The Psi Knife - D&D: Optimized #73

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For our D&D 5e character build this week we are combining two cool character concepts: build the "Ultimate Psionic" while focusing on Thrown Weapons. Time to use the Force.
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In our first ever build optimized for support/healing, we dive into the Lore Bard and wind up with a character that buffs, debuffs, controls, heals, inspires, leads, sings, and dances. This one does it all (except damage, which is totally overrated). Come check out the Lore Bard and be the companion that every team of adventurers wishes would pick them!
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Character Concept:(0:00)
Level 1:(5:10)
Levels 2-3:(15:09)
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Levels 3-6:(20:27)
Levels 7-9:(37:59)
Levels 10-13:(46:38)
Levels 14-17:(53:28)
Final Thoughts:(57:23)
Outtakes:(1:01:22)
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@Spendleton 2 жыл бұрын

"if you enjoy creating characters more than you do playing, welcome home." **opens spreadsheet of characters i've never played** **single tear** I'm.. home...

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Yay!

@Spendleton 2 жыл бұрын

My DM has made my year though. We're doing an ALL-FOR-ONE. Everyone creates same class. Played for a few sessions. We all create another class. Alternate sessions. All create a third. Rotate sessions. All stories are converging. All classes are level synced. DM cranks encounter difficulty up really pushing the limits. Surviving (or new) characters are chosen for the epic end game 15-20. We're currently levels 9, second class.

@Anton_Jermakoŭ 2 жыл бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive me, who started dming only to put my party against my optimised builds: *muahahahaha*

@deez4free 2 жыл бұрын

Excel...lets play line 237...character is...hmmm...half-orc archeologist duskblade. Thank God for Solo mods and conversion guides.

@samuelbroad11 2 жыл бұрын

@@Spendleton now that sounds like a great meta romp!

@nessesaryschoolthing 2 жыл бұрын

Colby being viciously assaulted by his own family for suggesting a use for Silvery Barbs has got to be the cutest thing I've seen this year so far

@HSuper_Lee 2 жыл бұрын

I mean if the implication there is that silvery bard banners are an adorable swarm, well I've been called much worse, so I can accept that.

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

@keithulhu 2 жыл бұрын

True dat

@HSuper_Lee 2 жыл бұрын

I discovered this channel only about a month ago, and now I'm here less than 10 minutes after a new video drops. I like to think that speaks for the quality of these videos.

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha! Thanks and welcome :)

@muriomoira 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the family!

@kajetanmazurkiewicz5459 2 жыл бұрын

As Colby says: "Welcome home!" 😊

@randypawlikowski5127 2 жыл бұрын

The same thing happened to me! I found this channel and within a couple of weeks I had watched 70+ build videos as well as 25+ episodes of their campaign... I might have a problem but its a problem I enjoy!

@Lucky_Luke486 2 жыл бұрын

Completely agreed, kind of the same

@zeik101 2 жыл бұрын

Pro tip: you can action surge to ready an attack at lower levels, then use that attack on a later turn to get sneak attack again

@BLynn 2 жыл бұрын

Level 1:(see above) [rogue 1 & race] Level 2:(see above) [rogue 2] Level 3:(@15:22) [rogue 3 & subclass] Level 4:(@28:00) [fighter 1 & fighting-style] Level 5:(@28:41) [fighter 2] Level 6:(@29:20) [fighter 3 & subclass] Level 7:(see above) [fighter 4 & ASI] Level 8:(@38:12) [fighter 5] Level 9:(@39:30) [wizard 1] Level 10:(see above) [wizard 2 & subclass] Level 11:(@50:11) [rogue 4 & ASI] Level 12:(@50:35) [fighter 6 & ASI] Level 13:(@52:14) [rogue 5] Level 14:(see above) [rogue 6] Level 15:(@53:42) [rogue 7] Level 16:(@54:07) [rogue 8 & ASI] Level 17:(@54:32) [rogue 9]

@paralysekid 2 жыл бұрын

I wish he would provide some visual overview of the end result like this, so we could see how many levels of each class a build contains. Rather than having them loosely placed throughout the video.

