Didn't mean to ask, since I'm finishing up checking out all of DWK's series tomorrow, I was looking to replace it with something new. And he recommendations? I'm so far I was thinking of sailor Moon Abridged that was recommended to me a while ago.
Crap guide to Monster Hunter. More seriously though I would suggest Epic NPC Man from Viva La Dirt League, it might not be an abridged but its really good.
@@Xinoz2 Huh... Y’know I wouldn’t have thought to recommend VLDL, but you might be on to something. Even if you don’t decide to react to them, I’d still recommend watching their various series, they’re great.
OOO OO _OOOOOO._ *Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla.* _That's got to be a definitive video._ Nepotism Adventure Series, Part 1: Taxes. To stick with MLP, the now complete, Scootertrix abridge and animated shorts, or the DawnSomeWhere's Mentally Advanced series(animated, or show version), altered fictions, shorts, or Friendship is Witchcraft. For other abridges. Pokemon Starter Squad (an original 3D animation). Sweet Boy Beach 1-3. All the DoorMonster shorts and their short Film.
my uncle plays 1st to 2nd DND and this is indeed a spell and im currently a fighter/cleric 3 level now and im looking forward to next year when we play again
Yeah, “Sticks to Snakes” was a real spell in older editions of dnd. Basically it’s meant to be that thing Moses did in the bible, which is why it’s a cleric spell
@@NoBoZ69 Ranger: *thinking* More arrows? But it's not enough. Druid: *thinking* It moved? Wait a second... Cleric: *pokes a dagger at the druid's back* Shhhhhh...
"Anyone who played for more than three sessions has realised : One, you need a cleric. Two, the cleric doesn't need you." Now that's one hell of a quote, damn XD
I am a firm believer that a D&D group must have a minimum of 1/4 the number of players rounded up of healers, and clerics are undisputedly the best at that because they are one of the few classes that so snuggly fit all four party slots (white mage, heavy combatant, dark mage, light combatant). And I have decided that if ever I am in a party and am the only healer, no matter what I had originally planned for that character, they will charge the rest of the party for their services. Because if they really cared, at least one of them would have also chosen to play a healer.
I have two parties without a cleric. The first one has a paladin, bard, and artificer to make up for the lack of dedicated healing. My second group has a barbarian, with both the wizard and rogue cross classing as barbarian as well so we have three damage sponges kind of. Our druid refuses to heal in the second party unless someone is unconscious. So I can say parties can work without clerics... its just why would you ever want too XD
Lol, coming from a dm that had a group of 7, that has been reduced to 4, with no cleric's out of the whole bunch. I was my party had a cleric, they used to have an artificer and paladin, now, the artificer has left the game and the paladin lost his patron, soooooo, no heals for my party.
JoCat's character with the wobbly head is called "JoCrap". The character came from his series "A crap guide to Monster Hunter" where the JoCrap character went over the different weapon playstyles and dunked on them and largely used when he wants to aggressively tongue-in-cheek things. The wibbly wobbly head is an actual piece of equipment you can get in the MH game, a giant plushie headpiece based off of the in-game monster called a wiggler.
Critical Role is like One Piece. If you're gonna get into it, you better have a year or so of free time. A Barbarian multiclassing into Bard? Seriously, that way lies Abserd! remember the "Bardbarians?"
Foolish fool, your foolery is unmatched. The druid and ranger get the wizards trapped in the hacked BOH to cast their spells on the companions; or the wizards won't get their kibble. Do you *want* the pocket wizards to starve?!
I think the reference to flamethrower squirrels is because you keep racial abilities when you wild shape. So Dragonborn still keeps its breath weapon even as a squirrel.
@@Dragonspirit223All my characters with a strength dumpstat be like Although to be fair they're mostly casters or dex based so yeah.. (bard/wizard, bard, bard/warlock, bard, bard/wizard, druid, druid, rogue, rogue, warlock, ranger/rogue, ranger/bard)
Sticks to Snakes was a real spell in the first two versions of D&D however has been removed from the more modern versions. Also the spell treats any single piece of non magical wood as a stick. Also I believe that all version of D&D that used the spell had it available to both clerics and druids, they just get it a different levels, so I don't know why there was a disclaimer about it not being available to druids.
Order of the *Stick:* Evil-Father: "Why are you a multiclass-Fighter-Mage-Rogue. You have exactly the same skills as your bard brother." Evil-Twin: "Well you always said bards were ridiculously underpowered." Evil-Father: "They are! Why, with their understanding of narrative structure and trope lore, they should be ruling the universe by now."
JoCat's Crap Guide is awesome XD But honestly I just loved watching you react to these XD Everyone went through the 'Dammit I need to make this class now' because of him. But most importantly, I loved see you clearly enjoying these XD
@@bretsheeley4034 small smooth brains assume that bards have to sing or play an instrument. But big wrinkly brains know that a Bard is simply someone that uses a form of artistic expression. They can sing, dance, paint, prance, make a pretty dirt drawing with a lance.
I love how, every time I watch this, and the subject of the "goose, breathing fire, with a mini-gun" comes up, I always say "It's a Gatling Gull", as if anyone is actually there to actually get the reference.
If you go through the entire Crap Guide to DnD series, but some jokes you don't get, the likely reason would be that they originated from the first Crap Guides he made, Crap Guide to Monster Hunter (whi ch is where the wiggle worm helmet his character wears comes from). So, if you're looking for something way later to react to, you can check those out.
I haven’t got to play D&D myself, but I have put together some characters one of them is an Cleric named Susie Winerite She is a female Orc with a serious case of man face, Who wishes to travel the world and hone her craft in a new form of healing she invented chiropractic.
Two years before "The backstreet boys reunion tour" lol (though in all seriousness Covid 19 is no laughing matter, but at the same time we should all keep our senses of humor....and sanity)
Fun fact: Bards were historically a Type of Druid, they were the Oral Historians of various Celtic Peoples. There is a reason why the Bard in 1e AD&D required you to start as a Fighter, then Dual Class (Stop leveling one class to level another, only available to Humans and Half-Elves (Other Demi-humans could Multi-class)) into Thief (Rogue) between Levels 5 and 7, then Dual Class into Druid after 5-8 levels as a Thief, then you could be a bard.
My group are actually playing as the A-men, a group of five clerics who all follow the Norse gods It’s as dumb as you would expect, we have so much healing and we can bully almost anything We got stuck against a flesh golem but we just cornered it and cast inflict wounds on it over and over again
JoCat’s crap guide is a good starting point with these classes so you have an idea of what their gimmick and what they’re about are before putting in the work, like a pitch
I got tired of being the designated healer of the party, so I made a True Neutral death-worshiping cleric fundamentally opposed to the concept of healing magic, since Death is awesome and using magic to delay it is blasphemy.
Just going to let you know right away, the character with the long neck and wiggly head is officially called JoCrap. Sword and Shield is also the best weapon in Monster Hunter, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong and should be -killed to cleanse the gene pool of their stupidity- I mean ignored because they have a right to their own opinion, even if it's wrong.
Cleric is just amazing. I developed a combo with my beads of force, I call it the meat grinder. Used spiritual weapon on an enemy, then throw a bead of force at the group of enemies. Boom, now they're trapped in a hamster ball with an unkillable floating weapon tearing into every round
"Because I like broken shit" Allow me to introduce the Bear totem Barbarian, Moon druid multiclass..... Welcome to every resistance in the game and Never dying again.
