword of zariel as a pack weapon
I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on artifacts
@@dittmar104 oh ok didn't know if it was considering a an artifact or not thanks for the info
You could just homebrew knuckle dusters for monk weapons and then use the gauntlets on those.
you can't really wear knuckle dusters and gauntlets at the same time
So. Why would Zureal even destroy her sword? Sure she won't use it but it's still a potent weapon against Demons. She fell specifically so she could be better at fighting the war against chaos and took the front line against the Tenari
My guess is that she got rid of it maybe? And maybe you have to find it to defeat her?
The sword won't attune with her anymore because she fell and discarded it (it chooses), maybe she doesn't want anyone to wield it and got a different weapon that fits her devilish form.
@@NerdImmersion I also just kinda realized that despite being a celestial being of immense power she was so misinformed and short sighted she forgot that the only reason why Devils exist is to fight the forces of the Abyss. I mean Avernus and the other 8 Hells are basically just the lid stuck on top of the preserves jar of madness that is the Abyss. Zurael was best girl but she was an idiot.
My guess is that it retains the remnants of her good self, her goodness. Now she is evil as demons are evil.
@Kathy Kat which is kinda funny considering that the two, demons and devils, are two sides of the same coin, two halfs of the same whole fighting each other.
What about the Blade of Avernus? I'm seeing it as a purchase option on dnd beyond but it's not covered here?
It must not be listed in the appendix, let me see what I can find
Magic Weapon. The Blade of Avernus is a magic weapon that functions as a vorpal sword.
Random Properties. The sword has the following randomly determined properties, as described in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide:
2 minor beneficial properties
1 major beneficial property
1 major detrimental property, which is suppressed while the sword is attuned to an archdevil
Ruler of Avernus. As an action, you can point this sword at one devil you can see within 60 feet of you. That devil must succeed on a DC 22 Charisma saving throw or be charmed by you for 1 hour. While charmed in this way, the devil follows your orders to the best of its ability. If you command the devil to do something it perceives as suicidal, the effect ends and you can no longer use this power of the sword against that devil.
Infernal Recall. As an action, you can use the sword to cast word of recall. Creatures transported by this spell appear in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of the current ruler of Avernus, or a sanctuary you designate if you rule Avernus.
Destroying the Sword. The sword can be destroyed by casting it into the River Styx or melting it down in the forge that created it.
@@NerdImmersion so that's Zariel current sword
@@NerdImmersion I like the weapon, but simply casting it into the River Styx seems far too easy to me to destroy it considering she lives on the banks of the darn river. Some random demon drops her into the river and, Whoopsie, no more blade. Legendary and artifact weapons usually are far harder to destroy than that. Something like, " Immersing it in holy water for a year before taking it out and casting it into the River Styx while Wishing (spell) for it's destruction" seems more like what it would take. It would also give her time to hunt down and murderize the fools who dared to take her weapon and Symbol of Office from her.
Is the sword of Zariel a +0 sword?
Yes. But it is an upgrade to flametongue-frostband type of weapons.
That made me wonder as well.
If you free a soul from a coin and it goes to he'll can you resurrect the person then?
you'd have to kill their lemure
which will be hard to do since you first have to find it
5:30 i'm currently playing as a Lawful Good Paladin but i might be changing in to Evil since my characters beliefs don't fit her faith
The gloves can make your unarmed weapon aka fist fire 🔥
Gauntlet of flaming furry might be good with artificer armorer
Puzzle box reminds me more of the box from Hellraizer. Not a rubix cube. 🤷 Not being a pain. Just a thought. 😅
I have a problem with the sword. I wish they would have told us about its personality, instead of giving us the bare minimum of it. Maybe there is more to it in the book and I haven't read that far, but if it's not in the swords description I doubt it's somewhere else. That would be counerproductive.
What if you are a lawful evil and try to corrupt the sword instead of it redeeming you. Thats a really cool twist
Shield of the hidden lord +2 AC or +4 AC I am confused?
+4 (+2 magic item, +2 shield use)
@3:35 Love critting as a paladin. Tack the fucking smite on baby!
What about the blade of avernus?
