swarmkeeper: WHATS THIS, A SUBSTANTIAL LACK OF BEES, LUCKILY MY BEES CAN HELP! i will force this meme into the ground

Give in to your desires, go full weeb: be a Swarmkeeper with a swarm of cherry blossom petals.

totally off topic but i think it’s so adorable that XP to Level 3 is one of davvy’s patrons, kings lift up other kings

Swarmkeeper can turn any enemy into Nicolas Cage. "ARRGGH! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES!"

me when he started talking about the astral form monk: "where's Jojo's reference? where's Jojo's? where's Jojo's reference? whe.... Oh, there it is"

Swarmkeeper: "You get little fey creatures that swarm around you" Me: "So I can have a swarm of cats is what you are saying?"

My favorite thing about astral self isn't just what Astral self does, but the flavor text about it in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. "Note to self: create a spell that lets you throat-punch people with your ghost- Tasha"

Rune knight: for when you want to play a barbarian that has his shit together

Should I make it known that velociraptors are statted as tiny creatures..... A swarmkeeper ranger could have velociraptors as a swarm

In a new home brew pirates campaign where one of the party members swarm is just a giant flock of seagulls that follows the ship. She’s named all 100 of them and my favorite is Gulldolf the Gull

now i want to make a gnome fighter who just becomes normal height for their giant form

"Technically your swarm doesn't have to be bees." I can't help but disagree here.

Davvy Loses His Fucking Mind: Attack Of the ‘Coast.

Quick note. Fey Wanderer is the first and basically only ranger that really uses Wisdom heavily. This, combined with the Druidic Fighting style for Shillelagh, allows for a Wisdom Single Attribute Build Ranger that can make a lot stronger use of Spellcasting than Rangers normally are capable of.

Good idea, become a swam keeper ranger who's just a babysitter

" I implore you, please throw more bees at people!"

I've seen the ranger's Favoured Foe ability interpreted as that: though you are concentrating, you're not concentrating on a spell, meaning that you may still concentrate on a spell on top of Favored Foe. I'd allow that in any of my games, it's a really fair interpretation of the rule that gives ranger some strength they really need.

I remember on the DNDMemes reddit, someone pointed out that the swarmkeeper used to say Tiny Beasts and showed that velociraptors were tiny beasts (Thank you Volo's). _I can now only think of what a swarm of velociraptors allowing small flight capabilities looks like._

One of my Players is playing a swarmkeeper warforged but they’re really just a mecha piloted by pixies

Wait- so technically I can play a Hobgoblin Swarmkeeper Ranger, and my swarm could be just a group of Goblins?

They were honesrly SO CLOSE with the Ranger, but fell flat right at the finish line. Favored foe requires concentration, which is just a f*cking slap in the face, and completely defeated the purpose of why we wanted it. The rest wasn't bad changes, but they took away from the actual flavor of the Ranger & just gave it a bunch of mechanical stuff & spells. Imo, as a recommendation DM's. Let your Ranger's ignore difficult terrain once they get the Roving feature from deft explorer, and use the revised Ranger's version of Favored Enemy. That imo is when they got it right, and I've played 3 sessions so far with it working out great.

Love that you’re doing multiple different videos so you can focus on each subclass instead of one long video rushing through them

Swarm keeper just made me realize the one downside of being a swarmkeeper: the chance of you being unlucky enough to have a swarm of snails who take too long to get to you

Tasha's REALLY loves the Battle Master We even got new Battle Maneuvers for the Battle Master

Rune Knight is pretty fun, after having played one for a little while. I get to have the skill power of a Bard and Rogue through the power of advantage and can just pick up enemies. Our wizard casted Enlarge on my Goliath Rune Knight after he already grew Large, so with Powerful build and becoming Huge, I got to wrestle the Adult Red Dragon our party was stealing from while they ran away

Astral Monk seems like its made for a Githzerai, given their lore.

WotC releases new Ranger features, still requiring concentration to deal more damage Community: "Missed it by that much"

H O W D Y H O W S I T G O I N G ?

Fun Fact for Swarmkeeper Rangers: Velociraptors are Tiny Beasts. Use this information for what you will.

Thrown weapon fighting: twisted tea. God i love that. Im dying laughing

My swarmkeeper is a Hobgoblin that carries a bunch of goblins in his backpack, calling them a mercenary company with him as the leader.

Swarmkeeper warforged who's swarm is nano bots.

0:09 "Tasha's Guide to Everything" That's fair

Step 1. Be a kobold or other “small” race. Step 2. Take 3 levels in rune knight and 3 in sorc/wizard Step 3. Inform people that they wouldn’t like you when angry. Step 4. Pop both enlarge and giants might on yourself. Go from small to huge in one combat round.

