Fun story. I gave it to players towards the end of a campaign. With very little paint to prevent them from cheesing a dungeon...they still did by draining a lake into a dungeon.
Man I remember when shal'dazar got +10 in most stats from just buyying a ton of the tomes at the end of our campaign with the "end of game have fun" money
With Illusionist's Bracers, I prefer bladesinger Wizard with Booming blade, if you are level 17 with +5 in dex and int you deal 3d8+6d8+30 damage a round without using any spell slots.
Fun idea: Make the mirror of life trapping a shield but only let it hold friendly units. See how your players break the game with that. It is quite a bit harder to do but when it happens it really makes for some awesome moments.
Hmm... Illusionist Bracers sounds like it'd be great for a Bladesinger. Their extra attack feature explicitly lets them use cantrips, and in a neat coincidence you don't actually need to be using a melee weapon or have Bladesong active. So an elf bladesinger could shoot a bow, then fire off two firebolts. Or you could go the more traditional route and bonk someone with a melee weapon, then drop greenflame blade, booming blade, shocking grasp, or swordburst if you're surrounded. The last neat little trick I can think of would be using double lightning lure to pull an enemy a fair distance to bonk them.
These videos are great for some inspiration, I'm adding the Marvelous Pigments into my Icewind Dale campaign with a new NPC who is basically Bob Ross and a retired extremely powerful wizard who now sits in a wood cabin and goes around painting snowy scenery and he needs the party to clear out the Cackling Chasm full of gnolls because he wants to paint in peace and he'll give that to them as a reward "to see the magic of painting and art in your life" because I know my players will love that item.
The fact that manuals boost your max makes me feel bad whenever I want to use it on a stat that I can't get to 20 without it because of how good that is. Also when you get the CON manual and literally everyone in the party wants it.
Illusonist's Bracer on a Warlock is sick. Wait a second couldn't you cast Booming Blade hit and then BA Booming Blade on another creature with those bracers?
Wait, you mean, 30wis, 30dex Thats +20 on your 10 ac so you and get 30 with no armor, get a shield so 32, shielding spell +5 for a moment 37 and ring of protection 38 for a turn 33 permanently, you can also get +3 shield so 36 AC
@@SebastiansSebastian-fc4pj Better is if you use 30 wis, 30 dex for 30 AC, then equip robe of the arch magi for 35, then bracers of Defense and staff of power for 39, +3 sheild for 44 then cast sheild every reaction and have someone use haste on you for 51 AC.
The scimitar of speed cannot be used to get off 2 sneak attacks. That is a gross miss translation of the RAW. For instance, it is also stated you get 1 reaction per turn. This doesn't mean you get to use multiple reactions. A turn lasts through an entire round until it is your turn again. You get one sneak attack per your turn. Not one sneak attack on any turn. It is a feature that has 1 charge, and that charge refreshes at the start of your turn.
Imagine being a Lich or similarly immortal creature and you own a complete set of those books shown at #1 or imagine if you had access to a time chamber or something similar... Can you see where I'm going with this? XD
@@Luffy-un5du pag 173 player'handbook "Ability Scores and Modifiers " = Adventurers can have scores as high as 20, and monsters and divine beings can have scores as high as 30. Each ability also has a modifier, derived from the score and ranging from -5 (for an ability score of 1) to +10 (for a score of 30). The Ability Scores and Modifiers table notes the ability modifiers for the range of possible ability scores, from 1 to 30.
idea: 19:00 be Immortal lich, get at least 1-2 of those books. use them each century as you quietly & non-threatheningly wait it out. and ofcourse spend each century scouring the world for more books. ? profit
Ah, Scimitar of Speed. Also known as one of the many key mechanics that makes Two Weapon Fighting absolutely fucking useless compared to other martial playstyles.
Pretty good idea for a campaign with the mirror of lifetrapping being held by the gods in which they've trapped the only living tarrasque inside of it. The gods have bound the mirror to where it acts as an eternal prison where the creature can't escape even if the mirror is broken, however, the plot happens where someone has managed to mysteriously free the creature from the mirror, and now it's your job to embark on a journey to find out where the creature is and how it escaped.
The Tomes are SO good. You literally just reminded me that my Warlock, who has gotten his hands on one tome in the past and currently has a score of 20 CAN RAISE IT UP TO 22! I completely forgot that it raises your maximum as well and we are currently at lvl 7 so next time we level up, OH BOY!
Playing a one-shot. I had already committed to an Eldritch Blast Warlock build. THEN I found Illusionist Bracers. I'm very much looking forward to using this.
@@edsiefker1301 Ah sorry, it makes sense that you'd interpret "movement" as moving across the map. I meant it more like raising your arm to attack, flicking your wand to cast a spell, the rise and fall of your chest as you breathe, blinking, etc. That kinda movement. There's no reason to get overly specific unless you want to. Everyone moves in combat scenarios all the time, all you need to do is specify what is happening in your own situation because it fits the nature of an RPG more than calling out invisible game mechanics in-character.
