Top 5 Terrible Feats (That Are Low-Key AWESOME) In D&D
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There are some truly underpowered feats in Dungeons and Dragons 5e, but that doesn't mean they can't be used and even completely broken, if you think outside the box!
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sorry to say, but rogue can not dodge as a bonus action, only monk.
In the video you said a paladin's channel divinity is once per day. However it refills on short and long rests.
how can the dragonborn use draconic roar 5x at level 9 and 4x before that? they can use it prof bonus times per day which means they only get their 4th use at level 10.
I use the creation bard that way but i required the requisite skills and knowledges (divination yes no) eliminations and proficienct bonuses.
Davinci didnt envision laser guns did he?
You can also combo Dwarven Fortitude with Durable to ensure maximum healing when you spend your hit die, granted your character has the Constitution for it.
Sadly Rogues can't Dodge as a bonus action, but on a Fighter this can actually still be pretty good. If you're in a pinch you can spend your whole turn healing yourself, taking the Dodge action to heal 15hp, then use Second Wind as a bonus action. If you're REALLY desperate you can use Action Surge to heal even more.
This also lets you easily heal all the way up after the end of combat if the party doesn't have time to take a short rest.
After my artificer (high intelligence low wisdom) got lost in a forest, they tasked their steel defender with finding north because they had thought they installed a compass. Turns out they didn’t, and after I leveled up I took keen mind. To justify the north thing I said that they had accidentally installed the compass in their own brain.
XD
😂
Now where did i point that needle
This reminds of Finn having auto-tune singing because he swallowed a microchip.
@@johnnymonsters9717 I'm just concerned what's being used to point north if it's internal 😐
I definetly didn't read "Breakind Bad Feats" expecting a Heisenberg build.
Expertise in pizza throwing and alchemy tools. A build to be feared, for sure
@@DnDShorts So an Artificer (chemical subclass) with gourmet feat?
same
Ikr. Clickbait for sure.
Any feat can be good *(except* *Grappler),* it just takes the right build or strategy *(except* *Grappler).* In a way, it's a metaphor for life, where we all have infinite potential *(except* *Grappler)* and anything is possible! Chase your dreams, the future is yours, young one! *(except* *Grappler,* I hate the Grappler feat).
I too, hate the grappler feat. Its so garbage.
The Dragon Fear spell works on Chromatic and Metallic Dragonborns as well because Fizban’s made their breath attacks an attack action as well.
Just a thought, can’t a artificer make an antimatter gun at like level 5 (I think?) with the weapons master feat, just seems a lot easier than a bard
I used grappler in a build as a naked invisible barbarian. It was for a one shot, and was pretty good for causing restraining big bad dudes
Actually I'm currently using a grappler build in my current game and I have pretty much soloed the boss. Honestly the build is pretty bad but I wanted to try it out. I'm a battle master fighter 5 lvl with the grappling strike which increases your ability to grapple after you hit them. And I'm a 5 lvl death cleric with spirit guardians so I set up spirit guardian grappling strike the boss and restrain them, get my rouge or other cleric with SG behind them and the boss is dead in a few turns.
I like the idea of using Keen Mind with a wizard, so they can memorize their entire spell book.
They read it once, then can go one a journey and memorize it without worry.
To balance this, you could have that wizard still follow the rules about preparing spells.
Ah yes, the Caleb Widogast method.
@@Magus_Union I suppose so.
I also like this as an answer to guards arresting you. They can take away your spellbook, you already memorized it.
It's also pretty good for a necromancer. You'll know the right times to recast Animate dead on your skeleton horde, so they don't mutiny.
@@watcher1269 Good note regarding the necromancer.
Does this work RAW or does the preparing spell rules take president over the more flavor text style ability of the feat?
@@joshmargolis1424 I’d say that you’d still have to prepare your spells, as just staring at a page to remember your spells perfectly seams broken, BUT should you loose your spell book, you’ll have perfect recall of the spell you already prepared, instead of loosing them slowly. Granted, they all disappear after 30 days, but that more time than normal iirc
In a strixhaven Game I'm in, I took Keen mind since the dm has mini classes with general info on a high cr creature, only later to have us do a small test. With keen mind, i don't have to actually do the quiz I just instantly pass them, its great when you have a 10 int irl and playing a 20 int character.
Sounds like ur wisdom is 20 though
Another use of dragon fear is with the fey wander ranger. If someone succeeds against a frighten or charm effect you can bounce that effect to someone else. So this really buffs the fear effect chance.
0:12 Keen Mind
1:32 Weapon Master
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6:40 Dragon Fear
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Ok that Dragonborn roar+shove combo is insanely cool. You become an amazing tank and keep the whole party safe. I’m gonna make an old Dragonborn with hair curlers in that sucks down a cigarette before issuing the Lion’s Roar
Nice Kung Fu Hustle homage...