As for banning the cleric I think it was either AD&D or AD&D 2ed where there was a disclamer that told the DMs that clerics are broken and it's fair to ban them at their table
In DnD 1.1e, sticks to snakes was a level 4 cleric spell which turned 2d8 sticks (non-magic wooden items) into snakes for 6 turns or 16 minutes, with a 50% chance of them being poisonous. The size of the snake depending on the size of the 'stick'. A tree trunk or log could become a poisonous constrictor snake!!
Not sure if I missed the chance with this or has been brought up yet, but there are two "forgotten" episodes of the series, basically the first versions of an episode, namely only the Cleric and Warlock episodes. He made them and then got info and remade the episodes. They are in the descriptions of those episodes to check out so yeah.
Sticks to Snakes takes inspiration from the Bible when the pharaoh's sorcerers threw their staves down to turn them into snakes and Moses did the same and his staff ate theirs. But, yeah, Sticks to Snakes is an old school D&D spell.
It has been quoted before so I will quote it again. "How does a player break a D&D game in three words? 'Play a Druid'" In vanilla D&D 5e, regardless of which circle they choose. A 3rd level druid can cast the 2nd level spell "Pass without Trace". (Which lasts 1 hour and does not use concentration) Then they can change into a spider with shapeshift. (any spider choice from the list will work). This gives them a +7 to stealth from the spider form and an additional +10 from the spell. They can literally have a +17 to stealth checks at level 3. In addition, the spider form will give them Darkvision, Blindsight and Spiderclimb (the ability to freely walk on walls and ceilings). This is just one of the many broken things a druid can do.
Made a 5e version Sticks to Snakes 5e Level 4 Transmutation spell Available classes:Cleric and Druid Duration:6 turns Range:12 ft. Spell components:A bundle of sticks Effect:Summons 2d8 poisonous snakes. When cast as a higher level spell it summons 1d8 extra poisonous snakes per spell level above 4. Alternatively if faced with snakes you may use this spell to turn them into wood for the duration of this spell, rolling 2d8 to see how many you turn and with an identical upcast for later levels. No spell save.
I had a wild magic Barbarian in one of my games that used the d10k table for their wild surge rages. First major encounter is against a wizard. Barbarian rages and does his roll. It makes it so that anyone that wields the wizard’s weapon is silenced. Most of the wizard’s spells had a verbal component. I love the d10k table.
As someone who has caught up to Critical Role in the first campaign when they were at episode 97 ( I caught up and watched live on episode 98; I had a LOT of free time), I will say I wouldn't worry too much about being caught up if you decide to watch it; especially for anyone who works, there just isn't enough time in the day. That said I can recommend checking it out; as mentioned, I've been a fan since the first campaign and I love it, and the community (99% of the time anyway) is awesome. Cheers!
It should be mentioned that the Wild Magic Barbarian in 5E is nothing like the Wild Magic Sorcerer. They don't have any spells. Instead, they always create a random magical effect when they enter a Rage and all the effects are beneficial in some way. So, there's no risk/reward interplay, just different flavors of rewards that may or may not fit the current situation, making their table of effects completely different from Sorcerer's, being manifestations of the Rage itself. Creating a larger table would have to be balanced differently, since it's rolled on near constantly, at least once per combat encounter in most cases. And the effect is usually ended whenever the Rage itself ends, so you can undo the effect if you don't like it for what you're currently doing, making any negative effects you might think of introducing nuisances instead of moment defining blunders, and as such likely not worth including on the table. ...Still a super neat subclass, though. Kinda like Barbarian that wanted to be a Bard but never decided what trades to be a jack of, randomly switching up their combat style all the time.
In case you were wondering, his channel started with Monster Hunter with his head being the "wiggler helmet" from Monster Hunter World. He also mains the sword and shield which is one of the less popular weapons.
So i case no one told you ~ The wiggly dude is actually JoCrap, his persona for all his Crap Guides (he also made a series on the Monster Hunter weapon archetypes), and the human guy you see a few times is actually JoCat as a character in his videos.
While Critical Role is a huge undertaking to start watching, every episode of it is gold, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys DnD, Voice acting, roleplay, comedy or just a damn good story. (Btw it is much easier to 'get into' if you skip campaign 1 as campaign 2 is a fresh start of level 1 characters).
Not too long ago, I came up with a most interesting idea for a Bard character. Instead of the usual musical skill; MY Bard's abilities lie in other creative outlets like writing, acting/storytelling, painting/drawing and cooking. I asked if cooking could be a form of Bardic skill once and those who responded said yes, same with the drawing/painting and writing. To elaborate, my bard possesses a magical quill/pen and paintbrush; anything they paint comes to life and anything they write down actually happens IRL. For example, if my bard wrote down that their enemy can't kill them with their pen...they would be magically compelled to not pull the trigger of their crossbow or firearm. If my bard were to paint something like a dress, it would fall right off the easel and become the real thing. Lastly, as a cook; my bard would be able to craft confections and dishes so savory that they might be able to end thousand-year wars. Does this all make sense to you guys?
So, you may have noticed a jump in quality in the Cleric video compared to the Bard and Druid ones. That's because he originally made a dunk piece on clerics, calling them healbots and nothing more, and got a lot of flack for it, because, as the new video demonstrates, they are so much more.
The mask and the Wigglers, are from Monster Hunter. IIRC JoCrap, his character in this series of videos is from a Crap Guide to Monster Hunter he made before.
One of my characters is a rebalanced Aetherborn Death Cleric. Rebalanced as in her vampiric gift is fixed so she gets a 1d8 heal whenever she deals damage through touch. So on top of being the most offensive cleric possible she can literally tank damage like a Barbarian.
I will concede that "A-Men" is a masterpiece of comedy. You have the Letter "A" men that could mean the highest quality like A+ grades or Grade A meat. So A-tier men. You got the reference to the "A-Team". You got the reference to the "X-Men". You got a reasonable name for a team of "Anointed Men" or "Almighty Men". And, you have literally the word "Amen" in there... which is something you say after every prayer. Genius.
If you want high broken look up Order Domain Cleric. I originally picked it for letting my allies attack whenever I cast healing word on them, but this shit gives you command as a bonus action, slow (not a cleric spell usually), and heavy armor on top of the usual suspects of spiritual weapon, guardian of faith, and guiding bolt.
15:10 College of Whispers says hello. And farewell, forever. Also, funnest Cleric: Storm Domain Cleric who is also a Tiefling. Look at the Storm's Wrath ability of that Domain and then at what Tiefs get at lv 3. It turns into a game of "Stop hitting yourself".
I found this channel today through this video and now I'm proceeding to watch some of your reaction video playlists; DBZA, SAOA, HUA... (a lot, I'm going to watch a lot of videos)
28:00 The Goose wyvern thing is actually already in game, called a cockatrice, less goose and more chicken but same idea, In my dnd game I played one where we fought a cybornetically enhannced cockatrice that kicked our asses
@@Airier I see you did another Jocat video which I shall watch when I’m done with this one, I highly recommend doing the races video he did. Really flexes his bard skills.
