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Felix "Every weapon is a ranged weapon. If you're not a COWARD."
Halfling Barbarian with Tavern Brawler "Excellent."
I have been waiting so long for this :
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Barbarian with Tavern Brawler and a Halfling*
@@artie9940 Halfling Barbarian w/ Tavern Brawler looking at the Halfling Rogue "Excellent."
Halfling Rogue *sweating profusely*
I made a character that managed to get up to 1200lbs carry strength. When my DM heard this he laughed and said I’d get a Homebrew range calculator for stuff correlating it’s weight to how far it’s thrown. Now she can Yeet cannonballs at enemies from 100ft away.
Nature Cleric with Tavern Brawler and a dead goblin.
Reminds me of the time, early in one of our campaigns, our bard used Tasha's Hideous Laughter on a Spine Devil. Caused it to drop 40 feet cause it was flying... landing on it's head, snapping it's neck, and killing it. Our Bard killed something with Tasha's Hideous Laughter.
Theres that moment early on in critical role where Scanlan the bard gets a nat 20 on vicious laughter and gets an enemy to drown itself
@@Dominion69420 Someone else got a kill with that spell? WHAT!?
You could say that your bard's comedy...is killer.
@@DracoMagnius He killed the crowd
@@zackmarkham4240 He's killing it with his performance
"Every weapon is a ranged weapon. If you're not a coward about it."
Like my barbarian friend said:
"If thrown weapon don't deal piercing damage than you're not throwing hard enough"
i read this in warhammer 40k ogryn speech AND I LOVE IT
"But sir! You're throwing a quartersta-"
_NAT 20!!!_
.....................
...You throw the staff like a javelin. It _somehow_ deals piercing damage... o.o
Wait...that's illegal
@@LucanVaris In fact it should do way less - if you throw a weapon, which doesn't have "Thrown" among it's properties, you must consider said weapon an improvised weapon.
@@Senok13 "Sir, those are just a handful of gold coi-"
_NAT 20 AGAAAIIIN!!!_
"...Gold-plated coin-shaped shuriken it is... h-how many did you-"
_20!!!!!!_
"every weapon is a ranged weapon"
my barbarians who tend to throw party members at the monster if he thinks there not helping enough: your god damn right
That's why they call them 'halflings', y'know.
Barbarian: "HA!" *grabs small team-mate* **FLINGS!**
gotta love the old Fastball Special
Reminds me of a time around the start of a campaign we needed to get to a goblin camp to rescue someone trapped there, the camp was across a bridge that we literally couldn’t see where the fall ended, there was a goblin in the bridge as a guard, our barbarian decided that THROWING our fighter directly at the goblin so the goblin would fall yet stop the fighter from fallin was a good idea, it somehow worked and all the party saw the goblin fall to the abyss as his scream lowered in volume until we couldn’t hear him anymore, we never heard a thud, he could still be falling to this day
Me, playing a lightweight skeleton that wants to be thrown: "He's running away! Chuck me at him and I'll cast Thunderwave on landing!"
@@LucidPoseidon magic initiate so you can soften the landing with gust?
“Every weapon is a ranged weapon if you aren’t a coward.”
*Open-Hand Monk has left the chat*
COWAAARD!!
I have been waiting so long for this :
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Just launch the monk AT the enemy.
@@artemiswolfang that is the best anser
as a monk player i approve
Here's an answer: Play a Warforged, disattach your arm and use it as a boomerang.
Felix: "Every weapon is a ranged weapon. If you're not a COWARD."
my friend: *throws a crossbow*
Enemy necromancer: "Bwahahaha! looks like you are out of ammo for your little crossbow. What are you gonna do now, hmmm?"
PC: Throws crossbow.
@@godofzombiroll strength
@@henreymichelson nat 20
Damn I lost my crossbow, what do I throw at the enemy next…guess I’ll throw these glass bottle full of healing juice
The levitate spell is so good for comedic combat, I used it to kidnap a the party’s favorite villain and when stopped by the villain’s family I levitated him over a cliff for a hostage situation, bluffing because the spell just gently sets them down. The villains sister then levitated one of the party over the cliff so we were just standing there like “huh, now what”
Another *hilarious* spell for absolutely fucking with someone is Resilient Sphere. "You go in the hamster ball now."
I used boots of levitation to just 'nope' over a pair of hell hounds
Ah, a good ol' Galantrian Standoff.