Beware THE TOADs
did something simmilar using a Hexblade paladin. only need cha and con ...ad 13 str for plate but u know
@@Comicsluvr beat me to it!
Check out the old UA skill feats that let you make a contested intimidation check or frighten for the cost of an attack. Pretty fun to mess with
With the Dwarven Fortitude feat, there's a combo you can do using it, the Durable feat, and the Periapt of Wound Closure. Basically, you play a Hill Dwarf Monk with as high of a Con score as possible (16 or 17 to start), and take for these two feats asap and get the Periapt. You can then dodge as a bonus action for one Ki point, and roll a hit die. Because of the Durable Feat, you're getting back at least 8 HP (Con mod should be +4 or higher), but you could get as much as 12. Then the Periapt of Wound Closure doubles that amount, meaning that you regain 16-24 HP as a bonus action. With average HP rolls, you should have about 83 HP at level 8, so that's a hefty chunk of HP. It's dumb, it's niche, but by god are you the chunkiest monk that ever was.
Deck that character out with brass ornaments, learn Monkey style kungfu, and call them Brass Monkey, The Chunky Monk-ey!
I've played a build using monk and these two feats amd I will say, durable is an uneccisarry addition. The number of times it will come up isn't worth it for a feat.
My personal favourite use of dwarven fortitude is to take my first two levels in druid, my next four in totem barbarian and my next four in shadow or drunken master monk. The final build is 2 druid, 11 barbarian and 7 monk. Instead of durable take skill expert for expertise in athletics. The build is very simple: I become bear, I rage, I hug then I dodge. You no move.
I gave one of my players a homebrewed magical item called the Renewal Shell (based off an old League of Legends item that got cut from the game back in beta) that allowed him to use his reaction when he took damage to roll a hit die and regain hit points. He comboed it with the Periapt to be quite an effective tank as the party's Artificer.
So what about warlock and invocation Gift of ever living ones?:) I planing to olay as barbarian-warlock in a oneshot, pick as a free item periapt, and when I dodge I would gain (12+con)x2 hp. Something about 30-32 hp
@@cherry_buzzsaw That's actually really good I won't lie
Notably, the bloodvial can also be used in tandem with Wither and Bloom, which is pretty sweet.
10:08 Rogues can't Dodge as a Bonus Action
lmao I'm an idiot! I even main a Rogue in one campaign. Point still stands for monks though, thanks for clarifying!
I was really hoping that I'd missed something, and Dodge had been added as part of Cunning Action in a later book.
My DM on the other hand would have hated me 😂
I had to double check 😂 it'd be sick if they could!
I am kinda digging the idea of an 'Escape Artist' style Rogue subclass, able to Dodge with their Cunning Action, gets ADV on saves or checks vs a variety of restricting conditions, expanding their 'Evasion' into 'Avoidance' (to take no damage on any successful save), and maybe eventually able to go ethereal to move through obstructions and crowds.
The rogue who is all about personal freedom!
@@Watcher40K9 I had one of those kind of. Just have to take the mobile feat. Any enemy that you attacked you don't have to disengage from to not provoke an opportunity attack. Which allows you to do so good hit and run and hide as your bonus action to avoid a ton of damage.
The way I see the gaining skills thing from Phantom is that the ghost is sort of half-possessing you. You don't hear anything, it just supernaturally implants its knowledge and memories into your mind and then they all fade away just as supernaturally the next time you rest
I like to think that it actually guides you through the motions you need. Non that your head canon is wrong but I liked the idea of having an actual conversation with the ghost (at least for my character)
Implants it’s knowledge in u just sounds like another way of saying hearing (sounds like your unnecessarily trying to fumble an excuse out). This sounds completely legit and awesome and your just here trying to ruin it.
the aura of conquest also deals psychic damage in addition to having their speed reduced to 0.
this means they do get to make another save at the start of their turn.
which - as a gem db paladin myself - is a major drawback to this combo. still with the fizban rules i d never thought of deeming mass inducing fear bad
That's true, but even one round of fear can make a huge difference. It's an AoE, has multiple uses, and replaces an attack instead of using an entire action, so it's still really good. If nothing else, this can be a great backup option when you're out of spell slots and channel divinity.
There's actually a far more broken class combo for Dwarven Fortitude, namely the Moon Druid, or even better, the Bearbarian (Totem Barbarian + Moon Druid combo)
Class and Racial features stack with Wildshapes as long as the shape can physically support them, and a feat is technically a class feature. Wildshapes not only come with their own HP pool, they also come with their own pool of Hit Dice. Normally the only time those Hit dice would ever come into play is by staying in a form through a short rest, but with Dwarven Fortitude, you can do it as an action.