I've actually got a couple recorded right now. I think I'm trying to look at all his stuff. If they're all at this level of quality, I want to see everything. 😁
The joke about how he was giving that tavern owner a reason to stay in business, I accidentally turned a blacksmith into a nobleman when I last played Bard (Technically Bard/Ranger, but it was a Bard with skills to survive in the wild... Backstory skills and it came in hand more than you think). Early in the campaign we did, after a fight and before an incident that got us paid ten-thousand gold a piece and kicked out of town out of fear by their mayor... I needed to fix my character's family dagger and needed information for the area. I paid the blacksmith for both and got what I needed... Then he questioned about the dagger being extremely "Beautifully crafted and unlike any he had seen before" then wanted to know more on it (A secret only the DM and me knew about the dagger is that it contains a literal God of death and will lure people to it by gazing upon it... It's super OP and I had no plans to use it often at all which is why the DM let me have it, on the condition he could make it a key item in the story... I agreed). I gave this blacksmith two gold coins (I started with fifteen due to starting gear and payment for successful rolls with a performance) and I forgot the party didn't know I was carry that much gold and didn't expect me to pay that much. I asked the blacksmith to "Forget he ever saw me and the dagger"; I bought his silence. He then repaired, sharpened, and cleaned ALL our gear for free and gave us bonus info. When we had to eventually come back to that town, because of the campaign's reasons... We were expecting to be jailed, because of why we were forced to leave. Instead, we were welcomed as honored guests and found out he blacksmith was now a nobleman who outranked who outranked the mayor. He took those two gold coins and invested... He was also waiting for they day to repay my "kindness". He had, without us knowing, made it known that my Bard was to be treated as if part of his family... To the entire town. Thanks to this we got our quest in that town done much more easily, got an army of Kobolds under my command (LONG story), and also we obtained rare gear. Except me. I refused the expensive armors and stuff and even the notoriety (I was going hard with my character's backstory through the campaign. Instead, I asked if he had a Ring Of Warmth. He did and handed it over, although he wanted to know why I just wanted a cheap ring. This is because that, to be fair for making an OP item I was allowed to have, I gave my character a LOT of flaws. One of them came up a few times and almost killed my Bard many times over. She was highly susceptible to cold... As in it will kill her if she passes out in it. The Ring Of Warmth is ONLY uncommon so it can be bought or found pretty decently. Despite it being uncommon... It has resistance to cold. But it's not just that. You can endure, with you and your gear absolutely unharmed, with temperature down to -50 degrees Fahrenheit. From this point on in that campaign, the DM had to repeatedly hit his head against the desk when I began to be used as a cold-shield for the party to hide behind so long as it wasn't below -50. Let me put that in perspective... My character became able to withstand ARCTIC COLD temperatures and this is a DM that went with objects as reference. When we ran into a Dragon that breathed ice, he specified it breathed a breath as cold as snow from the North (He meant North Pole). I was a living, breathing shield in that fight as I tanked ICE BREATH so our Dwarf could cleave its head off (They came up with a plan to use me as a distraction so they could dislodge a massive icicle above its body with the Dwarf riding it on the way down so he could use the momentum to cut its head off... We succeeded). As a reference, because the DM looked this up during the moment I said "I run straight at its face to take a shot at its eye (I had a unique... Odd... Weapon... I had arrows on hand but no bow, because I literally used my lyre-harp as a bow... The party loved that thing)". He was shocked, clarified that "You know it'll hit you POINT-BLANK with ice-breath right?" to which I replied "I know... I plan on it". I secretly sent him a text and he immediately checked it out... Arctic snow can get as cold as -40 in the Winter... Dumbfounded, he waited until I took the hit and the party seriously thought I was a Halfling ice-sculpture, until... "You all see the attack settle, and your party's Bard is staring down this massive Dragon... Untouched. She fires her arrow into its eye and blinds it on one side. You all realize that your Bard is basically untouchable by the cold of the beast as her Ring Of Warmth glows on her necklace" (Had it as a necklace, because we had a joke about it not fitting her tiny hands). Now it says resistant to cold, but he was impressed by this feat that he had me write down that I was now immune to ice, so long as I had the ring. It worked out too, because this character HAD to stay alive until the end for this double-whammy reveal the DM had planned.
Ah I miss that campaign. We had so much fun with our shenanigans when we managed to tame small Bronze Dragons to ride across the ocean. I'll miss my Bard and my Bronze Dragon named Tod. The Campaign ended with EVERYONE except my character dead... She's kinda trapped in an endless void within a time-trap. Basically she's in a dimension that has nothing in it left and time has ceased entirely. Although, technically it's not her, it's the God in the dagger who now is using her body and is forever forced to writhe in agony, because now he knows emotions and pain. We basically ended the campaign by forcibly teaching a God the price of power... And now he has to suffer that for eternity. The DM wanted a memorable campaign... He got a memorable campaign. Also, he purposely kept pestering my Sweetheart to get me to try D&D again, because he heard about the LAST time I ever played it wound up ending with the DM drawing a knife on me and going to jail... The reason he wanted me in it was because of a character I last played nicknamed "Doctor Quack" and long story short, Doctor Quack killed his entire party, on purpose, by invoking the wrath of a Red Dragon that burned them all alive much to the DM's horror and fury... We all hated that campaign and wanted it over with and I used a loophole the DM gave us as his way of being "nice", but he never thought one of us would use it to forcibly end the game FOREVER. Doctor Quack was a legend to my Sweetheart's friends, and after a lot of convincing, and a Renaissance Fair with them all... I gave in. I came up with Lilith Nightshade the Bard/Ranger. He had no idea what to expect with me playing but he admitted he hoped he would see a LITTLE bit of the out-of-the-norm from me... He got that in session two when I straight up tortured an assassin... Good times. I still remember the horror on everyone, except my Sweetheart, and the DM pulled me aside when we were done for the night to ask about it but then ended the conversation with "Bring more of that... WHATEVER that might be, bring more of that out of nowhere surprising stuff". I kept surprising them, going from torturing people who deserved it to falling over a cliff riding an outhouse to catch our Rogue and Cleric while the Dwarf was beating down a Goblin inside the thing... Lots of antics. In the end we went through a lot of emotions in that finale. Betrayal... Loss... Shock... Fury... And even happiness. My character was purposely designed to be distrustful and on edge... Because I wanted to literally bring a bit of myself in that character. I was distrustful of playing D&D after what happened in the past. Through the game that Bard opened up steadily, became attached to those around her and when it came time to utter those scripted words I had planned out for the end... I cried. Because I had to tell them something horrible when the Wizard betrayed us as the BBEG and asked me to join her since she could use someone with my "talents". I had to have my character face her friends as she took that deal and say "By your hands I have been raised... By my hands you will be laid low". The DM scripted that twist, but even he didn't expect it to hurt. I cried that whole fight as I killed the party with the Wizard until only the two of us remained. He described it as "While fighting you see she is crying; she is smiling, but she is crying", it felt right to us to think of it as this character didn't want to kill them, but something unsaid made her go through with it. Just when they thought it was the end of the campaign... The DM revealed the final twist... "The Wizard, while gazing upon the land she will soon conquer... Suddenly feels a cold chill in her chest, in her heart". The Wizard stumbled and turned to see the Bard had taken the cursed dagger and stabbed her through her back into her heart with it. "The Bard was never on anyone's side... The Bard was obedient to her God for the price of her revenge" and then he had us fight each other, with the Wizard having disadvantages on rolls due to losing blood rapidly and slowly dying unable to heal her wound, because the dagger makes wounds that can't heal... Again, OP dagger I never used. She eventually falls at the Bard's feet, begging as to why she betrayed her. The Bard winds up giving her body to her God, who isn't prepared at all, because he was a God in another Plane and never felt before... But in a mortal body, he could feel, and he felt it ALL. He felt the Bard's physical wounds, he felt her emotions, and he felt her relief. Her revenge she told the party was to avenge her family... They thought she meant the assassins who killed them... She meant the God that led them to that point and had them killed that they worshipped. In the end two spells, the God's and the Wizard's, clashed and destroyed everything... Leaving the God locked for eternity in a void with emotions and pain he couldn't comprehend. The only way in that campaign to torture a God like that was to submit your body to it with wounds, because then it would die and be forced to reincarnate... In THAT campaign I took it further, by torturing it with guilt, pain both physical and emotional; I didn't just beat a God... I traumatized it with eternal PTSD. As for the party, they'll be resurrected in a new life in a new dimension with their memories in tact, except the Wizard and the Bard; because they had their souls wandering the void. They'll learn about what happened by the Deities that witnessed it all and hold no remorse for the God sitting imprisoned. They'll learn what Lilith Nightshade did and what she asked as her true final wish. "To restart fresh... With my family I made on the way... Maybe somewhere else, far, far from here. Maybe even across stars in a place unknown. I will not likely look the same... I hope not... Last thing I want is for them to see the face that hurt them. I can't wait to see what adventure awaits us when we next meet." New campaign is set to begin soon and they will meet "Lilith Nightshade" in her new body, name, and life in the first town. But she won't have memories of her past life, only they will. No twist planned next time either, it's going to be a mystery campaign, so not too much fighting really. Solving puzzles and earning a lot of money mostly.
