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The plot hook you can have to find a way to negate the sun's damage can ve quite fun

My healing potion rule is that you can use a bonus action to apply the potion to your wound and you roll the 2d4+2 to heal. But if you use a action to drink the healing potion then you get the full amount. 10 HP.

This couldn’t happen earlier when I ran my crypt with a warlock? 😭 Dudebro decimated it with forbiddance and I have no idea how to deal with it.

Over on the UA Reddit we've got the Alternate Fighter by LaserLlama and they actually had their version of EK with the bladesong extra attack and found that it was a bit too overpowered with cantrips like GFB and nerfed it back down to phb war magic. The Alternate Fighter is by base a bit stronger on average than the base fighter so I wonder how this will stack up with the 5.5e fighter considering they also got buffs from base 5e.

How the F du you rage stealthy????

I can't understand why people are complaining, yes they nurfed paladins, but that it's still one of the best classes in the game even after the change; more importantly the aura of protection has not changed, aka the most powerful ability they have is untouched. the smite nurf is a good thing, they now don't stand out as a contender for best marshal regardless of what subclass they pick, like it was sense they stopped being a subclass. will this make paladin's less senergy with multiple builds not working anymore, yes; I for one am glad to see it, this is a team game & forcing more classes to be unable to go without teamwork is a positive. yes they could as people wanted & "just buff the other classes" but that will lead to the overtly complacented game just look at the madness of some of the older additions.

I don't mind paladin getting divine smite once per round to keep their power levels closer to everyone else. I just wish they didn't use the bonus action and instead used their reaction

Great video! Wanted to say however I think you are massively under-estimating the new barbarian. Partly due to wizards not fully explaining all the new buffs. But from information we can piece apart from Treantmonk, it does seem Rage likely lasts for 10 minutes, on top of restoring a use per short rest. The skill checks being strength during rage means advantage, and getting a good stealth before combat for surprise certainly is great! In addition, it seems the buff to reckless attack in UA made it through, where the advantage on attack rolls works even for reaction attacks. Another note, the Wildheart Barbarian can change its exploratory feature every long rest, but its other spirits are every time they rage, a great feature!

Definitely keeping the divine smite as a feature. New change is dumb

I always knew that punching my allies in the balls was optimal, ive been doing that for years!

World Anvil: So complex its hard to actually create a campaign with it...

We are never going to use the new/worse divine smite it so much worse than the old version it's not funny. We already let our barbarian's use strength for some checks all the time we just needed to say why strength it applies there. Like being a giant muscle rage monster for intimidation or saying that yes you can trust us to protect you while being a Giant mountain of muscle persuasion check. I don't know about weapon Mastery as we usually forget some of the stuff we already have and this is just adding a little more so we might even forget they exist while playing.

Or turn into hydra which can cut off and regrow infinite heads, make a bite with each head, become a ball of infinite regrowing hydra heads

Holy shit! Paladins were GUTTED. What were they thinking? WOW

I don’t play DnD but being a DM sounds fun. Then I see videos like this that highlight how broken the game is and I’m thinking maybe not. Maybe being DM is actually a hellish nightmare where the game itself hinders your own ideas because it allows your players to just become OP as fuck.

And this is why gave up on DnD. Being able to abuse rules to make an OP character is no fun. There are better systems out there that helps prevent this type of rules abuse.

Simply put, they should've just said "you can only smite once per turn" and then it at least becomes a reasonable nerf instead of a paizo level nerf that it currently is. Smite now is counterspell-able, doesn't work in an antimagic field, can't be used on opp attacks, can't be used if you want to use your BA for anything else, if the weird BA spell rule is still there then it conflicts with that, it can be silenced now since it requires a vocal component, and creatures like tiamat and rakshasas are now immune to divine smite because they're immune to spells of 6th level or lower and paladins only get up to 5th level slots. Needless to say if I play in this new edition I'm just letting someone play a 2014 paladin and i won't ever play a paladin in 5.5. It sucks. I hope they don't keep making this game more like pf2, but based on the paladin nerfs I'm worried for all my favorite classes now. I hope this is the most substantial change they've made cuz I don't enjoy the "we must bow at the feet of the optimization channels who complain every moment about how strong the hexblade is" direction they're going in rn.