So the Totem Barbarian halves all damage except psychic, the Moon Druid gives a form with its own pool of HP, take the dodge action to be more difficult to hit, spend you Wildshape's Hit dice (not your base form's hit dice) to regain HP, and if you're still feeling sore, Moon druids can burn spell slot as a bonus action to also heal, meaning that you can likely undo multiple rounds of damage in a single turn, without ever dipping into your base form's HP at all.
The only issue with this is that by Dodging as an Action, you're not attacking. Unless you eat an Opportunity Attack, you're going to lose Rage at the end of your turn. This is of course assuming more levels in druid than barbarian or not high enough level for Endless Rage.
Definitely see the merit in it though. Too bad (given the time of me replying) that WotC said "no." and are making the new Wild Shape not carry over any class or racial features anymore...
@@Reapor234 - you don't need to attack to maintain rage as long as you are GETTING hit. This tactic is only to be used when you're sure to be taking a ton of hits.
It does create this weird case of you actually rooting for at least ONE of your enemies to get a lucky hit in.
@@GreyAcumen wild shape AC tends to be bad anyways so this is not an unlikely scenario
@@Hazel-xl8in - not the case for a Bearbarian. Their unarmored AC (dex+con) still gets to apply while in Wildshape. Normally this only benefits a few forms, BUT a druid can decide which equipment merges with their form and which equipment stays worn (if able) Magical Items will magically size to fit the wearer.
This is particularly relevant if the Bearbarian is wearing an Amulet of Health. Now no matter what form they are in, their Con becomes 19, theoretically boosting both their HP AND unarmored AC. (Giant coral snake goes from AC 13 to AC 17)
Of course this does mean that your Wildshape would clearly be wearing an amulet, so not great for covert ops.
I also like to take the Mobile and Telepathic feat for this build, as Mobile allows charges and pounces to be more easily taken, and for just about any flying form to effectively have flyby.
Telepathic means that even while in Wildshape, you can communicate with others, so you can more easily ride out the full duration of the wildshape without that inconvenience.
That’s disgustingly broken.
Guessing Weapon Master is on that list, now to watch the video and see if my guess is correct.
Edit I was correct. Did not expect to see the BFG from Doom in my DnD, but I like the idea haha, now it's time to ban that obviously broken feat.
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Actually every entry is the grappler feat, but nice guess
@@DnDShorts For that to be the case, you would have had to find a way to redeem the Grappler feat...
@@jonp8015 The grapple feat was part of the beta playtest original rules, a feat wasn't needed. I automatically do that when I run games for players.
The feat is fine. The presumption that a player can get whatever items they want out of the DMG, however, is not. At that point, the player gets hit in the face with the DMG, their characters find themselves suddenly allergic to life, and then the GM leaves the room, because if you're going to fuck around like that at my table, you need to find a GM willing to tolerate you.
For the dragon fear strategy, there is one caveat:
Aura of Conquest deals psychic damage to them at the start of the creature's turn if it's frightened in your aura. They'd have to be tied up by the time their turn starts to avoid the risk of them fleeing or fighting back
Aura of Conquest says that "If a creature is frightened of you, its speed is reduced to 0 while in the aura" so they're not allowed to run away while within 10 ft
I love the athlete feat! Being a baby final fantasy nerd my favorite class is dragoon so dealing damage with jumps and polearms is always a goal. So I played a fighter in a game where we were allowed a free feat at lvl1 (2 for v. Human/custom race) and 1 free uncommon item so boots of striding and springing. V. Human, boots of striding and springing, athlete and charger feats (for later) at lvl3 I chose battlemaster for trip attack and at lvl 4 I got magic initiate feat for the jump spell. Fast forward to dragon of ice spire peak and we got a random encounter with the dragon. I calculated my vertical jump to about 60ft trip attacked knocked the dragon prone in the air so it starts falling it takes the 6d6 for falling and then I died by falling on the dragon but the dragon also took my 6d6 for me falling onto it on my turn. The dragon still lived and I wasn't allowed to do that again.
but you don't take fall damage unless you fall 10ft past your jump height, otherwise the jump spell would be useless
@@bdp4 I'll remember that next time I try to stop a campaign cold
@@93lozfan It also means that the new rabbitfolk dragon ranger with athlete and a ring of jump can go full dragoon
@@bdp4 I'll keep that in mind. I've never played a harringon, my other idea was for a grung but that seems a little more "grand torrino" (my hero academia if you don't get it don't worry)
For that last one, a dwarven warlock with the Pact of the Chain will regain the maximum health possible if they take the Gift of the Ever-Living Ones invocation, provided their familiar is within 100ft of them.