Also fun fact related to how he react to the cleric low level spells - First class I played was cleric and when I cast Inflict Wounds for some reason 75% of the time I got a Crit-20 + Our homebrew rule that Fritz do Max dice DMG + your roll instead of just double the dice.
One of the most ridiculously easy to achieve yet overpowered multiclass combos i've ever seen? Start with 2 levels in Paladin and then EVERYTHING ELSE in War Cleric.
Well made reaction while the original content is alread great you still managed to give the video some extra flavor. Everyone reading so far have an amazing day.
Didn't mean to ask, since I'm finishing up checking out all of DWK's series tomorrow, I was looking to replace it with something new.
And he recommendations?
I'm so far I was thinking of sailor Moon Abridged that was recommended to me a while ago.
Crap guide to Monster Hunter.
More seriously though I would suggest Epic NPC Man from Viva La Dirt League, it might not be an abridged but its really good.
@@Xinoz2 Huh... Y’know I wouldn’t have thought to recommend VLDL, but you might be on to something.
Even if you don’t decide to react to them, I’d still recommend watching their various series, they’re great.
OOO OO _OOOOOO._
*Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla.* _That's got to be a definitive video._
Nepotism Adventure Series, Part 1: Taxes.
To stick with MLP, the now complete, Scootertrix abridge and animated shorts, or the DawnSomeWhere's Mentally Advanced series(animated, or show version), altered fictions, shorts, or Friendship is Witchcraft.
For other abridges. Pokemon Starter Squad (an original 3D animation).
Sweet Boy Beach 1-3.
All the DoorMonster shorts and their short Film.
my uncle plays 1st to 2nd DND and this is indeed a spell and im currently a fighter/cleric 3 level now and im looking forward to next year when we play again
Deerstalker Pictures: " 1 For All" DnD series.
Yeah, “Sticks to Snakes” was a real spell in older editions of dnd. Basically it’s meant to be that thing Moses did in the bible, which is why it’s a cleric spell
Yup. Dungeons & Dragons Basic Expert Companion Master Immortal (BECMI) edition Rules Cyclopedia, page 37.
Sticks To Snakes, a 4th level clerical spell.
Range 120 ft, duration 6 turns, effects up to 16 sticks on a 2d8 roll, stats listed below the spell.
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Paladin: Hey cleric?...Why are you filling up your bag of holding with sticks every time we camp?
Cleric: Oh, reasons...
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Ranger: *thinking* More arrows? But it's not enough.
Druid: *thinking* It moved? Wait a second...
Cleric: *pokes a dagger at the druid's back* Shhhhhh...
It's the Old Magic..
Lol
@Pyrocumulus25 it's a spell in the Grimlores grimoire
"Anyone who played for more than three sessions has realised : One, you need a cleric. Two, the cleric doesn't need you." Now that's one hell of a quote, damn XD
I am a firm believer that a D&D group must have a minimum of 1/4 the number of players rounded up of healers, and clerics are undisputedly the best at that because they are one of the few classes that so snuggly fit all four party slots (white mage, heavy combatant, dark mage, light combatant). And I have decided that if ever I am in a party and am the only healer, no matter what I had originally planned for that character, they will charge the rest of the party for their services. Because if they really cared, at least one of them would have also chosen to play a healer.
Medic and Mercy: "great, I wish we were Clerics instead of healers."
Also medic: "I have ubersaw critz for days"
@@black97_0 haha! As a medic main, this is amazing
I have two parties without a cleric. The first one has a paladin, bard, and artificer to make up for the lack of dedicated healing. My second group has a barbarian, with both the wizard and rogue cross classing as barbarian as well so we have three damage sponges kind of. Our druid refuses to heal in the second party unless someone is unconscious. So I can say parties can work without clerics... its just why would you ever want too XD
Lol, coming from a dm that had a group of 7, that has been reduced to 4, with no cleric's out of the whole bunch. I was my party had a cleric, they used to have an artificer and paladin, now, the artificer has left the game and the paladin lost his patron, soooooo, no heals for my party.
JoCat's character with the wobbly head is called "JoCrap". The character came from his series "A crap guide to Monster Hunter" where the JoCrap character went over the different weapon playstyles and dunked on them and largely used when he wants to aggressively tongue-in-cheek things. The wibbly wobbly head is an actual piece of equipment you can get in the MH game, a giant plushie headpiece based off of the in-game monster called a wiggler.
Thank you my dear sir for enlightening all of the barbarians out there who probably just hit their computer/phone instead of reading it
@@lordthennek2045 f you for making the funny/info post into a more funny post
Why did I read this in the John Cena announcer voice?
If you like his ‘singing’ check out his “all the races” song, or the cover by cami-cat which is also great. Or both.
@KarSoban it warms my heart that this meme is still kicking
Also his wizard video.
That’s part of crap guide to dnd so he’s bound to react to it eventually.
Or his newest song
Someone combined both of there songs. Its out there now, so, look for it.
Little clarification, the creature narrating this is named JoCrap. JoCat is the human character who appears from time to time
"human" dont you mean catboy
@@jeph7434 let's just call him ex-human
Critical Role is like One Piece. If you're gonna get into it, you better have a year or so of free time.