@@Starfloofle And if none of your players pick up the spell, have an enemy with a bag of Beads of Force. Hit one of your players with those in the encounter so they can see them in use, and you KNOW they're gonna get their mileage out of the remaining beads in the bag. Though they're single use consumables, the size of the bead's sphere is *_double_* the spell's. (10 ft radius/20 ft diameter, meaning every Huge creature is game, and even some Gargantuan ones) Using magic items like this allow players to "test out" similar spell effects before committing to them in their lists, and can be a great way to showcase some of your favorite spells in the game without pressuring casters into learning them. As a GM, highly recommend introducing consumable magic items like this every so often, makes for so many entertaining moments~
one time in D&D, we were fighting an evil wizard who had a small army of orcs under his command. I noticed he was hurling the usual verbal abuse at them during the fight that villains to to give their henchmen, and in a spot of improvisation was able to convince them they didn't have to take that from him and that they should go on strike mid-battle to demand better treatment and better (read: any) wages. Hell, they didn't even have dental. Then when the villain inevitably tried to fireball them for their insolence, the party wizard counterspelled it and I got them to outright turn on him for trying to kill them.
That actually had a lot of consequences after we killed the villain, as I felt like i had to do something about the army of disgruntled orcs now ambling about. So i wound up refurbishing the tower the villain was based in into a homebase for the orcs, who the party and I trained into an effective fighting force that would go around protecting villages in peril, funding themselves via bounty hunting. And they had very excellent dental.
With what I did in one session, there is now a permenant marker on our world map indicating where it is now.
So I was playing a session with my secondary group, me playing as a Dragonborn Primal Barbarian caveman named Grok, alongside Fibi the child Kobold Shepherd Druid, and Heart Linstring the history intrigued Lore Bard. In this session we headed out to a graveyard in search of a group of cultists who were producing a mutating toxin that was causing the local wildlife to go berserk, in this graveyard there were several groups of Zombies spread about and we needed to head to each of these groups to find the level to unlock the secret passage to where the cult was hiding.
Now Heart and Fibi wanted to try and sneak around the Zombies, Grok however just decided to go around with his stone-carved Greatsword and started hacking and slashing everything. With one Zombie though, I decided I wanted to deal with this guy in a special way. So recently I gotten the Tavern Brawler feat, and with that knowledge I told the DM that I wanted to rip out the nearest tombstone from me and throw it at the Zombie; Nat 20. With all my strength I tore out one of those giant angel statues off the ground and just chucked it at the Zombie, sending both the Zombie and the tombstone flying off towards the distance with how hard I threw it, however the Zombie succeeded in its Constitution saving throw so it was still alive.
However because of such a ridiculous and funny feat, the DM had made it so that even though the Zombie was still alive, it was now lost somewhere in the hills, stuck underneath a tilted stone statue from a graveyard, endlessly groaning for all eternity as it cant get itself out from underneath the tombstone. Thus, Groaning Mound was made.
legendary story
That’s amazing
"I cast mini ball on the enemy!"
"You cast...what?"
"A tiny fire ball so the party doesn't die."
"And why do you want to do that to the goblin?"
"We need a torch for the human in the group."
Conversation between the wizard and DM before the DM declines the wizard's mini ball spell and leaving the human bard borderline useless because he can't see where to AIM HIS SPELLS!
I have been waiting so long for this :
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That sucks
@@Mi..Mi.. it did, but luckily the DM realized what the problem was and letted the wizard cast Fireball on a group of demons which allowed me play.
Yes, I was the bard. Also I don't blame the DM, he was a veteran trying to teach us newbies how to play. He probably forgot that I was a human bard because I kept dealing massive damage with my rapier but I somehow forgot about my own spells till session 5.
Congrats. You cast Fire _Bolt_ instead.
@@LucanVaris strangely enough, wasn't a spell in the system we were playing in.
I once yanked a Necromancer's spellbook out of his hands and jumped off an airship with it. The amount of scramble required to catch me was absolutely fudged in my favor.
T-Rex laughing in Heavy Weapons Guy is exactly what I needed today, thank you
i hoped someone else caught that
Fun story, I was DMing my first time with my Niece, Nephew, and Brother. My niece was playing a Penguin Nightstalker (And no, this was a home brew since we were using Pathfinder and not 5d.) She acted like a ninja and said she wanted to leap over someone, wrap her chain sickle, and break there neck. I looked at her and said, "She could roll for it, but nothing under 17 would work with all the detail." She got a nat 20.
Well if that ain't the rawest summary of D&D ever, I dunno what is
Winning!
I remember when my party was being attacked by a group of elementals going berserk because they weren't properly aligned to one element. One of the players said, "My character's magic is aligned with one element. Could I maybe... Use my magic to fix their problem?" They rolled for it and succeeded. The healer tried to copy but with the positive energy plane, so they had to roll against a higher dc. Nat 20. And that's how we got a healing pet and a little nature pet added to the party.
Everything is a weapon, if you're not a coward. -The Tavern Brawler feat.
I once made a rock golem barbarian with 20 Strength and Constitution, 10 Dexterity, and 3 Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. He could not speak, could barely understand simple common, had no concept of dishonesty, immune to intimidation and seduction, and was very easily persuaded and gullible. I loved him so much. I really want to play him in a longer campaign.