And if they have the periapt of wound closure they heal up even more
@@Desdemona-XI So at level 4, they'd get a minimum 16hp plus con mod every time they dodge......yup, that's decent healing!
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Thank you for this video. The athlete part really gave me inspiration for my Lucha Libre Barbarian and I can’t wait to make this his signature move and finisher.
First one does not work. Part of the ability: "You lose this proficiency when you use this feature to choose a different proficiency that you lack." You might still have the knowledge however you still lose the proficiency.
Hence the "Check with your DM" clause because some might rule that having the knowledge to do something makes you proficient in it.
@@RoninXDarknight however that is not how proficiency is gained. Everything is check with DM, but we should discuss things and debate RAW as that is the only true constant here. RAW you are no longer proficient full stop. Say a year passes and during that time I have everyone teach me how to use one kit, RAW nothing happens. However, the table could allow it. Here is the rub, the table COULD but doesn't mean it is every.
Yep, having profiency means mastering both the theorical and the practical aspects of a skill... keen mind would at best only lets you retain the theorical part... akind to someone who know everything about mushrooms because he'd read about them in books but never saw an actual mushroom...
2:45 guns are classed under firearms and they have their own proficiency
With weapon master you only gain proficiencies in simple and martial weapons not firearms
No actually, they are still classified as simple or martial weapons. Take a look at musket, for example, from the DMG. It has the properties of "firearm, renaissance, martial weapon." So if something gives you proficiency with all martial weapons, then that is most definitely included. Now if a DM wants to homebrew that rule for their table, go at it, but otherwise fighters and the like can use firearms.
@@sqoo5 I don’t think that I noticed that when I had a look. Personally I would still rule that you would need proficiency with firearms (for example from training with firearms or the gunner feat) to add your proficiency modifer to the gun
@@Ace_DM_2520 yeah I can see that being a common house rule for games which allow firearms.
See my latest community post for sources on this, but in short yes they are
Take Gunner feat instead, proficiency in all firearms, no disadvantage within 5ft for ranged attacks and a
+1 to dex
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Keen mind and phantom rogue: tjats not how this works xD
Certainly not in a RAI kinda way. But RAW... the ghost shares that knowledge with you. The amusing part is just, that for half the month you would have one different skill per day that you aren't proficient with, because you can only get a new ghost-proficiency, when you choose another one that you lack.
There is no way that Keen Mind and Phantom Rogue work together that way RAW...the Phantom Rogue explicitly says you lose the proficiency.
ok counterpoint to the weapon master thing though: you can literally just take gunner and get the same benefits for that build with an extra thing added on
For guns yes, but not for Grenades and other cool weapons!
But you can only create something 20GP per bard level and anti matter rifle are so supposed to be priceless like magic items. As a good dm you can give it a price like twice as expensive as a rifle, it will still be too expensive to lower level. Still love the creativity though
I think the counter point is that the weapon master feat says simple or martial. There are some weapons not included amongst these including guns and grenades. Most DM's (myself included) would allow proficiency in any weapon.
@@terrnoisrp8894 at level 14 the value stops being a limitation
But I feel like at lvl 14 an antimatter rifle becomes less relevant unless you give it to the fighter with 3 attacks and you can cast higher level spells. It is way more fun to use your lvl 14 ability to create huge vessels like vehicles and buildings then just a gun
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The Dragon Fear feat also works really well with Metallic Dragonborn Conquest Paladins, because they get a second breath weapon that's independent of their primary breath weapon. One of the options for the second breath weapon is Repulsion Breath, which is effectively an AoE shove (all enemies in a 15 foot cone must make a Strength saving throw or be pushed 20 feet and knocked prone). Since each breath weapon replaces an attack, you can use the roar to frighten your enemies, Repulsion Breath to shove them, and then use your movement to move forward and keep the shoved enemies in your aura, all while still having your bonus action available for things like an extra Shield Master shove, Spiritual Weapon, pre-casting Wrathful Smite for the following round, or any other bonus action option your specific build grants you.
The Dwarven Fortitude works great with a Pack of the Chain Warlock with Gift of the Ever-Living Ones invocation and Periapt of Wound Closure. The invocation allows you to take the max value for dice rolled to heal while your familiar is within 100 ft of you and the Periapt of Wound Closure doubles the number of hitpoints restored whenever you roll a Hit Dice to regain hit points.
So 16+con?
Yes. Which is just as good as a greater healing potion if you roll max on the 4d4 and you at least have an 18 in CON.