@frosty5047 Жыл бұрын

@@paralysekid 7 mo late but for 2 dollars a month you got written stuff

@jasonmarbach 5 ай бұрын

king behavior

@VestigialLung 2 жыл бұрын

The rogue in the game I'm running took this focus, and I'll second how awesome the communication angle is. A few sessions back, the party were infiltrating the hideout of a baddie, and she was scouting ahead. She found the villain's inner sanctum, found the hostage, and "radio'd" back to the party what she'd found. She proceeded to spend another psi die to change up who she was talking to to loop in the hostage, told her that she was there to rescue her, to stay quiet when she arrived, snuck in, and extracted the hostage, while the rest of the party stormed the front to create a distraction. That's the sort of power that doesn't ping on people's power charts but was essential to solving that problem.

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@TheRobversion1 2 жыл бұрын

these sorts of situations were also the reason i took the less praised telepathic feat for some of my builds over the usual telekinetic/feytouched/shadow touched/resilient/skill expert half-feats for caster types to round out my odd abiity score.

@TheDisplacerBeast 4 ай бұрын

Its always fun to remember that, RAW, you can add your prof bonus to the soulknife second attack as it does not count as an off hand attack.

@Waywardpaladin 2 жыл бұрын

Best part about the psychic blades is they leave no marks and wounds. So you can kill someone with invisible blades and then they just look like they had a heart attack.

@pauljinkerson6359 2 жыл бұрын

When you said “ it’s like Gambit” I was sold. Flinging laser daggers at people while force pushing objects at the same time and bamphfing from one spot to the other ….amazing. It’s like night crawler and gambit became Jedi. So cool

@Scrumps0 2 жыл бұрын

That line "if you enjoy creating characters for d&d almost as much as you enjoy playing the game itself... welcome home." That got me. Subscribed immediately

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Yay! Welcome!

@jagondal8378 2 жыл бұрын

Me at the start: He's going Elven Accuracy, isn't he? Also me: *surprised Pikachu face* Psi Warrior is definitely Jedi. The only thing I think of with "Psi-Powered Leap" is the reactor fight from Star Wars ep 1. Totally Force jumping. Merch? Dice for the dice goblins! Character sheets for the Character Throne!

@GreyGramarye 2 жыл бұрын

When you mentioned wanting a higher level damage bump on psychic blades, I realized - apart from ruling that you can attack with psychic blades whenever you would make a weapon attack (rather than requiring the full Attack action), if they just did damage equal to your psionic energy die it would fix nearly all the issues people have with this feature. Sure you don’t get a hit bonus, but as a pure rogue you’re doing 1d12 with these things, that’s not something rogues get to do often.

@WRCannon 2 жыл бұрын

I just realized the other day I could combine Dueling and Thrown Weapon Fighting. Great minds!

@Sparksy 10 ай бұрын

how so?

@shadow-faye 8 ай бұрын

@@Sparksythrown weapons are usually melee and youre only holding one at a time

@Mrryn 7 ай бұрын

@@shadow-fayeExactly. Dueling FS just says you have to be wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no weapon in the other hand...nothing about needing to make a melee attack with that weapon to get the +2 to damage. And all weapons that are throwable (except for one...) are melee weapons despite making ranged attacks; Thrown is just a property of weapons, not a class like melee or ranged. As for the exception...it's funny because a similar thing works with the Dart, the one thrown weapon that is a ranged weapon. Dueling doesn't work because it's not melee, but you know what does? Archery. So with a similar setup, you can have a Bullseye-esque character who, instead of a +4 to damage the melee thrown weapon example gets, you get a +2 both to hit and to damage instead.

@guyfawkes8873 2 жыл бұрын

Always nice to see a great use of something not Custom Lineage x) also your kids seem quite heavily optimized... You got thrashed in that encounter man.

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

They are ruthless.

@insertphrasehere15 2 жыл бұрын

28:50 If you don't mind giving up your reaction for the turn, action surge does let you get two sneak attacks in: Use the second attack action to hold action to throw a dagger (by RAW this has to be a real dagger I think, as the psychic blades feature is poorly written), then throw the dagger any time before your next turn. Only really relevant from levels 5-7 though, after extra attack it becomes not worth it.

@exqueue3813 2 жыл бұрын

You're probably better off usimg something like Sentinel to trigger your reaction to get a 2nd sneak attack off since it's repeatable from round to round.

@insertphrasehere15 2 жыл бұрын

@@exqueue3813 No room in this build for the sentinel feat though. Feats aren't free. In most rogue builds I would agree with you though.