Lol the save or die mirror sounds like a fun way to trap entire party in the mirror and then shenanigans ensue. Need to sneak your party into a wear house? Everyone jump in the mirrior and I'll try and bluff my way in with the mirror! Lol
if the creature who breaks the staff takes 16 times the amount of damage, then you could use suggestion, command or a similar spell to persuade the BBEG to break the staff himself, that would be 2560 damage! They do have a 50% chance to be teleported away though. Is there something like 3.5's dimensional anchor to prevent them from avoiding the blast in 5e? Regardless, I thought it was a little niche funny use. If you are able to compel a BBEG, you basically won already anyway, so this card-- sorry, this use falls into the gimmick category.
Yeah it's gonna be very tough, but if you manage to do it, it's an instant win! You can use suggestion once and they're most likely not gonna be hostile afterwards, so with some luck you can pull it off and deal an unholy crapton of damage
About the Mirror, you should be able to use banishment on yourself, so you go back to your native plane. Also, you can't put it into a Bag of Holding for portability, because it's a dimensional artifact.
elves can live up to 750 years, an elf with all the six books could get a +14 to all of his stats in 700 years, and dont make me start on archdruid elfs
@@Gargandan the lore says that the warforged have only existed for 20 years and have not yet been seen to age, not that they cannot age. "The maximum lifespan of the warforged remains a mystery; so far, warforged have shown no signs of deterioration due to age."
You really underestimate the power of 5% chance. Our group had Helm of Brilliance for 1+ year and nobody red the effect of "whenever wearer takes fire dmg, Helm can explode". First session we red this part we got fire explosion in our characters faces and failed Helms save immediately. It was a shock, but a funny one.
Since now one else commetned it: While the position of the class can be debated, a Mutant Bloodhunter can also reach a Strength of 23. Only a minor nitpick.
Use the Mirror of Life Trapping on friendly characters. Get the princess out of the tower by sneaking in as a worker with a package, holding up the mirror so she can see it, then casually walk out. If stopped by a guard who wants to know what you've got, show him, and keep going. Mortally injured NPC who must be brought back alive? He won't get any worse while inside the mirror.
The DM in my campaign asked us what magic items she should put in the latest boss’s lair. I convinced her to give us a tome of clear thought for my artificer and she threw in a tome of understanding (for the cleric, druid and ranger to fight over). Can’t wait to “break the game” by giving people +6 with flash of genius instead of just +5 and healing an extra 1 hit point when I cast a healing spell. I’m sure the cleric feels the same. In all fairness, we’re level 18, the ranger has had a home brew item that gives him +2 wis and max wis since level 10, and the druid is the reason we had to take a detour to the elemental plane of water and fight the boss in the first place (he got his soul stolen when he pulled a card from the deck of many things).
My paladin of Ra had a helm of brilliance, and he also picked up some magic resistance. He liked running into the middle of fights shouting “RA!” And dropping fireballs point blank on people.
I got the charisma tomb on my bard warlock tabaxi in an organized play group called OOC and even having one of those shits was game changing, having a stat above a +5 in any capacity is bonkers
If you have staff power and contingency your golden because you can set it so that if the staff brakes you're automatically teleported to another location or plane. I would use shift to the ethereal because if Ariel jaunt is a low-level spell and returning turn the ethereal plane with it is really easy you can just turn it off.
i one time got the helm of brilliance ate level 5 becaus my dm rolled for loot(*never do it whit out a ton oh hombrew laws for leveld loot). lets just say he wasnt happy(he nurffed it by saying that its had less gems)
Afaik there is a hard cap on stats at 30. So the tomes can't be used infintely. Still neat to have a character with 30s in each stat if they find one of each and live long enough to use them repeatedly.
A little niche but the all purpose tool for artificers. Getting a boost to saving throw dc is rare and the ability to have proficiency, and in turn exertise with any tool is really really good.
The initiation inside joke reminds me of Arkham Horror. I used to play that game all the time, and have a friend that would call stamina "stanima", and eventually we all did lol
The mirror would be a good trap. Say you present it as a gift to an evil and vain king, and then trap them in it when they start posturing to their reflection that evening.