So it would be great to MC into sorcerer, right? You got crazy healing from your patron via familiar's presence & free twinned fireball to send to your enemies next round, sounds pretty neat. Or you could just quickened it in the same turn I guess....
@@ap_trial666 hmm 3 level warlock dip was already pretty common anyways 😂
@@THEdeadlynightshade1646 Seems like my DM gonna have a bad time against a near unkillabe coffelock with tendency of chaos if my current cleric ever die.
Hilarious ideas as always. I love the idea of making em fall out of the sky by roaring. Beard looks great too!
solid video full of fun ideas, great content
Keen mind is not a trash feat. It literally turns you into mike Ross from suits. You could speed read in a library by memorizing the pages by looking at them and then remembering them later.. or memorize every scroll in the magic shop and copy them in your spell book later.
i mean, if there’s magic shops and libraries with useful information in them in your setting then cool? but so far in my own games i’ve not had either of those be available to anyone whenever they want. libraries are personal collections and magic “shops” are exclusive clubs, the only thing that keen mind would do is let you do a downtime activity on the fly, which is admittedly pretty neat.
your dm might also rule that because a spell scroll is not just paper with words on it but contains the spell itself, you might not actually get the full picture just by looking at it once. the words might shift around on the page as the spell strains against the paper it’s been bound in as though it were alive, which is why a scroll disintegrates when you cast the spell out of it.
10:10 Rogues actually can't dodge as a bonus action, and it's a pretty expensive resource cost for monks
man this guy must be overbuffing rogues in his home games 😓
maybe he meant the uncanny dodge ability, but that is not the same as a normal dodge.
This was a GREAT video. I never knew that their was guns in the DMG.
You should really do a video on all the things people try to home-brew into DnD but are already in the DMG/PHB. Like Rest Variants, Madness, Chases, Healing Surges, and so on.
Theres also how to affect weather in 'Tasha's Cauldron of Everything"
I once built a dwarf rogue/monk tank that used bonus action to dodge and heal. Evasion to backflip through fireball. Uncanny dodge, dwarven resilience, & the tough feat. They were also an 8th level Open Hand monk, so you have to make a wisdom save to even hit them if they haven’t punched anything yet.
With Dwarven Fortitude...you can break it another way. Combo it with Durable and the Periapt of Wound Closure and you have heals that exceed a greater healing potion. I would have to run the math again, but it gets good. Basically, double the amound you gain. If you have a 3 in Con, and roll the average 5.5 (make math easy and say 5) you heal a nice 16 hp for a dodge action, and you will be less likely to take damage cuz dodge. Also, you could second wind as well for desperate heals, if needed. Its one of my tanks best combos with a +5 constitution score.
Made a high constitution dragon sorceror dwarf with this exact build and with the sorceror magic item, I can regenerate 5 sorcery point by just taking the dodge action.
I'm basically a spell caster with barbarian HP who also charges in with a two hander and GWM
@@Geese17 Tasha's item?
@@kristiandahl1310 yeah, he eventually mentioned it
Keen Mind is a good feat imo. You forgo all survival checks to not get lost off-road, possibly cutting travel time way shorter and never risking getting lost. In some campaigns especially, this can be a broken ability (looking at you, Icewind Dale). Furthermore, you will never again struggle with inaccurate memories, remembering puzzles, or key NPC information. It's like getting a peak into the DM's notes, in a way. Awesome.
Loving this video bc so much big brain time. Well done :)
Out of all of them, the dragonborn entry was definitely my favourite, especially when you talked about going for flying enemies. That's too perfect.
Not broken, but the Monks optional Feature "Dedicated Weapon", lets you turn one not Heavy Weapon the Monk has profiency with into a Monk weapon.
So with the Weapon Master Feat, you could pick up a Versatile Weapon and have the Max Martial Arts damage from Level 1.
Then again, you could just play an Elven or Dwarven Monk for that.
In our games, keen mind lets you remember everything forever. You can scan books in a matter of minutes and remember entire dungeon layouts including chest placements after being there once. It’s basically the video game item/mini map fest. One character always has it so the dm can reasonably explain why we can always look at a super detailed map of wherever we were.
these kinds of builds are my favorite way to play d&d!
I homebrewed a rule during character creation that makes the weapon master feat actually useful (I also adjusted that feat but more on that later).
I took every class’ weapon proficiency and threw it in the garbage. Every lineage now has one weapon proficiency (elves-shortbows, dwarves- hand axes or light hammers, and so on). Every class gets a choice of a number of weapons to be proficient in. Barbarians get to choose 2 weapons of any type, Clerics get to choose 1 weapon of any type and 1 simple weapon, Rogues get 2 simple weapons, Wizards get 1 simple weapon, and so on.
I did this to allow my players to customize their characters even more than the RAW would allow.