Immune to intimidation? That doesn't seem very logical considering animals With at least as little intelligence can also be intimidated by things
@@cthulwho9125 when you're made of rock and have as much intelligence as a ten-year-old on nine cans of soda i don't think the concept of intimidation is even possible to fathom
@@cthulwho9125 Living creatures like animals have a sense of self-preservation, They want to live. Constructs like warforged have a sense of 'self' and thus a sense of self-preservation.
Rock golems are essentially just a security system, they don't have a sense of 'self' to worry about preserving. Their only purpose of existence is to defend a person/place even at the cost of their own life. Player Character golems are typically 'different' and more sentient and free-willed, thus having a sense of self.
Brock's creator was a very unprepared novice who didn't know what she was doing so Brock doesn't care about protecting her or anything else, but he also doesn't understand self-preservation.
@@lukas8670 oh yeah, him being a Rock golem is a fair reason why actually.
That Part of the character Hadn't Quite reached my mind.
As a DM, I played a small wild magic kobold with low Int so it couldn't give clues to my players and the idea was to "help my players" since we were low on characters sometimes, my idea was to fuck'em up a bit increasing the little guy failing chance every so often, these people learned how to weaponized my little dude throwing him in the middle of the enemies and casting protection spells on him so we wouldn't just die instantly, and most of the time I just let it roll because I liked the idea of the Kobold pipe bomb lmao
It's always fun to have a bundle of chaos to yeet into any given scenario.
@@legoferrari14 Ours was a goblin named Zang!! (the exclamation points are part of the name) who somehow got psychic powers, he'd fly around and grow to huge sizes and I more than once let my gnome transmuter poke him with a buff or dimension dooring him into trouble and take a step back to watch the show
I think my favorite use of a shenanigan strat was on a character I made specifically to pull these sorts of shenanigans, AKA a Grapple-Fighter Eldritch Knight. We were fighting a group of zombies/wights in an old dwarvish mine, I ended up grappling one of the higher HP enemies and dragging them a bit of a ways to one of the features of the mine... Y'see, there was a water-wheel powered by an underground river that was meant for powering some ore processing device. I was able to lodge the wights head so that it was partially pressed flat against a stone floor and partially poking out over a ledge into the path of the wheel, so that when the spokes came down well... DM was basically just like "Yeah, I can't think of any way they survive this, so I'm not gonna bother rolling damage."
I can verify this as correct information firsthand. In a more recent campaign that I'm in, I brought a character that, at first glance, even I thought was horrifically weak. A human monk with a terrible spread who I designed specifically in such a way where I thought him being terrible in combat would be a plot point. Months later, this guy has singly handedly become one of the most terrifying powerhouses I've ever played in 5e. I've had him jump off of buildings to drop kick people, thrown sand in peoples eyes, set crowds on fire, climb up on a cave ceiling and kicked debris down on enemies below. Now his body count is the highest in the party by a rather large margin. By being forced to find more creative solutions in nearly everything I've been doing, (along with some weirdly good rolls) this guy who I thought would be useless has become an absolutely terrifying force to be reckoned with.
I... Kinda want to see his character sheet. that sounds awesome.
I gave my monk Pole of Collapsing. It is very effective for longer range but not supposed to be used for fighting. I used it by planting it on the ground in it's 1ft length. Spoke the command word whilst standing on the end. It extended the 10ft. Using the momentum of the pole extending and my jump to propel myself 20ft into the air to windmill kick the dragon that tried to fly away from us after putting it in a critical condition. It didn't escape. Other notable items that are easy to acquire and not expensive. Decanter of Endless Water, Pipe of Smoke Monsters (for flavor), and Rope of Mending. With a creative mind they can be quite useful.
Let's gooo, I love these Felix DM things, been trying to get a campaign started for ages and this really helps for some ideas
I wanted to get my dad a pet lobster but he said he'd name it biscuits
@@drakox9603 this is not at all related, but that is super fucking funny.
@drakox9603 did you get him the lobster which would inevitably be named biscuits
The most powerful thing in D&D anybody can have is a good schedule.
I always forget just how simplisticly hilarious Felix is!
Imprisoned an ancient vampire in mist form in a wine skin using a "gust" spell and a nat 20 in Spellcraft. So glad my dm let me do that. One of the best moment of my gaming life. Also an other my druid used earth glide to go straight to the end of the dungeon and naruto-summon a whale on top of the cultists from the ceiling, crushing them instantly. It was 3.5 btw.
Had an early encounter where giant ants are crawling out of an anthill attacking the party. They're not too tanky, fight goes on... until its my turn.
"I wanna cast Tasha's Caustic Brew right down the tunnel".
DM asks for Dex Save DC
I ask "where are they dodging to? The effect is as wide as the tunnel"
DM considers.
Encounter won.
Ant colonies generally don’t live in one long tunnel.
