Matt Mercer's Cobalt Soul Monk - Dungeons and Dragons
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2018
- Today we dive back into the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting (amzn.to/2zHmvSU) by Matthew Mercer from Critical Role. We're using knowledge as a weapon, with the Way of the Cobalt Soul Monastic Tradition for Monks.
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Matt Mercer's Cobalt Soul Monk - Dungeons and Dragons
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Extort Truths
"It only lasts for a minute but I got plenty of knuckles" -Beau
Plenty of time.
I totally agree with what you said about this subclass being a great addition to buffing Intelligence in 5th edition. I'm a big fan of Matt's gunslinger subclass for the same reason.
Anything to get some extra justification for Intelligence in the game.
Debilitating barrage effects last for one minute OR until the creature suffers damage of that type. So one minute of vulnerability to fire or until you hit him with a fire bolt.
That seems right. I think I was thrown off with the ordering - it feels like 5e typically lists it as "vulnerability on the next attack of said type, lasting up to 1 minute". Ah well such it is :) Thanks for the comment!
@@TitanGamingTV as I see it, it would apply to whichever comes first, either a minute goes by with the vulnerability and without the target being hit by the damage type chosen, or the target is hit once by the damage type chosen, and then the effect fades.
Marisha has managed to create a really nice synergy with sentinel and mind of mercury which is amazing. I have a Cobalt Soul Monk on my list of characters to play and am looking forward to fucking shit up with her
Totally. Stoppin that chaos in its tracks!
oh, I thought it was the kobold soul.
You and many others!
"NO TAKE CANDLE!!!"
Aaaaaand punch.
Me to
@@pivs i did as well brother
Someone please make Kobold Soul monk a race specific class. It would be so goofy.
Had a player in an intrigue based one shot play one, but she was... simple yet effective in her uses of her features, instead of the suggested 'smoothness' that the class seemed to want you to use. Prime example was her way of using extort truth being a nipple twist
That'll get ya talking!
I think the debilitating barrage feature works the same way as the Grave Cleric's Path to the Grave that lasts until the end of the Cleric's next turn, so if for some reason no one attacks the creature it's lost by then. So the Debilitating Barrage would last for one minute, if no one hits it with the specified damage type until then, it is lost.
That's how I think it works anyway.
I’d like to thank you sir for running through the Guide as it has really challenged my schema that all home brew content is over powered. Thank you, sir
Yes of course! I have the same feeling personally, I'm sooo jaded from the 3.5/PF days when professional splatbooks contained the most egregiously unbalanced nonsense. Mercer does a great job keeping things toned to PHB/Xanathar's levels of power.
Loving the critical role content, you should do more from the book
Be sure to check out the other archetype videos we've done. Its not in the publication of course, but Gunslinger is gonna be the next Mercer target!
Titan Bear Gaming I play a gunslinger! I look forward to it!
Finally!! Not a fan of the Cobalt soul, but still been waiting for this one. Edit: I was not a fan of the cobalt soul. I don't know between me reading it myself and the way Marisha plays it, I didn't care for the class but man do you sell it!!
She often doesn't. She mostly just plays the core class without much of her tradition... with a bit of an edgelord combat style mixed in sadly.
@Spinkick Media the abilities are all really bad, with the exception of spending ki to get back reactions. That's a cool ability. But otherwise Marisha is correct in just using ki for flurry and stunning strikes.
@Spinkick Media Beauregard
is also level 7 right now, so most of these aren't even available yet.
@tmWasted not everyone can see the show live :(
@tmWasted that was so cool!!!! That was the coolest marisha moment ever and like even after. Good stuff
You know what would be nice? A monk that dwells with the arcane, one that feels the "magic energy" in all living and non-living things (so yeah, I'm talking about the Jedi, because monk/arcane cleric just won't do)
Love seeing these indie 5e spotlights. Great video!
When they're good, people should know about em!
Spoiler for Critical role.
6:20 Marisha used "Extort Truth" last night against Avantika in Ep. 43.
