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The New Unearthed Arcana Horror Subclasses, Pretty Good?: Ep. 151 · Sessions Canceled

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  The GM did 0 prep, no prep at all, completely forgot even
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  really what day of the week it is.
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  No preparation was had, sessions very cancelled.
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  Oh. My God.
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  Welcome back, welcome back. And you know, as per as per the
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  statements we just and Isaiah just made to me and we just made
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  to each other. Broadly speaking, I don't for
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  Gore who's who's turn it was today.
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  So I thought it was Isaiah's. So I didn't really have anything
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  ready to go. And Isaiah was new, remembered
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  it was me, but didn't say anything so.
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  Whoa, whoa, brother, you're not putting this on me.
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  Hold on, hold on. Just to be clear, when I say
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  doesn't didn't say anything, what I mean is like you didn't
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  ask me what the plan was or anything, so that did not prompt
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  my brain. Like you didn't ask, like what
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  are we doing? You know what I mean?
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  So yeah, I I guess the 'cause you often.
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  Do. I do sometimes, yeah.
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  I like there are some weeks where we we talk like on the
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  previous days about what the episode's going to be about if
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  it requires like a certain amount of homework.
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  But then there's like the the sort of lower, not priority
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  days, but like the the less immediately sticks out to us
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  days where we kind of just, you know, decide on a couple days
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  before or that morning of if it's the morning of like
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  particularly a lot of information about or like a lot
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  of information that we already have, we don't need research
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  for. Yeah.
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  And that will will sort of just run it on the fly or like the,
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  you know, the the stream of consciousness episodes.
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  Those are all pretty much improv with no script.
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  But yeah, I know we are. We are flying by the seat of our
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  cocks today. Like, yeah.
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  We're cooked. We're so cooked.
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  Cooketh. Yeah.
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  So you might say, what are you doing on the fly?
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  Well, conveniently, a new UA came out this morning.
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  So we're talking about the new. Yeah, you might say.
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  Did you read it? Kinda.
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  I watched the video. I didn't watch the video.
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  I kind of read it and I have some thoughts.
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  All right, so here we go. We're gonna and we're just.
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  Yeah, I mean, we're over 100 when you put the two platforms
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  100, so I thought that'd be nice.
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  So yeah, Wizards of the Coast a little quiet right now.
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  You know, there's been some news about Wizards of the Coast and
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  some people are in the D&D is dead Cabin.
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  Cabin. What camp?
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  Jeez, I I decide, but Brand needs a minute.
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  I I no brother, I get it. I understand.
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  Some people are in the D&D is dead camp or dying.
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  It's not. There's just a little shuffling
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  going on and so they're a little quiet right now.
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  That's really all that's going on.
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  I will say we just got the 5.2 SRD and it is officially in
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  Creative Commons. So we have the updated SRD and
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  they cannot take it away from us unless, I don't know, fucking
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  Trump destroys the rules for Creative Commons or something.
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  Maybe. But other than that situation
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  which I don't think is gonna happen, we have the 5.2 SRD
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  officially and it is fully in creative common so that's nice.
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  And also DND beyond is getting some maps from Che Peku which is
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  interesting. Like officially on the platform.
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  I already fucking subbed to them on Patreon so like.
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  I feel like everyone does. They're so good dude, I like
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  them so much. I follow them on their fantasy
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  and sci-fi. Nice.
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  So yeah, they're officially on on DMDB on now, which is
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  interesting. Also, just in case anyone was
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  curious, Sigil is still getting some very minor updates, so
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  that's cool I guess. They added to Displacer Beast
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  Mini today and they added an undo function which is still
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  crazy that wasn't in there in the 1st place.
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  Just just say. Yeah, it's a little, like
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  ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  It's a good word for. It so all that all that being
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  said, we got a new UA Now some of you may be wondering all
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  right, so we got a new five EUA. Usually the UAS are, you know,
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  poor tense omens for upcoming projects, right?
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  So the last two U as we got were about the Artificer and Eberon
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  stuff because an Ebron book's coming out.
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  This UA is I think it's six. Wait, let me count real quick.
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  12345 I just got damn it. 123-4567 OK, 7 subclasses that
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  they're calling horror subclasses, which I'm not going
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  to lie, I'm intrigued by that right off the bat because are we
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  getting like an updated Van Richten's guide?
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  I I mean Van Richten's guide was already the update.
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  I can't imagine we are, but I don't know what else it could
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  be. Unless.
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  It could be. We could just be getting a
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  revamp of the original Borovia setting book.
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  They seem to be pretty like big on the setting books and this is
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  this edition around. Maybe that's interesting, I
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  don't know. I didn't consider that.
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  Well, because I and the reason for that could be right is you
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  can just use Curse of Strad or Van Ricken's guide.
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  But those are sort of pointed, right?
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  Like you, you are going to fight Strad and you can use that
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  setting information to do other things, but it all sort of
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  revolves around Strad as a character, whereas Borovia is
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  more than just Strad. So like.
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  That's very true. You.
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  Can see some other stuff going on there.
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  That's very true, yeah. So I don't know, I, I don't know
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  what's going on there, but we got 7 horror subclasses.
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  So intrigue, I suppose. I don't know, I'm in kind of AI,
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  don't I think, not that I'm gonna speak for you, but I,
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  well, I am gonna speak for you a little bit.
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  But I think I'm probably right in my assumption.
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  I think both of us are currently in a position where we're just
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  sort of watching 5E from a far distance right now because we
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  are neither in any 5E games nor running any 5E games and we're
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  both a little bit burnt out on it so.
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  We're. Kind of just watching from a
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  curious distance. Yeah, we're just going.
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  Oh yeah, look at that. Yeah.
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  So this particular UAI wouldn't say I'm like super excited.
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  I'm intrigued by a couple of the ideas and disappointed by a
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  couple of the ideas. Surprise, surprise.
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  Yeah, I, I don't know. I can't immediately single
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  anything out that I'm disappointed.
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  No, that's not true. I've got one thing.
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  I think I know what you're thinking.
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  I You probably do, yeah. Yeah.
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  So, yeah, UA. Let's talk about the UA.
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  It's it's real straightforward. It just has the seven
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  subclasses, nothing else. So no other mechanics being
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  added or anything, which is interesting 'cause I feel like
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  they usually throw in some extra mechanic stuff, but not in this
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  case. I also think it's funny because
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  UA in the early days of 5E used to be a lot more.
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  We're just going to throw some shit out and kind of see what
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  happens, right? There wasn't wholly a plan with
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  a lot of like, the revised Ranger is a great example that
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  I'm thinking of. They just kind of threw that
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  bitch out there to see what would happen, right?
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  Yeah. Nowadays it seems like UA is
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  very explicitly we're trying an idea for a future project.
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  What do you think? And there's some pros and some
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  cons to that. I would say so.
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  So they didn't throw any mechanics in on this UA, even
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  though it's probably poor attending a future project.
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  So yeah, I don't know what's going on.
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  It's kind of, it's a little up in there.
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  It's a little hunky Dory. Interesting.
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  I don't know. We'll see, that's enough beating
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  around the bushel. What's the deal with the UI?
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  What? So like I said, it's just
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  subclasses. Want moist?
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  What? First thing we're going to talk
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  about uses the word moist in big bold letters.
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  Just sticks out to me in a weird way.
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  I just like. It does use the word moist.
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  In big bold letters you can't escape.
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  Us, you're right. So the first subclass is a brand
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  new subclass and I just, I just think it's really funny.
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  Like funny. I just think it's really funny
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  because the first subclass listed is an artificer subclass
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  called the Reanimator, and the basic vibe is that you're a mad
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  scientist with a flesh golem. You know you have your
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  Frankenstein's monster situation, right?
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  And I don't hate that idea. Like I'm, I'm, I'm kind of cool
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  with that concept, but it is kind of funny because it feels
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  like A we got a necromancer artifice or before a necromancer
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  wizard, which is kind of hilarious and B just another
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  reason to not play Beastmaster. Yep, Yep, like.
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  I just, and I know Beastmaster is is much more functional in
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  2024 it it absolutely is, but it still feels, it just feels like
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  every other pet class is cooler than Beastmaster to the point
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  where I'm like come. On man, yeah, it really do just
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  be getting the Dick. Out of the century, like if you
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  really, honestly at this point, if you're someone who plays 5 E
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  and you really want to play a Beastmaster vibe, but you just
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  can't with the the Beastmaster that's in the book.
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  Look up the beast heart by MCDM. It is a it's an entire class.
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  It's not just a subclass. It it just it does the
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  beastmaster thing in the way that you want just so much
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  better. So we have the reanimator.
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  I guess I'll read the descriptions because why not?
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  So the reanimator defies the laws of nature in the pursuit of
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  gruesome experiment. These grim artificers, stitched
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  together servants from disparate corpses, use foul magic to
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  strengthen the living and transform the art of necromancy
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  into a terrifying science. It's like I said, it's your, you
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  know, your Doctor Frankenstein thing.
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  You get your animator spells. I, I, these are never that.
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  I mean, they're fine. These are never super
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  interesting to talk about. I feel like.
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  You know you start with false life, spare the dying witch
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  bolt. Level 5 you get blindness,
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  deafness enhance ability. Level 9 you get animated dead
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  lightning bolt. Oh lightning bolt is a fun one.
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  Level 13 you get blight and death ward.
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  Level 17 you get anti life shell and raised dead.
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  OK, wait, no, I do. I do actually quite like these.
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  These all feel really fun and on brand.
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  Like they're definitely. Thematically work, yeah.
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  So first Level 3 ability is Jolt of life.
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  Basically you can cast Spare the dying on a person and they
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  actually instead of instead of being put in like a little
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  suspended animation thing, they actually regain 1HP and get back
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  up and then explode in a little ball of lightning doing AD 4D4
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  plus half yard official level to everyone around them. 10 feet.
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  I don't know that that's going to be like a super.
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  Oh, actually wait a minute. Spare of the Dying is always
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  range now, isn't it? Oh yeah.
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  So actually that is going to be a pretty effective ability.
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  I was going to say I don't know how effective it's going to be,
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  but I forgot. Yeah, all Spare of the dying is
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  range now instead of just grave domain.
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  So yeah. So that's kind of a fun spell.
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  You just, you just fucking lightning jolt to homie and they
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  just pop up and explode. You.
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  Oh no. You become the new world's worst
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  defib. Except you're actually a good
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  defib. Yeah.
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  There's a there's a fun joke there in in our firemen
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  campaign, a character died and we were like, do we have any
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  electric spells to maybe like give this guy AD fib because we
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  don't have any healing magic. And our one of an NPC we had
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  just hit the corpse with a lightning bolt with no other.
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  Oh my God. We just like put him into full
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  panic attack mode and we were like, try anything.
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  And he was like, OK, when it's a great deal describing how the
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  dude's heart just exploded like a fucking grape.
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  And we were like, oh, it was. We had the face of in the
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  amazing World of Gumball. When Gumball drops the baby made
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  of pizza and like steps on and slips when he walks on the
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  stairs and the parents are just like mortified.
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  What a reference it's. Such a good bit.
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  There's many good bits in Gumball.
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  It's. True.
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  Remember the bit when Darwin opens it, you like clicks a pop
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  up and it just keeps going and going going and the like light
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  blows his fucking eyeballs out? That's just so good, dude.
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  Oh fuck. So the the other primary Level 3
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  for the subclass is the reanimated corpse.
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  This is your Frankenstein's monster, your flesh golem thing.
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  I, I get it, I know that this is just how five he does things,
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  but I fucking cannot stand the way they describe this and I'm
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  I'm going to read it to to get my point across.
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  Using Tinkerer's tools or another type of artist and tools
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  which you with with which you have proficiency, you can take a
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  magic action to create a reanimated companion through the
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  power of necromancy and science. The reason this really bugs me
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  is because you're telling me that rules is written.
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  I can pull out my tinkerer tools, throw some fucking
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  hammers and nails on the floor and within 6 seconds make a
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  fucking Frankenstein's monster pop into existence.
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  Yep. I hate that mental image so
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  deeply and I don't know how I would explain this fictionally
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  because there's no universe where I'm going to say that my
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  my reanimate golem just pops into existence because that
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  sounds so fucking lame. So I don't know how I would
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  describe that if I was playing the subclass, but I would find
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  some way to explain why he can just pop up in 6 seconds.
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  Maybe like the corpse is like tied to my back or something or
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  in a backpack and I unload him something like.
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  That or maybe hit him with the fucking the the Gara sand gourd.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, the sand gourd, right.
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  Or maybe I carry him around on a wagon or something.
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  I don't know. But I I hate the idea that he
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  just like there's a puff of smoke and he just exists.
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  I hate that. I hate that soap.
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  It dil deeply this. This does.
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  This is a thing. We've talked about this before.
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  It's the thing 5E does. Yeah, we're we're 5V is afraid
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  to make you work for it. Like if they were like after a
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  battle, you can, you know, you can scavenge pieces of corpses
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  from the battlefield and you can make your flesh golem.
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  But they're like, but what if you're not in a battle and it's
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  like, well, then and you don't get to make the golem, They just
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  then they go. But what if they but you don't
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  have your and then you go, OK, then you make it really strong
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  so it's hard to die and you can only bring it back once a day.
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  That's the, that's the offset. Yeah, well, I just imagined this
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  an ability like this in Fabula and you know, the wording would
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  be, you know, you you find the pieces of like desiccated
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  bodies, you know, somewhere, you know, however you manage to like
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  you it would it would be a it'd be a little open-ended, right?
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  Be like you find the pieces of desiccated body somehow and then
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  you spend time to do a project to stitch the creature together,
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  right. Like that would be the wording
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  in Fabula. And that's what I want.
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  But 5 E being like, it's a just a magic action and then he shows
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  up. I'm just like, it's just, and,
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  and you're right, what they're doing is they don't want to make
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  you work for it because they want to make it as generic as
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  possible to work in any kind of game.
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  This is we, we're going to bring this up again and for another
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  example in a minute, don't you worry.
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  So it's just like, and I know I'm harping a lot on this, but
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  it just it bugs me that they keep doing it's the same thing
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  as the the animals that the beastmaster summons are all
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  spirit animals. I fucking hate that so much Hate
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  that they're spirits. That drives me insane, and I
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  know most people probably don't give a shit about that, but it
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  bugs me in a special kind of way.