I've used a number of these in one-shots and campaigns. I used the Helm of Brilliance for a fight against a whole swarm of giant spiders, the Bronze Horn of Valhalla against a Lich (they couldn't do anything against the lich, as he was immune to non-magical weapons, but they really helped against the horde of skeletons the lich kept summoning), and I used the Peregrine Mask in a battle against an avatar of Tiamat. Fun times all round :D However! I think my favourite very rare item is the Amethyst Lodestone. It comes with 6 charges that recharge 1d6 charges at dawn. It also always gives advantage on STR saving throws while carrying it (and by that wording, you don't have to be attuned to it) For a bonus action (and 1 charge), you gain a 10min fly speed equal to walking speed. Might now sound like much, but if you're playing a monk like I was, it is GODLY! It also lets you hover, meaning you can never be knocked prone, and won't fall out the sky if knocked unconscious or stunned. For an action (and 1 charge), you can force any creature within 60ft to make a DC 18 STR saving throw, or be pushed 20ft in any direction of your choice (including, but not limited to, straight up to help induce fall damage; off a cliff; driving them hard into the ground... which works especially well if they'd standing on a somewhat fragile surface, like a layer of ice on a lake; etc) My favourite though is that, as an action, you can expend 3 charges to cast Reverse Gravity... a spell with a 50ft radius (100ft diameter) area, sending everything within that area 100ft into the air. If there happens to be anything near them that's affixed to the floor, they get a DEX save to grab hold of it and not be sent into the sky... but otherwise they have no choice in the matter unless they're flying through magical means (and thus are able to hover). If there's a hard surface within that 100ft height, they take fall damage from the impact. It's also a concentration spell, so the moment they impact the ceiling, you can drop concentration and have them crash to the floor for even more fall damage :D Putting a Prismatic Wall, dome-shaped, above a particularly nasty enemy will also work wonders, as they'll be forced to move through all 7 layers of the wall (for 50d6, 7 Dex saving throws, a chance at blindness and petrification... half as much damage for a layer if they succeed that layer's Dex save)... TWICE...
Many of these items would be really fun to have! Our ragtag group of weirdos are a vhuman druid, earth genasi barbarian, fallen aasimar warlock, halfling bard, and a shifter monk. I just got to lvl 5 last session after half a year. We made our characters using the point buy menthod and our stats are basically "focus on your main stat" kinda situation. Our DM later decided to give us a "free" background feat, if we had a really good reason for our characters to have that specific feat, which made our characters more.. special and quirky in a sense. This was 4 months ago and we are still hyped over it. Anyway, we have a pretty balanced and fun party. my vhuman druid is by far the one with the overall lowest stats, even with point buy. at lvl 1 I started with the Polearm mastery feat. which was cool and all, pretty useful til now. Then we got the free background feat. As a druid with 99% concentration spells and a background which revolved around poison making I got the Recilience (CON( feat for that sweet prof in Con saving throws. After hitting lvl 4 everyone except me and our monk deciced to just raise their stats. My druid finally got this prefered feat load out. now with both the Recilience (CON) feat and warcaster I haven't lost concentration on any spells, though this was at a cost of having lower stats. So far my spell "shelflife" is amazing. I just hope at one point I get lucky enough to find a wisdom tome so I can get one step closer to our 20 CHA bard T-T
I have one sich idea for the mirror. If you can have some servant inside, you can order them to prevent the target to sleep, making them reveal all of their secret, as is one of the worste torture in the world. And see hov detremental this thing is in real life, if someone in the party can control or enslave, you can store one army inside it. You can make one empire if you do the campain around it. And it become one harder target if you shrink it. And maybe can be one attunment exploit, as you can menace enemy for avoid conflict, or even disguise it for give the impression thath the entraped creature come out of nowere, prevent counters. Or shrink it soo much to fit in your cloth, jewl, or maybe, somehow insert it in your body, making you one of the most scary thing in D&D. Or you can have one more kind approch, making the creature inside produce anything given the material and knowledge. Roleplayng seem second just to the portal gun of Rick sanchez.
This gave me a couple of interesting ideas. First what if your character is a wizard from Netheril that became trapped in the mirror and has been stuck there for centuries (lost your spellbook so you still start with base number of spells). Second a NPC ally that aids the PC’s to defeat a big bad by shattering a staff of power/magi but it was actually done so that they could get rid of a rival in evil (or if you can manage it make this your PC instead. An evil guy fights evil to fake his death for an evil takeover).
The manuals don’t have a limit so if you are a lvl 20 wizard and make 5 of each and then become a lich and wait like 30000 years you have your stats so high that you will be able too outdo the gods on every way it’s like 3000 in every stat
Well, maybe, but there’s a general rule in 5e that a stat can never go above 30 for any creature. Granted, having 30 in all stats would mean a god couldn’t possibly be better than you, but your lich isn’t getting a spell save DC of 1509 and an AC of 1505 any time soon.
As someone who played many warlocks in alot of different campaigns,I perfer a rod of absorption, it a very powerful item for warlocks to have ,especially tome locks
if you have access to a plane of hell (or a demiplane where you set the conditions) where 1 day goes by for each minute on the material plane, The manuals reset every 26 days.
