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I'm making a Fairy Barbarian 🤣

I would go as far as spore druids having secret ability to always get plant growth from mushroom spores. Grow smushy stinky cave mushrooms.

Sooo battle smith with trinkets on an ape doesnt sound workable? Really? Plus you can still use the battlebot with its reaction. Ape with stick that returns after he throws it, discovers boomerang and gives to monkey to play with.

Flying earth elemental is immune to fall damage isnt it... Oh boy

My party turned him into a rat and took him to the land and beat the shit of it! 😂😂

It is that smart, leave it and deal with it

So much company speech that makes me buy those books less. "30 new spells" which means "30 spells that are new in the players handbook". Why not just say "And we also selected the best spells from other books and added them on top"? Why hug the line to deception as close as possible to make it sound more than it is? It really makes their claim that everything is backwards compatible less sincere..

Poor Norse myth Kraken, overshadowed by its baby Hollywood Greek myth cousin

MISTER YOU ARE WRONG!!!! KRAKEN HAVE ARMS!!! ARMS FOR PITY SAKE not tentacles. Tentacles are in some anime genre

Damn talking about a major overhaul. Wouldn't want to meet that thing in the water, (yes, I wanna fight it).

i never realized how good is that 8:38 minute, so so good

I really like that redesign. The only thing I dont agree with is the fireball rule. If you hit more tentacles you should be able to hurt it more but thats just my opinion.

"This creature needs no minions" Yeah, because it comes with a bunch of minions that are effectively immune to CC and AoE attacks. Me personally? I'd feel like shit if I had a weakened tentacle lined up for the kill on my initiative, and then the kraken sac'd it for a save.

2.3k??

Yes. I agree with all your points. And yet I still think you are underselling Animate Objects. It's also a great utility spell. And so much more.

So True Polymorph and Shapechange are basically the same spell now, and it sounds like neither will be worth the 9th lvl slot. Guess it will be Meteor Swarm and Wish in 5e Renerfed... Unless they trashed those spells also.

Aren't DnD 5.5e weapons expertises just very similar to what can be found in the Alcander's Almanac, or in the Pathfinder 2.0 system?

Between this and the troll video, I am convinced a treantmonk monster book would be 400 pages of death

I am hoping that Druids keep Maelstrom and Tsunami.

I like the stat block! Taking cues from mcdm monsters and mythic Odyssey monsters is appropriate and really cool. Reading the stats i would not assume tentacles are immune to aoe, can you write that in there somewhere?

I feel like the 5e kraken was designed to be used as a plot device to strand low level parties at sea rather than as an actual enemy

1k???

I love this redesign to make the kraken a truly terrifying monster! I'd love to see more homebrew monster adjustments on this channel (cough cough terrasque). One small suggestion: "objects of magical force" is a vague term that some DMs might misinterpret as meaning all magic items are destroyed. If the intention is to eliminate wall of force, just say the ability specifically destroys a wall of force, similar to the text of the Disintegrate spell.

I really doubt that the designers at D$D can deliver this level of mayhem with the new DMG

What would you like to have seen as the Savant feature? I don't know where to ask these questions, but I am betting if you don't know you will know how I can find out. Chris, do you know if the books will be available as a bundle after the last book is released? I want access to both the book and the pdfs, but I have not seen any information on how the bundle works. Will it be offered later (after the books are released?), will the price change, will my books ship separately costing me an arm and a leg (ship as they are released?), will they not ship until the last book is released (making me not have any book until sometime in 2025?), are the pdf's able to be downloaded or are they just linked to d&d beyond, and can I add other books to my order? Here is to hoping you can help me out/point me in the right direction. Do they actually have a good dm guide that teaches new dm's how to build adventures, create hooks for characters, create traps/puzzles/social encounters? I have yet to find a good book with great examples, been looking for years. Do you have a recommendation? Love your videos, keep up the great work!

I'm going to use this on my 4th level party as an example of what is out there. ;)

Treantmonk turns a guppy into a shark. Well done.

This is fantastic, I'm currently running a greek themed campaign. Players will only be hitting level 5 next session, but this is going in my future monsters folder

its gonna depend on the subclass tweaks. it did better but not quite perfect. I wanna see if Long death, Mercy, or Drunken master come back. The Alert change looks awesome if bugbear isnt changed much... hmm. Which sounds worse.. a drunken bugbear, a bugbear doctor with a bad temper, or a bugbear that just wont friggin die? Geez they nerf'd lucky feat hard huh? no use after roll and no saving throw advantage now... eesh. still gonna get it, prob be my fav background.

I love the solution to the necessary evil of legendary resistance. Such an unfun mechanic that I feel bad for using (and also for not using) as a dm. Great fix that empowers players while still ensuring the fight goes on!

I think the concept behind the original fling action makes a fair bit of sense if it's broken down properly. It's not that you accelerate by going farther; It's that in order to go that far, you need to have been flung faster to begin with. A ball that travels 100 yards when thrown at a 45 degree angle is moving *much* faster when thrown than a ball that only travels 25 yards. Of course, this would make it so that there would be no reason not to fling something as far as you possibly can as a DM; More damage, and maybe an extra turn for them to make their way back to the fight, so adding the random element for fling location makes some sense. The damage roll is more or less the distance roll with extra steps, and I don't particularly like how clumsy it is to actually do all the stuff. I prefer your way, where damage isn't a thing so the DM can just think about the tactical choices behind where to fling.

You should 100% run this with Colby form D4 and the Dungeon Dudes as a one shot

good for chapter 7 of vecna even of ruin

2+ years later, I can't wait for the new power rankings with 2024 PHB!

You should really make a monster book Treant Monk. You know what you're doing. Maybe for DC20? 😁👍

Really like these changes. Great job!

Well done. 👏

Unrelated to the video question: Are the preorder bonuses for the digital/physical bundle only available to those that live in the USA? I live in Canada

Great job, Chris!

It's not about being "sped up, the further you're thrown", the idea is needing more room to accelerate a creature. If you only threw it 10 feet, you didn't have 60 feet worth of momentum. It's still a weird idosyncracy because if anything, we should assume that you take more damage, the more you subtract from the thrown distance; because falling has its own rules, and otherwise, friction and sliding against the ground and the like can apply, which cushion a throw. 5e only really has "move up to X distance", and not any mechanics for INTENDING to move up to X, but only moving Y due to a wall, and then taking damage based on X - Y when you collide. Having that kind of mechanic would also make it tactically interesting, as the Kraken either throws a creature way out of range of being effective, or it deals way more damage.

nice creative work with the tentacles!

Having legendary/epic resistances be tied to a consumable resource that can be independently targeted makes so much sense, that's good design. My immediate thought for another monster that can easily adopt that is the Vampire, who can use Vampire Spawn in pretty much an identical way.

Anything but a monstrous alien squid doesn't do the Kraken justice. MM, Theros and that weird psionic sea serpent all have inappropriate artwork. Garganguan Squid monster FTW!

Funny but it seems that every other change to Paladin is to obscure how badly they got nerfed now that their bonus action is gone. Also, love how they somehow interpreted the update to “smiting more”. 😂

So if Cleric didn’t get severely nerfed like this, they are now better melee than Paladin 😂

I always like your videos but this one was exceptional. Instead of analyzing others’ designs, you flexed your muscles and intimidated the heck out of players everywhere.

this seems like a great final boss for a paragon tier campaign.

Soooo sweeeet work! 🎉

I really do wish they’d just templated wild shape.

AC of 26 is too high against the average character. Some might not have a +4 form stats+items. I believe it should be 22 - 24 AC. Remember, aspects of Tiamat and Bahamut only have 25 AC.