Astral self a.k.a "Oh, you're approaching me, instead of running away you're coming right to me?"

what if... Just to make davvy angery like a barbarian.... *The example swarmkeeper swarm of pixies.*

I’m playing a drow psi warrior with a Russian accent, and let me just say it is SUPER fun, both to roleplay and in combat. I used to think fighters were boring, then I learned the true power of the drow side.

The swarm of angry toddlers bit was hilarious

no views, yet it has thumbs up a youtube classic

Swarm keeper ranger that is just a child who fed some crows and got adopted by the murder (collective name for group of crows).

Hmph...I kind of want to revisit the “Hunter” Ranger with these new features. “Fey Wanderer” seems tailor-made for eladrin...stacking Wisdom & Charisma gives them VERY good social play. Plus...a free teleport on top of your free teleports.

I feel like swarmkeeper ranger would make a great BBEG. You could use so much cockroach imagery, or some other hideous bug, and if the party ever traps him he gets swarmed by his bugs and disappears, plus so much more

Now we’re getting to the good shit! The changes to ranger, fighter, and monk are fantastic

Last time I came this early I left someone _veeery_ disappointed

7:19 glitch rose has secrets to tell

My swarm keeper was a first born child given to the fae as payment, their swarm are glowing butterflies that are the manifestation of their soul under the effects of the contract

The fact that davvy never played a monk is A U D I B L E

The UA for Favored Foe actually works the way you homebrewed, except it flat out gave you Hunters Mark, without needing concentration. Why did they feel the need to nerf it?

Battlemaster should have never been a subclass, it should've been incorporated into the default fighter. Change my mind.

The first thing I thought of when I read the Swarmkeeper was someone like Mysterio who uses robotic drones. Maybe add some extra wizard to add the illusions.

10:29 - The GM of that group: "Well at least your character feels what I feel."

2 things, chicken swarmmaster And also you’re so off on astral self monk, high levels it’s so good

"Finally, I get to hear about my favorite new subclass, I wonder what this dude thinks about it." *Watches video sad fey wanderer noises

Of all the classes I thought would get a plague doctor subclass, I didn’t think it’d be the monk

I really feel the swarmkeeper theme fits the druid much more than the ranger.

The point of the mercy monk was the mercy of healing or the mercy of a swift death

In a d&d podcast, one character who took level in Ranger and is a swarm keeper used pixies as his swarm. He is also a chef, so all the pixies are named after a spice. They all swarm around and help him cook. In a game breaking moment, he tried to use one of the pixies to send a message even though he doesn't have the message cantrip. The DM had him roll persuasion, and he failed. The pixie confidently saluted like it understood, flew off, and instead of delivering the message just shrugged to say "I don't know what I was supposed to tell you."

Now I can finally be the rat lord

The battlemaster/psi knight maneuvers should have been what all fighter subclasses should have their own flavor of. I will happily die on this hill.

I think quite possibly my favourite swarm keeper creature was one of my friends who (because they’re technically tiny beasts) chose badgers. It was adorable. And deadly.

Will add as just a point: Foe's can still be used in conjunction with 'on hit' spells like Hail of Thorns or lightning arrow by casting the spell first and the marking your target once you hit. So that's 'something'. Not Ideal, but something that you can use your 'instant damage' concentration spells where before it was just hunter's mark or bust.

Favored foe is nice for a few reasons, even if it is concentration based. Reason 1- level 1 rangers don’t have anything to concentrate on. This really helps your ranger help the party make it past level 1. Reason 2- low level rangers don’t have a lot of spells slots to use. Level 2-3 ranger only has 2 spell slots, and a level 4 ranger has 3 slots. this helps them stay effective at those levels. Reason 3- it doesn’t entirely interfere with rangers that choose to use their bonus action. Can be used with two weapon fighting without giving up that initial turn. at level 5 when extra attack is available it can be used to activate on the same turn as another concentration spell being “used up”. Example: ranger uses bonus action to cast hail of thorns and is concentrating. Ranger uses attack action, hits a creature with first shot, hail of thorns goes off. Second shot lands too, you can now activate favored foe.

You know until TCoE, I would never have legitimately considered an intentionally edgy character until they made the Mercy Monk. Just saying there is the Angel of Death character in almost every crime show. I would model mine after the one hospice care guy from Smallville

I found a homebrewed sharkfolk race, and now I have a sharkfolk swarmkeeper with a swarm of tiny winged sharks flitting about.

I couldnt agree more about favored foe that was so heart breaking to read when I got the book

Thrown Weapon Fighting and then shows a picture of Twisted Tea lol. Priceless.

*swarm ranger sees there are only some bees* My briefcase full of bees should help this! Enemy: oh no, the situation has only gotten worse with the introduction of yet more bees!

Ah yes. Official revised ranger

Well now I just HAVE to go swarmkeeper, I never thought I'd say "Hey, I wanna play a ranger" from watching a Davvy Chappy video.