I'm noticing in several occasions there are things not contained in the appendix that are new to the book, this I bbn one such item. It's the same with monsters
just curious, can you combine the sword of Zariel with the Holy Avenger since the Avenger sword says it can be any sword?
Absolutely no
@@rasin9391 alright thanks
It’s funny how in 5e legendary items are practically just really good in pathfinder like really I’m in level 6 and have a +4 sword that’s very close to that legendary axe
You shouldn't have a +4 weapon at that level. It is worth 4x the amount of gold you should have at that level. You could craft it by level 8 if you don't buy anything else and you could buy it by level 11 if you don't buy anything else. Your GM is over tuning you guys.
Darien Sampson ever heard of the spellsword or bladebound or soulknife it’s not very hard to achieve +4 for 6000gp in pathfinder and the builds are pretty viable not this shity demigods that can at best do plumbing
Darien Sampson also very incorrect on the calculations there I have no clue how you made those but even by WBL you can craft 1 in level 6 and buy 1 at level 8 you do realize I’m talking about pathfinder the system that actually cares about you reading the book
@@feritperliare2890 First of all a +4 weapons base price for crafting 32,000 gp in the magic weapons section. That means purchasing it costs 64,000. In the Gamemastering section it lists wealth per level. Level 8 is 33,000 just enough to make a +4 weapon. Wealth at level 10 is 62,000 gp just under what you would need to buy one. The only thing I could find for spell sword was a 3rd party class and a fan made class so no I haven't heard of them. A soulknife doesn't get a +4 weapon until level 9 and a bladebound doesn't get a +4 until level 13. If you are going to be ignorant at least have the decency to not talk shit when you are ignorant. Maybe you need to work on your reading comprehension. You know this is pathfinder right? Where reading the book actually matters?
Darien Sampson nope the cost to buy is 32k while crafting is 16k seriously where did you think it said to double the listed cost?
The dragonplate flintmail belongs to arkhan
I’ll just use the flaming gauntlets on my brawler. Can’t stow you weapons if their your fists
The sword is nice except for the overriding personality bit. If I get the sword, I am going to have a nice long talk with it, and craft a magic item to remind me of who I am. It negates and counters mind and personality altering effects.
Omg I want that sword so bad
I don't see why monks need there own special boxing glove magic item... It's kind of one of my pet peeves in the game. It's like refusing to use the +3 plate armor because you think them in ring-mail is cooler. Or more accurately the rogue who is the only one who would benefit from (insert powerful finesse weapon) but won't because daggers are edgy. Yes it's your character and you can do whatever you want with it but if its getting to the point were you're like "wow my magic glowy hands aren't really cutting it" you should probably just take one for the team and grab that rare flame tongue shortsword the fighter out grew and do some damage
dittmar104 yeah but see, my open hand monk can just drop you to 0 for no reason. All because of an unarmed attack.
dittmar104 yeah man I hate it when players like playing to the theme of their class ;P
@@vermillionwraith7810 Calling a monk just a dude who punches stuff is just like saying a rogue is nothing more a remorseless highly lethal killer. Monks have a lot of options for really cool unique builds like an old reserved elf who bashes people with his cane, a spear master like Oberyn Martell from GoT, a dwarfish hand-axe fighter who doesn't enojoy wearing Armour in the mines built into the side of an active volcano.
There are good reason people use weapons over our hands and why a punch only does one hit point for anyone else but monks. Weapons are force multipliers, you can punch the dragon but don't act like the spear of dragon slaying i handed to you was meant for the fighter with the vorpal longsword.
dittmar104 yes weapons are cool and in real life are more effective than unarmed strikes (realistically gunslingers would be the only nonmage class played), but the monk class is based around martial arts and unarmed strikes. Especially in the case of open hand monks whose abilities trigger on unarmed strikes and thus can't make much use out of a flameblade. Not to mention that the flavor of the monk class is what makes it so charming. So wanting a magic item that enhances that flavor is fully justified I believe. And it's not like other classes don't already have magic items unique to them (holy avenger). As for your reply. I agree, there are a lot of unique and fun builds monks can have. There is a whole archtype for monks that use weapons instead of fists. Hell if a player wanted to play a monk who uses gunkata I would be totally down for that. So given that monks are so versatile why is it bad to have magic items that support those players that DO want to play that guy that punches dragons to death.