A Drow Elf Warlock could, in theory, live for close to 10,000 years, once they hit 10th level, and pull this trick off fairly well, via The Undying Patron: specifically, via the Undying Nature pact feature. Normally, Drow Elves live for around 750 years on average, but 1,000 years isn't exactly unreasonable or unheard of in D&D Lore. This means that once Undying Warlocks get access to Demiplane (8th level Conjuration) as a Mystic Arcanum at 15th level, they can use this trick with any Tome they find and bump one their stats to a max of 30, within the span of a six in-game months. Obviously, this assumes the DM will allow you to control the flow of time within that Demiplane (whether by RAW or RAI). It's a cute Tier 4 trick. One of which may piss off a DM or two once they know what you're up to.
@@simondiamond9628 worse still if you find all six then by the time you rotate thru all 6 books (6 days each) the cycle will reset and you can start again. just leave the books in the demi-plane "library" and check them out every 6 days.
@@aaronjjacques, the likelihood of finding all six tomes, let alone one, is extremely unlikely. Most DM's won't usually allow for more than one, if any at all. However, this can also be used to the DM's advantage. The DM could also create an enemy, or use an enemy, who can use Demiplane, Gate, Plane Shift, etc., or something similar, to access your specific Demiplane and use this tech against a player (or players) in a given campaign.
@@simondiamond9628 as to your second point absolutely. Which would be fun. The player would have to keep it a secret, protect the room with traps and spells while the DM would have to circumvent those traps/nondetection to raid the plane.
A wizard would love a mirror of trapping once they have access to something like a magic circle in their lair and the plane shift spell. "I'll be studying for the next week, don't even think about bothering me!"
Its really bizzare to hear him talk about dnd Also Mirror of Life Trapping is amazing cause we are using it for storing civilians and large Cargo We got it in ToA and we are keeping it in a bag of holding so its really safe
it's nice to see a video about magic items that are not "the most powerful" of "the most useful" but instead are level appropriate
DM: What's your preferred play style in DnD?
Me, pointing at the Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments: Scribblenauts
I appreciate that whoever does the text pop-ins sasses the speaker on a regular basis.
I think its either the flyingbutress or theduellogs
with Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments: you can Looney Tune your way to victory
Third law of loony toons: if there is a tunnel, there is a train.
I hope I get to play around with this item sometime
Fun story. I gave it to players towards the end of a campaign. With very little paint to prevent them from cheesing a dungeon...they still did by draining a lake into a dungeon.
@@DerpyLaron the item does reward smart palyers
This vs the worst dungen video
One thing you forgot with the scimitar is that it basically let's you do two weapon fighting while wielding a shield.
Man I remember when shal'dazar got +10 in most stats from just buyying a ton of the tomes at the end of our campaign with the "end of game have fun" money
With Illusionist's Bracers, I prefer bladesinger Wizard with Booming blade, if you are level 17 with +5 in dex and int you deal 3d8+6d8+30 damage a round without using any spell slots.
I was thinking you'd abandoned this channel, then you released 1st level spells and now this. Hurrah for being wrong!
Illusionists bracers is just op for tashas bladesinger, just op.
Fun idea: Make the mirror of life trapping a shield but only let it hold friendly units. See how your players break the game with that. It is quite a bit harder to do but when it happens it really makes for some awesome moments.
The mirror sounds good for getting the whole party into places or a counter ambush
Hmm... Illusionist Bracers sounds like it'd be great for a Bladesinger. Their extra attack feature explicitly lets them use cantrips, and in a neat coincidence you don't actually need to be using a melee weapon or have Bladesong active. So an elf bladesinger could shoot a bow, then fire off two firebolts. Or you could go the more traditional route and bonk someone with a melee weapon, then drop greenflame blade, booming blade, shocking grasp, or swordburst if you're surrounded. The last neat little trick I can think of would be using double lightning lure to pull an enemy a fair distance to bonk them.
These videos are great for some inspiration, I'm adding the Marvelous Pigments into my Icewind Dale campaign with a new NPC who is basically Bob Ross and a retired extremely powerful wizard who now sits in a wood cabin and goes around painting snowy scenery and he needs the party to clear out the Cackling Chasm full of gnolls because he wants to paint in peace and he'll give that to them as a reward "to see the magic of painting and art in your life" because I know my players will love that item.
The fact that manuals boost your max makes me feel bad whenever I want to use it on a stat that I can't get to 20 without it because of how good that is. Also when you get the CON manual and literally everyone in the party wants it.
Illusonist's Bracer on a Warlock is sick.
Wait a second couldn't you cast Booming Blade hit and then BA Booming Blade on another creature with those bracers?
If you have Armor of Agathys up, could you action Blade Ward BA Blade Ward and get punched in the face to victory?