@@bubbledoubletrouble fair. thankfully neither me nor my DM were good at biology
Not quite rule of cool but my favorite bit of problem solving was when my group needed to get past a Gargoyle blocking a door we need to go through. We tried going over, under, and around it and were about to roll intuitive for a fight when another party member had an idea. He asked the Gargoyle to please move (and rolled a crit). The gargoyle said no one ever just asked politely before and moved to the side. Everyone said almost in unison "I can't believe that worked"
My favorite moment came from my Lizardfolk Druid(Shepherd). We were fighting a powerful Beholder with a Drow servant. The entire party were full casters (another Druid, this one a Stars, and a Bard: homebrew College College of Macabre) and were having a terrible time. I was low on HP and the Beholder was still kicking. We were stuck on ideas until I came up with one. Putting myself underneath the beast, I let myself get downed, thus activating my special ability to Conjure Animals at 9th level. I ended up picking directly above the Beholder 4 Polar Bears and had them latch onto its eyestalks. The sheer weight of the four dragged it down to ground level and forced it to focus on the bears for they were not only weighing it down, but also chewing on the eyestalks. Safe to say, the fight ended one round later.
This actually reminds me of one of my fav characters ever. In a campaign I had a werewolf barbarian, really strong and broke a few rules.
I was allowed a traveling partner, WITH the condition it was a weak character, so I did, all his stats rolls were 12, 10 and even an 8 in strength, but had 18 in charisma from lv 1. THIS is the character I wanna talk about. He started as a young male Bard, slim and pretty, but weak, shy when socializing and had a heart of gold. Part used to joke he was gay for my Male werewolf barbarian, so ya know what?! I did that, not only that, but made that Bard a pacifist. He would NEVER deal a single point of damage to an enemy, so he would resolve most encounters by finding how to solve things peacefully. And MAN! We all loved that gold heart fem-boy. Because with time, he learned that ACTION was the real important thing, whether be finding how to help the enemies goons, so they no longer had to follow the tyrant overlord, OR learning sometimes, the party HAD to fight. So with time he stopped being so shy and even step forward to protect party members from harm. Every time he would play his inspiration music for battle he would cry, as he didn't wanted violence, but would not let the party fall because of him not providing the advantage. The characters felt this every time he would play his beautiful violin music.
As a Bard he had access to SO many useful spells, it is incredible how versatile a bard can be. Specially if you both collect and craft magical items. Bizarre and useful items, not just a Sword +5. That, mixed with my choice of most emotional anime music ever, made the PLAYERS cry in more than one occasion, even convinced the party to try to understand the Final Boss and let her live. (we fought baba-yaga as final boss)(pathfinder)
Yeah! On the dms side of things too this really gets players invested in the story when they are rewarded with creative thinking! Plus it can add some fun flare to the story and world building.
I recently found out about the peasant cannon, if I ever get around to actually play dnd I’m using it and this just makes me want to use it even more
Got one of those situations where our wizard turned a homebrew bonedragon into a turtle, send him into the orbit and then let it crashed down into the ground and asked me, how much falling dmg it will take. I couldn't breath while I was laughing and rolling the dmg for the turtle.
I absolutely love these short D&D tips, good mix of info and humor
A personal favorite of mine is my cleric and my friend’s ice-based sorcerer, I cast Create Water and second level, she freezes it all in one blast, boom.
I remember a story where a dude’s character stuck his hand in the big baddie’s (a werewolf) mouth, causing him to lose it. However,in his hand that got bit off was the seed of a tree that could magically grow to full size in an instant. The worst part is that this was the first of what was supposed to be many encounters with it. Dm was frustrated but couldn’t argue with what went down.
0:17 "Or stuff like the peasant railgun" The "peasant railgun" is basically a way to make a projectile hit a target at a ridiculously high speed, by making a line of peasants speed it up by passing it to next one in the line (using their Ready actions). Because of how the Ready action works, the projection would make all the way to the start of the line in 6 seconds (1 round), no matter how long the line is.
Grappling is incredibly underrated in 5E. You need to make more use of grappling.
My Drakewarden Ranger had his Drake grapple someone as my Ranger knocked them prone.
Also, my Duergar Battlesmith dive tackled a Stone Giant zombie as his Steel Defender headbutted him on the shin.
I personally let players do each method of creative murder once. Helps players be creative and stops them from filling everyone's lungs with water.
Makes me think of the time I was hellbent on finishing off an enemy with a people's elbow bc they were prone in a ditch. i kept missing, climbing back out, trying again, and making them prone again over and over. Eventually the whole party got involved and this poor footsoldier wasn't even allowed to stand up as five adventurers continuously tried and failed to people's elbow him before climbing back out and trying again. One of the best one shots I've ever played in.
I'm happy that I finally hear another DM acknowledging the "Every weapon has the thrown property of you try hard enough" rule.