@GaryBoyles342 2 жыл бұрын

I thought one could only do a single sneak attack per turn?

@exqueue3813 2 жыл бұрын

@@GaryBoyles342 once per TURN not per round. You can sneak attack again on an opponent's turn using your reaction if you can trigger it with an opportunity attack, etc.

@mathgeek3_14 2 жыл бұрын

@@exqueue3813 he holds his action to throw the dagger when say the monster moves….thus trigging the characters reaction

@knightcaelum0999 Жыл бұрын

I love the way you blend all the various aspects of being a tabletop roleplay gamer; the concept matters, the build matters, you weigh things fairly considering the pros and cons narratively and mechanically, and consider all the options and going in-depth with each of them to see what's honestly going to work "best" for the character you have in mind. It scratches the particular spot of my mind that sees options as ever branching paths and loves the crunch of optimization and the creative endeavour of working within limitations while still ringing turn with some thematically appropriate & interestingly subversive.

@LuisGLC31 2 жыл бұрын

I was one of the people that requested this kind of a build. So glad to see you actually delivered! :)

@lordro256 2 жыл бұрын

All of the builds I’ve watched so far have been really damn cool, but oh my god this is the build that I have most wanted to play of all of them. The psionic theme just pulls me in, and I’ve been wanting to play a fighter rogue for a long time. Thanks Colby!

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

YW! Glad you enjoyed :)

@tristanwellisch2637 2 жыл бұрын

I discovered this channel only about a week ago but I am in love. This series is so fun and inspires me to make more unique builds like these almost every day. It's a pleasant treat every time. But I gotta tell you that the cherry on top of this whole thing was when I saw you were wearing a Trogdor shirt. I know I can't prove it to you but I also happen to be wearing my Trogdor shirt on the day I'm watching this. That moment when you started singing "Burninating the countryside!!" was the highlight of my day. Thank you.

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha! Yes! Glad you found us :). Welcome!

@bigjimslim 2 жыл бұрын

Rogues are my favorite playstyle in every game that has them. Seeing a new D&D rogue build on this channel is like a Christmas present.

@tomtomlinson2835 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this build, so my cup of tea. One immediate thought though; you could cut the Fighter dip to 3 levels, drop the Wizard entirely and take Ranger levels instead thus gaining spellcasting, an extra fighting style and an extra skill. Gloomstalker sits so well on the Rogue chassis I don't think I could resist. You'd need to roll for stats though and roll well. My last set of numbers would make you swoon; 11, 13. 14. 17, 18, 18. Witnessed by my soon to be DM for his first game. He's not happy whereas I am utterly thrilled. my first time as a player in 5E and I get God tier attributes.

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Would be nice, I just worry that you're just delaying extra attack *forever* :). Still, on this character Extra attack isn't adding as much as it does for other builds, so definitely worth considering.

@gogogusto 2 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for a soul knife build! Been here since the very start of the channel with your hexblade PAMlock build, and it is amazing to see how far this has come. Hope you are doing well, take care!

@ZomgItzKent 2 жыл бұрын

Literally been theorycrafting this class combo for the past 3 months myself (love the psi concept) So glad you made a video about it!

@lucasramey6427 2 жыл бұрын

A fun idea I've had recently would be soulknife rogue multiclassed with echo knight flavored as a psychic projection allowing you to channel psychic power through it, the idea would allow you to be hidden while the projection fights for you if you want to stay safe or would allow you to do some opportunity attack shenanigans by giving an enemy the option of leaving the echo's range and procking an opportunity attack or wasting its attacks on the echo if you decide to go higher levels into echo knight it would allow you to have a great source of scouting without the chance of much danger and it can be in the air in case your 60ft range psychic blades can't reach to get a flying creature

@Galus999 Жыл бұрын

THIS! This was the build that I as looking for. Bravo! Well done!

@Veledan 2 жыл бұрын

I'll always be a diehard Bladesinger advocate, but I've been dying for you to drop this video. I'm so excited! Thanks as always for the amount of time and effort you put into these videos Colby!

@ryanvox7812 Жыл бұрын

I had to pause the video because your family is so precious. Your content makes me smile and helps me relax during some stressful stuff so thank you for being on KZfaq. ❤

@benjeffries2610 2 жыл бұрын

Like a tonic for the nerves. 💕 This is a wonderful way to break the holiday fast. The silvery barb gags was HILARIOUS. Beautiful family

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha thanks!