Appreciate the spoiler tag Richard. Also appreciate the point out!
I think the class has a lot of potential. It's just up to the player. Personally I would go for a detective type character. This class would start to get really powered up as you take feats and increase Dex or Int.
This kit will work very well for a sniffer of the truth!
Another great conses breakdown! Love it! :D
Cheers Tim!
To best answer the question about Debilitating barrage, I would say that it works in the same since as the spell suggestion.
Once that chosen damage type is used on the person affected by debilitating barrage the spell ends. If the chosen damage type is never used on the person in the span of one minute the spell ends regardless.
From the way Matt has worded it it would be what ever happened first either the one minute comes to an end or the The enemy takes the type of damage Love your videos😊
Thanks Chantel!
Seeing as monks are very efficient at saving money by not needing weapons and maybe armor I'm surprised there isn't a subclass named "Way of Commerce" where a character is a monk that has abilities to maximize profit in and out of battles :p
This needs to be a thing now. Funny idea.
On D&D Beyond, I made a Cleric Free Market Domain as a joke.
I've been trying to figure out how to build that kind of subclass for a while, but college keeps me from working on it much.
I believe what Matt meant about debilitating barrage is that it lasts for up to a minute or until they take the specified damage. So for example if they don't take the specified damage for 1 minute the effect ends however say the vulnerability was necrotic and the target was hit with a chilled touch then the effect would end once damage is applied.
That's probably right. Thanks for chiming in Bambouk!
Made a monk subclass similar to this, in that you can find our about other creatures. Its called way if the empath, a bit of a support role. One of my favorite abilities I gave it was being able to sense other creatures alignments. Way of Cobalt Soul is brilliant, love that kinda support monk
The Way of the Empath is a great name!
@@TitanGamingTV Thanks! I made a subclass for each of the classes for my second campaign. I might touch them up and put them on DM's guild. Id love to see any subclasses youve made if you've done any :) love the channel
Great content! Keep it up!!
Thanks King Yoshi!
I would probably rule it as Extract Aspects giving useful information in a non-numerical way, such as named AC ranges that aren't perfectly accurate but give the adventurers a good idea.
From what I understand by how Matt runs the game, the level 17 ability is exactly "1 minute, OR until hit by that damage type. So it gives one time to be hit with that vulnerability.
Thats most likely. I wonder what felt weird about its phrasing here, typically these kinds of these are very straightforward in 5e.
@@TitanGamingTV One often gets lost when delving deep into the mind of the Mercer
You have such a great smile, its infectious.
Aw thanks Deku! Very kind of you.
I don't know if Matt has addressed it but how I read it was it ends when they take damage or if they don't take any damage of that type within a minute it ends
in other words a badass librarian, nice
Thank you for posting this video.
Any chance you’ll do a video on the 4 cleric domains from Planeshift Amonkhet? It is considered UA playtest since WotC posted it for introducing Magic the Gathering lore into a DnD5e setting.
I'll take a look. Did you find something in there you liked?
At glance, it looks like the 4 domains introduced in the Supplement (solidarity, strength, ambition, and zeal) seen to have a mix of archetype abilities from the PHB cleric archetypes.
Like the Strength Domain Cleric has the druid cantrip access and heavy armor proficiency like a Nature Cleric but also the Feat of Strength channel divinity option which is like the Guided Strike from War Cleric but applied to any Strength roll.
This supplement has that and its cool to see how the different cleric abilities would interact.
This + knowledge cleric= ULTIMATE KNOWITALL
For reals.
This video was great, but if I am being honest:
I subbed for that majestic beard.
This almost reminds me of a group of people from Mistborn books. Kinda spoilery stuff here so don't read this if you are reading or plan to read the books any time soon.
In the Mistborn series, The Keepers are a clandestine group that uses a set of abilities to store memories (and thus knowledge) in metal, specifically copper, items - almost always jewelry so it could be easily transported, concealed, etc. But any piece of pure copper would work so long as they could touch it. Their ultimate goal is to safeguard the knowledge and remain hidden from the big bad guy of the first book until such a time it is safe to come out of hiding and spread the knowledge he tries to repress and erase.