Omg me and my brother did that last suggestion by making really good support characters that weren't allowed to do any damage due to a curse of pacifism, we couldn't deal any direct damage but we could buff allies and debuff enemies. It got to a point where all our Buffs were up and we had nothing to do so we started being flanking monies, started using the help action to give advantage on saving throws and using minor illusion to force an enemy to take a longer path to get to us. 100% recommend making unique choices in combat with bad characters
One of the players in the campaign I'm in recently killed three nothics (that were playing blackjack, mind you) by using 'purify water' on their BLOOD and INTERNAL ORGANS. And our DM said, "thats so creative, I'm just gonna let you do it," and that firmly solidifies that gm as one of my favourites.
My personal favorite - casting Suggestion and telling them "Go home and take a nap"
"Every weapon is a ranged weapon" is a really good rule. Had a character who was terrible at swordsmanship and found a saber. He was good at throwing stuff tho so every major fight started with a Surprise Flying Saber Attack (TM) and it worked pretty well! Until that one time he didn't manage to retrieve it from an enemy's torso :(
I just realized you can make NUCLEAR MAGICAL BOMBS with an Artificer.
Here's how:
Step 1: Purchase 2 bags of holding. (3 if you don't want to lose your items, don't forget to label them)
Step 2: Have an Artificer build a machine that puts items into bags, and have it be as compact as possible.
Step 3: Have a flying machine capable of carrying said device and also dropping it.
Step 4: If you encounter something like oh I don't know, how about... a Tarrasque (death-stares Sips in the corner of a bar), You can fly high above it, turn on the Bagging Machine, throw it out of the Flying Machine, and PRESTO-BLAMMO YOU HAVE A *MAGICAL NUKE!*
Now if you excuse me, I must invent a Magical Nuclear Apocalypse Bunker for the devastating wars across the Multiverse brought about by my 200 IQ brain and some BAGS OF HOLDING WTF WAS WIZARDS OF THE COAST THINKING FOR MAKING SUCH DEVASTATING ITEMS?!?!?!
Or get an imp familiar (3 levels of Warlock should do it.) Tell it to fly towards the enemy and then put one bag into teh other when it's right on top off them. You now have invisbile target seeking nuclear bombs.
I am a barbarian in my sunday game and we were in the feywild. The story is like treasure planet (SPACE PIRATES). A ship from the feywild shot a sentient cannon ball at us. The idea was that it was suppose to do more damage to our ship from the inside after it hit our ship. (it punches things after fired). SUPPOSE TO. I grappled the cannonball and managed to return it to it's sender...good times XD
I like making characters and progression choices for story, anyway. Flavor is way more fun to me than big numbers.
"every Weapon is a ranged Weapon"
Monks: Am I a Joke to you?
Creative Monks: I AM THE RANGED WEAPON! To Barbarian: TOSS ME!
@@Catalyst375 "the Flying Fist Special!"
Hey Dingo just want to say your work is amazing, you inspired me to try my own hand at retelling my favourite dnd campaign. I hope everything goes great in your future and keep being awesome :)
I LOVE your choice of background music. It fits so damn well LOL.
I don’t even play DnD, but it is always a treat to think of how to do something unexpected while still totally being within the laws of the game. For example: BBEG in his mountaintop lair is immune to magic but has low physical defenses, has a window behind him from where you’re standing, and you’re the ONLY one who has physical strength? Tackle them out of the window, throw them further down, and have a party member cast Levitate on you. There goes the BBEG.
That's actually what my DM is doing for my next character, she will have close to nothing but the clothes on her back and a single weapon. She will have to find her own way in the universe my DM made. I can't wait! ❤️
I've done Hideous Laughter + Cutting Words combo on a Heat Metal'd boss. It was a hilariously fun encounter...we got a goblin mascot for our party out of that encounter too!
An amazing rule of cool i once allowed was lighting the warlock's imp on fire as they ran out of torches and nobody had any good ways to make light so they repeatedly prestidigited the imp to light it on fire for a round (not technically a viable target of lighting a fire but it was a creative use of the imps fire immunity)
Thank you for the suggestions!
I felt that every weapon is a ranged weapon. Fun little D&D story of a campaign I'm in: Keep in mind this is a Greek mythology themed campaign, but in our world I play a Warforged Artificer with a massive great hammer. The way that Warforged exist in this world is that they were all made by Hephaestus (Like Talos, just smol), and the main reason why my character is an artificer is because he wishes to impress his creator/father. Anyways time for the moment, we had nearly defeated an entire group of bandits when suddenly another one decided, instead of fighting us, to berate and attack the old man they were mugging. Beetle (My Lawful Nuetral Warforged) sees this and, not being able to close the distance and really not wanting to waste any spells on the bandit, grabs this absolutely massive hammer, lifts it over and behind his head and chucked it with a nat 20. Bandit's head and upper body were turned to mush as he collapsed and, upon my next turn of combat and with one last bandit left, I run towards him and mid-run pick up the hammer and just absolutely destroy his ribcage with it.