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  No, I mean I agree. I like anyway, I personally like
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  that they're spirits, but I think it's totally valid to be
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  like. But no, I'm a beast master, not
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  a like a spirit caller or whatever.
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  Yeah, I want a real yeah. Like there's a there's a
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  universe where I could flavor a beast master as more of like a
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  shamanistic spirit caller. And that's fine.
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  But I want, I want my, I want trinket, right?
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  I want Vex and trinket. I don't want like, I don't want,
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  I want, I want Clive and Torgle. I don't want I.
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  Can't think of Ender Lily situation.
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  Yes, yes. I mean, that's kind of a
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  sneezier example, but yes, I don't want an Ender Lily
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  situation for the Beastmaster. I don't want them to be like
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  spirits tied to my soul, you know?
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  I want like, part of the reason that Torgal is so cool in Final
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  Fantasy 16 is because you start the game and he's a little baby
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  puppy and Clive is learning how to be a soldier.
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  And he's like playing with the puppy.
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  And you're like, oh, it's my friend.
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  And then you you lose Torgal for a little while and he gets
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  captured and then you meet him again.
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  You're like, oh, it's my dog. And then your dog's like, Oh my
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  God, it's my master. And then you find out the
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  Torgal's been hanging out with your buddy Sid and learning how
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  to fight as like a cool badass. Like giant war wolf and then you
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  find out he's like literally a special magical wolf and that's
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  even cool. Like it's the whole narrative of
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  knowing him from when he's a puppy, you know?
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  Anyway, sorry I rabbit this is this is a rabbit hole.
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  But this is one of those things. It's a trend I've noticed in 5 E
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  that bugs the shit out of me. No, it's fair.
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  I I get it. So the the companion, the
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  reanimated companion has all of the usual rules that most of
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  them does. You know, it's friendly, blah
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  blah blah. It lasts until you finish a long
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  rest or do the magic action to dismiss it, in which this also
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  bugged me. So you could do the magic action
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  to dismiss it, at which point it harmlessly collapses into a pile
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  of viscera. So we're acknowledging that it's
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  physically present as a pile of meat in some capacity, but we
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  can do the magic action to pop it into existence.
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  Right? Like, that's.
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  Yeah, that's a little weird. What?
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  Yeah, wait, why does it just explode into viscera like?
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  So like it pops. Like a balloon, I know it falls,
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  it's like it falls apart but like viscera assumes like bloody
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  and and trails it just like. The word, the wording's a
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  little. It just kind of and then guts
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  everywhere surprise all organs like I imagined.
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  Like I imagine like the stitching on the flesh comb, all
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  the stitching comes undone. It falls apart in pieces.
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  That's what I thought of. When you do that, it drops to
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  hero to zero hit points and then it has an ability called death
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  burst. It basically explodes.
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  I do like this a lot. Yeah, it's kind of fun.
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  So I had an interesting thought because this act, not entirely,
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  but there is some reminiscence here that lead back to the old
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  arcane mechanist, and I'm really happy to see this.
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  It's not like the mechanics are different, but the spirit of The
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  thing is they'll air all. Right, that makes sense.
• 22:14
  I will have I I have to say this.
• 22:16
  I got to give them credit for this.
• 22:18
  Did I want Arcane Mechanist? Yes.
• 22:21
  Yes. But if I was going to get it in
• 22:25
  any other way, shape or form. Doctor Frankenstein Yeah, no,
• 22:30
  this is it. I like this a lot.
• 22:31
  Like, yeah, pretty good. Like I I it's like, this isn't
• 22:34
  what I wanted. And then I look at it and go,
• 22:37
  fuck, that's cool. Yeah, fuck.
• 22:39
  It's kind of cool though. Yeah, it's the no one likes to
• 22:42
  show off except for if what you're showing off is dope as
• 22:44
  fuck. Yeah, yeah, it's true.
• 22:50
  They got me When you create the companion basically you can do
• 22:57
  it once a day or as they've done many times, you can burn spell
• 23:00
  slots and then in combat you can use a bonus action to command it
• 23:04
  to do stuff yeah you know the usual minion rules still apply.
• 23:10
  So it has it's AC is 10 plus your int modifier which means
• 23:15
  it's AC will probably be it's AC will be decent and it's health
• 23:19
  is 4 is 4 + 4 times your artificer level.
• 23:26
  Which does mean gonna die pretty easy if it gets hit.
• 23:32
  But that's I think probably a little bit on purpose because
• 23:37
  the your companion explodes when it dies.
• 23:41
  Dexterity saving throw DC equals your spell save DC.
• 23:44
  Each creature in a 10 foot emanation originating from the
• 23:49
  companion take 2D6 necrotic damage if they fail, which is
• 23:54
  not. It's not a bad amount of damage.
• 23:56
  Lightning Absorption. Whenever the companion subjected
• 23:59
  to lightning damage, it regains a number of hit points.
• 24:01
  I like that that you. That's a thing you could do.
• 24:05
  They didn't give the away. Artificers don't have can trips,
• 24:09
  right? No, no.
• 24:12
  Right. OK, so you might have to ask
• 24:14
  your wizard to hit him with some shocking grasp every once in a
• 24:16
  while, which I'm actually OK with.
• 24:19
  That's kind of fun. And then it has Dreadful Swipe,
• 24:23
  which is its basic melee attack, does necrotic damage, and the
• 24:26
  target can't take opportunity attacks until the start of its
• 24:30
  next term, which is good 'cause you're an artificer, so you're
• 24:32
  probably not going to be that tough.
• 24:33
  So you have it, Dreadful Swipe, and then you can run away a
• 24:35
  little easier. That's cool.
• 24:38
  Then you get your strange modifications.
• 24:39
  Whenever you create an animated companion, it gains one of the
• 24:42
  following options of your choice when you create it.
• 24:45
  So you have to pick the form it takes when you make it, but it's
• 24:49
  when you create it. So every day you can, you know,
• 24:52
  change it. Arcane Conduit, you can cast
• 24:55
  spells through it as if it were in, as if you were in the
• 24:59
  companion space. Once per turn when you cast an
• 25:02
  artifice or spell from evocation or necromancy and it deals
• 25:05
  damage while your companion is within 120 feet of you, you can
• 25:08
  add your int modifier. So basically you can use it as
• 25:10
  a, you know, go go stand next to the goblins and then cast
• 25:15
  fireball on it and then it explodes extra or whatever or
• 25:20
  ferocity when you command your companion to take the dreadful
• 25:22
  swipe action, it can attack twice.
• 25:24
  So basically it's just, you know, it gains multi or sorry,
• 25:28
  it gains the multi attack property.
• 25:32
  I just I said it gains multi because that's the phrasing
• 25:36
  Fabula uses for a similar thing and my.
• 25:38
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I darn it. I also it.
• 25:41
  Gains the multi tag I Nope, it's funny.
• 25:43
  That you say that because you said multi and I was like, yeah,
• 25:46
  I know. And then we went, wait, no, that
• 25:48
  was it. No, it's not it.
• 25:49
  No, it's not it. Wrong game, wrong game.
• 25:53
  Sorry I'm checking really quick on the artificer spells they do
• 25:59
  they do get cantrips I I just checked 5V tools for like.
• 26:06
  Did they get Cauldron? Did they get 2?
• 26:09
  They do have shocking grass. Oh, OK, cool.
• 26:11
  So you can chalk and grasp him. All right, that's good.
• 26:12
  I really. So you know what's funny?
• 26:14
  I have a very like state alchemist like idea for this.
• 26:18
  I don't know particularly why, but just the idea that you're
• 26:20
  like, hold on, but I got you fucking edit.
• 26:22
  Albert claps hands together and. Give him the zippy.
• 26:26
  Yeah, zapped up. Then you have improved.
• 26:30
  So as you might imagine, the entire subclass is based around
• 26:33
  your reanimated companion guy. Oh, I did forgot to mention he's
• 26:38
  a initially. He is a small undead.
• 26:43
  So he's a little munchkin. He's yeah.
• 26:45
  So he's a little like Munchkin Monster.
• 26:48
  It does get bigger, don't worry. So improved your animation.
• 26:54
  Whenever you create a reanimated companion, it gains one of the
• 26:57
  following options of your choice.
• 26:59
  Choose. When you create it, it can be
• 27:00
  bloated, which means it becomes Large or medium, your choice.
• 27:04
  I don't know why you would ever not pick large, but yeah, I
• 27:07
  guess if you're in this tight space.
• 27:10
  Whenever it hits a large or smaller creature with its
• 27:12
  dreadful swipe, that creature can also be pushed 10 feet away.
• 27:16
  Additionally, you can add your int modifier to the damaged
• 27:19
  dealt by its death burst. So basically bloated's the
• 27:21
  slightly more like tanky 1 Gaunt?
• 27:26
  But for some reason bloated reminds me of the Foo Fighters
• 27:29
  song The Dead and bloated Or is that?
• 27:31
  No, it's not fighters. That's.
• 27:33
  No, it's not Foo Fighters. Oh no, I.
• 27:36
  Don't know who that is though. I.
• 27:40
  Don't know, please continue. I don't.
• 27:41
  I don't know. I got fucking sidetracked.
• 27:43
  You have the gaunt version. You have the gaunt version which
• 27:48
  the companions. This is the fast 1.
• 27:50
  The companions speed increases to 45 feet.
• 27:52
  It games a climb speed, it can climb difficult surfaces,
• 27:56
  including ceilings, which is read that yeah, it could just
• 28:02
  grudge across without needing to make an ability check.
• 28:07
  In addition, when a creature of your choice starts its turn
• 28:09
  within 10 feet within a 10 foot emanation originating from a
• 28:13
  companion, the creature must succeed in a Wisdom save spell,
• 28:16
  Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, or have the
• 28:20
  frightened condition. Which makes sense 'cause it's a
• 28:23
  horrifying skitter creature. And then the last one moist,
• 28:32
  your companion gains a swim speed equal to its speed.
• 28:35
  In addition, whenever the companion is hit by an attack
• 28:37
  roll from the creature within 10 feet of it, the attacker takes
• 28:40
  acid damage equal to your Intelligence modifier.
• 28:43
  Which is really gives me a really gross thought because I
• 28:45
  just imagine someone hitting the weird flesh golem and then it
• 28:48
  just like burps acid on them basically.
• 28:50
  Yeah, it's a bloater from a. Oh no, it's a bloomer from Left
• 28:54
  4 Dead. The ones.
• 28:55
  That puke, Yeah. Yeah.
• 28:56
  The ones that puke, yeah. Or like you hit it in the
• 28:58
  stomach and it like, burst a pustule or something.
• 29:01
  Yeah. And then level 15 Promethean
• 29:05
  reanimation. Promethean.
• 29:07
  Reanimation I I like that name. That's a good name.
• 29:11
  Facilitated revival. When you cast Revivifier Raised
• 29:14
  Dead, the cost of the material components is halved.
• 29:18
  OK Improved Companion. The damage of your companion's
• 29:21
  death burst goes up to four D6. Necrotic damage dealt by your
• 29:25
  companion ignores resistance, which is good considering how
• 29:29
  resistances work in 2024 and life transfer.
• 29:34
  You can siphon the animating magic of your companion to
• 29:36
  bolster yourself. When you take damage, you can
• 29:39
  take a reaction to cause your animated companion to drop
• 29:42
  TO0HP. The companion immediately dies,
• 29:45
  triggering its death burst, and you regain a number of hit
• 29:48
  points equal to your artificial level.
• 29:51
  So that's a cool one. Is it level 15?
• 29:55
  Cool, Iffy, but it is 3 different abilities on top of
• 30:01
  each other, so pretty good. Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm this
• 30:05
  honestly, of all of the subclasses and that I've looked
• 30:08
  at, this is the one that I'm like, I want to play this really
• 30:12
  bad. I think the the like mental, the
• 30:18
  the aesthetic, the mental image of this subclass is definitely
• 30:21
  cool. Again, I'm not against it, I
• 30:25
  just do think it is funny. We got it before Necromancer
• 30:27
  wizard. Oh it's hilarious.
• 30:29
  What's what's the anime character that had the coffin on
• 30:31
  their back? I You're not thinking of gold,
• 30:36
  Lewis Dickinson, are you? No, no.
• 30:38
  Although that would be funny. OK.
• 30:41
  Coffin on their back. Character with often.
• 30:47
  So in my head I want to say conquer row, but it's not
• 30:49
  conquer row, it's. It's no Conquer Row has the
• 30:51
  wrapped up puppet coffin. Who has a coffin often for a?
• 31:00
  2nd it's the dude from Gungrave. There we go.
• 31:02
  Oh what a what a reference bro. The dude from Gungrave?
• 31:09
  Wait, isn't his name literally Gungrove?
• 31:11
  It might be, oh you know, second episode I'm bringing him up.
• 31:15
  Haji from Blood Plus has the cello case that looks like a
• 31:18
  casket. Nice.
• 31:20
  I just I would want to play just like a fucking creepy little
• 31:23
  grungler like Susie from Little Witch Academia, just like the
• 31:27
  creepy character and just have a coffin on my back with a little
• 31:31
  dude in it. Right, although I will say I
• 31:37
  just realized something with the life transfer because it only
• 31:39
  takes a magic action to summon the court, the reanimated
• 31:43
  companion. You could like use the life
• 31:46
  transfer, get the HP back, blow him up and then next turn pick
• 31:49
  him up with the magic action and use your bonus action to command
• 31:52
  him to attack. So.
• 31:54
  I love that dude. They're gonna catch that.
• 31:57
  But I love that so much. I don't.
• 31:59
  I don't know that I don't. I don't.
• 32:00
  I mean maybe, but I don't think so.
• 32:01
  That seems intentional. That seems gone out.
• 32:04
  I think so, yeah, 'cause the idea is like you, you burn your
• 32:07
  main action, but you have a bonus action to be like, you
• 32:09
  know, command him to still do something.
• 32:11
  I think that makes sense. Oh no, I'm, I'm thinking too
• 32:15
  much about this already 'cause I'm like, oh, I just, this
• 32:17
  character's playlist would just be a bunch of Helsing music.
• 32:20
  Nice. Then we get College of Spirits
• 32:25
  barred. I.
• 32:27
  I was really surprised to see this one.
• 32:30
  Yeah, yeah, for sure. I was like, I didn't think this
• 32:34
  needed a rework at all. No, I think it was good.
• 32:37
  Exactly what it it. They made it stronger.
• 32:38
  They gave it fucking Spirit guardians, for God's sakes.