With the manuals there's actually a upper limit there's a hard cap for players of 30 in a stat
You mean you can't get infinite AC
Wait, you mean, 30wis, 30dex
Thats +20 on your 10 ac so you and get 30 with no armor, get a shield so 32, shielding spell +5 for a moment 37 and ring of protection 38 for a turn 33 permanently, you can also get +3 shield so 36 AC
@@SebastiansSebastian-fc4pj Better is if you use 30 wis, 30 dex for 30 AC, then equip robe of the arch magi for 35, then bracers of Defense and staff of power for 39, +3 sheild for 44 then cast sheild every reaction and have someone use haste on you for 51 AC.
The scimitar of speed cannot be used to get off 2 sneak attacks. That is a gross miss translation of the RAW. For instance, it is also stated you get 1 reaction per turn. This doesn't mean you get to use multiple reactions. A turn lasts through an entire round until it is your turn again. You get one sneak attack per your turn. Not one sneak attack on any turn. It is a feature that has 1 charge, and that charge refreshes at the start of your turn.
Man, I love how fitting the items from the guild masters guide to ravnica are to the magic cards
Imagine being a Lich or similarly immortal creature and you own a complete set of those books shown at #1 or imagine if you had access to a time chamber or something similar... Can you see where I'm going with this? XD
unlimited power!
Am I not last? I thought so to be, but here neither Huckle nor Muckle before me I see. (First?)
Late as shit but the max stats a character could possibly have under any circumstance is 30
Care to explain my good sir?
@@Luffy-un5du pag 173 player'handbook "Ability Scores and Modifiers
" = Adventurers can have scores as high as 20, and monsters and divine beings can have scores as high as 30.
Each ability also has a modifier, derived from the score and ranging from -5 (for an ability score of 1) to +10 (for a score of 30). The Ability Scores and Modifiers table notes the ability modifiers for the range of possible ability scores, from 1 to 30.
yeah pretty much what this guy said above. 30 is legit godlike stats. I don't even think god stat blocks go past 30 in the older editions too
idea: 19:00
be Immortal lich, get at least 1-2 of those books.
use them each century as you quietly & non-threatheningly wait it out.
and ofcourse spend each century scouring the world for more books.
?
profit
If a rogue used this technique he would loose the ability to make the damage be halved, but it is pretty good
My tiefling rogue would lose their hellish rebuke reaction too. But that's only once per long rest.
Ah, Scimitar of Speed. Also known as one of the many key mechanics that makes Two Weapon Fighting absolutely fucking useless compared to other martial playstyles.
Pretty good idea for a campaign with the mirror of lifetrapping being held by the gods in which they've trapped the only living tarrasque inside of it. The gods have bound the mirror to where it acts as an eternal prison where the creature can't escape even if the mirror is broken, however, the plot happens where someone has managed to mysteriously free the creature from the mirror, and now it's your job to embark on a journey to find out where the creature is and how it escaped.
The Tomes are SO good. You literally just reminded me that my Warlock, who has gotten his hands on one tome in the past and currently has a score of 20 CAN RAISE IT UP TO 22! I completely forgot that it raises your maximum as well and we are currently at lvl 7 so next time we level up, OH BOY!
My party came across a book of charisma.
None of us use charisma.
I really enjoy your videos so I'm commenting for engagment
Initiation Rolls, Cthullu cult here I come.
Playing a one-shot. I had already committed to an Eldritch Blast Warlock build. THEN I found Illusionist Bracers. I'm very much looking forward to using this.
You can use a shield with the scimitar of speed to make it even better
10) You'll need to be more specific with your ready action. You must specify a "perceivable" trigger. "The end of my turn" is not perceivable.
Yeah it can't be a metal concept
It could be "when [the next creature in initiative order] acts"
It's still super easy to do, just slightly context specific. You can literally say "when X starts moving" and it will still function as intended.
@@ChunkyTheClown Assuming the target moves on their turn, instead of attacking or casts a spell.
@@edsiefker1301 Ah sorry, it makes sense that you'd interpret "movement" as moving across the map. I meant it more like raising your arm to attack, flicking your wand to cast a spell, the rise and fall of your chest as you breathe, blinking, etc. That kinda movement. There's no reason to get overly specific unless you want to. Everyone moves in combat scenarios all the time, all you need to do is specify what is happening in your own situation because it fits the nature of an RPG more than calling out invisible game mechanics in-character.
You are limited with the books. You cant get any skill past 30 for any reason.
Lol the save or die mirror sounds like a fun way to trap entire party in the mirror and then shenanigans ensue. Need to sneak your party into a wear house? Everyone jump in the mirrior and I'll try and bluff my way in with the mirror! Lol
if the creature who breaks the staff takes 16 times the amount of damage, then you could use suggestion, command or a similar spell to persuade the BBEG to break the staff himself, that would be 2560 damage!