So now having a feat that gives proficiency in four weapons makes sense! (I also adjusted it to be only two weapons but that the critical threat range of all weapons you’re proficient in is now 19-20)
I actually considered weapon master on an armorer artificer because while they do get multi attack and heavy Armour they do not get martial weapons. Having the repeating shot infusion on a heavy crossbow so it creates its own ammo every time you pull the trigger is fun.
Most of the reason is because the armour supplies its own attacks through the subclass abilities. Either through becoming a juggernaut and punching everything to the ground or firing lightning blasts from your hands and chest like iron man
@@MaxPwnzer true but the range isn't nearly as far and it's only a d6, It's also lightning so resistance becomes an issue later.
There is an entire feat dedicated to getting proficiency in guns.
brilliant combo with dragonfear!
Just pointing out that channel divinities reset on short rest, even if they are once per short rest abilities.
First rogues can't dodge as a bonus action, that's only monks.
Mainly though most of these aren't things you can do, they are things the rules don't say you can't do. This means basically all of them are your DM has to agree they work or else they don't.
The clear example here is the weapon master example. Not only are you assuming an optional rule from the DMG in guns of any sort is being used and that your DM won't instantly say there are no guns in my game or no future guns in my game, but you are also assuming that because the rules don't say you have to have knowledge of the thing you make as a bard means you can make those things using not even just metagame knowledge but also assuming you would know how they work and as such it shouldn't be questioned. The rogue example is the same, you are assuming the proficiency is something you know and that keen mind lets you remember it, and the rules simply don't say that is the case. I don't even agree with the idea that these ideas make the feats op, it really has nothing to do with the feats and everything to do with how much you can bend your DMs arm.
The conquest paladin works, as does the bloodwell vial, though they aren't super busted. Also paladins channel divinity is short rest recovery, they just only ever get one use per short rest.
Rogue do dodge as a bonus action. You litteraly get that at 2nd level. And Rangers too, at 14th.
Edit: sorry, confused it with disengage.
@@fm_0523 Rangers get BA _Hide_ at 14th. Rogues get a feature _called_ Uncanny Dodge at 5th, but that's about -Dex saves- halving damage, not the Dodge action.
Man, with even big youtubers and several commenters not knowing Dodge isn't included in a rogue's Cunning Action, y'all are overbuffing the rogue and inadvertantly nerfing a monk
@@kori228 uncanny dodge reduces damage by half as a reaction. Evasion is the rogue (and monk) ability that reduces damage on dex saves.
@@MatthiasClan correct, my mistake. Rogues still don't get Dodge though.
Thank you for the video.
Keen mind can also be used to remember the content of spellbooks and spell scrolls, allowing wizards to rewrite their own spellbooks up to a month after they're destroyed, copy spellbooks they flip through in just a few seconds, and giving them infinite attempts to copy a spell scroll's information into their spellbook.
They can never get lost in an area they've been in within the past month, and can even venture through the Underdark with perfect clarity of the direction they're traveling in without leaving a trail. For spells like Animate Dead, they can perfectly recall the exact second they renewed their control on each zombie, allowing them to always perfectly renew control on all their animated dead without having to cast the spell earlier and earlier each day to account for errors.
They can thumb through any written document in mere seconds and accurately recall the information to their group, meaning they can sift through an entire library's worth of information in just an hour, then think over the information in future long rests without actually having the books with them. This is a huge boon for intrigue campaigns where the party needs to sneak into a noble's manor and find written information on a scheme without getting caught.
People really underestimate how good eidetic memory actually is. One common use is that a monster, attempting to hide from the party, briefly reveals itself to the party for a split second, running from one source of cover to another. In just a split second, characters with Keen Mind can get a full visual description of the stealthing creature. On top of that, even if the character isn't good at reading lips, they can accurately recall the mouth movements they witness and recite them to a character who actually can.
Keen Mind is absolutely amazing, but nobody realizes it because you need to be creative to imagine its uses. It's a feature I recommend every wizard take.
You mentioned thumbing through a book in mere seconds. I will correct you here on that as you are mostly correct. It DOESN'T change how you view things. If you thumb through in a second you didn't actually see everything. It was all a blur, thus you cannot recall it. This feat is only memory. Unless you actually see it or hear it you will not recall it.
Think of it like this, in a crowd of 50 people all are talking at the same volume nonstop. You cannot distinguish every last word, you will not suddenly in memory of what you heard be able to distinguish each individual voice. You will accurately recall only exactly what you heard. Same thing with thumbing real fast through books. You would recall it exactly as you saw it. You didn't read the book, you would see just the blur as if you were doing it right now.
This is probably the biggest confusion.