• 32:41
  But yeah. I thought that was interesting,
• 32:46
  so change log. So College of Spirits, if you
• 32:50
  don't know, was in Van Richten's guy and it is a Bard.
• 32:56
  Bard subclass changes, Guiding Whispers and Spiritual Focus are
• 33:03
  now compile combined into a single feature called Channeler.
• 33:08
  This new feature also grants you proficiency with playing cards.
• 33:12
  Wait, didn't it already do that? Hold up.
• 33:13
  It didn't already? I thought so.
• 33:15
  I thought it did too. Am I tripping?
• 33:18
  I'm about to look right now because that's really funny if
• 33:20
  it didn't before. Hold on, please hold spirits.
• 33:29
  You learn guidance can trips you employ the aid chilling spirits.
• 33:36
  Oh no. It said you could use a candle,
• 33:39
  a crystal ball, a skull, a spirit board, or a taroka deck
• 33:42
  as your spell casting focus, but it didn't give you proficiency
• 33:47
  in playing cards, which is fun. I mean it doesn't really matter,
• 33:52
  but is kind of funny that they didn't think that.
• 33:56
  Spirits from the Beyond, formerly called Tales from the
• 34:00
  Beyond, has been reworked to improve its action economy and
• 34:03
  produce more immediate effects. The option on the features table
• 34:06
  have been revised as the options on the features table have been
• 34:10
  revised as well. I kind of like Tales from the
• 34:14
  Beyond as a name better. That's their table that they
• 34:23
  roll on when they do a Bard of inspiration and then empowering
• 34:26
  channeling a new feature that allows a Bard to cast the spirit
• 34:29
  guardian spell, which is sick for sure.
• 34:34
  So guiding whisper you, you know, the guidance can trip and
• 34:37
  it has a range of 60 feet when you cast it, which before.
• 34:41
  Oh, no. OK, yeah, it did still do that.
• 34:44
  Oh yeah. They didn't change them at all.
• 34:45
  They literally just smushed them into what?
• 34:47
  That's not even all right, whatever, I guess.
• 34:51
  And then Spirit Focus is the same.
• 34:54
  You employ tools that Asian channel experience.
• 34:56
  When you gain a gaming set, you have proficiency and you can use
• 34:59
  cards or one of the following items is your spell casting
• 35:02
  focus. And it was the stuff I listed up
• 35:04
  before. Oh, it doesn't specifically say
• 35:09
  a Toroka deck, which is interesting.
• 35:10
  It just says cards. So Spirits from the Beyond,
• 35:15
  which used to be called Tales from Beyond.
• 35:20
  While holding a spell casting focus, you take a bonus action
• 35:23
  to use one of your Part of Conspiration and call for it the
• 35:25
  powers of a spirit. Roll your part of Conspiration,
• 35:27
  die and refer to the spirits from the on table to determine
• 35:31
  the spirit you channel and then choose one creature you can see
• 35:34
  within 30 feet of yourself as the spirit's target.
• 35:38
  The spirit immediately takes effect.
• 35:40
  If the spirit's effect requires a saving throw, the DC equals
• 35:42
  your barred spell save. DCI just realized why they
• 35:46
  changed the name I think. I think they are trying to
• 35:52
  disassociate from the Romani gypsy stereotype stuff.
• 35:57
  Yeah, again, they they just so much originally that I don't
• 36:01
  feel like this was necessary, but fuck it.
• 36:04
  Yeah, well, because the idea before is to call Tales from the
• 36:07
  Beyond, and you were reading their tarot, right?
• 36:10
  So now it's you're summoning a ghost, which, all right, fine.
• 36:16
  I, I don't, I actually aesthetically I don't mind the
• 36:19
  idea of somebody in the ghost. So it's fine.
• 36:21
  But yeah, that is a little funny.
• 36:26
  Yeah. So they, it looks like they
• 36:28
  changed the names of some of these and I did see.
• 36:34
  So like tale of the. Oh, all right, I'm not going to
• 36:40
  read through them all. But basically the idea is you
• 36:42
  roll on AD 12 table, which obviously is you might realize
• 36:48
  you're like, wait a minute, but your bardic inspiration diet
• 36:50
  doesn't start as AD 12, correct? You can only roll so high at the
• 36:54
  beginning and then as you go up, you get better options on the
• 36:57
  table. But essentially you roll, you
• 37:01
  roll on this table and it's a random roll and you get
• 37:05
  different various beneficial effects.
• 37:07
  Sometimes super helpful, sometimes real dog shit.
• 37:12
  We had a College of Spirits character in my campaign that we
• 37:16
  did my last five E campaign. And sometimes it'd be super
• 37:21
  awesome, the shit he pulled, and sometimes it would just be not
• 37:23
  very useful to the situation. Always funny.
• 37:27
  Yeah, I mean, it's not that the stuff on the table is bad, it's
• 37:31
  just it doesn't always fit what you need it to do in the moment.
• 37:34
  Yeah, so I remember him pulling the one that stunned enemies a
• 37:39
  lot. That was a pretty good.
• 37:41
  One more often than I think like I any I would have expected,
• 37:44
  yeah. Yeah, they wait a minute.
• 37:48
  Did they change the one called Tale of the Dragon to just
• 37:50
  arsonist? They did.
• 37:52
  They did, in fact, do that. Oh my God.
• 37:55
  That's kind of gangster. Yeah, you just.
• 37:58
  Commit arson, all right. Sure.
• 38:06
  So yeah, Spirits from beyond. And then you get the empowered
• 38:09
  channelling power from the on. Once per turn, you cast a barred
• 38:13
  spell that deals damage, restores hit points, roll AD 6,
• 38:16
  gain a bonus to one of the spell's damage rolls or the hit
• 38:19
  points restored. I think that's the same ability.
• 38:23
  No it is not. No, no it is not.
• 38:25
  Never mind. Oh they remove spirit session?
• 38:32
  Oh that's fucking lame. That was the thing I remember
• 38:35
  Brett did the seance to get different spells.
• 38:39
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They took that out.
• 38:41
  OK, so for those who don't know the way it used to work, you
• 38:44
  would do a spirit session where basically the Bard would do like
• 38:47
  a weird seance and you could get spells.
• 38:52
  You could choose a spell from a different class.
• 38:55
  So like a one point Brett took vampire touch.
• 39:01
  That's a really cool and I'm a little sad they took that way.
• 39:03
  Yeah, well, like that one's weird because that's you're just
• 39:07
  reading tarot. That's just a tarot reading.
• 39:09
  Like that's not. That's pretty.
• 39:11
  I mean, you can't. Well, no, it doesn't even phrase
• 39:14
  it that way. It says spirits provide you with
• 39:17
  supernatural insight. You conduct an hour long ritual
• 39:19
  channeling spirits, which can be done during a shorter long rest
• 39:23
  using your spiritual focus. You conduct the ritual with a
• 39:26
  number of willing creatures. At the end of the ritual you
• 39:28
  learn one spell of your choice from any class.
• 39:32
  The spell you choose must be equal level, equal to your
• 39:34
  number, blah blah blah mechanical.
• 39:36
  It doesn't actually even say you're doing Tara, it says
• 39:37
  you're just channeling spirits there.
• 39:42
  It looks like the thing they replaced it with was spiritual
• 39:44
  manifestation is the main thing, which is just you have spirit
• 39:47
  guardians always prepared. So it says you always have
• 39:53
  spirit guardians prepared. You can cast the spell once
• 39:55
  without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to cast it
• 39:57
  when you finish a long wrist cast it.
• 39:59
  That way, whenever you start casting the spell, you can
• 40:03
  modify it so spirits also guard against worldly threats.
• 40:08
  When you cast in this way, you and your allies within the
• 40:10
  spell's emanation have half cover.
• 40:12
  Once you modify the spell in this way, you can't do so again
• 40:15
  until you finish a short or long rest.
• 40:17
  That's kind of fun. So you get a little extra damage
• 40:20
  and a little extra healing, and you get spirit guardians always
• 40:22
  prepared. That's better, mechanically
• 40:28
  speaking. A little less fun flavour wise
• 40:32
  though. Yeah, that's this seems to be
• 40:36
  the ongoing theme, isn't it powerful?
• 40:38
  With five V 24, yes, that is the ongoing theme.
• 40:42
  Absolutely. And then you have Mystical
• 40:47
  Connection, which is unchanged. Basically, when you roll on your
• 40:50
  spirit table, you can roll twice and choose whichever dye you
• 40:53
  want to use. So yeah, yeah, I'm a little sad
• 41:02
  about losing spirit sessions. I and I didn't look at the whole
• 41:06
  spirits from beyond table, so I don't know how much they
• 41:09
  changed. I may like it less with those so
• 41:16
  little lukewarm on that one I guess at the end of the day.
• 41:20
  Yeah. And then we got Grave Domain
• 41:25
  cleric, which I mean. It was already so good, it was
• 41:33
  already so good and they just made it better.
• 41:38
  Here's the thing though, they did have to reprint it because
• 41:42
  it had a couple of things that just don't function correctly
• 41:45
  anymore based on the new rules. Look, I I totally get it.
• 41:49
  This is this. And Twilight Cleric is the bane
• 41:53
  of every DM's existence and they made it better.
• 41:58
  I don't know if I'd say grave domain is that crazy, but.
• 42:02
  When it dropped, it was, yeah, really good, like.
• 42:08
  I mean, it's good for sure. So the grave domain concerns
• 42:11
  itself with the boundaries between life and death.
• 42:13
  To those who tap into this domain's power, death is a
• 42:17
  foundational, natural, and inevitable parts of the
• 42:20
  Multivas. Such clerics seek to destroy
• 42:23
  undead and strive to shepherd spirits to the afterlife,
• 42:26
  whether his spirits want to go or not.
• 42:29
  The magic of those this domain also allows these clerics to
• 42:32
  stave off death for a time, particularly those for
• 42:35
  particularly for those who still have some great work to
• 42:38
  accomplish in the world. But this is merely a delay of
• 42:40
  death, not a denial of it. The grave will always claim it's
• 42:43
  due, so grave domain updates. The grave domain is from
• 42:50
  Xanathar's Guide, which feels like 10,000 years ago at this
• 42:53
  point. Circle of Morality now also
• 43:00
  grants you a small damage boost against bloodied creatures.
• 43:03
  That's good. I like that grave domain spells
• 43:06
  have been updated to include more versatility in combat
• 43:09
  relevant spells. Interesting.
• 43:12
  I don't remember what they got before.
• 43:13
  I'm gonna have to pull that up in a SEC.
• 43:17
  Pass to the Grave now produces an ongoing curse effect in
• 43:21
  addition to boosting the damage of an attack.
• 43:23
  Oh. Oh yeah.
• 43:25
  OK OK. Sentinel at Death's Door can now
• 43:32
  trigger on any attack, not just critical hit.
• 43:36
  OK. Divine Divine Reaper is a new
• 43:40
  feature that absorbs the previous benefits of Keeper of
• 43:43
  Souls and provides a boost to the Cleric's and Necromancy
• 43:46
  spells. All right.
• 43:49
  Brother Sentinel at Death Star is so fucking good it's actually
• 43:54
  crazy. OK so curse some more course of
• 44:00
  mortality. My brain wanted to say morality
• 44:03
  Mortality. You gave the ability to
• 44:08
  manipulate, blah blah blah. You gave the following benefits.
• 44:10
  Once per turn, when you cast a spell or hit with an attack role
• 44:13
  and deal damage to a bloody creature, that takes an extra D4
• 44:15
  and a chronic damage. This.
• 44:19
  I think this was the ability before that made it.
• 44:22
  Oh, was that not that ability? Oh no, it wasn't that circle of
• 44:26
  morality before. Oh Circle Morality was when you
• 44:34
  normally roll one or more hit dice to restore hit points with
• 44:36
  a with a creature at zero, you roll the Max number.
• 44:38
  In addition, you can cast Spare the Dying at a distance.
• 44:42
  Right, Which is irrelevant now, because that's all Spare of the
• 44:45
  Dying is already at a distance. Return life when you would
• 44:49
  normally roll one or more dice to restore hit points to
• 44:52
  creature. Zero hit points with the spell
• 44:53
  or with a spell or channel Divinity.
• 44:56
  Don't roll the dice for the healing.
• 44:57
  Instead use the highest number possible.
• 44:59
  OK, so you still get that part. OK, so they took out the spare
• 45:04
  of the dying bit, which makes sense, and you instead you get
• 45:06
  an extra D4 of damage against bloody creatures.
• 45:09
  I'm fine with that Yeah, not at all related to the previous
• 45:15
  ability even a little bit, but whatever I guess.
• 45:21
  Domain spells at Level 3 they get bane, chill, touch, Detect
• 45:25
  Evil and good, Gentle Repose, Ray of and female.
• 45:27
  That's a lot of Level 3 spells. That's.
• 45:29
  A lot of yeah. They used to get 2.
• 45:32
  Yep. Bane, False Life.
• 45:36
  No, at level well, at level 1 they got Bain and false life at
• 45:38
  Level 3 they got gentle repose and Raven Feebleman.
• 45:41
  Now they get Bain. Oh, oh, you know what it is
• 45:45
  'cause Claire Level 3 yeah, they don't have a level 1 subclass
• 45:48
  anymore. That's why that makes sense.
• 45:50
  That makes more sense. Revivifying vampiric touch is
• 45:54
  the that's the same blight dispel evil and good.
• 45:57
  They used to get death ward OK, and now they get hold monster
• 46:01
  and raised dead. They used to have anti life
• 46:04
  shell and raised it. I'll take hold monster.
• 46:09
  Also at Level 3 Path to the grave.
• 46:11
  I don't know, I said it that way.
• 46:14
  As a bonus action, you present your holy symbol used to your
• 46:17
  channel divided to curse one creature you can see within 30
• 46:20
  feet of yourself until the start of your next turn.
• 46:22
  Well, curse the creature has disadvantaged on attack rolls
• 46:24
  and saving throws. I'm sorry, what?
• 46:29
  OK when you were an ally can there's more.
• 46:33
  When you were an ally you could see hit the cursed target with
• 46:36
  an attack roll. You can end the curse early to
• 46:38
  make the attack deal extra narcotic or radiant damage equal
• 46:41
  to D 8 + a clerica. Holy fuck, dude.
• 46:46
  Wow. OK, I.
• 46:48
  Told. You wait so you can oppose
• 46:50
  disadvantage on attacks and saves and then if you're like no
• 46:53
  no just more damage you could just pop that for no action.