Thinking outside the box is a challenge I will always take without hesitation. My first chance to PC as a forever-DM, I played a Lycan Blood Hunter and secretly came up with a plan a couple sessions before I actually got to test it to knock lighting a Molotov cocktail down from a full action to a bonus action by using Rite of the Flame on the cloth fuse. I'm still incredibly proud of it months later
I’ve done just this, and you guys have inspired me to make my own RUclips series about that campaign!
….but as I suck as an artist the video editing has been a bit, uh, janky 😅. Thanks for bringing joy into my life you two
I love this. So much. I needed this.
Felix: "Every weapon is a ranged weapon. If you're not a Coward!"
Reminds me of the time where I became a Javelin instead of throwing one and another party member brought down an entire building with that same technique
1:43 the goddamn heavy tf2 laugh slayed me
In my current campaign my character got gifted a dress made of dragon scales. It had a couple Homebrew characteristics. Like having to do a Dex save if you dash incase you trip on the hem of the dress. But the fact it was made of something as hard as dragon scales is what’s important to this story.
I had a random idea mid battle with a false hydra (had my fingers in my ears so couldn’t use my hands for weapon attacks). I tried doing pirouette’s over and over, using the momentum to flare out my dragon scale dress so it was moving super fast and basically acting like a Pizza cutter. Improvised weapons like this usually deal 1d4. But my DM asked me some information about my character, height, weight and taking into account that I had Powerful Build and doubling lift strength again from Brawny. And decided that with the dragon scale dress being magical. That it would be a d10 instead of a d4. Not as great as my greataxe. But damned great since everyone couldn’t use their hands in this fight because of the way the False Hydra works.
Played a Kinetesict in my last Pathfinder campaign. Think benders from Avatar if you're a DnD diehard.
I had specialised into aether, more or less making me a proper telekinetic.
Boy howdy, I learned how creative I could get with that guy. Seriously, baddies holed up at the top of a 5 story stairwell, with Archer's guarding the entrance? My party used me as cover when I marched first using a whole ass door to shield us.
Bonus points! I just remembered as I typed that that I threw that door at the baddie and knocked him out that 5th story window. He didn't DIE, but he surrendered fairly quickly after that. XD
Awesome tips, Felix. I always love these kinds of videos. My DM is one of my best friends and now I can annoy him even more 😈😈
Every time I play a barbarian, there’s a situation where I end up grappling an enemy and jumping off something usually surviving because barbarian
It’s ridiculous and I love it
need more of these types of videos
Reminds me of one time we were having a boss fight in a long corridor where the gravity was magically tilted (the wall becomes the floor, that kinda thing). The fight had been going on a while until the boss, who was immune to the gravity thing, fled through a door and we didn't have a key. So we piled all the rubble from the fight onto the door, which luckily was on the "gravitational floor", and our mage cast thunderwave. The rocks destroyed the door, fell through the next room, and all we could hear was a mighty crash and a 'oof'. Basically we had accidentally created a giant shotgun and hit the boss square in the face. It was amazing.
I love Felix tips videos
I've done that last one. I was Gem, the (technical) pacifist Gnome Wizard. Most of my spells were focused around support and subduing enemies non-lethally. Unfortunately, the campaign was Dragon Heist, so I ended up needing to take some heavy-hitter spells later on, but it made for some amusing roleplay.
gotta say, i love the felix videos so far.
i SUBBED for Sips & co, but this is a *great* bonus!
Felix: every weapon is a ranged weapon
Me a Barbarian Wrestler: *drop kicks everything* "OH YEEAH!"
I once used Minor Illusion to make it seem like an owlbear cub was calling it's mom from the forest. The owlbear that was predominantly interested in mauling us to death decided on checking it out instead of proceeding with the mauling. The DM even complimented me on it.
Says Pile Drive, animates a flying elbow.
This reminds me of a great rule of cool moment in one of my first (and sadly one of my only) campaigns I’ve been in. We were in some underwater base thing probably a premade from one of the books and a bunch of enemies were swarming towards us. The DM let me commit the rule of cool to instantly set up a glyph or warding in front of where we were hiding… a lightning glyph of warding. The majority of those fish got insta fried lol
1. Lured the winged gargoyle to the edge of the cliff.
2. Wing Gargoyle grappled the NPC and flew over the cliff.
3. Cast Hideous Laughter on the flying Gargoyle, it failed and began falling.
4. Realize NPC is still with the Gargoyle and also falling.
5. Panic!
6. Use a reaction to throw a rope over the cliff for the NPC to grab, but not enough time to secure the rope.
7. NPC catches the still falling rope.
8. NPC cast gust of wind to launch the falling end of the rope back to the edge of the cliff.
9. Orc PC grabs the gnome and holds that
dexterous rogue over the cliff edge to catch the rope.