However, for the most part you are correct. As long as you have seen or heard something you can recall it. It doesn't allow you anything beyond 1 month of perfect memory though. For instance you cannot prepare spells,from memory, you cannot retain the phantom skill (seriously the ability literally forces you to forget, I could remember talking to a ghost the next day just fine), you cannot get details that were not seen or heard (however details you would have seen but not described initially count).
It is an amazing feat, but most people do not understand it.
@@MrReaperHand Speed readers can read more than 25,000 words per minute, and the average schmuck can manage 2 pages per minute going fast. A lot of the books you're memorizing in fantasy settings are handwritten, meaning huge fonts - most pages might only have 100-200 words on them, at most.
I'd say a simple History check (or a raw Intelligence check) would suffice to determine the wizard's reading speed, and I'd say a wizard with Keen Mind would also likely be able to read reasonably fast. Given my own capacity to read personal journals, the wizard could finish a 300-page handwritten book at a speed of about 1 minute for every 6 pages, spending about 10 seconds per page - 50 minutes for the 300-page book is perfectly reasonable, and real people can read MUCH faster than that. Records have put people up to 25,000 WPM reading speed. Look up Howard Berg if you've got some time.
It's not a blur, and visual memory is much more accurate than auditory memory. Firstly, there are people who excel at picking specific voices out in a crowd, so the crowd metaphor isn't exactly accurate. Second, as long as the wizard places his eyes on each individual word, the point of photographic memory is that the wizard does remember exactly what he sees, and can slow down or stop any images he's seen in his mind for review.
The human eye can easily scan over 200 words in 10 seconds, and you can even test your personal reading speed with certain websites and apps. You're truly underestimating the abilities humans possess, and certainly underestimating the abilities D&D superhumans with photographic memories possess in fantasy.
First off: Keen mind lets you recall, it doesnt make you "learn", "gain" nor does it stop you from doing a "forget" or "lose".
Second: Rogues dont get dodge as bonus action.
Rogue’s can’t dodge as a bonus action, cunning action is only dash, disengage, or hide.
Wow, this was HILARIOUS! I was grinning like a loon through the entire thing!
Some brilliant stuff in here
I don't believe Rogues can Dodge as a bonus action.
Cunning action let's them Dash, Disengage, and Hide, but not Dodge.
you are completly right.
The only thing to adds too cunning Cunning action is: Arcane Tricksters lets you use your mage hand as a bonus action and the Thief can do the Fast Hands bit, which is not dodge.
That double dive bomb sounds fucking awsome
The conquest/ dragon fear combo was actually the thesis behind one of my builds before. It's a neat combo.
I’ve never approached a DM with it, but for a long time now I’ve considered a Variant Human Wizard with Keen Mind as my starting feat to hypothetically remember every single spell in my spell book at all times
Yes it might be niche but anything can be useful if you try hard enough. I know I was actually looking at Keen Mind and Phantom a few days ago wondering how that would work. I've been trying to find a group but looking at trying to find a build for each class so I could fill any role and this channel has been helpful.
The Bloodwell Vial has a "This property of the vial can't be used again until the next dawn." restriction.
Dwarven Fortitude has been working really well for my friend's dwarven paladin who wades into combat, aggros everything, then dodges, has other defenses, and regains HP as necessary. In the meantime, the ranged attackers or skirmishers (like my rogue), pick off the enemies, and when they are whittled down, the paladin goes offensive with smites.
I made an Oath of Conquest dragonborn a long while back, and though I've never had the chance to play them yet, I'm glad to hear that someone else thinks the build is cool.
Definitely exited to play them when I can find a campaign that they fit into!
Leonin gets a bonus action roar
In a campaign I started a few months ago I was deep in the books when building my character and I built an oath of conquest gem dragonborn with dragon fear because I thought that this is the situation for this situational feat and watching your video today it feels like validation that you talked about my combo
"Talk to your DM" *shows the almighty Matt Mercer*
Keen mind wizards can sneak into dungeons and memorize spellbooks, then copy them down in the safety of their own tower. They can also memorize their own spellbooks, so if something happens to it, they won't be without one for long.
That Dive Bomb should be called "the Bazelgeuse"
Monster Hunter Players will know.
Came for the crazy builds, stayed for the ad skits.
I love the double dive bomb, I cant wait for the time to unleash this next time I sit down as a player.
These are actually pretty clever and fun.
"You know what isn't a magical item? A fucking gun" had me dying
I almost high-fived the screen when you showed Nicolas Angel from Hot Fuzz!
The Suplex athelete barbarian combo basically turns you into a figthing game grappler
“Conjure up an anti-matter weapon” *shows a Halo Reach grenade Launcher*
Unless i'm mistaken, you can be proficient in all skills by level 7.