@@vermillionwraith7810 The monk class is built around ki and mobility, ki works *with* your monk weapons for stunning strike. I see unarmed strike as a nice bonus action it's not a class or subclass defining feature, and you're better off treating it as a bonus action most of the time based on damage die. And well really The Way of The Open Hand is built for fury of blows which you can still do after attacking with a flame tongue. It only has one ability that specifies unarmed attack over fury of blows and it's at 17th level. I acknowledge that monks flavour comes from martial arts, but martial arts included weapons for good reasons and I believe that should be reflected in the game world like other real world reasoning we include in our games.
(Also Gun kata is a sick. kensi monk hand crossbow 6, ranger 4, kensi the rest of the way and maybe a little war priest.)
Less from a flavour perspective powering up unarmed strike is multiplicative. Knuckle dusters with any pluses eg +1 or additional damage die like 1d6 lightning on a level 5 monk now add +1 to FOUR attacks and level 5 or 4d6. This undermines fighters- especially because monks get crazy shit like unarmored defense, deflect missiles and patient defense on top of fury of blows and their subclass feature/s, wile fighters have things like one second wind, a fighting style, subclass and one use of action surge.
I'm not saying people can't play how they want to play. But if they play a weird obscene or obscure build like two shields, low dex not armor on a fighter or deiced "Hey I don't want to use weapons to kill things. I'll just punch the dragon in the face." They shouldn't expect to find items that bolster their very specific, fun yet comical play style.
I would absolutely destroy zariel's sword, but then again I'm lawful evil. :p
Heres the fun part about that:
You become lawful good once it is in your possession.
Honestly, most of these items are wack (like pretty much all magic items in dnd) they are either way too situational, way too costly or way too powerful with no in between. Also, it took dnd this long just to introduce a fire sword into the game (flaming swords are an old staple of fantasy, they're practically biblical), and when they finally do, it can only be used once per dawn.
Flame toungue, mate. It's in the dmg.
@@spiritandsteel I stand corrected abou the fire sword thing. I still think most of the magic items in dnd are wack. Does anyone else have examples of items that are cool but not over-powerd for for mid to high level play?
@@raynmakr40 overpowered? Dude the fuck are you on about. Some of the biggest issues with magic items in high level is they arent powerful enough.
@@irontemplar6222 I don't believe magic items are under-powered. At least I can't think of one that seems underpowered for a high level item.
Sure it'd be cool if they did more but 5e was made so you can play from 1 to 20 with no magic items. Your party will probably die a few times each but thats dnd. It really depends what you're trying to do as to how powerful you can make an otherwise underwhelming effect (like the defender, rather shit if you get it as a greatsword but on a short sword and its best offhand weapon in the game). Team synergy and cooperation go a long way to meeting cr. Sure my paladin could cast holy weapon on his sword but your fighter makes more attacks. Sure bobby could cast shield of faith on himself with his 21 ac or give it to the wizard who's counterspelling the hold persons coming at bobby's face and getting sniped.
@@dittmar104 I was more pointing out to the guy above that their are very few to none "over powered" magic items at high level.
The only 3 magic items that are close to being OP at high level is
Holy Avenger (which is restricted to paladin, and really the only magic item they get that is ment for them)
Vorpal weapons (which only matter on a roll of a 20, and if your opponent dosnt have regeneration)
Moon blade (you must be an elf, and you must get lucky with its creation, and its sentiant so hope you get along with it)
Other than those. Eh their are ones that are good no doubt but for high levels they are hardly OP.
Surrender those orange slices bruh!
Infernal puzzle box = lament configuration.... hellraiser duh
The Obsidian Plate is Arkhan’s armor... so you don’t get it.
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fane eater is like the lamest legendary weapon ever lol. if it wasn't a named weapon from wizards precious golden boy It'd be a high end ultra rare battle axe... whatever.. maybe this is for DM's suffering the mat mercer effect. appease their players for a few more sessions before they stop coming to go watch more critical roll lol
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