They also have the ability to store other things in different types of metals, such as storing strength, speed, senses (vision, hearing, etc), and even things like physical weight. So if they got knocked off a cliff, they could immediately begin storing weight and would weigh so little that their body's normal surface area would slow the fall enough to prevent injury. Or in a reverse scenario, if they needed to jump out of a pit, they could store weight, instantly become lighter, then draw on stored strength and jump significantly higher than normal. Of course while storing these things, that specific attribute would become weaker/lesser for the duration. And when storing memories, they are instantly gone from that person's mind until needed and accessed from that "coppermind."
So not exactly the same, but definitely a very similar feel between the 2 groups.
Nice relation there Reyn! The Mistborn series is hyuge.
That lvl 11 ability makes this subclass a great duelist
Totally, so many build avenues.
@@TitanGamingTV Do you think a multi-class after lvl 11 would be better than going all the way to 17 and beyond?
So what was changed specifically between the updated version and the book
Miss your vids Alex! Hope you’re doing well!
very cool subclass; just wish it had a different name (we already have the sun soul monk after all) like the cobalt mind (since it is much more about knowledge)
Im with you there!
The thing is that the name is based on an order of monks of his campaign.
Hey, TBG. I found a cool homebrew class called the Magus on DM's Guild by Benjamin Huffman, I was hoping to get your thoughts on it?
Link me, I'll take a look.
@@TitanGamingTV Sure www.dmsguild.com/product/200237/the-Magus-Class the class is pay what you want
Shou out to advantican not wanting to answer knowing she would spit de truth!
Gotta have smart NPCs in the mix!
What kinda vestige will beau get that compliments this class? I'm thinking something that gives advantage on insight maybe? That could help with knowledge gathering.
I highly doubt we'll see vestiges in Campaign 2
@@HixNBA1523 why not? Their are vestiges located all over exandria. All the nein need is an excuse to get them like the war for example.
@@user-pi8pi3wj7h i think that would be a bit redundant and almost "expected", and that is something that Matt is not.
In the Tal Dorei campaign guide, there's a vestige know as the Wraps of Dyamak, designed to increase the powers of a monk's strikes. It gives the +atk/damage roll bonuses of magic weapons to an unarmed strike gives temp HP after a rest, lets you cast Misty Step once per crit or rest, and the ability to do a crazy punch that drains the target's hp to heal the monk. Cool stuff, so probably something along that vein.
@@alessiocasagrande7916 true but otherwise he'll have to compensate in some way, their characters will be vastly underpowered without vestiges by the time they catch up to vox machina. It isn't about what is or isn't expected though, if the cast wants vestiges matt will give them vestiges.
the 17th level ability lasts for 1 minute BUT as soon as they are hit with the specified damage type the effect ends. i dont see how this was confusing but whatevs
I’m not sure where the confusion about the L17 ability is. It’s pretty clear in the writing? For 1 minute they become vulnerable to that damage type, until they take damage if that type. What is the point of confusion?
Hey, just reaching out here. I'm a huge fan of your channel and was wondering if you were still active or if you've migrated to a different one?
where can I find this book of wondrous things
Oh my goood!
Cobalt Soul is pretty great!
The oh my god was not for the Cobalt soul lol I Just missed your uploads for like the last month and thought the Channel was dead, which would be a Shame, because i love your content. So I was pretty happy when I Saw this.
Well its good to be back!
What about the ravnica book subclasses
I did UA videos for each of those, but I havent checked yet if substantial changes were made before they were published in Ravnica. Check out their UA videos!
I really like the subclass, but I'm worried about the super MADness it requires: dex, con, wis and now intelligence?! Yikes...
You need less INT when you get expertise in the INT skills, no?
That's what makes it interesting. If people were going for straight optimization of their skills, cleric should always be the number one choice. Bulk wisdom and constitution and wear plate armour and you're a god, but relatively boring.