• 46:56
  Yep. Wow.
• 46:59
  This will be the bane of dungeon that's.
• 47:04
  OK. How much more damage do you want
• 47:07
  to do? Does that also does that Also
• 47:11
  does the pull of death if they're bloodied also apply for
• 47:13
  the extra D4 there? Probably right?
• 47:15
  Probably does, yeah. When you cast a spell or hit and
• 47:19
  tackle and deal damage. Yeah.
• 47:22
  So if you do it when you are an ally, When you are an ally.
• 47:26
  So if you hit, pop the thing, Yeah.
• 47:28
  You would also get the pull of death damage.
• 47:30
  So it's ADA plus cleric level plus AD 4.
• 47:34
  OK, Sentinel Death Door when? When you or a bloody creature
• 47:41
  you can see within 30 feet of yourself is hit with an attack
• 47:44
  roll, you can take a reaction to half the attacks damage.
• 47:47
  You can use this a number of times because you're a wisdom
• 47:49
  modifier. You would gain all our expended
• 47:51
  uses on a long wrist. That's pretty good.
• 47:55
  Yes, So what this used to do was cancel out crits but enemies
• 47:59
  can't crit anymore so Congrats, just half damage which it no,
• 48:04
  it's still solid. Incorrect, Sir.
• 48:07
  Enemies can crit again. They didn't stick with that.
• 48:10
  Yeah, they didn't stick to that rule.
• 48:12
  OK. So that's just the play test a
• 48:13
  little. I mean, it's still good,
• 48:16
  probably a little bit better, but it does.
• 48:18
  No, I mean, it's it's better because even if it is a crit,
• 48:21
  you can still have the damage. Yes, it can have any attack.
• 48:25
  That's kind of, that's kind of wild.
• 48:26
  I mean that the creature has to be bloodied.
• 48:31
  Although do you have to the wording's a little weird there.
• 48:35
  When you or a bloodied creature, you can see within 30 feet of
• 48:39
  yourself. So if so, if they're hitting
• 48:41
  you. You don't any damage.
• 48:44
  You could do it at any point. Ally needs to be interesting.
• 48:48
  OK, yeah. OK.
• 48:52
  Yeah, I used to block crits before.
• 48:56
  All right. And then Divine Reaper Enhanced
• 49:01
  Necromancy when you cast the spell of level 5 or lower from
• 49:04
  the necromancy school that targets one creature.
• 49:07
  Or a spell from the Grave Domain spells table.
• 49:12
  You can expend the use of Channel Divinity to target a
• 49:14
  second creature within the spell's range.
• 49:16
  If the spell requires costly or consumed material components,
• 49:20
  you must provide the material components.
• 49:23
  OK, so you can split a spell sorcerer just over there.
• 49:27
  Like what am I chopped liver? Keeper of Souls.
• 49:30
  When an enemy dies within 60 feet of you, you are one
• 49:33
  creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself or gain hit
• 49:35
  points equal to three times your cleric level.
• 49:39
  OK, at level 17 you can use this feature.
• 49:43
  You can't use this if you're incapacitated.
• 49:45
  I weird that they stipulated that, but OK, once you use this
• 49:50
  feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long
• 49:52
  rest. OK, that's pretty fucking good.
• 50:02
  It is pretty solid, yeah. Hold on, what's 17 * 3 real
• 50:05
  quick 51 HP. That's a good amount of HP.
• 50:08
  That's a. That's a that's like two hits at
• 50:11
  level 17. I would roughly ish.
• 50:13
  Yeah, Yeah, that's about assuming that like a character
• 50:17
  that an enemy that was dealing about 30 damage on a hit, Yeah.
• 50:20
  Yeah, OK. Yeah, grave domain got juiced.
• 50:30
  I told you it's it's insane. It's fucking crazy.
• 50:34
  That's pretty crazy. I'm not crazy.
• 50:37
  I mean, I always liked, I always thought the, the, the, you know,
• 50:43
  the tone, the vibe of, of grave domain was cool.
• 50:46
  So I'm, I'm fine with this. What it was at level 17 before
• 50:51
  OK. You can seize a trace of dice
• 50:53
  vitality from Parting Soul when an enemy you see dies within 60
• 50:57
  feet of you, you're 1 creature of your choice that is within 60
• 51:00
  feet regains hit points equal to the enemy's number of hit dice.
• 51:06
  That's a significant jump in the healing.
• 51:09
  Holy shit. Number of hit dice.
• 51:11
  So like even at high level what like 15 HP?
• 51:15
  Something like that, yeah. Now it's like 50 when you can
• 51:19
  use Wow. OK, yeah, so they just bumped
• 51:23
  the shit out of they gave you the enhanced necromancy to split
• 51:26
  the spell and bump the shit out of the healing.
• 51:30
  OK. And at level 20, you're looking
• 51:32
  at 60 healing OK. Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I'm not
• 51:45
  against it. I'm a little surprised, but I'm
• 51:47
  not against it. And then with now now we go to a
• 51:51
  new subclass. We have the Ranger Hollow
• 51:54
  Warden. Thoughts.
• 51:58
  Initial thought on this one. Just curious.
• 52:02
  It's good. It's not.
• 52:05
  It's. Not.
• 52:06
  It's better than usual, so I mean.
• 52:12
  OK, follow up question, Thoughts on the theme, the vibe, the
• 52:16
  tone? Yeah.
• 52:18
  I mean, I do like that you're like you're, you're Strider.
• 52:21
  You're like actually strider Aragon in the hunt in like Merck
• 52:24
  would like. That's a vibe.
• 52:26
  I like that. Yeah, you're like weird.
• 52:28
  You're like creepy like death forest Ranger, which I think is
• 52:31
  interesting. I do really like that when when
• 52:35
  they joke about master of combat, this subclass actually
• 52:38
  can. Yeah, pretty good.
• 52:40
  Quite good damage for fucking once.
• 52:44
  Yeah, so legends tell of the most ancient and fearsome
• 52:49
  terrors lurking within the old places of the earth,
• 52:52
  unfathomable and bloodthirsty entities of a fallow soil and
• 52:55
  sharpened claws. Hollow Wardens venerate and draw
• 53:00
  power from such beings, transforming themselves into
• 53:02
  similarly merciless and monstrous guardians that stalk
• 53:05
  along jagged close lines, across steep mountain crags and through
• 53:09
  other dark and wild places. So this is a new subclass called
• 53:12
  the Hollow Warden for the Ranger, as as we said.
• 53:18
  So Level 3 they get they get they get some Hollow Warden
• 53:22
  spells. Level 3 they get Wrathful spite,
• 53:25
  level 5 they get spike growth, which why does Ranger not have
• 53:31
  spike growth by default? OK level 9 they get Phantom
• 53:35
  Steed, I like that, that's cool. Level 13 they get hallucinary
• 53:38
  terrain which is another fun one.
• 53:40
  And level 17 they get the spell awaken.
• 53:43
  I don't remember what that spell does.
• 53:47
  I don't know what does. What does awaken do?
• 53:49
  Let's we're we're we're flying. We're flying high and dry on
• 53:53
  this one. Let's just, let's just look it
• 53:55
  up. Live transmutation spell.
• 53:59
  You spend the casting time tracing magical pathways within
• 54:02
  a precious gemstone and then touch the target.
• 54:08
  The target must be a beast or plant creature with an
• 54:11
  intelligence of three or less, or a natural plant that isn't a
• 54:14
  creature. The target gains an Intelligence
• 54:17
  of 10 and the ability to speak one language you know.
• 54:20
  The target's a natural plant. It becomes a plant creature and
• 54:23
  gains the ability to move its limbs, roots, vines, creepers,
• 54:25
  and so forth. It gains sense similar to
• 54:28
  humans. The DM chooses stats appropriate
• 54:30
  for the awakened plant, such as the stats for the Awakened shrub
• 54:33
  tree or awakened tree in the Monster Manual.
• 54:37
  The awakened target has the Charm condition for 30 days, or
• 54:39
  until you or your allies deal damage to it.
• 54:42
  When that condition ends, the awakened creature chooses its
• 54:44
  attitude towards you. Interesting.
• 54:50
  OK, I don't know about that spell.
• 54:55
  That's it's intriguing spell. All right then we have also a
• 55:07
  Level 3 Wrath of the wild. When you cast Hunter's Mark, you
• 55:11
  transform gaming the following benefits for the direction of
• 55:15
  the spell. I oh, it's tied to Hunter's Mark
• 55:19
  again. I just yes.
• 55:20
  Sir. Fucking Captain Hunter's Mark
• 55:25
  strikes again. Fly away, kids.
• 55:28
  Captain Hunter's Mark has struck again.
• 55:32
  Fucking I I can't, dude. I can't with the Hunter's mark
• 55:34
  thing. It's crazy.
• 55:36
  Ancient armor. You gain a proficient you or
• 55:38
  what? No, you gain a bonus to your AC
• 55:41
  equal to your Wisdom modifier minimum plus one as your body is
• 55:46
  wreathed in rotten bark and beastly bristles.
• 55:49
  I like the mental image of that a lot.
• 55:51
  That's aesthetically very cool. Yeah.
• 55:54
  Unnerving Aura When an enemy starts its turn within a 10 foot
• 55:58
  emanation originating from you, it makes a Wisdom saving throw
• 56:01
  against your spell save DC. On a failed save.
• 56:03
  You can it can either take an action or a bonus action not
• 56:08
  both Your shadows lengthen and twist around you, or you sprout
• 56:12
  unnatural gross like bloody antlers or putrid fangs.
• 56:15
  They're they're leaning into the This is the creepy Ranger
• 56:20
  hungering might. You gain a bonus to Khan saves
• 56:24
  equal to your Wisdom modifier minimum plus one in addition
• 56:27
  once per turn. When you hit a creature with an
• 56:29
  attack roll, you're transformed using Wrath of the Wild.
• 56:31
  You get regain you regain a number of hit points equal to AD
• 56:36
  10 plus your wisdom modifier, provided you are bloodied when
• 56:39
  you hit. I will say I do like that
• 56:43
  they're using buddied as a conditional modifier for things.
• 56:46
  That's cool. Yes, it's fantastic.
• 56:49
  It's good that it's actually getting utilized and it and it's
• 56:51
  good because it lets you make an ability that's a little bit
• 56:53
  stronger that you can use consistently because you can't
• 56:57
  use it all the time, right? You have to be in a certain
• 56:59
  state. Rot.
• 57:07
  There's like the name of this ability, Rot and violence.
• 57:11
  All right, Your dedication to eldritch forest beings alters
• 57:15
  you further. When you transform with Wrath
• 57:17
  using Wrath of the Wild, you gain the following additional
• 57:19
  benefits. Erie Aura.
• 57:21
  When a creature fails it's saving throw against your
• 57:23
  unnerving aura, it also takes necrotic, poison, or psychic
• 57:27
  damage, your choice equal to your Ranger level, and this
• 57:30
  damage ignores resistance. Cool like that not a ton of
• 57:34
  damage, but still a little extra damage is a little extra damage.
• 57:37
  That's fine. You know I if it's if it's like
• 57:40
  an aura or a passive thing like this, the the extra damage being
• 57:43
  not that big. I understand you know what I
• 57:45
  mean. Yeah, no, that's, yeah, I get
• 57:47
  it. It's a That's a fair way to go
• 57:49
  about it. Strangling Roots.
• 57:51
  When you hit a creature with an attack using a weapon, you can
• 57:54
  activate the SAP or slow mastery property in addition to a
• 57:58
  different mastery property you're using with that weapon.
• 58:00
  So essentially you always have the SAP or slow property,
• 58:04
  Sapper, slow weapon mastery property, and then Ancient
• 58:08
  endurance Persistent hunt. If you drop to 0 HP, this is
• 58:13
  their level 15 ability. If you drop to 0 HP well
• 58:17
  transformed using your Wrath of the Wild and don't die outright,
• 58:21
  you can expend a level 4A level 4 plus spell slot.
• 58:25
  No action. Your hit points then instead
• 58:28
  change to amount equal to five times level of the spell slot
• 58:32
  expended. So you just you if you have
• 58:36
  spell slots, you just don't die. You're like, no.
• 58:40
  I no, you can't kill me. Sorry.
• 58:43
  This is Captain Hunter's mark and we need to roast it for
• 58:45
  that. It is.
• 58:46
  I think we really should take a step back and praise this
• 58:51
  subclass for making Ranger even a little bit fucking cool.
• 58:57
  Like I read this the first time, it was like fuck this is kind of
• 59:03
  cool. It's a pretty cool one.
• 59:05
  It is. It is.
• 59:06
  It's just that it's, it is, this is OK.
• 59:11
  I'm, I'm, I have to go off on a Faf for a second.
• 59:14
  This is so cool that it makes me fucking mad because it proves
• 59:18
  that the writers have the capacity to do cool.
• 59:20
  Shit to make a cool Ranger. On brand that feels correct, not
• 59:24
  fucking cartographer. Something that feels game
• 59:28
  changing and like conducive to narrative play, right?
• 59:34
  They can do it. They've proven with this that
• 59:37
  they can do it, and they made Ranger of all things fucking
• 59:40
  cool. Give us more.
• 59:45
  I. Find I want and I need to know
• 59:49
  who is the one who's holding them back and I want that person
• 59:52
  to hit with a brick about Ranger specifically about all the
• 59:55
  classes, about making them cool and feel on brand.
• 59:58
  I want to find this person. I will pay someone to hit them
• 1:00:01
  with a brick every time they walk into the fucking Wizards
• 1:00:04
  building. I.
• 1:00:08
  The, The funny thing about Ranger is I, I feel like Ranger
• 1:00:13
  subclasses are an equal amount of cool and shitty.
• 1:00:17
  You know, like you have Beastmaster, which is like, I
• 1:00:22
  want it to be cool, but isn't that cool?
• 1:00:25
  But you also have Drake Warden, which is fucking sick and like
• 1:00:28
  you, hey, Faye wanderer, which is like, man, it's all right.
• 1:00:31
  But you have gloom stalker, which is pretty sick.
• 1:00:34
  You have horizon Walker, which is OK, but like Hunter's pretty
• 1:00:36
  cool. You know what I mean?
• 1:00:37
  Like. Yeah.
• 1:00:39
  Swarm keeper is a little weird but like monster Slayer I'm in
• 1:00:45
  you know? It's so 5050 with Ranger it
• 1:00:50
  feels like. Yeah, it just.