Ranger is good now, it's okay guys

Glad that they fixed Ranger.

My swarm keeper will have pigeons as their swarm, to become the ultimate urban hermit

The Mercy Monk sounds a lot like 5e's version of the Shadow Sun Ninja, which is one of my favorite prestige classes from 3.5. Dope. In my personal dnd world, there is an entire monastic tradition focused around them and even a quasi-deity called the Aspect of Balance.

I always read that favored foe is mantained "as if you were concentrating" but it itself does not need concentration, meaning it does not take the slot, just drops when your concentration would drop (like wizard's conjuration ability)

My favorite swarmkeeper concept so far I saw was the Oxventurer's where he's a wannabe vampire and his swarm of bats are what let's him fulfil his dream as close as he can get without actual vampirism

The Way of The Mercy Monk sounds like I could play with my WWE Feind gloves on. Hurt! Heal!

5:20 "you still need dexterity for armor class..." yes, but now it gives a greater incentive to have wisdom because it also boosts a monk's AC *AND* your damage with Astral self. I was confused with my first monk, but Astral monk would be great for a beginner. Picking first wisdom, then dexterity and then constitution would make them especially tanky and strong.

Astral monk is basically just stand powers, and I'm here for it.

Swarmkeeper was so fun to build! I was a Tabaxi ranger who's swarm was his fleas haha

Gosh, I was starting to miss that voice! I hope you found the love for your work, and if you want to do a 360° and change all your content, I'll give you all my support!

*Goblins, Orcs, and Gnolls laughing* Ranger: Call me Useless again! I Dare you! *I DOUBLE DARE YA!!* **Whips out a Twisted Tea** 7:23

Here is a cool concept: Lawful Good Yuan-Ti Swarmkeeper Ranger Path of the Beast Barbarian. You could be a slightly snakelike person, with the ability to become a much snakier person, and the ability to command a swarm of snakes, all while still being a good guy.

For swarm keeper candidates can be termites or paper wasps. They can let you build and mold terrain. Or you can pick my favorites the warrior wasp. A kobolt blue stingy boi that hurts like a truck but also can beat their wings in unison and sound like a Marching army. Now imagine a guy in blue armor with a short spear and sheilf doing some war dance while the trees are make a terrorizing sounds. That's the fear of the swarm

That slow zoom into the hill giants lower stomach made me somewhat uncomfortable

Concept, a swarmkeeper of a race with fur and the swarm are just their fleas. And that ranger WILL refuse to bathe.

Thrown weapon fighting style gets an image of twisted tea. I was dying laughing when I saw that

My sexuality: Kalm Davvy: Shows the thumbnail from the theros video with that Satyr again My sexuality: Panik

Zero dislikes: as it should be

With the Fey Wanderer Ranger subclass, you can get a +16 bonus to Dispel Magic and Counterspell or +22 in a more specific set of circumstances. 3 levels in Fey Wanderer Ranger, 11 levels in Abjuration Wizard, and 6 Levels in Sorcerer. With this, You may cast Dispel Magic and Counterspell as a Sorcerer and use Charisma as the spellcasting ability, add your Wisdom bonus to the check and your proficiency bonus to the spellcasting ability check. If you want the +22 bonus for in case you need to cancel a minimum level 13 spell (or maximum level 32 spell), you need to take the Draconic ancestor sorcerer and cast it at a dragon, as you can double your proficiency bonus on that check.

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Swarm keeper - Cats, be the crazy cat person you were meant to be

The idea of using toddlers as human shields has got me in stitches.

To homebrew Favored Foe I'd do this. Take the UA version, lock the number of uses to proficiency (Tasha's likes to do this so why not) and then make it so that it still uses Concentration until you hit level 5. This will dissuade folks from just taking a lvl 1 dip and running with it since it still has Concentration.

I had a neat little idea for a Mercy Monk: You punch death and that's how you deal damage and heal. By punching death out of them, you heal um up and by punching death into them, you do damage. This character has no real idea of how to heal, they just straight punch the pain and injury out of them.

Davvy knows so much because he got face-moulded into Baldurs Gate 3 as a saucy half elf male

I hope Davvy will talk about Cyberpunk Red.

I had a swarmkeeper in my game that used a hoard of whispey weeds as his swarm, the small trees from Kirby.

Jesus Chappy... Why do you have to hurt me in this way. My withering chest/stomach muscles got a rave of a workout from these videos.

I had my swarm ranger use rat swarms because the DM had us roll for random traits and I rolled being a wererat. It was a very fun character to play as especially since I got a lot of nifty bonuses for being a wererat.

Favored enemy is easy to fix, broader category of enemies covered and add either a plus to hit or a plus to damage equal to your level or pro bonus... done Favorite terrain... broader areas and active the moment you are in said area instead of after 1 hour... done The two most situational features are now actually far more useful