A Barbarian multiclassing into Bard? Seriously, that way lies Abserd! remember the "Bardbarians?"
I love this
And it better be an orc to create an orchestra
Classical Rock star
Thumbs up for One Piece.
I remember playing that in pathfinder 1e as the class 'Skald' it is a rage bard that can give his allies rage powers as well ^^
done
Only wizards get flamethrower squirrels. Find familiar and dragon's breath.
Foolish fool, your foolery is unmatched.
The druid and ranger get the wizards trapped in the hacked BOH to cast their spells on the companions; or the wizards won't get their kibble.
Do you *want* the pocket wizards to starve?!
I think the reference to flamethrower squirrels is because you keep racial abilities when you wild shape. So Dragonborn still keeps its breath weapon even as a squirrel.
Circle of Wildfire Druid’s get it
Magic Initiate lol
Or Sorcerers can twin spell meta magic and get TWO flamethrower squirrels!
I'm pretty sure he misspelled 'Wrong' intentionally because it was the barbarian video and intelligence was the dump stat.
I mean, it is for anything not Wizards or Artificers (or select subclasses)
@@Dragonspirit223 not always, Maybe they want to be more intelligent than charismatic? it all depends on the player.
@@RobbyTheRogue mechanically its the least supported stat
@@Dragonspirit223All my characters with a strength dumpstat be like
Although to be fair they're mostly casters or dex based so yeah.. (bard/wizard, bard, bard/warlock, bard, bard/wizard, druid, druid, rogue, rogue, warlock, ranger/rogue, ranger/bard)
"Woud that make people who are artisticly good at muder bards?"
Let me introduce the College of Whispers....
Or in Skyrim, the dark brotherhood.
Or Jhin in League of Legends.
If you think he's flexing with singing, wait till you hear the races in D&D video
@@Squeekysquid Evocation elements to burn or shock or freeze your friends!
JoCat also has a Crap Guide to Monster Hunter which is how I found him
Thats actually the origin of his Jocrap persona
Its what got him popular in the first place
I first heard of him on Tuloks channel when he guest starred on his 200th episode when he built Thanos in D&D 5e.
"Is that Pink or Purple?"
It is called Magenta
I thought that was an X-men villain?
@@Airier that’s Magneto tho, if I’m not mistaken
@@Airier Say it with me now, "Mah-Gen-Tah"
Airier actually that's a Flash villain.
@@Bysthedragon,Blue's boyfriend from Blue's Clues?
Barb/Bard makes perfect sense.
Go full viking and call it a skald, singing epic poems of glory and heroes in the middle of the fight.
Sticks to Snakes was a real spell in the first two versions of D&D however has been removed from the more modern versions. Also the spell treats any single piece of non magical wood as a stick. Also I believe that all version of D&D that used the spell had it available to both clerics and druids, they just get it a different levels, so I don't know why there was a disclaimer about it not being available to druids.
Give me time. I have rulebooks for 2e AD&D and 5e. I am reasonably sure I can make it functional with the modern rule-set. It WILL be back...
@@Ilikecatsismychannelname Try Shillelagh rules.
@@Brutalyte616 It will go on my list of references.
Its in dnd if u play a yan-ti
Isn't there a magic item that is basically enchanted with that spell? Serpent Staff or something like that?
Never seen someone struggle to pronounce "Spruce" before
RIGHT?! I literally got up and walked up to my TV because I thought I read it wrong
"he could drop a pretty sick beat there."
You have NO idea. Watch wizard, fighter, and races.
I recommend, DON'T stab trees in a magical forest... I lost my magical sword that way. And angered the fairy queen.
Order of the *Stick:*
Evil-Father: "Why are you a multiclass-Fighter-Mage-Rogue. You have exactly the same skills as your bard brother."
Evil-Twin: "Well you always said bards were ridiculously underpowered."
Evil-Father: "They are! Why, with their understanding of narrative structure and trope lore, they should be ruling the universe by now."
JoCat's Crap Guide is awesome XD But honestly I just loved watching you react to these XD Everyone went through the 'Dammit I need to make this class now' because of him. But most importantly, I loved see you clearly enjoying these XD
"Oh god, Jeffrey Dahmer was a Bard!" This is the content I come here for.
A culinary bard.... hrm.
@@bretsheeley4034 small smooth brains assume that bards have to sing or play an instrument. But big wrinkly brains know that a Bard is simply someone that uses a form of artistic expression. They can sing, dance, paint, prance, make a pretty dirt drawing with a lance.
@@mrshadow4007 Plenty of ways to further enhance the battlefield if given the right chance.
teddie from persona 4 is also a bard.. had that realization, I am displeased.
Make a skald. They were warrior poet of the nordic culture during the time of the vikings. Perfect background for a bard/barbarian multiclass.
Or just a collage of valor without multiclassing
In pathfinder that's an actual hybrid class.
I didn't even need to read the title. I saw jocat and airer and was like "FINALLY!!!"
I love how, every time I watch this, and the subject of the "goose, breathing fire, with a mini-gun" comes up, I always say "It's a Gatling Gull", as if anyone is actually there to actually get the reference.
…Enter the Gungeon? Here? I know for a fact that one of the bosses in that game is named “Gatling Gull”
"Oh God, Jeffery Dahmer was a bard."
Don't know why this killed me.
"Okay he can drop a pretty good rhyme."
*laughs in cgtdnd: races*
The joke wasn't that they were The A-men as in Almighty, it's actually because ending a prayer saying Amen. Loving the reactions!!
If you go through the entire Crap Guide to DnD series, but some jokes you don't get, the likely reason would be that they originated from the first Crap Guides he made, Crap Guide to Monster Hunter (whi ch is where the wiggle worm helmet his character wears comes from). So, if you're looking for something way later to react to, you can check those out.
I haven’t got to play D&D myself, but I have put together some characters one of them is an Cleric named Susie Winerite
She is a female Orc with a serious case of man face, Who wishes to travel the world and hone her craft in a new form of healing she invented chiropractic.
Two years before "The backstreet boys reunion tour" lol (though in all seriousness Covid 19 is no laughing matter, but at the same time we should all keep our senses of humor....and sanity)
Fun fact: Bards were historically a Type of Druid, they were the Oral Historians of various Celtic Peoples. There is a reason why the Bard in 1e AD&D required you to start as a Fighter, then Dual Class (Stop leveling one class to level another, only available to Humans and Half-Elves (Other Demi-humans could Multi-class)) into Thief (Rogue) between Levels 5 and 7, then Dual Class into Druid after 5-8 levels as a Thief, then you could be a bard.
My group are actually playing as the A-men, a group of five clerics who all follow the Norse gods
It’s as dumb as you would expect, we have so much healing and we can bully almost anything
We got stuck against a flesh golem but we just cornered it and cast inflict wounds on it over and over again
"Repressing, repressing, repressingrepressingrepressing...aaannnd repressed."
Mood and a half
College or Lore bards are my absolute favourite. You can talk your way out of anything and steal all the best spells from other classes.
First pc I ever played, had a great time
"I've never actually watched Critical Role"
SQUAD, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!
"Oh god, Jeffery Dahman was a bard!" caught me so heavily off guard
Remember, these are older videos. Wild Magic Barbarian wasn't out yet.