They do have a 50% chance to be teleported away though. Is there something like 3.5's dimensional anchor to prevent them from avoiding the blast in 5e?
Regardless, I thought it was a little niche funny use. If you are able to compel a BBEG, you basically won already anyway, so this card-- sorry, this use falls into the gimmick category.
There's Dimensional Shackles, for sure. But now you need to chain him up, AND get him to fail a save for Suggestion.
Yeah it's gonna be very tough, but if you manage to do it, it's an instant win! You can use suggestion once and they're most likely not gonna be hostile afterwards, so with some luck you can pull it off and deal an unholy crapton of damage
Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments basically lets you play Scribblenauts
About the Mirror, you should be able to use banishment on yourself, so you go back to your native plane.
Also, you can't put it into a Bag of Holding for portability, because it's a dimensional artifact.
You've given me some good ideas for my campaign. I like that your videos are detailed but not overly long. I subbed
Holy shit it's the duel logs. Hearing your voice dealt fucking psychic damage to me irl
The mirror could be used to smuggle the party into a mansion or store a life bound assassin to spring as a trap as a security system.
elves can live up to 750 years, an elf with all the six books could get a +14 to all of his stats in 700 years, and dont make me start on archdruid elfs
Ever run into a warforged demigod?
@@Gargandan the lore says that the warforged have only existed for 20 years and have not yet been seen to age, not that they cannot age.
"The maximum lifespan of the warforged remains a mystery; so far, warforged have shown no signs of deterioration due to age."
Can you do a video about the best items for martial classes?
The filthy rogue min/maxer in me loves this deeply
Interesting, mirror of life trapping is essentially a night hag's soul bag.
The scimitar of speed is also pretty good for Paladin players who want to increase their chances for crit smiting
You really underestimate the power of 5% chance. Our group had Helm of Brilliance for 1+ year and nobody red the effect of "whenever wearer takes fire dmg, Helm can explode". First session we red this part we got fire explosion in our characters faces and failed Helms save immediately.
It was a shock, but a funny one.
Always a joy to have you release a D&D video. Keep it up!
Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments + time stop spell = Looney Tunes style BBEG
Since now one else commetned it:
While the position of the class can be debated, a Mutant Bloodhunter can also reach a Strength of 23.
Only a minor nitpick.
And a Barbarian can reach at 24
Oooh that Scimitar of Speed hack is spicy
Mirror of life trapping + tomes and manuals = broken
Marvelous Pigments sounds amazing.
Use the Mirror of Life Trapping on friendly characters. Get the princess out of the tower by sneaking in as a worker with a package, holding up the mirror so she can see it, then casually walk out. If stopped by a guard who wants to know what you've got, show him, and keep going. Mortally injured NPC who must be brought back alive? He won't get any worse while inside the mirror.
The DM in my campaign asked us what magic items she should put in the latest boss’s lair. I convinced her to give us a tome of clear thought for my artificer and she threw in a tome of understanding (for the cleric, druid and ranger to fight over). Can’t wait to “break the game” by giving people +6 with flash of genius instead of just +5 and healing an extra 1 hit point when I cast a healing spell.
I’m sure the cleric feels the same.
In all fairness, we’re level 18, the ranger has had a home brew item that gives him +2 wis and max wis since level 10, and the druid is the reason we had to take a detour to the elemental plane of water and fight the boss in the first place (he got his soul stolen when he pulled a card from the deck of many things).
My paladin of Ra had a helm of brilliance, and he also picked up some magic resistance.
He liked running into the middle of fights shouting “RA!” And dropping fireballs point blank on people.
I got the charisma tomb on my bard warlock tabaxi in an organized play group called OOC and even having one of those shits was game changing, having a stat above a +5 in any capacity is bonkers
If you have staff power and contingency your golden because you can set it so that if the staff brakes you're automatically teleported to another location or plane. I would use shift to the ethereal because if Ariel jaunt is a low-level spell and returning turn the ethereal plane with it is really easy you can just turn it off.
“Dexterity is universal” huh? All characters base their lives on their hit points, replies Constitution. 🤓
that just makes them both universal.
i one time got the helm of brilliance ate level 5 becaus my dm rolled for loot(*never do it whit out a ton oh hombrew laws for leveld loot). lets just say he wasnt happy(he nurffed it by saying that its had less gems)
Afaik there is a hard cap on stats at 30. So the tomes can't be used infintely. Still neat to have a character with 30s in each stat if they find one of each and live long enough to use them repeatedly.
A little niche but the all purpose tool for artificers. Getting a boost to saving throw dc is rare and the ability to have proficiency, and in turn exertise with any tool is really really good.