Forcing the careful selection like this makes it more interesting to me. You can't dump all your modifier increases into two skills and be finished, it takes thought and planning.
Matt Mercer specifically made a joke about how they said he couldn’t turn a class into a 4 ability score class... he did it that way on purpose but man it makes the class kinda bad if you don’t allocate the proper things necessary for it
Back in 3.x we had paladins which were 5 ability score "dependant". You know what?
It made for some rather varried paladin builds depending on where you wanted to put your high abilities without a lot of subclasses. You could make a strength-based damage dealer, a con-based tank, a charisma-based build to take advantage of other class abilities (lay on hands, divine grace, turning, etc), and you'd also be drawn to putting points in int for the expertise feat and skill points (because you never had enough skill points as a paladin for even your core stuff) and wisdom for spellcasting.
You could make a generalist or you could specialize at excelling at a specific area of your class features.
Charisma paladins were common enough that they got a special name for the build (chaladins), but there were plenty of gruff low-cha dwarven paladins out there too.
MAD is a bad way to think about it, IMO. Rather, classes would feel a lot less cookie-cutter if they can make use of different abilities in different ways, being both mechanically effective and different with different stat blocks plunked in.
I find the design style that makes classes need high stats in 2 abilities and then play nearly the same reguardless of where you put the leftovers far less interesting and far more limiting, personally.
It's not even like you need a particularly high int to make good use of the class features. Even just a 12 would _double_ the number of reactions you could make in a round, and then the training could fill in your proficiencies.
3.5 MAD =\= 5e MAD
I like the point you’re trying to make, but the systems are so incomparable that it’s just not applicable to the situation.
Monks absolutely REQUIRE dexterity and wisdom. With this subclass, they also require intelligence.
Constitution and strength aren’t 100% necessary but having low health as a melee class is damning... strength can be dumped tho, but it ruins athletics and that’s kind of important for monks.
So if you roll below average or use the point buy/standard array, this is an AWFUL class archetype to go because it makes your archetype features (other than advantage on intelligence ability checks) worthless
Didn't like the Bloodhunter that much, but the Cobalt Soul Monk is insanely great roleplay-wise and also fairly fun to play combat-wise... maybe the only downside is that ALSO requires Intelligence, which means Monks need good investment in Dex, Wis, Con AND Int, instead of the general Dex, Wis and Con investment...
Yeah thats a pretty popular concern.
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Is this channel named titan bear gaming because you're a bear 🤔
I mean...you're not really wrong
Oo, it got a like. Clearly that must mean it's true. No point in arguing
k3rr4 rom3us it’s because he is a very tall bear dressed as a human
@@conradkorbol I like the way you think
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I disagree with your remark that wizards are the only class that uses Int a Rouge, Fighter or a Bard Gain mad benifits if they throw a good stat into it.
I play a Monk and I made intelligence my dump stat in this game with a 9... Trade off is I have 20 Dex and Wis at level 1 cuz of great rolls and being a Half-Elf/proper background. Ill play a -1 Int mod if I start my game with 20 AC
Super strong AC to start the game with.
Man you Look Like Hauke from German RUclips Channel rocketbeans tv
I suppose I can see it!
Imagine being some sick weak wizard laughing at a party of adventurers as you cast Invulnerability, only for a monk to hit you three times take no damage then get hit by a 8th level inflict wounds by the cleric.
Anyone else extremely bothered by the little bald spot underneath Alex's moustache? Still love your vids tho 😉
Thanks Rik. I do what I can about it, but some things cant be helped :P
Just because Matthew Mercer designed this class Doesn't mean I like it, it is terrible in so many ways it is far and away the worst possible Monk.
I love Matt. But giving sudo expertise is crap. No, sorry.
It is only on knowledge skills, so at least its limited in that regard. Physical skills will still be the domain of the rogue expertise, at least.
*psuedo
Mercer needs to stop worrying about making a broken class and make something fun and useful to play. All of his homebrew classes are just bad across the board.