Endlich wieder ein Felix video😊
Rule of Cool is kind of my tables signature move at this point. We have one player who traffics in nothing but characters he makes when he shows up for game, he gets into their heads as the game develops, and eventually pulls off some of the best stuff in any of our campaigns.
Its not just him but he's kind of the go-to for great/terrible ideas.
Nothing makes my eyes roll out of my head faster than someone hitting me with "ummm because the rules say" where as if I hear someone go "I have a weird idea, can I . . . " That will always make my ears perk up.
When I clicked on this I was half expecting it to be clickbait - but it was actually a great piece of advice that lived up to the title, thanks Felix.
I love the ranged weapon comment. I have always loved the idea of a class like eldrich knight that can call the weapon back just tossing a battle ax at a poor goblin when they can't get close.
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Ah yes, the classic "Throwing Your Sword Always Works (TM)" A personal favorite of mine.
We actually had a blast in one campaign with my barbarian because I told the DM "hey I just realized I'm wielding two-handed weapons with one hand, and dual wielding them at that" and his response was "well we've already given you this crazy item that makes you immune to fire cause fiend reasons, so we'll just add that as a feature".
I want to have this character pop up in someone's campaign just for the shit that'll go off with what he can do now thanks to our DM.
My party was fighting a basilisk, I was playing a reborn rune knight fighter, with a grappler build (my dm also let me take the touch of death dark bargain from VRGTR so the build is extra funny) and I just said "I'd like to grapple in a very specific way, bonus action giant's might, action grapple. I want to palm the basilisk's face." Rolled good, DM allowed it and he ruled that it gave everyone but me advantage on the con save for its Petrifying gaze.
Ooh! Here's an example of this!
We're in a Fantasy Vietnam setting, in a death cultist's cathedral, and a boss battle with the high priestess dryder had just started. And the bad guys are closing in via a helicopter above the decrepit roof. The battle was timed and we were running out of options and health.
Our fighter grabs a grenade he had grabbed earlier and chucks it AT THE HELICOPTER'S BLADES! Nat 20
It swerved, failed, and crash landed on the boss, instantly making Dryder soup.
DM was devastated his boss was permanently gone so fast. XD
Our party was once fighting an Elder Brain and our druid used the Create or Destroy Water to basically mummify the brain to death by repeatedly destroying the water contained within it until it died of system shock from hyper-rapid dehydration, which also conveniently reduced most of the local mindflayer population to a catatonic state because hive mind connects through the elder brain.
Another thing that our DM allowed rule of cool for was unique custom abilities for our characters, so long as it made sense. For example, I played a half-elf sorcerer who specialized in spatial magics and I even flavor-texted his non-spatial spells as him channeling powerful energies from the elemental planes into his attacks or perhaps warping the shape of space to alter the environment. Anyway, one of my sorcerer's metamagics was Distant spell, which normall just doubles the range of a spell or gives a touch spell a range of 30 feet at the cost of one sorcery point. Well, because of his affinity for spatial magic, my DM decided that it would make sense that distant spell would have a stronger affect when I used it versus anyone else. So he made it that I could also apply the 30 foot range effect to spells with range of self. This led to my character having distant cast misty step as a signature move, giving him dynamic field control, along with other self spells for crazy shenanigans. (It's been a few years, and our DM still hasn't forgiven me for the ichthyocentaur incident, when I used distant cast Alter-Self on the party centaur to give her aquatic adaptation. It was for an underwater side quest and only one party member had a swim speed, so Ichthyocentaur was my solution. At that point she had 60 feet of base movement, but then she was a high level ranger with Haste as well. Double dash action with doubled base movement..... yeah there was no stopping her.)
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During a recent dnd session I go to after school we were trying to capture a faction base. So we walked up to the gate and the guards asked us to go away but we didn't want to listen so I did a uno reverse and my dm, being the cool dude he is let me roll a persuasion check and I rolled a nat 20. So I pulled an uno reverse on the guards and they walked away. Funniest play ever!
Reminds me when in one of my campaigns I played in where i had a flame gauntlet and an ally had a water gauntlet. These gauntlets, when clapped together, produced a ton of thick steam that was difficult to see through. I used the BBEG's blindness to yeet them off a tower
This plays into my tortles favorite way to travel. He loads into a catapult, goes into his shell and either rages or has a friend cast globe of invulnerability and get flung to the nearest point of interest. This requires a bit of RAW and ROC! Give it a try next time you make a turtle...make your DM question everything he puts on the map...
The greatest tool in a player’s handbook is remembering all the rules. An enemy gets hit? Well, were they concentrating on any spells? Are there any abilities on the field to make sure the hit lands? And when someone in the party is getting hurt; do they have some Shield available? Resistance to any damage types? A Death Ward cast two irl hours ago that everyone else forgot? Remembering the rules can do more to save your party than any one action, bonus action, or reaction, and you can use them as many times as needed in a round.