The initiation inside joke reminds me of Arkham Horror. I used to play that game all the time, and have a friend that would call stamina "stanima", and eventually we all did lol
Mirror of life trapping is the Shadow realm
The mirror would be a good trap. Say you present it as a gift to an evil and vain king, and then trap them in it when they start posturing to their reflection that evening.
Transporting the Mirror of Life Trapping is no issue to a Pact of the Genie Warlock.
Ilusionist bracers on an arcane trickster go two times green flame blade seems very strong
Our Dm, gave me, the rogue, a the tome that boosts dex- yeah, you can see where this going.
I've used a number of these in one-shots and campaigns. I used the Helm of Brilliance for a fight against a whole swarm of giant spiders, the Bronze Horn of Valhalla against a Lich (they couldn't do anything against the lich, as he was immune to non-magical weapons, but they really helped against the horde of skeletons the lich kept summoning), and I used the Peregrine Mask in a battle against an avatar of Tiamat.
Fun times all round :D
However! I think my favourite very rare item is the Amethyst Lodestone. It comes with 6 charges that recharge 1d6 charges at dawn. It also always gives advantage on STR saving throws while carrying it (and by that wording, you don't have to be attuned to it)
For a bonus action (and 1 charge), you gain a 10min fly speed equal to walking speed. Might now sound like much, but if you're playing a monk like I was, it is GODLY! It also lets you hover, meaning you can never be knocked prone, and won't fall out the sky if knocked unconscious or stunned.
For an action (and 1 charge), you can force any creature within 60ft to make a DC 18 STR saving throw, or be pushed 20ft in any direction of your choice (including, but not limited to, straight up to help induce fall damage; off a cliff; driving them hard into the ground... which works especially well if they'd standing on a somewhat fragile surface, like a layer of ice on a lake; etc)
My favourite though is that, as an action, you can expend 3 charges to cast Reverse Gravity... a spell with a 50ft radius (100ft diameter) area, sending everything within that area 100ft into the air. If there happens to be anything near them that's affixed to the floor, they get a DEX save to grab hold of it and not be sent into the sky... but otherwise they have no choice in the matter unless they're flying through magical means (and thus are able to hover). If there's a hard surface within that 100ft height, they take fall damage from the impact. It's also a concentration spell, so the moment they impact the ceiling, you can drop concentration and have them crash to the floor for even more fall damage :D
Putting a Prismatic Wall, dome-shaped, above a particularly nasty enemy will also work wonders, as they'll be forced to move through all 7 layers of the wall (for 50d6, 7 Dex saving throws, a chance at blindness and petrification... half as much damage for a layer if they succeed that layer's Dex save)... TWICE...
"If you roll a 1 the helm blows up and shoots laser beams at everyone"
what kind of saving trow is death save con right right cus my farmer is prof in cin savings
ROBE OF STARS ?
Don’t forget, what the characters can do to the enemy, the enemy can do to the characters!!
The manual item can be used Many times in the lifespan of a high elf o imagine...
Many of these items would be really fun to have!
Our ragtag group of weirdos are a vhuman druid, earth genasi barbarian, fallen aasimar warlock, halfling bard, and a shifter monk.
I just got to lvl 5 last session after half a year. We made our characters using the point buy menthod and our stats are basically "focus on your main stat" kinda situation.
Our DM later decided to give us a "free" background feat, if we had a really good reason for our characters to have that specific feat, which made our characters more.. special and quirky in a sense. This was 4 months ago and we are still hyped over it.
Anyway, we have a pretty balanced and fun party. my vhuman druid is by far the one with the overall lowest stats, even with point buy. at lvl 1 I started with the Polearm mastery feat. which was cool and all, pretty useful til now. Then we got the free background feat. As a druid with 99% concentration spells and a background which revolved around poison making I got the Recilience (CON( feat for that sweet prof in Con saving throws. After hitting lvl 4 everyone except me and our monk deciced to just raise their stats. My druid finally got this prefered feat load out. now with both the Recilience (CON) feat and warcaster I haven't lost concentration on any spells, though this was at a cost of having lower stats. So far my spell "shelflife" is amazing.
I just hope at one point I get lucky enough to find a wisdom tome so I can get one step closer to our 20 CHA bard T-T
Actually, you should get 14 berserkers on average. 4D4 averages 4+16 = 20, divided by 2 =10, plus 4 = 14.
I have one sich idea for the mirror. If you can have some servant inside, you can order them to prevent the target to sleep, making them reveal all of their secret, as is one of the worste torture in the world. And see hov detremental this thing is in real life, if someone in the party can control or enslave, you can store one army inside it. You can make one empire if you do the campain around it. And it become one harder target if you shrink it. And maybe can be one attunment exploit, as you can menace enemy for avoid conflict, or even disguise it for give the impression thath the entraped creature come out of nowere, prevent counters. Or shrink it soo much to fit in your cloth, jewl, or maybe, somehow insert it in your body, making you one of the most scary thing in D&D. Or you can have one more kind approch, making the creature inside produce anything given the material and knowledge. Roleplayng seem second just to the portal gun of Rick sanchez.
the warlock with 2 levels into fighter and Illusionist’s Bracers dealing 12d10+cha modx12 in one single turn with a cantrip be like: nice
Where’s is the rod of security? One of the best magic items ever!