@Trial88 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh so satisfying. I’m rolling through my second watch of it already. I love the psionics and I love the idea of playing a rogue Jedi. Also!! I think what would be a cool idea that I think you’d get a lot of views for would be a video series where you give us your favorite items for either certain classes or certain character roles. Or adding that as an aside near the end of the videos what your top 3-5 items you’d like for that specific character if you could get them.

@codyrackley2075 2 жыл бұрын

I love this build! First thing that popped into my head was.... "With MIND BULLETS!'

@simonkennedy6116 2 жыл бұрын

This really helps my psi rogue character build. I've had the concept for a while but haven't really nailed the details

@cmccbuilds8229 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man - I have a soul knife build in the works too. Always cool to see how we both handle similar options.

@stephenchisholm3288 2 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year thanks for being a highlight of my week for a while

@bronzedragon18 Жыл бұрын

I'm running a yuan -ti Soulknife Rouge. Karya does massive damage (usually) in combat and is very useful to her party , not to mention a lot of fun to play!

@deez4free 2 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say great game tonight with Chris, Kelly and Monty. Definitely entertaining to watch you guys putting your creations through an adventure so we can see how your tweaks actually work in real game play. Need to make that a regular thing, kudos to all you guys for putting it together. As a follower of all 3 channels and new to DMing, it is greatly appreciated.

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@andrewhowlin 2 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Colby! Another excellent video and fantastic rampaging hoard scenes 😄

@Phiktional 2 жыл бұрын

Every week I watch your builds, and every week I have the urge to immediately go play it. Why am I like this?

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha, you and me both!

@calvincotton1998 2 жыл бұрын

Was just trying to make this work the other day and was struggling! Can't wait for this video

@LunaLunatic1337 2 жыл бұрын

I made a Soul Knife Rogue/Eloquence Bard Changling. You are the ultimate assassin. No blood, no evidence of you ever being there, you can change into your kill or someone who should be present for quick get away, Jack of all trades and no less than a 10 on a roll for Deception and Persuasion. Plus everything else they get from Soul Knife Rouge. It's beautiful. One of my players is going to test it out whoever we start a new game or if her current one dies

@YourBoyNobody530 2 жыл бұрын

So, one thing I love to do on rogue characters is pick up the blooming blade cantrip, and get access to find familiar. The reason for this is that a familiar can give you the help action to get advantage on your attacks allowing you to get sneak attack easily. With booming blade you get extra damage, damage versatility, and crowd control for free with zero draw backs the booming blade spell doesn't even create a massive sound like the knock or thunder wave spell.

@KevinVideo Жыл бұрын

Your description of the PC having daggers all over the body, throwing lots of knives, reminded me of Danny Trejo's character in "Desperado".

@soldier660 2 жыл бұрын

Still one of my favorites channels on youtube, Thank you buddy ^^ !!!

@AdamZollo 2 жыл бұрын

One fun thing about thrown weapon fighting style that I like, is it lets you make an opportunity attack against enemies even if you don’t have a weapon in your hand, since you can pull out the dagger as part of the attack. It’s a cool feature on a rogue who will always love a good opportunity attack for sneak attack.

@antoniomromo 2 жыл бұрын

Loving this. I made a similar build to this previously without the wizard levels. Love the flavor and feel of the build.

@bobbyLNZ 2 жыл бұрын

I have watched this video at least once a day for awhile now. I really love this build idea. Psionics was always a favorite part of the lore. Rogue was my first ever character and this is such a well done combo

@claykalmar8131 2 жыл бұрын

The cool factor is indeed through the roof with this build!

@jacobbrutcher1690 2 жыл бұрын

Another awesome video! you are really feeding my dnd character creation addiction!

@keggotht9323 2 жыл бұрын

This is so weird that over the holidays made a level 15 character that was so similar to this, I had 9 levels of soul knife and 6 of psi warrior. I went with custome liniage and took the gift of the gem dragon feat for some extra telekinetic reaction and story for why the character had psionics. But other than that I did a very similar thing with thrown weapon fighting and dueling from a feat. Missed your videos over the holidays and glad to have you back

@Rillikual 2 жыл бұрын

Been following the channel, on here(Yt), and Spotify for a few months now. This channel has made me aware, as a new TTRPG enthusiast, that I have had an itch not fully realized until finding things/communities that specialize in conceptualizing. Thanks for the quality, wholesome, and we'll thought content. Major thumbs up for integrity of edits, reviewing content, links, and timestamps. I look forward to more content as well as supporting these thought provoking character designs/optimizations.