- Variant human rogue with the skilled feat, that's already 10 skills right off the bat.
- You pick the scout subclass at rogue lvl 3 to add 2 more, followed by 1 level in knowledge domain cleric to add again 2.
- You finish by taking bard for +1 skill and at bard 3 you pick college of lore for the last 3 skills.
Unless i got my math wrong, that's 18 skills.
Thank you for all the educational videos on how to annoy my DM
I’ve actually been playing the Conquest Paladin Dragonborn for a few months and I was so excited when I saw you cover the combo. Instead of Shield Master, I took Pole Arm Master so that I can easily attack my enemies from 10 feet away while they are frozen in place, unable to attack me what so ever.
--Apparently Firearms are their own category of weapon distinct from simple weapons and martial weapons, and have more in common with improvised weapons as you need a feat to be proficient in either (barring DM discretion for the Artificer as written)--
-I don't think Weapon Master would work for the proficiency aspect, but there's nothing saying you have to be proficient with the thing you're conjuring, so everything else checks out!--
Edit: Hold it, hold it, hold it! I've just been notified that firearms, specifically the ones in the Dungeon Master's Guide, *are* classified as martial ranged weapons, and should thus be eligible for selection via the Weapon Master Feat... provided your Dungeon Master allows them, as they may not fit in every setting under the sun. I think this might mean Fighters are proficient with them by default, too, which is... wild!? Man, I slept on this for far longer than I'd like to admit. I've gotta do better. Sorry for the misinformation! (As well as any stress caused to the presenter, who recently put out this clarification. Also, the proof was right there at 2:26! I failed my Perception check big-time!)
Always finding North isn't bad in the right setting. Lost in the Underdark and need to go North? Boom.
For some reason I am imagening some really stupid character with this feat, knowing where North is, but having no idea about cardinal directions, so when asked where south is, they would just point in a random not-north direction.
@@Schilani that is excellent.
My favorite use of Keen Mind is with my Illusionist. Absolutely accurate impersonations of people you see, which is needed most of the time because most DMs hate Illusionists.
Weapon master is actually the crux of a fairly niche build involving whips on monks (their best weapon hands down) while keeping up pure monk progression while keeping your subclass/race free
I was thinking of taking the athlete feat for my Haragon character he is the Cleric of the Wild from your Underrated multiclass builds
The 5 feet to get up part of Athlete has come in clutch in a lot of my games where the barbarian is the only one still able to fight, got knocked prone, and needs to rush at the enemy quickly to get some good hits in.
Literally got that dragon fear combo in my campaign for one of the antagonists
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The Sorcerer Bloodwell Vial thing with Dwarven Fortitude combo is also a combo I've seen using the Strixhaven "Wither and Bloom" spell instead of Dwarven Fortitude to roll that hit dice
This is beautiful. Please sir, may I have some more. 🥺
Keen mind is low key really strong, the fact that is says ANYTHING you have seen is really insane, we had ppl glancing at a book or wall of glyphs or anything and being able to recall it perfectly.
that athelete combo is actually fucking insane
Keen Mind with a Changeling makes practically perfect impersonations. Like, so perfect you basically have to house rule how good they are.
Purely thematic, but Centaur + Athlete = Goat Centaur, which is just awesome.
Similar to the eagle barbarian build, an echo knights echo can use unleash incarnation to attack once during your attack action (grapple). It also specifically says you can mentally command the echo to move up to 30 feet in any direction (not that it has 30 foot walking speed), meaning “up” is a valid direction. Attack action, echo uses unleash incarnation to grapple, will the echo to go 30 feet up(free action), drop(free action), bonus action swap places with the echo. Your enemy has 3d6 fall damage and 3d6 you falling on them damage, plus whatever damage you did slapping them with your attack action. I know it doesn’t optimize the strategy as much as the eagle barbarian, but it’s another way to do it with easier prerequisites (level 3 echo knight fighter).
I've always interpretted the Phantom Rogue ability as them posessing you and you just knowing the skill, not so much that they can teach it to you.
Lmao the athlete tactic is hilarious!
"I want to make an anti-matter rifle." "Try again sweetie."
FYI the Bloodwell Vial trick also works with the spell Wither and Bloom. It does AoE Selective necrotic damage and then heals 1 creature of your choice, i.e yourself 1 Hit die. So you can quicken the spell and instantly regain the points
I love the theme music from the old F-I love the theme music from the old F-Zero games in the background
The Athlete feat is still better than the entire Drunken Master monk subclass though
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This reminded me so much of the meme "i have fallen and i can't gedduuuuuuuup!!"
That dive bomb is hilarious