Am I out of the loop or is there no reason he says initiation instead of initiative?
11:07 why does the text say 50 charges when it has 20?
dex all the way..*runs around stabbing anything*
This gave me a couple of interesting ideas.
First what if your character is a wizard from Netheril that became trapped in the mirror and has been stuck there for centuries (lost your spellbook so you still start with base number of spells).
Second a NPC ally that aids the PC’s to defeat a big bad by shattering a staff of power/magi but it was actually done so that they could get rid of a rival in evil (or if you can manage it make this your PC instead. An evil guy fights evil to fake his death for an evil takeover).
The manuals don’t have a limit so if you are a lvl 20 wizard and make 5 of each and then become a lich and wait like 30000 years you have your stats so high that you will be able too outdo the gods on every way it’s like 3000 in every stat
Well, maybe, but there’s a general rule in 5e that a stat can never go above 30 for any creature. Granted, having 30 in all stats would mean a god couldn’t possibly be better than you, but your lich isn’t getting a spell save DC of 1509 and an AC of 1505 any time soon.
Oh what about the top 10 best situational items in DND
1. Coins
2. Rope
3. Chalk
4. 10 foot pole
5. Bottle of booze
6. Tongs
7. Jars/flask
8. Bag of holding
9. Carpet of flying
10. Grappling hook
It's initiative, not initiation!
Under number 3. It's initiative, not initiation. 🤣
"initiation" otherwise known as initiative lol.
As someone who played many warlocks in alot of different campaigns,I perfer a rod of absorption, it a very powerful item for warlocks to have ,especially tome locks
Booming blade, three sneak attacks
if you have access to a plane of hell (or a demiplane where you set the conditions) where 1 day goes by for each minute on the material plane, The manuals reset every 26 days.
A Drow Elf Warlock could, in theory, live for close to 10,000 years, once they hit 10th level, and pull this trick off fairly well, via The Undying Patron: specifically, via the Undying Nature pact feature.
Normally, Drow Elves live for around 750 years on average, but 1,000 years isn't exactly unreasonable or unheard of in D&D Lore.
This means that once Undying Warlocks get access to Demiplane (8th level Conjuration) as a Mystic Arcanum at 15th level, they can use this trick with any Tome they find and bump one their stats to a max of 30, within the span of a six in-game months.
Obviously, this assumes the DM will allow you to control the flow of time within that Demiplane (whether by RAW or RAI).
It's a cute Tier 4 trick. One of which may piss off a DM or two once they know what you're up to.
@@simondiamond9628 worse still if you find all six then by the time you rotate thru all 6 books (6 days each) the cycle will reset and you can start again. just leave the books in the demi-plane "library" and check them out every 6 days.
@@aaronjjacques, the likelihood of finding all six tomes, let alone one, is extremely unlikely. Most DM's won't usually allow for more than one, if any at all.
However, this can also be used to the DM's advantage. The DM could also create an enemy, or use an enemy, who can use Demiplane, Gate, Plane Shift, etc., or something similar, to access your specific Demiplane and use this tech against a player (or players) in a given campaign.
@@simondiamond9628 it is very rare not legendary which put them at the 50k gp level.
@@simondiamond9628 as to your second point absolutely. Which would be fun. The player would have to keep it a secret, protect the room with traps and spells while the DM would have to circumvent those traps/nondetection to raid the plane.
what about the Rod of Absorption?
Step 1 fill mirror with trolls
Step 2 set mirror trap up
Step 3 unleash 12 trolls onto bbeg
*Interesting list .*
*Not really the best list , but interesting list with some good tricks to do with said item .*
A wizard would love a mirror of trapping once they have access to something like a magic circle in their lair and the plane shift spell.
"I'll be studying for the next week, don't even think about bothering me!"
The paragrine mask is epic. Worthwhile upgrade but nothing compared to illusionist bracers.
Tomes and a mirror. Boom. Easy.
What music is used in this video?
“Initiative” not “initiation.”
No Frostfang! Too bad!
All my bards get Prismatic Spray at level 14.
Initiative, not initiation.
Its really bizzare to hear him talk about dnd
Also Mirror of Life Trapping is amazing cause we are using it for storing civilians and large Cargo
We got it in ToA and we are keeping it in a bag of holding so its really safe
Oh, good for you. We ended up breaking the mirror and unleashing a bunch of chaos…