JoCat’s crap guide is a good starting point with these classes so you have an idea of what their gimmick and what they’re about are before putting in the work, like a pitch
Yeah, Sticks to Snakes
It's a Cleric spell based on how Moses turned his staff into a large Cobra
College of whispers in a nutshell
Any artistically expressive murder hobo or serial killer
Aka jack the ripper
I got tired of being the designated healer of the party, so I made a True Neutral death-worshiping cleric fundamentally opposed to the concept of healing magic, since Death is awesome and using magic to delay it is blasphemy.
Just going to let you know right away, the character with the long neck and wiggly head is officially called JoCrap.
Sword and Shield is also the best weapon in Monster Hunter, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong and should be -killed to cleanse the gene pool of their stupidity- I mean ignored because they have a right to their own opinion, even if it's wrong.
Cleric is just amazing. I developed a combo with my beads of force, I call it the meat grinder. Used spiritual weapon on an enemy, then throw a bead of force at the group of enemies. Boom, now they're trapped in a hamster ball with an unkillable floating weapon tearing into every round
Speaking from experience, inflict wounds is only OP if you actually manage to hit your target. Take a guess how often that happens.
I don't know. Let's take a shot for every miss.
"Because I like broken shit"
Allow me to introduce the Bear totem Barbarian, Moon druid multiclass..... Welcome to every resistance in the game and Never dying again.
As for banning the cleric
I think it was either AD&D or AD&D 2ed where there was a disclamer that told the DMs that clerics are broken and it's fair to ban them at their table
Zee Bashew also does some good dnd animation and spells.
5:37 spruce (like the tree) nails
Inflict wounds can be used at level one
12:45 OH NO! You've become a DM's worst nightmare: the Bardbarian.
In DnD 1.1e, sticks to snakes was a level 4 cleric spell which turned 2d8 sticks (non-magic wooden items) into snakes for 6 turns or 16 minutes, with a 50% chance of them being poisonous. The size of the snake depending on the size of the 'stick'. A tree trunk or log could become a poisonous constrictor snake!!
Not sure if I missed the chance with this or has been brought up yet, but there are two "forgotten" episodes of the series, basically the first versions of an episode, namely only the Cleric and Warlock episodes. He made them and then got info and remade the episodes. They are in the descriptions of those episodes to check out so yeah.
I've heard mention of them. Might have to bug my Discord for the links, if anyone has them.
Jesus was a bard too. Granted he became a lich there at the end when he died and came back. I wonder what his phylactery is.
The Good Book of course
Sticks to Snakes takes inspiration from the Bible when the pharaoh's sorcerers threw their staves down to turn them into snakes and Moses did the same and his staff ate theirs. But, yeah, Sticks to Snakes is an old school D&D spell.
It has been quoted before so I will quote it again. "How does a player break a D&D game in three words? 'Play a Druid'" In vanilla D&D 5e, regardless of which circle they choose. A 3rd level druid can cast the 2nd level spell "Pass without Trace". (Which lasts 1 hour and does not use concentration) Then they can change into a spider with shapeshift. (any spider choice from the list will work). This gives them a +7 to stealth from the spider form and an additional +10 from the spell. They can literally have a +17 to stealth checks at level 3. In addition, the spider form will give them Darkvision, Blindsight and Spiderclimb (the ability to freely walk on walls and ceilings). This is just one of the many broken things a druid can do.
Made a 5e version
Sticks to Snakes 5e
Level 4 Transmutation spell
Available classes:Cleric and Druid
Duration:6 turns
Range:12 ft.
Spell components:A bundle of sticks
Effect:Summons 2d8 poisonous snakes. When cast as a higher level spell it summons 1d8 extra poisonous snakes per spell level above 4. Alternatively if faced with snakes you may use this spell to turn them into wood for the duration of this spell, rolling 2d8 to see how many you turn and with an identical upcast for later levels. No spell save.
I had a wild magic Barbarian in one of my games that used the d10k table for their wild surge rages. First major encounter is against a wizard. Barbarian rages and does his roll. It makes it so that anyone that wields the wizard’s weapon is silenced. Most of the wizard’s spells had a verbal component. I love the d10k table.
Please tell me that was a static effect based on your character. So that they just couldn't speak around him. 😁
As someone who has caught up to Critical Role in the first campaign when they were at episode 97 ( I caught up and watched live on episode 98; I had a LOT of free time), I will say I wouldn't worry too much about being caught up if you decide to watch it; especially for anyone who works, there just isn't enough time in the day. That said I can recommend checking it out; as mentioned, I've been a fan since the first campaign and I love it, and the community (99% of the time anyway) is awesome. Cheers!
"The last video made me want to play a Barbarian, now I'm considering multi class into a Bard"
Let's call this multi class Bardbarian
Using maces to beat drums or dance with very little armor/clothes to get the sweet, sweet Inspiration!
Be inspired by my side swings mother-------!
@@jackthorton10, and the pelvic thrust shall drive you Insane!
@@nickpossum3607 SO it would seem fine adventurer make it so for many a man or beast to bequest you their prize! Soldier onward!
“Supranuk-...Supra...Supranails?”
You know about Spruce trees right? XD
Love the vid
It should be mentioned that the Wild Magic Barbarian in 5E is nothing like the Wild Magic Sorcerer. They don't have any spells. Instead, they always create a random magical effect when they enter a Rage and all the effects are beneficial in some way. So, there's no risk/reward interplay, just different flavors of rewards that may or may not fit the current situation, making their table of effects completely different from Sorcerer's, being manifestations of the Rage itself.
Creating a larger table would have to be balanced differently, since it's rolled on near constantly, at least once per combat encounter in most cases. And the effect is usually ended whenever the Rage itself ends, so you can undo the effect if you don't like it for what you're currently doing, making any negative effects you might think of introducing nuisances instead of moment defining blunders, and as such likely not worth including on the table.
...Still a super neat subclass, though. Kinda like Barbarian that wanted to be a Bard but never decided what trades to be a jack of, randomly switching up their combat style all the time.
In case u didn't know, u can hit the space bar to pause the video
1:20 There is a "Not Interested" button, It's hiding behind the 3 dots that appear next to video when you hover your mouse over them.
"I'm verrrry tempted to multi-class into Bard now."
So....a Bard-barian, then?
"OH MY GOD, JEFFREY DAHMER WAS A BARD" was not a quote I was expecting to hear today.
next one should be a 1 and a half hours long video binging the rest of the guides
Recently finished an evil two shot in which I played a changeling College of Eloquence Bard, that was a VERY artistic serial killer.
JoCat is awesome, I found him at complete random last year due to RUclips recommendations. His D&D and Monster Hunter stuff was hilarious.
Spruce is a type of tree. Particularly, for Christmas trees.
This is now my favorite reaction to jocrap
Ps: by the end, he goes to character sheet and alignment then ends on DM with a huge collab
In case you were wondering, his channel started with Monster Hunter with his head being the "wiggler helmet" from Monster Hunter World. He also mains the sword and shield which is one of the less popular weapons.
So i case no one told you ~ The wiggly dude is actually JoCrap, his persona for all his Crap Guides (he also made a series on the Monster Hunter weapon archetypes), and the human guy you see a few times is actually JoCat as a character in his videos.