• 1:00:53
  We are right, like the thematic energy, the the the concept of
• 1:01:00
  like what this Ranger should be and then the mechanics that it
• 1:01:02
  has feel like they line up pretty well right.
• 1:01:06
  The the the eerie aura causing causing fear and increasing
• 1:01:10
  damage is good. The strangling roots because
• 1:01:14
  you're this weird like eldritch forest being so you're causing
• 1:01:17
  the plants to wrap around shit like sick yes, love that.
• 1:01:21
  I mean, the, the the unnerving aura forcing them to, to have to
• 1:01:29
  make like limiting their actions because they're like bothered by
• 1:01:34
  you. And and they could have just had
• 1:01:36
  it given the the frightened condition.
• 1:01:41
  But I like that they made it a different thing, you know?
• 1:01:44
  Yeah, I like that it's not just the frightened condition.
• 1:01:49
  The ancient armor feels very on brand because you're covered in
• 1:01:52
  the vines and leaves and shit to protect you.
• 1:01:54
  This is very this feels like it's intended to be a very melee
• 1:01:57
  focused hunter Ranger also. Oh also they get an ability
• 1:02:02
  called timeless where they're just immune to the exhaustion
• 1:02:05
  condition. Just totally immune.
• 1:02:07
  Can't get tired. Just not like crazy of powerful
• 1:02:12
  but a fun thematic thing. Yeah, yeah, like it it, It is a
• 1:02:16
  fun Ranger like. Also the the persistent hunt is
• 1:02:20
  cool because you can they're kind of vibing on the wild hunt
• 1:02:23
  idea of like you're just this eternal hunter.
• 1:02:26
  They even they mentioned it with like the oh God I can't I never
• 1:02:30
  remember his name. The guy who does the the
• 1:02:33
  interviews. Oh.
• 1:02:37
  I feel so bad, I like that guy so much.
• 1:02:39
  They could do with the glasses. Yeah, I know who.
• 1:02:40
  You're talking about Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, why can't I think of his
• 1:02:42
  name either? Todd Kendrick.
• 1:02:45
  Todd Kendrick. Yes, he, he brought it up.
• 1:02:47
  He was like Norse mythology. And my, my immediate thought was
• 1:02:49
  the Wild Hunt. So, yeah, actually, so you know
• 1:02:52
  what this reminds me of? It's a little too magical, but
• 1:02:54
  this feels like the Van Helsing, like Van Helsing the 2008 movie
• 1:02:59
  with with Hugh Jackman Van Helsing.
• 1:03:03
  Like obviously it's way more magical.
• 1:03:06
  It's just like, 'cause you're like the Ranger of the forest
• 1:03:08
  hunting the monsters. Like you just feel like this,
• 1:03:13
  you know, trench coat wearing fucking trench coat.
• 1:03:16
  You know, you feel like the dude with the wide brimmed hat who's
• 1:03:19
  out there to like, stalk the forest.
• 1:03:21
  And. Kill the evil monster you feel
• 1:03:23
  it's it's a little aloo card, you know?
• 1:03:25
  Yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I did just have the idea,
• 1:03:30
  as you were saying that, of playing a a Oh God.
• 1:03:36
  What's the species? The the reborn.
• 1:03:39
  Yes, the reborn plus this Ranger.
• 1:03:42
  That would be cool. Actually OK a a better
• 1:03:44
  comparison. This feels very vampire hunter.
• 1:03:48
  DI have not watched that anyway. Oh.
• 1:03:50
  You would love that. You're the Tim Burton guy and
• 1:03:53
  you haven't seen vampire Hunter Dean?
• 1:03:54
  I have not. I know it's one of those ones
• 1:03:56
  I've always heard about and haven't.
• 1:03:58
  Seen. Oh dude, it's so it's I.
• 1:04:01
  I feel pretty confident knowing what shit's up your alley at
• 1:04:03
  this point. I yeah, I've heard, I know it's
• 1:04:06
  an edge fest, which, yeah. It's not even edge, it's just
• 1:04:09
  it's gorgeous to look at. It's all fucking gothic and like
• 1:04:13
  the best way possible. Dee's like a Chad.
• 1:04:17
  He's got like a weird mouth, his hand that talks shit to him.
• 1:04:19
  It's great. Did you not know about the tumor
• 1:04:23
  mouth hand? I didn't, no.
• 1:04:25
  I'll find a picture while you're talking about the phantom.
• 1:04:28
  Well, I was going to, I was just going to say the the idea of the
• 1:04:31
  the reborn hunter, but instead of being instead of being like a
• 1:04:36
  zombie person, you're like a person who died in the forest
• 1:04:39
  and turned into like a weird tree being.
• 1:04:42
  And then you're this what hunter who stalks around like this
• 1:04:45
  Ranger who stalked around the forest is the weird magic tree.
• 1:04:48
  Like he didn't. A subclass is good when you look
• 1:04:53
  at the subclass and it gives you a bunch of character like ideas
• 1:04:56
  right away. That means.
• 1:04:57
  You look at and go, yeah, I have something like, again, that's
• 1:05:00
  for me with the the undead companion.
• 1:05:02
  I I looked at it and went no I understand now.
• 1:05:05
  Yeah, yeah, You immediately. Like, I have an idea for this.
• 1:05:07
  That's good. Yeah.
• 1:05:10
  So then we have the Rogue Phantom.
• 1:05:11
  So this one's another reprint. It says it came from Tasha's
• 1:05:18
  Cauldron, but I thought the phantom came from Van Richten's.
• 1:05:23
  Let us see row 24, Phantom Tasha's called, Asha's Cauldron,
• 1:05:29
  everything. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:31
  Maybe it was reprinted in Van Richten's.
• 1:05:34
  Maybe. Oh that that hand homunculus is
• 1:05:38
  awful looking. What the fuck?
• 1:05:39
  It's. Really gross, isn't it?
• 1:05:44
  Here I can let me check. All right, so the Phantom Rogue,
• 1:05:52
  as we said, reprint. Some rogues walk along the veil
• 1:05:56
  between life and death, shepherding opponents to the
• 1:05:59
  grave and slipping through the world as undetectable as a
• 1:06:02
  spirit. In these pursuits, a rogue might
• 1:06:04
  discover a mystical connection to death itself, such as an
• 1:06:07
  individual, or such an individual becomes immersed in
• 1:06:11
  negative energy, infusing their strikes with definitely energy
• 1:06:14
  and stealing knowledge from souls who have passed on.
• 1:06:17
  Thieves Guild Rogue Thieves guilds value rogues at this
• 1:06:20
  persuasion as highly effective information gatherers and spies.
• 1:06:23
  Basically, you're a rogue who talks to dead people, and that
• 1:06:25
  gets extra cool powers from the dead people.
• 1:06:30
  In terms of changes, Whales from the Grave now links its number
• 1:06:35
  of uses to the rogue's DEX mod. Tokens of the Departed now
• 1:06:38
  provide soul trinkets whenever you finish a long rest, allowing
• 1:06:42
  for more reliable usage of this benefit.
• 1:06:44
  Which I do understand because before the way it worked is you
• 1:06:47
  need something to die within. I think it was within 30 feet of
• 1:06:50
  you, which is somewhat limiting. I'm actually going to double
• 1:06:55
  check tokens of the departed when you as a reaction when you
• 1:07:05
  can, when a creature you can see dies within 30 feet of you.
• 1:07:08
  Yeah. So Voices of Death is a new
• 1:07:13
  feature that allows you to cast Speak with Dead, and Death's
• 1:07:16
  Friend now let you gain a soul trinket when you roll initiative
• 1:07:19
  if you have no soul trinkets. So Whales from the Grave, when
• 1:07:25
  you deal a sneak attack, you can deal another sneak attack
• 1:07:29
  basically to another creature within 30 feet of the first one.
• 1:07:33
  Roll half the number of sneak attack dice for your level
• 1:07:36
  roundup and the second creature takes to chronic damage equal to
• 1:07:38
  the rolls total as whales of the dead momentarily sound around
• 1:07:43
  them. Whispers of the dead.
• 1:07:45
  When you finish a short or long rest, you can choose one skill
• 1:07:48
  or two proficiency you lack and gain it as a ghostly presence
• 1:07:52
  shares its knowledge with you. You lose this proficiency when
• 1:07:54
  you use this benefit again or choose a different one.
• 1:08:00
  Tokens of the Departed at level 9.
• 1:08:04
  Tokens of the Parted is kind of their their main shtick, which
• 1:08:08
  is a little annoying because you get it at level 9, but whenever
• 1:08:15
  you finish a long rest you gain 2 soul trinkets.
• 1:08:17
  Each soul trinket is a tiny object.
• 1:08:19
  The DM determines the trinkets form or has you roll on the
• 1:08:22
  trinket table. These trinkets last until you
• 1:08:25
  finish another long rest, at which point they disappear or
• 1:08:28
  disintegrate. If you ever move more than 30
• 1:08:32
  feet from a trinket, the trinket immediately teleports to you,
• 1:08:34
  appearing somewhere on your person.
• 1:08:35
  The number of soul trinkets you gain when you finish a long rest
• 1:08:38
  increases when you reach 13th level and 17th level.
• 1:08:40
  It goes from 2:00 to 3:00 to 4:00.
• 1:08:44
  What can you do with them? When you deal Sneak Attack
• 1:08:48
  damage on your turn, you can expend a Soul trinket and
• 1:08:50
  immediately use Whales from the Grave without expending a use of
• 1:08:53
  that feature. That expended trinket is
• 1:08:55
  destroyed, so it gives you an extra one Life's Essence.
• 1:08:58
  When you have at least one Soul trinket, you have advantage on
• 1:09:00
  Death saving throws and con saving throws, which is cool
• 1:09:03
  'cause not many things give you Death saving throw advantage.
• 1:09:06
  That's a pretty rare ability, so that's a fun one.
• 1:09:11
  Spirit Curry. When you take the magic action
• 1:09:13
  to expend a soul trinket and immediately cast the augury
• 1:09:16
  spell requiring no spell components and use your dex mod
• 1:09:20
  as the spell casting modifier, the spell the trinket is expand
• 1:09:24
  is the expend. The expended trinket is
• 1:09:29
  destroyed. That was a tongue twister
• 1:09:31
  apparently. Also when a creature you can see
• 1:09:35
  within 30 feet, if you dies you can still do the reaction to
• 1:09:39
  regain 1 expended soul trinket. So you can still do the sole
• 1:09:42
  steel thing, which is cool, but you can also do it on a long
• 1:09:45
  wrist so you have a little more flexibility on that.
• 1:09:47
  This is one of those things where this is kind of the caveat
• 1:09:50
  to what I generally believe about making things harder
• 1:09:54
  because like the, I don't know, this just feels different than
• 1:10:00
  the finding corpse parts, right? You know what I mean?
• 1:10:03
  Like if you wanted to as the artifice, or you could like go
• 1:10:07
  to the graveyard and rob some graves, and that's how you could
• 1:10:08
  make your homunculus thing. But this very specifically
• 1:10:11
  requires murder. So the fact that they give you a
• 1:10:14
  couple more options to get them. So you're not like shanking
• 1:10:17
  hobos because like that's something you definitely don't
• 1:10:19
  want, right? Just mindless killing for your
• 1:10:22
  class features, no good. So it it feels like they
• 1:10:26
  recognize that that could be an issue and we're like, OK, we
• 1:10:28
  will. We will sort of make things
• 1:10:30
  easier this time in a way that is conducive.
• 1:10:33
  Yeah, that being said, it is D&D, so having something die
• 1:10:36
  within 30 feet of you is not that.
• 1:10:38
  Hard no. But this is like the you know,
• 1:10:41
  if you're doing water deep, right?
• 1:10:44
  Right. You don't want the hobo shanker
• 1:10:46
  of the party. True, yeah, at level 9 you get
• 1:10:51
  Voices of the Dead. You can cast Speak Speak with
• 1:10:54
  Dead once without a spell slot, requiring no components, and
• 1:10:57
  using your dex mod as the spell casting modifier.
• 1:10:59
  Which is. I know why they're doing it.
• 1:11:02
  It just feels weird to be like my Dexterity make me good at the
• 1:11:04
  magic. Yeah.
• 1:11:06
  I mean, this is this. We talked about this a while
• 1:11:08
  ago, right? Of like it's a.
• 1:11:09
  Mechanical thing. It's fine.
• 1:11:10
  Yeah, it's fine. It's kind of funny, I.
• 1:11:13
  Feel like now that we have the DND movie I expect and I'm
• 1:11:18
  looking you, I'm looking out there fucking GMs. I'm looking
• 1:11:20
  at each of you in the eyes. If you make speak with daddy
• 1:11:24
  useless knowing that we have the DND movie to go off of.
• 1:11:28
  True fuck you personally. I mean I'm so tired of seeing
• 1:11:33
  fucking Reddit stories about or arch posts about speak with that
• 1:11:36
  being a useless spell. It doesn't need to be if your GM
• 1:11:39
  isn't dumb. Yeah.
• 1:11:41
  I mean, don't be dumb. Yeah.
• 1:11:46
  You regained the ability to cast the voice with dead.
• 1:11:49
  When you finish a short or long rest level 13, you get ghost
• 1:11:55
  walk. I I don't think they had this
• 1:11:58
  one before. Or did they hold?
• 1:12:00
  Well, they did. They did.
• 1:12:03
  Nevermind. Yeah.
• 1:12:05
  You see, you assume a you go you you, you activate your best
• 1:12:09
  Danny Phantom impression and you go ghost for 10 minutes or until
• 1:12:14
  you end it. Once you use this feature, you
• 1:12:17
  can't use it again if there's a long rest or unless you expend
• 1:12:21
  and destroy one of your soul trinkets from the tokens of the
• 1:12:24
  pardon. You gain flight.
• 1:12:28
  You can fly for you gain fly speed of 10 feet and can hover
• 1:12:33
  attack roles have disadvantage against you because you're going
• 1:12:36
  ghost. You're incorporeal and
• 1:12:38
  incorporeal movement. You can move through occupied
• 1:12:40
  spaces as if they were difficult terrain.
• 1:12:42
  If you end in that space, you take some force damage.
• 1:12:46
  Unfortunately, you can't fire your ghost hand lasers like
• 1:12:49
  Danny Phantom. Missed opportunity.