Re: Primal Knowledge; if the playtest rules for rage are still intact, then the barbarian gets more rages per day, the rage lasts ten times as long, and you always get one back on a short rest so... yeah, actually, I suspect I'll have a few that I'm able to throw around for when I need to pass a stealth or intimidation or survival check. Re: Divine Smite; Yes, divine smite was reigned in on purpose, because the way it was before allowed the paladin to slot-dump and drop a crazy-huge damage spike on whatever big-bad the DM threw at you; plus, it also encouraged the Paladin to not use their spell slots on anything OTHER than divine smite, which was no bueno. As far as counterspelling divine smite goes, if the changed counterspell goes through, it's first of all not even supremely likely to work since Con will be one of the paladin's highest stats PLUS they get their aura bonus, and second of all makes you waste, at worst, your bonus action; assuming everything's as it is in the playtest, or close enough, it won't even make the paladin lose their actual attack. Counterspelling the smite will be the wrong play 95% of the time. Fireball is an evocation spell; E.Knights could always pick it up.

So, basically, Owlin divination wizards whose graduated from Hogswarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are overpowered. Never would have seen that coming.

I like the ‘wild heart’ buff, the zealot rework is a little dumb. Instead, it should be a nerf of “reduced component cost 50%” for a bit, then bump down 0-cost later.

Yes, I'm going to focus on Divine Smite lol. Like, holy Crap. That kills Palidins for me. - Still, good video as always

Can we talk about how the Oath of the Ancients new Aura doesn't even really fit Ancients when Watchers Paladin is right there.

I'm not going to lie, the updated PhB seems less and less like something for experienced players. It's just barely anything new

I think background giving stats is good, but don’t rob my elves of their dex or my goliaths of their inherited strength. That much, i don’t like. Just get stat bonuses from both character and background (rewritten because autocensored the old term)

I am actually quite happy with the changes to Paladin, they needed some balancing for a while now and this seems to have done that without ruining the class while also allowing those backdoor buffs mentioned in the video

It was actually fairly decent in 1st edition as I recall. Someone must have decided it needed hard nerfing for some reason.

Looks like I’m playing dc20 from here on out, instead of fixing dnd they just took away all the cool shit.

D&D is dead. Long live DC20

I think ultimately what will happen is people will pick and choose the rules/systems they like from both editions. Not gonna see many "pure" 2024 games.

I love the barbarian changes, my favorite class got buffed and it’s great

Whats the show like the animated one being used in the video I've been trying go look for it to give it a watch it looks interesting

maralith will always make me lol as it reminds of when i overheard a barbarian out brain a psionic. that killed said psionic with his brain

Rage lasts a full 10 minutes now, you claimed it only last a minute. In my opinion, it’s actually quite useful out of combat to have a +4 and advantage on a persuasion check, instead of a -1 from your charisma dump.

Aasmir Druid as my next character!?!?

Primal Knowledge is going to get changed. If it releases in this state, Barbarians are going to be doing nearly all of the checks for the party. That's not what Barbarians are for.

Divine Smite was always a bit of a noob trap. Anyone who actually burned all their spell slots smiting on every single attack was hamstringing themselves, and the actual experienced Paladins would learn how to leverage their actual spells in the right circumstances, and keep a few extra slots in their back pocket so they could pull out a smite when the most opportune moment presented itself. With these changes, it's become an even bigger noob trap, because anyone who would intentionally burn their entire turn and one of their few spell slots to add 2d8 damage to a single attack obviously doesn't have the experience to know how much a spell slot is actually worth to a half-caster.

You're doing the lord's work

The no exhaustion after raging for Berserker is definitely a buff. Exhaustion SUCKS and there's very few things that can cause it in normal gameplay. Pretty sure Berserker is the least liked subclass for Barbarian, just purely because of it giving you a point of exhaustion when you rage with is your fucking bread-and-butter move. That'd be like a druid getting exhaustion for using Wild Shape. You get punished for using your class's core ability.

I agree that making divine smite a spell is a nerf but its a good nerf. Yeah it can be counter spelled, having more interaction is good. Characters can pick it up by multiclassing or taking a feat (by playing the game) having more customization is good. If someone really wants to go out of their way just to get a smite then so be it. I had a cleric player really want find familiar and they had to take a feat to get magic initiate to get it and they were so happy about it. If there was no way for that to be possible such as if Find Familiar was a class ability then it would suck in that case and I would've never had this great moment with the cleric.

I hate these zealot changes. All of my favourite parts are gone.

So…. 4 dracoliches?

Looking at the nerfed divine smite: "i recognize the council has made a decision, but given that its a stupid ass decision ive elected to ignore it!"