A wild magic barbarian is probably like if a druid decided to get really jacked and does a lot of steroids
Note to self, make a wild magic barbarian. 🤔
25:33 Animorphs!
They're making a movie.
But the authors jumped ship.
_I really hope it doesn't suck like the show. The books need re-printing._
Airier: *Mentions he is an english major*
Also Airier: *Can't fathom the word spruce*
This feels like such an X to doubt moment. 🤣
Never let it be said I claimed to be a good English major. 😁
@@Airier that is true. You never specifically said it.
Now do Jess Jackdaw, he shared an Air BnB with Jocat, Puffin, Dingo, and Dingo's fiancé last time they went to a con together
While Critical Role is a huge undertaking to start watching, every episode of it is gold, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys DnD, Voice acting, roleplay, comedy or just a damn good story. (Btw it is much easier to 'get into' if you skip campaign 1 as campaign 2 is a fresh start of level 1 characters).
Not too long ago, I came up with a most interesting idea for a Bard character.
Instead of the usual musical skill; MY Bard's abilities lie in other creative outlets like writing, acting/storytelling, painting/drawing and cooking. I asked if cooking could be a form of Bardic skill once and those who responded said yes, same with the drawing/painting and writing.
To elaborate, my bard possesses a magical quill/pen and paintbrush; anything they paint comes to life and anything they write down actually happens IRL. For example, if my bard wrote down that their enemy can't kill them with their pen...they would be magically compelled to not pull the trigger of their crossbow or firearm.
If my bard were to paint something like a dress, it would fall right off the easel and become the real thing. Lastly, as a cook; my bard would be able to craft confections and dishes so savory that they might be able to end thousand-year wars.
Does this all make sense to you guys?
So, you may have noticed a jump in quality in the Cleric video compared to the Bard and Druid ones. That's because he originally made a dunk piece on clerics, calling them healbots and nothing more, and got a lot of flack for it, because, as the new video demonstrates, they are so much more.
I love that these videos made him have a dnd version of a existential crisis 😂
The mask and the Wigglers, are from Monster Hunter. IIRC JoCrap, his character in this series of videos is from a Crap Guide to Monster Hunter he made before.
The name of the Dwarf Barbarian character is "Debbie Spruce-Nails." A spruce (rhymes with Bruce) is a type of tree.
One of my characters is a rebalanced Aetherborn Death Cleric. Rebalanced as in her vampiric gift is fixed so she gets a 1d8 heal whenever she deals damage through touch. So on top of being the most offensive cleric possible she can literally tank damage like a Barbarian.
I will concede that "A-Men" is a masterpiece of comedy.
You have the Letter "A" men that could mean the highest quality like A+ grades or Grade A meat. So A-tier men.
You got the reference to the "A-Team".
You got the reference to the "X-Men".
You got a reasonable name for a team of "Anointed Men" or "Almighty Men".
And, you have literally the word "Amen" in there... which is something you say after every prayer.
Genius.
If I had to be in a room filled with snakes, I'd want it to be a giant room.
If you want high broken look up Order Domain Cleric. I originally picked it for letting my allies attack whenever I cast healing word on them, but this shit gives you command as a bonus action, slow (not a cleric spell usually), and heavy armor on top of the usual suspects of spiritual weapon, guardian of faith, and guiding bolt.
15:10 College of Whispers says hello. And farewell, forever.
Also, funnest Cleric: Storm Domain Cleric who is also a Tiefling. Look at the Storm's Wrath ability of that Domain and then at what Tiefs get at lv 3.
It turns into a game of "Stop hitting yourself".
I found this channel today through this video and now I'm proceeding to watch some of your reaction video playlists; DBZA, SAOA, HUA... (a lot, I'm going to watch a lot of videos)
😁😊👍
28:00 The Goose wyvern thing is actually already in game, called a cockatrice, less goose and more chicken but same idea, In my dnd game I played one where we fought a cybornetically enhannced cockatrice that kicked our asses
😶😯😨
I saw the thumbnail and came running!
The more you watch him, the more you shall realize, Jocat is, in fact, a bard IRL.
Yup. I believe it.
@@Airier I see you did another Jocat video which I shall watch when I’m done with this one, I highly recommend doing the races video he did. Really flexes his bard skills.
I've actually got a couple recorded right now. I think I'm trying to look at all his stuff. If they're all at this level of quality, I want to see everything. 😁
The joke about how he was giving that tavern owner a reason to stay in business, I accidentally turned a blacksmith into a nobleman when I last played Bard (Technically Bard/Ranger, but it was a Bard with skills to survive in the wild... Backstory skills and it came in hand more than you think). Early in the campaign we did, after a fight and before an incident that got us paid ten-thousand gold a piece and kicked out of town out of fear by their mayor... I needed to fix my character's family dagger and needed information for the area. I paid the blacksmith for both and got what I needed... Then he questioned about the dagger being extremely "Beautifully crafted and unlike any he had seen before" then wanted to know more on it (A secret only the DM and me knew about the dagger is that it contains a literal God of death and will lure people to it by gazing upon it... It's super OP and I had no plans to use it often at all which is why the DM let me have it, on the condition he could make it a key item in the story... I agreed). I gave this blacksmith two gold coins (I started with fifteen due to starting gear and payment for successful rolls with a performance) and I forgot the party didn't know I was carry that much gold and didn't expect me to pay that much. I asked the blacksmith to "Forget he ever saw me and the dagger"; I bought his silence. He then repaired, sharpened, and cleaned ALL our gear for free and gave us bonus info.
When we had to eventually come back to that town, because of the campaign's reasons... We were expecting to be jailed, because of why we were forced to leave. Instead, we were welcomed as honored guests and found out he blacksmith was now a nobleman who outranked who outranked the mayor. He took those two gold coins and invested... He was also waiting for they day to repay my "kindness". He had, without us knowing, made it known that my Bard was to be treated as if part of his family... To the entire town. Thanks to this we got our quest in that town done much more easily, got an army of Kobolds under my command (LONG story), and also we obtained rare gear. Except me. I refused the expensive armors and stuff and even the notoriety (I was going hard with my character's backstory through the campaign. Instead, I asked if he had a Ring Of Warmth. He did and handed it over, although he wanted to know why I just wanted a cheap ring. This is because that, to be fair for making an OP item I was allowed to have, I gave my character a LOT of flaws. One of them came up a few times and almost killed my Bard many times over. She was highly susceptible to cold... As in it will kill her if she passes out in it. The Ring Of Warmth is ONLY uncommon so it can be bought or found pretty decently. Despite it being uncommon... It has resistance to cold. But it's not just that. You can endure, with you and your gear absolutely unharmed, with temperature down to -50 degrees Fahrenheit. From this point on in that campaign, the DM had to repeatedly hit his head against the desk when I began to be used as a cold-shield for the party to hide behind so long as it wasn't below -50. Let me put that in perspective... My character became able to withstand ARCTIC COLD temperatures and this is a DM that went with objects as reference. When we ran into a Dragon that breathed ice, he specified it breathed a breath as cold as snow from the North (He meant North Pole). I was a living, breathing shield in that fight as I tanked ICE BREATH so our Dwarf could cleave its head off (They came up with a plan to use me as a distraction so they could dislodge a massive icicle above its body with the Dwarf riding it on the way down so he could use the momentum to cut its head off... We succeeded). As a reference, because the DM looked this up during the moment I said "I run straight at its face to take a shot at its eye (I had a unique... Odd... Weapon... I had arrows on hand but no bow, because I literally used my lyre-harp as a bow... The party loved that thing)". He was shocked, clarified that "You know it'll hit you POINT-BLANK with ice-breath right?" to which I replied "I know... I plan on it".