• 1:12:52
  Yeah. Death's Friend at level 17, your
• 1:12:58
  capability when you use your Whales from the Grave feature,
• 1:13:01
  you could deal necrotic damage to both the 1st and the second
• 1:13:04
  creature. That's fine I guess.
• 1:13:07
  It's OK. Yeah.
• 1:13:09
  Draw of Death. When you roll initiative, you
• 1:13:11
  regain one soul trinket for your tokens of the Departed if you
• 1:13:15
  have none. Also, it's OK, Capstone's a
• 1:13:20
  little weak on Phantom Rogue, but it doesn't bother me too
• 1:13:26
  much because the rest of Phantom Rogue is good, so I can kind of
• 1:13:29
  let it go, you know? Yeah, and you got to let
• 1:13:31
  something slide. Yeah, every time I think about
• 1:13:35
  Phantom, I've made this joke on podcast before.
• 1:13:37
  I just think of the At the Emperor detect speech device
• 1:13:39
  when Magnus summons the little like spectral version and he's
• 1:13:42
  just like, I'm a girl. Such a dumb bit but it makes me
• 1:13:48
  laugh every time I hear it. Correct is dumb bit then we have
• 1:13:51
  Shadow Sorcerer, or Shadow Sorcery as it's now called
• 1:13:57
  because they renamed all of the sorcerers to something.
• 1:14:04
  Sorcery. Your innate magic comes from the
• 1:14:06
  Shadow Fell itself. You might trace your lineages,
• 1:14:09
  your lineage to an entity from the place.
• 1:14:11
  Or perhaps you're exposed to the Shadow Fell sinister energy and
• 1:14:14
  we're transformed by your shadowy magic.
• 1:14:17
  Allows you to command darkness on death and woe with ease, blah
• 1:14:19
  blah blah. This one is also a reprint from
• 1:14:22
  Xanathars, which again was basically 10,000 years ago.
• 1:14:28
  Eyes of the Dark. Thank God for eyes of the dark.
• 1:14:33
  Yeah, Eyes of the Dark now also grants you blind sight and the
• 1:14:36
  ability to see through darkness of any spell you cast, because,
• 1:14:40
  hilariously, you could just blind yourself.
• 1:14:43
  Before. How is that?
• 1:14:46
  That's a crazy. Fucking oversight.
• 1:14:49
  The fact that shadow monk and shadowy and shadow sorcery you
• 1:14:54
  could not see into your own darkness, how does that gum
• 1:14:58
  about? Slight slight footnote on that
• 1:15:03
  one. So the original wording was when
• 1:15:06
  you reach third level you learn the darkness spell, which
• 1:15:09
  doesn't count against sorcerer spells known.
• 1:15:11
  In addition, you can cast it by spending two sorcery points or
• 1:15:15
  by expending a spell slot. If you cast it with with sorcery
• 1:15:19
  points, you can see through the darkness created by the spell.
• 1:15:22
  So you could do it on the sorcerer, but it required
• 1:15:25
  sorcery points. Why would you make that
• 1:15:28
  distinction? Yeah, I know he's still.
• 1:15:30
  Casting the fucking spell. Yeah, I, I, yeah.
• 1:15:33
  No, I agree. It's dumb.
• 1:15:35
  That one's dumb. And like.
• 1:15:38
  Fucking Monk doesn't have that at all.
• 1:15:40
  No, Monk didn't have that at all.
• 1:15:44
  The Shadow spells change is a new feature that provides a list
• 1:15:47
  of always prepared spells. Because reminder, some sorcerers
• 1:15:52
  had always prepared spells and some didn't for some fucking
• 1:15:57
  reason. If I remember correctly.
• 1:16:02
  Though I that still might be the Hold on, hold on, I'm going to
• 1:16:09
  grab my book one second. I guess I have to keep things
• 1:16:13
  interesting right now. No, no.
• 1:16:15
  Oh, never. Mind, don't worry, I'm, I'm
• 1:16:17
  here, but I, I, I do want to flip to sorcerer real quick
• 1:16:20
  because I just OK, well, I can't book book hard to flip through.
• 1:16:25
  Hold on, hold on. All right, Whoop, whoop page,
• 1:16:27
  whoop page, whoop page. Where's sorcerer?
• 1:16:29
  Where's sorcerer? Run 38.
• 1:16:30
  All right, all right, I am physically flipping through an
• 1:16:33
  actual physical book here. It's so we have to wait a second
• 1:16:36
  as I, oh, I flipped too far. So the sorcerers we got in the
• 1:16:45
  Player's Handbook for 20/24 were Aberrant Sorcery, which does get
• 1:16:55
  a spell list. We got Clockwork sorcery which
• 1:16:57
  does Draconic Sorcery, and then Wild Magic.
• 1:17:03
  OK, so wild magic does not get, you know, specific spells to it,
• 1:17:15
  but because it's wild magic, you effectively get access to a
• 1:17:20
  whole bunch of extra spells anyway because of the wild magic
• 1:17:23
  table. So I do kind of understand that.
• 1:17:26
  So it seems like they are going to generally stick with the idea
• 1:17:30
  that the sorcerer's subclasses now get extra spells before
• 1:17:35
  several of them did not for some goddamn fucking reason.
• 1:17:41
  OK, so we have addressed that problem.
• 1:17:45
  Thank God. All right, so Shadow Sorcerer
• 1:17:52
  was one of the ones that did not get extra spells before.
• 1:17:59
  We're once again weird oversight that.
• 1:18:03
  They for some reason they were under the impression sorcerer's
• 1:18:07
  didn't need the extra spells even though all the other spell
• 1:18:10
  casters get like subclass specific spells.
• 1:18:13
  I don't know, whatever Spirits of Ill Omen, which was formerly
• 1:18:19
  Hound of Ill Omen, now uses the Summon Undead spell.
• 1:18:26
  That's. I mean that's mostly fine
• 1:18:28
  because the Hound had a bunch of specific rules and shit on it
• 1:18:31
  anyway, so like that's not a huge deal.
• 1:18:33
  Yeah, annoying that we're relying on spells again, but for
• 1:18:35
  what it is, this is more tolerable.
• 1:18:37
  Normally that would bug me, but in this case I kind of get it.
• 1:18:40
  Yeah. Because the hound was a little
• 1:18:43
  like, not amazing Umbrell form, which is their capstone now
• 1:18:48
  gives you one free use of the form per long rest.
• 1:18:51
  Strength of the grave has been improved and moved to the
• 1:18:54
  benefits of this form. I don't remember what that
• 1:18:56
  ability did. So we're gonna, we'll get there
• 1:18:58
  in a second. All right.
• 1:18:59
  So Level 3 Eyes of the dark, like we said, you have dark
• 1:19:01
  vision out to 120 feet and blind sight within a range of 10 feet.
• 1:19:05
  In addition, if a spell you cast creates an area of darkness, you
• 1:19:11
  could see through that spell's darkness.
• 1:19:13
  End of discussion. The shadow spells they get, they
• 1:19:18
  get at Level 3, Bane, darkness, Inflict Wounds, Pass without a
• 1:19:22
  trace. Yeah, it's all right, All right.
• 1:19:27
  Level 5, they get Hunger of Hadar Summoned undead.
• 1:19:31
  Good, solid ones. 7, they get Greater Greater Invisibility and
• 1:19:34
  Phantasmal Killer. Those are really good.
• 1:19:36
  Level 9, they get Contagion and creation.
• 1:19:39
  Contagion is a solid spell. I don't remember what Creation
• 1:19:41
  does on top man. Creation it.
• 1:19:46
  It's similar to Fabricate. It lets you just create a number
• 1:19:49
  of organic and inorganic materials.
• 1:19:52
  They are. They don't last forever though,
• 1:19:53
  so you have to kind of like make them and then immediately use
• 1:19:56
  them as a component or something before they go away.
• 1:19:58
  I think you get like 10 minutes for some things.
• 1:20:01
  So Spirits of Ill Omen, you can now cast Summon Undead without a
• 1:20:05
  material component. You can also cast it once
• 1:20:08
  without a spell slot, which you regain on the long rest.
• 1:20:10
  Whenever you start casting the spell, you can modify it so that
• 1:20:14
  it doesn't require concentration.
• 1:20:17
  If you do so, the spell's duration becomes one minute for
• 1:20:20
  that casting, and the spell ends early if you cast it again.
• 1:20:24
  That is a somebody a different subclass also got that?
• 1:20:28
  Or is like you can. You can forego the concentration
• 1:20:31
  for a limited time on the summoning.
• 1:20:34
  Remember who it was though, Yes. I remember that being a thing,
• 1:20:37
  but I also do not 100% remember. It might have been Draconic
• 1:20:41
  Sorcerer, I'm not sure. That's good.
• 1:20:46
  I mean, that's fine. Yeah, I'm fine with that.
• 1:20:48
  Replacing the Hound of Ill Omen. I will say Spirits of Ill Omen
• 1:20:54
  doesn't sound as cool as Hound of Ill Omen.
• 1:20:57
  It does not. But the way I mean the way it
• 1:21:00
  Hound Deville the Hound works. Before as a bonus action, you
• 1:21:06
  spent three sorcery points to summon a hound of ill omen to
• 1:21:10
  target to target one creature you can see within 120 feet of
• 1:21:13
  you. The Hound uses direwolf stats
• 1:21:16
  with the following changes. It's size medium, not large.
• 1:21:19
  It counts as a monstrosity, not a beast.
• 1:21:21
  It appears with 10 pit points, equal to half year sorcerer
• 1:21:24
  level. It can move through other
• 1:21:25
  creatures and objects as if they were difficult to reign.
• 1:21:28
  The hound takes 5 force damage if it ends in turn inside an
• 1:21:31
  object. At the start of its turn, the
• 1:21:32
  hound automatically knows its target location.
• 1:21:36
  If the target was hidden, it is no longer hidden from the hound.
• 1:21:39
  So you do kind of miss out on the the hound sniffing people
• 1:21:43
  out thing, but other than that the summon undead pretty much
• 1:21:48
  covers the same basis. That does suck.
• 1:21:52
  That's good flavour. But yeah, it's.
• 1:21:53
  Fair, that is good flavour of the hound being able to like
• 1:21:56
  find hidden enemies. I I do kind of like that someone
• 1:22:01
  undead are I'm actually going to pull up some of them dead real
• 1:22:03
  quick. Some curiosity undead spirit
• 1:22:07
  blah blah initiative. Yeah, what's the undead spirit
• 1:22:09
  like? Stat block got festering or oh
• 1:22:14
  that's right, the undead spirit. You can make the ghost or the
• 1:22:16
  putrid has grey bolt rod and cloud.
• 1:22:21
  Yeah, make a calm save any creature the new starts its turn
• 1:22:26
  within 5 feet of it. The creature is poisoned or the
• 1:22:29
  ghost pass through the creature and objects.
• 1:22:32
  If it ends its turn inside the object to just shunted to the
• 1:22:35
  nearest occupant space. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:39
  So you missed out on the tracking thing, which is a
• 1:22:41
  little unfortunate, but other than that it is, I would say, a
• 1:22:44
  little more versatile. And then you get the shadow
• 1:22:49
  walkability at level 14, when you're in dim light or darkness,
• 1:22:52
  you can use a bonus action to teleport.
• 1:22:55
  That's the same. And then you have Umbral form.
• 1:23:00
  As a bonus action, you adopt A shadowy form.
• 1:23:03
  Gain the benefits below for one minute or until you have the
• 1:23:07
  incapacitated condition. I will just little little side
• 1:23:13
  thing. I do kind of understand why, but
• 1:23:15
  I feel like calling incapacitated a condition is
• 1:23:19
  just a little funny. I don't know.
• 1:23:23
  No, yeah, I mean because you have the unconscious
• 1:23:26
  incapacitated 2 separate. No, I don't even mean that.
• 1:23:30
  I just think it's a funny sentence to be like you got the
• 1:23:32
  dead condition, bud, you know, like you know, like it's just, I
• 1:23:36
  don't know, just well, they. They made incapacitated a little
• 1:23:38
  more like cohesive because you can like talk now, like you can
• 1:23:42
  sort of sure do things, that's true.
• 1:23:45
  Whereas before you're just sort of like a having a seizure,
• 1:23:49
  being completely useless to the world.
• 1:23:51
  Right. Once you use this feature, you
• 1:23:54
  can't use again to finish a long rest unless you spend 6 sorcery
• 1:23:58
  points, which at level 18 you have.
• 1:24:05
  Oh, you have, oh that's right, Sorcery points are 1 to 1.
• 1:24:06
  So you have 18 sorcery points, so 6 is not that much.
• 1:24:10
  In corporeal movement, you can move through occupied spaces if
• 1:24:12
  they're difficult terrain. You can do the ghost thing.
• 1:24:15
  You have resistance to shadowy resilience.
• 1:24:17
  You have resistance to all damage except force and radiant.
• 1:24:22
  That's pretty good. You're not going to be getting
• 1:24:24
  hit with a lot of force and radiant damage very often.
• 1:24:27
  And then strength of the grave, if you would drop TO0HP and not
• 1:24:31
  die outright, you can make a charisma save.
• 1:24:33
  DC is 5 plus half the damage taken if you succeed your hit
• 1:24:38
  points. Instead, change to a number
• 1:24:40
  equal to three times your sorcerer level.
• 1:24:43
  That's not terrible. Comma.
• 1:24:46
  However, DC of five plus half the damage you're taking.
• 1:24:51
  At level 18, you're taking some pretty chunky hits.
• 1:24:55
  Yeah. So that's going to be kind of a
• 1:24:56
  tough DC to beat sometimes I feel Not like impossible 5 plus
• 1:25:06
  half, like not impossible, but you do take some pretty chunky
• 1:25:08
  hits. So I don't know, that might be a
• 1:25:10
  little hard to beat sometimes. So Shadow.
• 1:25:12
  Sorcerer. Honestly, the biggest upgrade is
• 1:25:17
  the shadow spells, the additional spells.
• 1:25:20
  That's the main thing. The Hound of a Hill Omen is
• 1:25:23
  like, you lost something, you gained something, it became
• 1:25:26
  spirits. OK, that's fine.
• 1:25:29
  And then Umbra Form got a slight upgrade.
• 1:25:33
  Yeah, so Shadow Source was fine. Then we get to the last.
• 1:25:40
  The last subclass is Hex Blade Warlock.
• 1:25:43
  Not the last one, we get undead underneath it.
• 1:25:47
  I forgot about undead warlock. Yeah.