@Rillikual 2 жыл бұрын

Btw, Really enjoyed Beastmaster V2. Stayed true to the theme while being very viable

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

@liviealamode 2 жыл бұрын

very excited for the build! also congrats on the merch store. i will definitely pick something up from that in the near future

@honorablevalor6337 2 жыл бұрын

Love this concept! Reminds me a bit of a build I sent you back in the beginning. X-Com rocks too!

@SCAR3DY_C4T 9 ай бұрын

Race: Gith Theme: Space Pirate sailing the astral sea. This is more or less one of the very first "martial" characters I started to theory craft over a year ago before I even knew about your channel. I like this idea so much.

@jamesmullen3068 2 жыл бұрын

This is a good opportunity to talk about the utility possibility of action surge. There will be times when you need an extra dash or dodge action in order to get your attacks off, and there will be times when you need to use an object such as a key in a puzzle or a magic item such as cape of the mountebank. A lot of cool combo moves become possible when you don't need action surge for a nova round.

@randomdud668 2 жыл бұрын

I think an interesting solution would be the ability to designate a magic weapon as your soul blade, kind of like the warlocks pact of the blade. I'm not sure how powerful it would be but I think it sounds pretty cool.

@RoninXDarknight Жыл бұрын

This is definitely a conversation to have w/your DM. Personally I'd allow it or else provide custom items that buff the psychic blades to imitate magic weapons.

@Ontaros1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing the Psion build man I really appreciate it. The flexibility here with the Psionic dice is REALLY good and stacking the two fighting styles was a nice touch too cause extra dice can be nice but extra flat damage almost always feels better.

@nicolasaloni4282 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing art by Randall!!

@tehsamuels 2 жыл бұрын

So glad I watched this video. I wasn’t aware that you could add the modifier to the second soul knife blade!

@Swimavidly 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! LOVE IT! I just finished putting together three soul knife builds when you put out this video. I took a similar route with levels in psi warrior, but delayed fighter levels until after level 9 rogue. When I compared the DPR with the Treantmonk baseline I found that the delay did better DPR because of the increased accuracy of homing strikes and increased sneak attack damage than taking fighter levels early. But I'm guessing you already knew this since you mentioned in your video that you had wanted to get to homing strikes earlier, but focused on showcasing the psionic ability of the character at lower levels. In case anyone else is interested, here are the other two builds: I made a pure rogue changeling spy with actor feat and the figthing initiate feat to get the thrown weapon fighting style. The DPR is only slightly lower for that build than the one with the psi warrrior levels. And instead of intelligence, I focused on Charisma. The last build focused on Wisdom with Ranger (Gloomstalker) levels. Gloomstalker synergizes with any rogue build. And spellcasting adds to the character's damage and utility. At first I thought it was odd that the soulknife's features didn't use any mental stats. But after making three different builds with three different mental stats, I am convinced it's good design because it expands the multiclass options for the soulknife.

@KingOfGoblins1234 2 жыл бұрын

Was just trying to theory craft a build like this the other day! Perfect timing

@colterlemons233 2 жыл бұрын

Colby, your voice is so soothing. Thank you for giving me fun and peace during these crazy times!!

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@alanschaub147 2 жыл бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive I still say that you could be an actor. I know that am totally failing as your agent. 😔

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

@@alanschaub147 Ha ha!

@TheRobversion1 2 жыл бұрын

@@alanschaub147 he is. Colby is Anthony Starr in real life. Colby Polson is just another character he plays. ;)

@Ricardo-zo1ti 2 жыл бұрын

44:49 LOL, so cute. Happy new year!

@benpauls7851 2 жыл бұрын

I think I really like this. I am going to be playing in a 1 shot at level 12 and have been scouring your builds. Very exciting, take a cool idea and concept and them make it my own!

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed! Let me know how it goes :).

@JoshDavisBlues 2 жыл бұрын

It's neat how many different build directions are possible around the core mechanic, since it's not bound to INT.

@yodaleiaheehoo9960 2 жыл бұрын

"And burnination has forsaken the countryside, only one guy will remain. My money's on Trogdor!" 😆 The Trogdor reference brings back lots of memories, man I loved Strong Bad emails! Also the build was great, thematically at the top of the list of builds you've done.