I secretly sent him a text and he immediately checked it out... Arctic snow can get as cold as -40 in the Winter... Dumbfounded, he waited until I took the hit and the party seriously thought I was a Halfling ice-sculpture, until... "You all see the attack settle, and your party's Bard is staring down this massive Dragon... Untouched. She fires her arrow into its eye and blinds it on one side. You all realize that your Bard is basically untouchable by the cold of the beast as her Ring Of Warmth glows on her necklace" (Had it as a necklace, because we had a joke about it not fitting her tiny hands). Now it says resistant to cold, but he was impressed by this feat that he had me write down that I was now immune to ice, so long as I had the ring. It worked out too, because this character HAD to stay alive until the end for this double-whammy reveal the DM had planned.
Ah I miss that campaign. We had so much fun with our shenanigans when we managed to tame small Bronze Dragons to ride across the ocean. I'll miss my Bard and my Bronze Dragon named Tod.
The Campaign ended with EVERYONE except my character dead... She's kinda trapped in an endless void within a time-trap. Basically she's in a dimension that has nothing in it left and time has ceased entirely. Although, technically it's not her, it's the God in the dagger who now is using her body and is forever forced to writhe in agony, because now he knows emotions and pain. We basically ended the campaign by forcibly teaching a God the price of power... And now he has to suffer that for eternity. The DM wanted a memorable campaign... He got a memorable campaign. Also, he purposely kept pestering my Sweetheart to get me to try D&D again, because he heard about the LAST time I ever played it wound up ending with the DM drawing a knife on me and going to jail... The reason he wanted me in it was because of a character I last played nicknamed "Doctor Quack" and long story short, Doctor Quack killed his entire party, on purpose, by invoking the wrath of a Red Dragon that burned them all alive much to the DM's horror and fury... We all hated that campaign and wanted it over with and I used a loophole the DM gave us as his way of being "nice", but he never thought one of us would use it to forcibly end the game FOREVER. Doctor Quack was a legend to my Sweetheart's friends, and after a lot of convincing, and a Renaissance Fair with them all... I gave in.
I came up with Lilith Nightshade the Bard/Ranger. He had no idea what to expect with me playing but he admitted he hoped he would see a LITTLE bit of the out-of-the-norm from me... He got that in session two when I straight up tortured an assassin... Good times. I still remember the horror on everyone, except my Sweetheart, and the DM pulled me aside when we were done for the night to ask about it but then ended the conversation with "Bring more of that... WHATEVER that might be, bring more of that out of nowhere surprising stuff". I kept surprising them, going from torturing people who deserved it to falling over a cliff riding an outhouse to catch our Rogue and Cleric while the Dwarf was beating down a Goblin inside the thing... Lots of antics. In the end we went through a lot of emotions in that finale. Betrayal... Loss... Shock... Fury... And even happiness. My character was purposely designed to be distrustful and on edge... Because I wanted to literally bring a bit of myself in that character. I was distrustful of playing D&D after what happened in the past. Through the game that Bard opened up steadily, became attached to those around her and when it came time to utter those scripted words I had planned out for the end... I cried. Because I had to tell them something horrible when the Wizard betrayed us as the BBEG and asked me to join her since she could use someone with my "talents". I had to have my character face her friends as she took that deal and say "By your hands I have been raised... By my hands you will be laid low". The DM scripted that twist, but even he didn't expect it to hurt. I cried that whole fight as I killed the party with the Wizard until only the two of us remained. He described it as "While fighting you see she is crying; she is smiling, but she is crying", it felt right to us to think of it as this character didn't want to kill them, but something unsaid made her go through with it. Just when they thought it was the end of the campaign...
The DM revealed the final twist... "The Wizard, while gazing upon the land she will soon conquer... Suddenly feels a cold chill in her chest, in her heart". The Wizard stumbled and turned to see the Bard had taken the cursed dagger and stabbed her through her back into her heart with it. "The Bard was never on anyone's side... The Bard was obedient to her God for the price of her revenge" and then he had us fight each other, with the Wizard having disadvantages on rolls due to losing blood rapidly and slowly dying unable to heal her wound, because the dagger makes wounds that can't heal... Again, OP dagger I never used. She eventually falls at the Bard's feet, begging as to why she betrayed her. The Bard winds up giving her body to her God, who isn't prepared at all, because he was a God in another Plane and never felt before... But in a mortal body, he could feel, and he felt it ALL. He felt the Bard's physical wounds, he felt her emotions, and he felt her relief. Her revenge she told the party was to avenge her family... They thought she meant the assassins who killed them... She meant the God that led them to that point and had them killed that they worshipped. In the end two spells, the God's and the Wizard's, clashed and destroyed everything... Leaving the God locked for eternity in a void with emotions and pain he couldn't comprehend. The only way in that campaign to torture a God like that was to submit your body to it with wounds, because then it would die and be forced to reincarnate... In THAT campaign I took it further, by torturing it with guilt, pain both physical and emotional; I didn't just beat a God... I traumatized it with eternal PTSD.
As for the party, they'll be resurrected in a new life in a new dimension with their memories in tact, except the Wizard and the Bard; because they had their souls wandering the void. They'll learn about what happened by the Deities that witnessed it all and hold no remorse for the God sitting imprisoned. They'll learn what Lilith Nightshade did and what she asked as her true final wish. "To restart fresh... With my family I made on the way... Maybe somewhere else, far, far from here. Maybe even across stars in a place unknown. I will not likely look the same... I hope not... Last thing I want is for them to see the face that hurt them. I can't wait to see what adventure awaits us when we next meet."
New campaign is set to begin soon and they will meet "Lilith Nightshade" in her new body, name, and life in the first town. But she won't have memories of her past life, only they will. No twist planned next time either, it's going to be a mystery campaign, so not too much fighting really. Solving puzzles and earning a lot of money mostly.
YES!! FINALLY!!! I LITERALLY DROPPED THE VIDEO I WAS STARTING TO WATCH WHEN I SAW THIS!!!!
Also fun fact related to how he react to the cleric low level spells - First class I played was cleric and when I cast Inflict Wounds for some reason 75% of the time I got a Crit-20 + Our homebrew rule that Fritz do Max dice DMG + your roll instead of just double the dice.
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Gracias.
One of the most ridiculously easy to achieve yet overpowered multiclass combos i've ever seen? Start with 2 levels in Paladin and then EVERYTHING ELSE in War Cleric.
I recently had the idea of playing a Bard loosely based on Kamen Rider Hibiki... who basically beats on his enemies with over-sized drumsticks.
This series is going to be a blast
Well made reaction while the original content is alread great you still managed to give the video some extra flavor.
Everyone reading so far have an amazing day.
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My first bard was suposed to be a good guy but got cursed and some how became a mass murder serial killer and my group had no idea it was me