• 1:25:50
  Hex blade warlock though. This is my utter disappointment.
• 1:25:57
  Kind of a weird, yeah. First of all, I didn't think we
• 1:26:03
  were going to get Hexblade Warlock.
• 1:26:05
  That was my first thing, right? Like I thought Hexblade was off
• 1:26:09
  the table because of the changes to pack to the blade and stuff
• 1:26:12
  and and the way that some of the invocation changes, I just
• 1:26:16
  didn't expect to get Hexblade back, but we did.
• 1:26:21
  And it's, it's not terrible, but it's definitely different.
• 1:26:29
  It's just if if Rangers, you know.
• 1:26:32
  It's. Just Captain Hacks.
• 1:26:34
  Yeah, it's Captain. Heck, it is like.
• 1:26:37
  It kind. Well, here's the thing.
• 1:26:38
  It was kind of Captain Hex before, but now they have leaned
• 1:26:42
  into it further. Yeah, well, I mean they haven't
• 1:26:45
  solved the problem that the hex spell isn't very good other than
• 1:26:50
  that. Like, the extra damage is good,
• 1:26:51
  that's fine, but it still has this annoying rivet ability that
• 1:26:55
  is practically speaking. I'm not going to say it's
• 1:26:58
  useless, but it's not very useful.
• 1:27:02
  Yeah, so changes. You get the hexploid spells
• 1:27:09
  formally expanded spell list. Now it gives you a list of
• 1:27:12
  always prepared spells. These spells have been grant.
• 1:27:15
  The spells granted have been revised.
• 1:27:18
  They did this with all the warlocks.
• 1:27:20
  Warlocks now get free spells which they technically didn't
• 1:27:22
  before. I think a lot of people assumed
• 1:27:24
  warlocks got free extra spells with their subclasses.
• 1:27:27
  They didn't. They got the option to pick
• 1:27:30
  those spells. They did not get them for free
• 1:27:32
  before. Which is crazy because literally
• 1:27:34
  everyone else got their spells for free.
• 1:27:35
  Yeah, they had. It was.
• 1:27:36
  It was an active thing you had to do, which is.
• 1:27:38
  You had to decide. Goofy.
• 1:27:40
  Such a weird choice. It was like you can pick from a
• 1:27:42
  few more things but you don't just get them.
• 1:27:44
  But like what? Hex Blade Manifest is a new
• 1:27:47
  feature allowing you to cast a hex number of times a spell
• 1:27:50
  slot. It also grants you a handful of
• 1:27:51
  unique ways to interact with your cursed target.
• 1:27:55
  Life Stealer is a new feature that interacts with the Hex
• 1:27:57
  spell to provide healing and reliable damage.
• 1:28:00
  Armor of Hexes now now more reliably reduces damage taken.
• 1:28:05
  Masterful Hex is now a feature that boosts the power of the Hex
• 1:28:07
  Blade manifest. I will say one thing, I think
• 1:28:11
  it's funny. It's called Hex Blade.
• 1:28:14
  Nothing in the subclass specifies that you need a blade
• 1:28:17
  of any kind. Yeah, you know, Yeah, they they.
• 1:28:22
  Talk about it a lot about it being a sword.
• 1:28:24
  It doesn't actually a sword. It could be.
• 1:28:25
  It doesn't Mace a hammer. It it could be a bow, because
• 1:28:31
  nothing. None of them specify melee
• 1:28:33
  attack or a type of damage or anything.
• 1:28:36
  It's just an attack. End of discussion.
• 1:28:39
  Which is weird. So hex blade spells, you get
• 1:28:44
  arcane vigor, which I think is actually a new spell.
• 1:28:47
  You get hex, you get magic weapon shield, wrathful spike.
• 1:28:50
  Those are pretty good spells at Level 3, actually pretty soft.
• 1:28:53
  Level 5 Contra barrage is that's a choice.
• 1:28:59
  OK and to spell magic I Contra. Barrage is Contra barrage.
• 1:29:05
  Is it like the fucking anime silver chariot stabs?
• 1:29:08
  Is that what they were like? Well conjure barrage specifies
• 1:29:13
  they did change how conjure barrage works.
• 1:29:16
  You stick a like ethereal what? What's the word?
• 1:29:20
  I'm actually going to look it up.
• 1:29:21
  The reason I know this is because I played with the new
• 1:29:23
  conjure barrage when I was playing Ranak.
• 1:29:27
  So Conjure Barrage now says you brandish the weapon used to cast
• 1:29:32
  the spell and conjure similar spectral weapons or ammunition
• 1:29:38
  that launch forward and then disappears.
• 1:29:40
  So it can be you conjure a bunch of magic arrows, but it can also
• 1:29:44
  be you conjure spectral copies of your sword and shoot those
• 1:29:48
  forward. Yes, you're doing the anime
• 1:29:50
  million stab thing. Kind of.
• 1:29:53
  I imagine it like you're doing the Red Mage and Final Fantasy
• 1:29:55
  14 thing where you summon the fleshet swords and they shoot
• 1:29:59
  out and stab the opponent like magic swords.
• 1:30:02
  That's what I think of. So yeah, Contra braj and spell
• 1:30:04
  magic. Contra bra is a little weird.
• 1:30:06
  Freedom of movement I guess. And staggering smite.
• 1:30:12
  At level 9 they get animate objects.
• 1:30:17
  I'm assuming to animate swords like to make dancing.
• 1:30:21
  Blues and then steel Windstrike I I I guess animate objects is a
• 1:30:25
  weird one, but sure the little. Three.
• 1:30:28
  That's one of my favorite spells.
• 1:30:29
  Steel Windstrike is awesome because you just turned into
• 1:30:31
  Virgil. Level 3 you get the hex blade
• 1:30:36
  manifest, Hex blades curse. You can cast hex without
• 1:30:40
  expending a spell slot a number of times equal to your charisma
• 1:30:43
  modifier, which is good 'cause you're a warlock, so obviously
• 1:30:46
  you're very limited on spell slots, and you regain all
• 1:30:48
  expended uses when you finish a long rest.
• 1:30:50
  When you cast hex, A spectral weapon resembling your patriot
• 1:30:54
  orbits the cursed patriot. Your patron orbits the cursed
• 1:30:59
  target. Weird little add on they threw
• 1:31:02
  there, but sure. Xplead maneuvers once per turn
• 1:31:06
  when you hit a cursed target with your hex.
• 1:31:10
  What? Once per turn when you hit a
• 1:31:11
  target cursed by your hex with an attack roll, Any attack roll
• 1:31:16
  you can cause one of the additional effects, Draining
• 1:31:20
  Slash. The target makes a Con save
• 1:31:22
  against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the target
• 1:31:25
  can't make opportunity attacks and it's speed.
• 1:31:27
  Just have until the start of your next turn.
• 1:31:29
  Sure, all right, fine. Harrowing Blade.
• 1:31:31
  The target makes a Wisdom save against your spell save DC on a
• 1:31:34
  failed save the next The next time the target makes an attack
• 1:31:38
  roll against a creature other than you before the start of
• 1:31:41
  your next turn, the target takes to chronic damage equal to your
• 1:31:43
  Charisma modifier. Stymieing Mark The target has
• 1:31:48
  disadvantage on your next saving throw it makes before the start
• 1:31:51
  of your next turn on the next saving throw.
• 1:31:54
  So you can actually debuff saving throws now with Hex Blade
• 1:31:58
  specifically. Oh no, you could do that before.
• 1:31:59
  Actually, nevermind could do that before 'cause it they added
• 1:32:04
  the extra rider to the hex spell that it gave to to say this.
• 1:32:10
  I do like the hex play maneuvers.
• 1:32:12
  I like that you can make a choice to decide how you want to
• 1:32:17
  implement it. That's cool.
• 1:32:18
  I'm I'm a fan of that. Let's see what else we got here.
• 1:32:24
  Life Stealer whenever a target cursed by your hungering hex
• 1:32:29
  Whenever a target cursed by your hex drops to 0 HP, you regain
• 1:32:32
  hit points equal to D8 plus your charisma modifier.
• 1:32:34
  I think that's better healing, isn't it?
• 1:32:42
  You can cause. Oh that's right, they had that
• 1:32:45
  weird accursed spectre ability where they could make a spectre
• 1:32:47
  out of a dead body. Before, that was not very
• 1:32:50
  useful. Did they not wait?
• 1:32:55
  Could they not life steal before?
• 1:32:56
  Couldn't they life steal before? Am I tripping?
• 1:32:58
  That was. Maybe that was from the hex
• 1:33:05
  spell that I'm thinking of. No, it wasn't the next spell.
• 1:33:07
  I think it was an. It was an invocation.
• 1:33:10
  Well, maybe that's what it was. Inevitable Blade is the other
• 1:33:13
  one from level 6. Once per turn, you can make an
• 1:33:17
  attack roll against the target cursed by your hex and and miss.
• 1:33:22
  What? Oh, if you make an attack roll
• 1:33:24
  against the target cursed by your hex and you miss, you can
• 1:33:27
  deal necrotic damage to that creature equal to your Charisma
• 1:33:30
  modifier. So you can just deal some
• 1:33:31
  guaranteed damage once per turn if you miss, Which is that's
• 1:33:36
  cool, I like that, it's a fun little touch.
• 1:33:39
  Armor of Hexes when you take damage at level 10.
• 1:33:43
  Armor of Hexes you take damage from a cursed target of your
• 1:33:45
  hex. You can take your reaction to
• 1:33:46
  reduce the damage taken by an amount equal to 2D8 plus your
• 1:33:49
  Charisma modifier. You can use this feature a
• 1:33:51
  number of times equal to your Charisma modifier and regain
• 1:33:54
  uses on a long rest. And then last.
• 1:33:56
  Really. You have Masterful Hex at level
• 1:34:00
  14. A cursed hex, Any critical rule,
• 1:34:04
  any critical role attack you make against a cursed target
• 1:34:07
  gets a crit on a 19 or a 20 infectious hex.
• 1:34:11
  When you use one of your hex plane maneuvers, you can target
• 1:34:14
  an additional creature within 30 feet of the cursed target.
• 1:34:16
  The additional target takes AD 6 to chronic damage and Resilient
• 1:34:20
  Hex taking damage can't break your concentration.
• 1:34:25
  So they're really leaning into your hex.
• 1:34:29
  You hex the guy and then you can do all this extra shit when you
• 1:34:33
  hit him. I, I'm, I'm a little bit of two
• 1:34:40
  minds on this one. Like on one hand, I, I get it,
• 1:34:47
  it opens up some of the options for how you could play a hex
• 1:34:51
  blade, but it does feel like you've lost a little bit of the
• 1:34:55
  flavour of the hex blade and you don't get any of the armor
• 1:35:03
  proficiency or the melee weapon. And it, it's still called hex
• 1:35:07
  blade, but you don't actually have to use a blade in any
• 1:35:10
  sense. That's really weird to me.
• 1:35:12
  I don't know, it feels a little messy right now.
• 1:35:15
  Is that is that how you're feeling?
• 1:35:19
  Yeah, yeah. Like it.
• 1:35:22
  It did some things that I like, not what I expected, but that's
• 1:35:28
  not even that true. Like it has battle master
• 1:35:31
  maneuvers now, which I'm just like kind of again, like sort of
• 1:35:36
  classes are getting more like abilities if they're melee
• 1:35:38
  focused. But again, it just still steals
• 1:35:40
  from the Battle Master, makes that feel less unique.
• 1:35:44
  Oh, they're not really. They're not maneuvers the way
• 1:35:47
  that the Battle Master has them, though.
• 1:35:48
  They're pretty different. No, I mean they're closer to
• 1:35:51
  maneuvers in the way that like the barbarian has them.
• 1:35:55
  Kind of. Yeah, I guess that's true.
• 1:35:57
  It it's really just the the massive reliance on hex that I'm
• 1:36:01
  like a little frustrated. By it is a it is an over.
• 1:36:06
  It does feel like an over, Yeah, 'cause Hex Blade, before the
• 1:36:09
  previous incarnation of Hex Blade, leaned into the hex and
• 1:36:13
  the blade part in equal parts it felt like, whereas now it's like
• 1:36:17
  just about the hex it almost and all.
• 1:36:19
  But they kept it. I feel like they should rename
• 1:36:21
  it to, I don't know, Hex warrior or something.
• 1:36:25
  Yeah. Keeping the name blade in there
• 1:36:27
  really bugs me. I don't know why that bugs you
• 1:36:29
  so much, but it does. And then the hex armor.
• 1:36:32
  The armor of hex's thing. Before, if the target cursed by
• 1:36:37
  your hex blade's curse hits you with an attack roll, you can use
• 1:36:39
  your reaction to roll AD 6. On a four or higher, that hit
• 1:36:43
  misses you. Now it's just reducing the
• 1:36:45
  damage. I don't know, that's similar
• 1:36:54
  enough. I suppose it's 2D8 plus your
• 1:36:56
  charisma modifier reducing the damage.
• 1:36:58
  Like, sure, that one's fine. I suppose.
• 1:37:02
  It's weird. It's like they kind of are
• 1:37:04
  implying they still want this to be a melee warlock, but not
• 1:37:08
  100%, you know? Like they're still leaving it a
• 1:37:11
  little open-ended on if you want to focus melee or not.
• 1:37:18
  So yeah, you don't really know what to make of it.
• 1:37:23
  I don't know, like I like the manoeuvres.
• 1:37:31
  Yeah. I guess it is just the over
• 1:37:32
  reliance on the hex spell itself that feels frustrating.
• 1:37:38
  Yeah. That's really what it is for me.
• 1:37:39
  It just kind of. There's like too much based on
• 1:37:43
  one spell, you know? But that being said, as a
• 1:37:47
  warlock, you get pretty limited spells, so throwing out a spell
• 1:37:51
  and then getting a whole bunch of stuff out of it kind of makes
• 1:37:54
  sense to a point, right? Like there's a logic there.
• 1:37:59
  I kind of see it. OK now.
• 1:38:03
  The last one is the Undead Patron, which is another
• 1:38:06
  reprint. This one is also from Van
• 1:38:08
  Richten's guide. You've made a pact with a
• 1:38:12
  creature that defies the cycle of life and death, a powerful
• 1:38:15
  lich, a vampire, or some or other entity of undeath.