@Em3.14re 2 жыл бұрын

I would definitely take the catapult spell as a wizard to lean into the telekinetic aspect of this character. Fair damage for a first level spell, but also lets you throw distant objects closer to you or allies, including disarmed enemy weapons. The objects can even be magical. :)

@TheDarthnazrael 2 жыл бұрын

When I decided to build a knife-throwing rogue, I of course heavily considered a Soulknife, but eventually settled on a Fighter 1/Phantom Rogue X. Phantom's class features require you to be within 30 ft of the target, which is a synergistic limitation for the short range of thrown daggers.

@Jay-pj5tg 2 жыл бұрын

Currently binging, love the ideas!!

@Raxisabominae 2 жыл бұрын

What I also quite like about this build is the dueling fighting style, it means you don't lose too much if you get stuck in melee

@Rashagar 2 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough this is exactly the character concept I'm currently playing (from level 1, currently level 2) and you may or may not be surprised to hear how much endless idle agonising over when to take levels in which I've been going through XD

@JamesMoore-sc3io 2 жыл бұрын

although flavor and roleplay wise, paladin will always be my favorite class, my heart has a soft spot for rogues, which was the first class I played in an official dnd campaign. Something about the class makes you really consider what your options are, as you're effectiveness is based upon the state of the battlefield more so than any other class. You make plans more, trying to orchestrate an unfolding situation into a state that you can best take advantage of. You see if you can spend your turn doing more than just adding to dps. Where others might be blinded by their spellbook or their divine prayers, you have to make do with cunning and daring-do to shift the tide of battle. Precise use of ball bearings, alchemists fire, bottles of grease, or even standard ropework make you interact with the system in ways that many classes simply don't, because they don't have to. Such a blast to play.

@peterlochmaier5887 2 жыл бұрын

This is a really good build and I think I will use something like this next campaign!

@beneteus3833 Жыл бұрын

as the DM in my games i allow soulknifes to attune to daggers and those the "template" of hte psychic blade (like the hex weapon of hexblade warlocks) and use the extra attack with a psychic blade

@BeardedDragonite 2 жыл бұрын

Never seen half orc art with such fabulous boots and generous cake

@omega311888 2 жыл бұрын

Happy new year, to you as well, sir!

@arc4382 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the build idea. I'm planning to play a soulknife next campaign and the dueling + thrown weapon fighting style combo is a great idea for this.

@Gemini_Storm8 2 жыл бұрын

Im interested in seeing his take on an Eldritch Knave. Swashbuckler rogue with some kind of warlock. Hexblade if you wanted to go stereotypical nuke.

@RobearRich 2 жыл бұрын

A rogue with mask of many faces is incredibly dangerous

@crystalzest2748 2 жыл бұрын

I'm doing a Swashbuckler Rogue with levels of Draconic Sorcerer in an upcoming campaign, I too would love to see a big rogue + caster build on this channel

@pokecats8552 2 жыл бұрын

@@crystalzest2748 there is the assasserer, assassin rogue with sorcerer burst damage build

@johannesstephanusroos4969 Жыл бұрын

That's the first time I've seen someone spell Rogue correctly, while messing up the spelling of Knight, lol

@Gemini_Storm8 Жыл бұрын

@@johannesstephanusroos4969 it's not a typo, I used knave intentionally, like a pirate. Like Davey Jones or even Jack Sparrow essentially, cut a deal for power on the high seas.

@tylllllllluuuuuurrrr 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic build, and the comedy was great too.

@PillowOfEvil 2 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this! Thank you.

@brandtdowney6819 2 жыл бұрын

Found this because of yer short. Great stuff! Great content!

@DnDDeepDive 2 жыл бұрын

Yay! Thanks and welcome :)

@lukeanator5619 2 жыл бұрын

playing a soulknife 4 atm, passed 2 DC 25 thieves tools checks in a row (arcane locks) without expertise (but did have guidance) soulknifes dont fail skill checks ever. i was debating what i could multiclass into but i didnt want to delay things, this has helped a bunch, thanks

@Ph0tek77 2 жыл бұрын

Great build, with great flavor. Maybe somebody already suggested it, but you could also go Fairy as your race. 1 free fairy fire per day, and… flight! Love the idea of throwing psychic blades from above the battlefield. Btw, best wiches to you and your family.