Nothing like accidentally using the environment to you advantage. Need a quick escape to get out of the middle of a cult's camp while causing serious damage? Use Fire Breathing on a decent sized group of bad guys and watch them flee in terror! ...Then realize the reason they ran away so fast was because several crates with "NO FIRE" symbols were also in your fire breath, causing a massive explosion that both crippled their supplies and yourself while also launching you sky high, plummeting down outside the camp while also having a high enough level/health pool to have barely survived!
my favorite instance of this was in a 'mirror fight' a la dark link, but party-wide.
I was playing a barbarian druid, and knew my mirror self would be 100% willing to cause some dismemberments with its copy of my crystalline greatsword.
So I cast Aboleth's Lung on it - a spell designed to let the target breathe underwater. Just one small issue for our dear mirror-me: it prevents the target of the spell from breathing air for the duration. And there wasn't any water in the room besides what's in people's waterskins.
So the poor, poor mirror copy of me died clutching its throat, unable to breathe as its lungs were adapted to breathe water instead of air.
My favorite rule of cool moment was when we were fighting a flying devil and a kraken on a pirate ship. The devil got the item he was after and took flight to leave. My next turn I jumped off the edge of the ship, caught the devil mid escape, stabbed both daggers into his wings, pulled down ripping his wings asunder, grabbed the item off his belt, kicked away from him, flipped double birds as he fell helplessly into the krakens mouth, and misty stepped back onto the deck. I rolled extremely well on the various skill checks he asked for and our DM let it fly.
So that's one of the reasons why I like exalted over D&D, because it promotes that kind of creativity. Because by describing how to do stuff gives actual useable boosts to your rolls.
I would argue that a 10 foot wooden bar propelled faster than the speed of sound by a line of 1000 peasant :
- Is thinking outside the box
- Is using a nonstandard range weapon
- Will induce both emotional and existential crises
- Is very distracting
- Is the most compelling argument I can think of
- And is most definitely cool
Yes, its not using the environment, but who needs to use the environment when you just reduce said environment to atoms. Peasant railgun for the win!
Oh man, our group straight up loves Rule of Cool, we rotate DM between campaigns and we've all since done some ballsy/clever stuff throughout the years.
Using the environment in combat is a lot of fun. I have won a nzumber of fights that were supposed to be scripted losses by just asking what the surroundings are and doing things with that.
Also Mage Hand may not be able to attack, but depending on the DM, you might absolutely get away with using it for a ten pound remote choke
as someone whose waited nearly a year for my Animated Tarot set, just looking in the PDF you get there is SO much good stuff ;-; gods based on the Tarot, item info for the deck in game, and tons of spreads to not only make characters but maybe get you over your writers block for your game :D 100% worth the 100$ i spent on it once the cards get here XD finally were shipped out after so many shipping delays ;-;
I like how Felix talks about piledriving a flying creature. Because I did just that a month ago. My GM used a monster from Spelljammer, which had a flying shark. So I did my best Mike Haggar impression and pile drived it into the ground from 130ft. In the air. Did like 75 damage to it. It was great.
I will be sure to use this. Thanks for the tips, Felix!
Especially the one with the weak character.
I hood example of a rule of cool diplomatic solution is in the unexpectables where the bard was able to use diplomacy to stop an ancient silver dragon from hurting the parties favorite character.
The dragon at question had scars from a time he was a slave, so he knows what true pain is. In the past of the campaign he made a deal with a princess to kill her entire family because they were corrupt and evil and so far he’s been trying to force the parties favorite character into becoming a queen but she doesn’t want to. So the bard practically says “you are trying to put the shackles of royalty in person who wants freedom”
In my group's most recent one shot (that turned into a three shot) we had a plasmoid in a jar and we were facing off against something that was hurt by silver so we coated the jar in silver and had our barbarian centaur that could move faster than a freaking bus just use the plasmoid as a what we called a holy hand grenade.
I once rolled up a super weak character. His highest attribute was a 12.
So I made him a Divination Wizard and survived to get the Lucky feat.
We roleplayed it like the dude was an absolute coward, but always just got lucky.
He would pull a lever that would send arrows towards him, but his exact outline would not be covered in arrows.
He would jump a ledger and not make it, only for a gust of wind to carry him the last foot.
Or, my favorite:
When fighting the BBEG he accidentally stumbled over the antique tea set, sending shards of porcelain all over the floor. As he was trying to pick the pieces up, he would show a whole lot of crack to the BBEG which we counted as Physics damage.
Eventually the BBEG grabbed the Wizard and with the sound of a chew toy cracked him open. However the Wizard had accidentally put a ward on some of his clothes, causing a Fireball spell to take effect and wounding the BBEG enough for the rest of the party to beat them.
God bless you O'Wizzy.