• 1:38:19
  Having once been mortal themselves, these ancient
• 1:38:22
  patrons know first hand the pass of ambition and the routes past
• 1:38:25
  the doors of death. They eagerly share their profane
• 1:38:27
  knowledge, along with other secrets, with those who work
• 1:38:29
  with the with those who work their will among the living.
• 1:38:35
  So with the undead. This is the warlock from Van
• 1:38:39
  Richten's. That's about, you know, undead
• 1:38:41
  things. Undead spells.
• 1:38:45
  Same as with the Hex Blade and all the others, you now get
• 1:38:47
  extra spells like you should have.
• 1:38:49
  Grave Touch now allows your spells and attacks to ignore
• 1:38:52
  resistance to necrotic damage, which makes sense given the way
• 1:38:55
  that resistance has sort of changed.
• 1:38:56
  Because we're taking magical damage out of this game.
• 1:39:00
  Necrotic Husk no longer requires an action to use a secondary
• 1:39:03
  feature or reaction, and it restores you to a number of hit
• 1:39:07
  points equal to 10 times your Charisma mod.
• 1:39:10
  And then Superior Dread is a new feature that improves your form
• 1:39:13
  of dread, allowing you to fly, regain hit points, and improve
• 1:39:16
  your spell casting. I feel like you would have liked
• 1:39:20
  the flying one quite a bit in our campaign.
• 1:39:23
  Yes, I I would have. It would have made all of the
• 1:39:26
  bullshit I had to do to get flying a lot.
• 1:39:30
  Easier now wouldn't it? Substantially easier.
• 1:39:33
  Yeah, y'all don't get it? I, I'm, I did, I worked on my
• 1:39:39
  undead warlock because I was like, OK, I need him to have the
• 1:39:42
  grim Reaper vibe. It's got to be perfect.
• 1:39:44
  I need like my dark Angel wings that I can fly with and I the
• 1:39:47
  military and went, I can't fly. And then Josh was like, oh,
• 1:39:51
  well, you can fly in certain situations for free.
• 1:39:53
  And I was like OK good, but not all situations that I still have
• 1:39:55
  to work on this. Yeah, also a little little
• 1:40:04
  little side. Interesting we got 2 Warlock
• 1:40:06
  subclasses. I just realized.
• 1:40:08
  That, yeah, I mean, I'm not that surprised Warlock is supposed to
• 1:40:12
  be the creepy, you know? True, true.
• 1:40:15
  Good point. So form of dread, which is
• 1:40:19
  you're turning into your dreadful patrons avatar thing as
• 1:40:22
  a bonus action, you turn into an avatar, blah, blah, blah,
• 1:40:25
  gaining the benefits for a minute until you have the
• 1:40:27
  incapacity addition. Transform a number of time.
• 1:40:29
  Make sure your charisma out of fire.
• 1:40:31
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
• 1:40:32
  In fact, similarly of life, you gain temporary hit points equal
• 1:40:36
  to 1D10 plus your Rollock level and then Frightful avatar.
• 1:40:38
  You have immunity to the frightful condition.
• 1:40:40
  Additionally, once per turn, when you hit a creature with an
• 1:40:43
  attack roll, you can force it to make a Wisdom save.
• 1:40:46
  On a failed save, the target has the frightened condition.
• 1:40:49
  Bing, bang, boom. All right, undead spells, they
• 1:40:51
  get to blindness and deafness at level.
• 1:40:53
  These are the Level 3 spells. Blindness, deafness, false life,
• 1:40:56
  fantasible force ray of sickness.
• 1:41:00
  All pretty good. I've always hated the word the
• 1:41:03
  the spell name. Blindness.
• 1:41:05
  Deafness. Yeah, it's not a great name.
• 1:41:08
  Just call it deafen or blind like blindness, slash deafness.
• 1:41:12
  Just that doesn't feel like right because all these spells
• 1:41:15
  are are they are a wizard. Universe.
• 1:41:18
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, I will name this
• 1:41:20
  blindness deafness. So it blinds them and deafens
• 1:41:23
  them. No, it it like you can choose.
• 1:41:26
  You could choose. So why not?
• 1:41:27
  So why isn't it blindness or deafness?
• 1:41:28
  Well, there's a slash. How do you say A slash?
• 1:41:31
  Well, you don't. You just kind of know that it's
• 1:41:32
  that it's there. This is a terrible name.
• 1:41:37
  I just imagined Morden Kanen talking to, like, the wizard who
• 1:41:41
  invented the spell, and he's like, bro, you got to come up
• 1:41:44
  with a better name. Oh, yeah.
• 1:41:45
  What do you call your spells? Morden Kanan's magnificent
• 1:41:48
  mansion. All right.
• 1:41:50
  That's a pretty good one. You're right.
• 1:41:51
  Right. Damn, that is pretty good shit.
• 1:41:54
  Shit, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.
• 1:41:57
  At level 5 the undead warlock gets Speak with Dead and
• 1:42:00
  Vampiric touch. Very funny to think about the
• 1:42:03
  fact that they didn't before like.
• 1:42:08
  Well, I think they could. Well actually I'm going to look
• 1:42:10
  at their old spell list expansion.
• 1:42:11
  Could they choose those two? They could choose Speak with
• 1:42:18
  dead but not vampiric touch. Level 7 they get death ward and
• 1:42:24
  phantasmal killer and then level 9 they get anti life shell and
• 1:42:27
  cloud kill. Hell yeah cloud kill.
• 1:42:31
  Funny enough they used to get phantom steed.
• 1:42:34
  They don't get phantom Steed anymore.
• 1:42:36
  And it's a bit of a shame. It's a good 1A.
• 1:42:38
  Little bit level 6 Grave Touch. You get an ability called Arcane
• 1:42:43
  Necrosis when you cast a spell or hit a creature with an attack
• 1:42:46
  roll and deal with a chronic damage.
• 1:42:49
  The damage dealt ignores resistance and then you.
• 1:42:53
  Additionally, once per turn when you cast a spell that deals
• 1:42:55
  damage while in your form of dread, you can change the spells
• 1:42:57
  damage type to necrotic. That used to be reaction to turn
• 1:43:01
  it into necrotic damage, which is kind of a dumb thing to burn
• 1:43:04
  your reaction on. Yeah, I'm happy that it just
• 1:43:07
  sort of does it now, yeah. Undead Endurance.
• 1:43:10
  You don't gain exhaustion levels from dehydration, malnutrition,
• 1:43:13
  or suffocation in the distance. You don't need to sleep, and
• 1:43:16
  magic can't put you to sleep. Level 10 that that one's
• 1:43:20
  unchanged. Level 10 you get Necrotic Husk.
• 1:43:23
  You have resistance to necrotic damage while using your form of
• 1:43:26
  dread. You have immunity necrotic
• 1:43:28
  damage, which is cool. Shame necrotic doesn't come up
• 1:43:31
  that much. Unholy resuscitation.
• 1:43:36
  When you drop TO0HP and don't die outright, you cause your
• 1:43:39
  body to erupt with deathly energy.
• 1:43:42
  Each creature of your choice in a 30 foot emanation originating
• 1:43:45
  from you makes a Con save against your spell save DC,
• 1:43:48
  taking a chronic damage equal to 2D10 plus your warlock level on
• 1:43:51
  a failed save or half on a success.
• 1:43:53
  Your hip points then change to 10 times your charisma mod and
• 1:43:56
  you gain 1 level of exhaustion. Once you use this benefit, you
• 1:44:01
  can't use again until you finish a long wrist.
• 1:44:06
  Yeah, basically you die. You explode when you die is the
• 1:44:09
  crux of that one. That's that was the same as
• 1:44:13
  before. I think the only thing that
• 1:44:15
  changed is you get more HP back when you pop up now.
• 1:44:20
  Yes. And then at level 14 you get
• 1:44:24
  superior dread. What was their old level 14
• 1:44:26
  ability? Actually no, I'm checking you
• 1:44:28
  got spirit protection. So the old one.
• 1:44:34
  As an action, you can project your spirit from your body.
• 1:44:38
  The body you leave behind is unconscious in the state of
• 1:44:40
  spending animation. Your spirit resembles your
• 1:44:42
  mortal form, replicating game stats but not possessions, any
• 1:44:45
  damage or other effects, yada yada.
• 1:44:48
  Your spirit can remain outside your body for an hour or until
• 1:44:52
  your concentration's broken. With the projection ends, your
• 1:44:55
  spirit returns to your body, blah blah blah.
• 1:44:57
  While projecting, your spirit and body gain resistance to
• 1:45:01
  pledging, piercing, slashing. When you cast the spell
• 1:45:03
  Conjuration, Necromancy School. The spell does require verbal
• 1:45:06
  somatic components. You have a flying speed, you can
• 1:45:08
  clear walking speed and can hover.
• 1:45:10
  You can move through creatures like a ghost.
• 1:45:11
  Otherwise, you take the forest damage thingy if you stop.
• 1:45:15
  You take the forest damage thing if you stop in the same space as
• 1:45:17
  something else while using your former dread once during each of
• 1:45:21
  your turns. When you deal with a chronic
• 1:45:22
  damage to a creature, you regain hit points equal to half the
• 1:45:24
  amount of your chronic damage step.
• 1:45:28
  Yeah, that was kind of a weird one, huh?
• 1:45:30
  A bit. Yeah, so now the new one, Level
• 1:45:34
  14 is superior Dread. You have a flying speed equal to
• 1:45:37
  your movement speed, and you can hover.
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  Cool. When you cast a warlock spell
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  from conjuration or necromancy school school, you can cast it
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  without verbal, somatic, or material components, except for
• 1:45:46
  the material components that are consumed by a spell and vitality
• 1:45:50
  siphon. Once per turn, when you deal
• 1:45:51
  with a chronic damage to a creature, you regain hit points
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  equal to your Charisma affair. So basically they took the
• 1:45:58
  Spirit Projection 1 and just made it a little less clunky and
• 1:46:00
  a little more straightforward. They upgraded your form of
• 1:46:07
  dread, which is which makes sense because the form of dread
• 1:46:10
  is kind of your main thing. That's the last subclass.
• 1:46:17
  Yeah. It seems like unjed patron, I
• 1:46:18
  mean, undead undead patron Warlock was already pretty
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  solid, so it didn't need a ton of love.
• 1:46:23
  So a little extra love to just spruce it up a little, I'm fine
• 1:46:25
  with. This is kind of what I expected
• 1:46:27
  from Grave Domain. This is the updating that I
• 1:46:31
  thought we were going to get. That's fair.
• 1:46:33
  It is not. What we got?
• 1:46:35
  Instead we got that bitch spruced up spicy grave domain.
• 1:46:40
  We threw some spinning rims on that bitch.
• 1:46:41
  I don't know what you mean. Spruce stuff.
• 1:46:43
  She. She.
• 1:46:44
  She's glowing. She got the underglow, she got
• 1:46:47
  the LEDs and the spinning rims and the exhaust fucking pipe and
• 1:46:50
  the fucking, the, the, the, the tail fin thing.
• 1:46:53
  What's that shit's called? You know, Spoiler, spoiler.
• 1:46:57
  She got all that shit. Yeah, that's the, that's the
• 1:47:02
  subclasses we got so far. I'm curious to see what book
• 1:47:05
  these are going to potentially show up in.
• 1:47:08
  And I'm I'm basically happy with all of them.
• 1:47:14
  The only one I'm a little iffy on is Hexblade Warlock probably
• 1:47:17
  I would say. Yeah, I mean, I got no problems
• 1:47:20
  with them. They're not any worse, and the
• 1:47:22
  Ranger 1 is better than any of the other ones, so yeah, fuck
• 1:47:26
  it. Fair.
• 1:47:27
  I mean I could see an argument for maybe the hex blade one
• 1:47:30
  being worse quote UN quote in some way.
• 1:47:35
  Yeah, but. Not not really, but I could kind
• 1:47:39
  of see someone saying that, yeah, like, but like what?
• 1:47:50
  Oh, I was going to say, but a lot of its utility got sent into
• 1:47:53
  packs of the blades. So you're just going to get it
• 1:47:55
  and more so it's going to be better than it was before.
• 1:48:00
  And most people are. I know they're they're trying to
• 1:48:02
  have you branch out to do like packs of the chain hex blade.
• 1:48:06
  Let's be honest with ourselves, probably not going to happen as
• 1:48:09
  much as they want it to. Probably not going to happen.
• 1:48:13
  True, though. Yeah.
• 1:48:14
  And they did rework a lot of the other invocations too, so yeah,
• 1:48:17
  yeah. So yeah, I don't know.
• 1:48:20
  I don't know. I'm, I'm mostly interested to
• 1:48:22
  just the main thing I'm intrigued by is what book are
• 1:48:25
  these going to show up in? That's that's my big thing.
• 1:48:28
  I'm sure it will not, I'm not even going to speculate what the
• 1:48:33
  book could be because I'll start speculating and then I'll get
• 1:48:36
  myself excited and then disappointed when it's not as
• 1:48:39
  cool as I thought it could be. And then, you know, the usual
• 1:48:42
  cycle I have with five ebooks. So I'm just going to not do
• 1:48:46
  that. Understandable.
• 1:48:49
  Yeah, I mean, you know, it is nothing.
• 1:48:56
  Nothing. Nothing ground breaking, but
• 1:48:58
  nothing bad. Mission accomplished, I suppose,
• 1:49:02
  Wizards, you're doing the thing. And the thing, I don't know.
• 1:49:04
  Well, this stuff's happening. All right Wizards, I need you to
• 1:49:07
  remake all the all the Rangers to be as cool as this one is
• 1:49:09
  that. 'D be nice.
• 1:49:11
  Also, can we get the rest? Can we get the rest rest of the
• 1:49:15
  wizard subclasses please? Yeah, appreciate those two that.
• 1:49:18
  'D be nice. Anyway, that's been us.
• 1:49:24
  If you were entertained in any way, shape or form, you can give
• 1:49:28
  us a follow on the social medias which are in the description.
• 1:49:32
  Yeah. Goodbye forever.
• 1:49:36
  Or, as Geece Howard would say, die forever.
• 1:49:40
  Did it again, he did. This bit did it again.
• 1:49:42
  Two weeks in a row. I've been playing a lot of Fatal
• 1:49:45
  Fury. It's on the mind.
• 1:49:50
  Oh my goodness, we will have we'll have more planning in next
• 1:49:55
  week's episode, I promise. Nothing.
• 1:49:58
  OK, well, never mind then. Peace.
• 1:50:02
  For the fuck yes.