@bigaj6901 2 жыл бұрын

I started like my 4th playthrough of XCOM 2 over the holidays, and only really now started using the Templar class because it's very akin to my DnD character in our homebrew campaign. This build couldn't have come at a more perfect time, let's go! 😁

@margusgrenzmann3977 2 жыл бұрын

This was a fun one, thanks.

@rainea91 2 жыл бұрын

Oof this is exciting I made a build with Kalashtar and went with a rapier and shield but also super dexterous so she can use a bow and throw her knives. Been able to play her in some pick up games and have enjoyed having so many options and feeing like a full psi character.

@matthewsmoot1981 2 жыл бұрын

Great to see you back and love the build. I was hoping Kalashtar if you're gonna use Eberron ;) you know, for max psionic theme goodness, but yeah Mark of Finding is great.

@Oddricm 10 ай бұрын

Lot of redundancies with a Kalashtar. Soulknives receive the telepathic communication at 3rd, and Psi Warriors nab Psychic Resistance at 10th. That's 2 out of 4 racial traits redundant, leaving advantage on Wisdom Saves and the No Sleep feature. None of these features are eligible to be replaced with Customised Origin ala Tasha's without DM fiat. Soulknife's telepathic communication is an improvement over the Kalashtar's version, even if it is resource dependent, both in range and number of targets. The psychic resistance is less of an issue if you follow this specific build, since you never reach Psi Warrior's 10th level feature.

@bernhardglitzner4985 2 жыл бұрын

I would love for those videos to be sound only on Spotify or something like that. Colby has such a soothing voice.

@jedim793 Жыл бұрын

I think this build is (of course) perfectly optimised. But a 3 levels whispers bard dip would give a bonus to damage, access to the faerie fire spell, leaving room for more race options. Even more increased utility, support features and of course it would be SUPER on theme

@Thomas-cc1lj 2 жыл бұрын

I've played something similar. I went Divination for the wizard as Portent just played into the psychic ability theme in my mind. Mine was also a Gem Dragonborn for the occasional fly and being able to use a breath weapon for the 2nd attack (much better than a 1d4 dagger).

@T-Mo 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice! I had a similiar Idea with a dagger throwing Soul Knife into Fighter but I built it around the Echo Knight Archetype. The character story would revolve about being out of phase due to an possibly to the campaign relevant event, touching the "beyond", growing familiar with this connection and harnessing the psychic and echoing power of this differential ... okay, i'm rambling .. anyways, I like your spin to the Soul Knife with the wizard! :)

@the_ceeman 2 жыл бұрын

Love the build (soulknife is probably my favorite subclass in the game). I think a fun alternative to psi knight would be a swarmkeeper, since you get fairy fire, along with extra attack and some telekinetic like features. Also it could have a really cool "hive mind" kinda theme

@J.sh_CDN 2 жыл бұрын

Flavour your swarm as Swirling Psy energy swirling around you. Gets you your fighting style, and you can choose to go fighter or ranger 5 for extra attack. Adding piercing to an attack, or pushing the target, or moving yourself for a bonus action free disengage.... gotta love the Swarmkeeper

@SniperYanda 2 жыл бұрын

I think my favorite Soul Knife multiclass is with Beast Barbarian, because combined with the claws and bonus action attack, you get a pretty ridiculous number of decently strong attacks from someone with no weapon required. Plus, reminds me of Raziel from Soul Reaver with all the psychic-swords and beastlike claws, just make'em a Dhampir and no one would tell the difference!

@johannesstephanusroos4969 Жыл бұрын

Nice, my Protoss Zealot build is Beast Barb and Psi Warrior. Damage mitigation due to Rage and psionic shields, tons of claw attacks

@patricks2645 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastically cool build, really hoping to see a build around maxing out concentration while making it useful by making a lot of con saves on the front lines. So far I think its mostly Bladesinger but starting with at least 3 levels of rune knight for that Frost Rune (+2 con saves 1/day for 10 minutes), CON save proficiency and hit points. I did a level 9 split and had my con top out at +12 with bladesong + frost rune. Interested to see if Artificer is worth it for spell progression and Mind Sharpener infusion

@ManualdeSobrevivencia 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Colby. I sort of worked around this build and got some improvements I'll share here. Get the kobold race, go rogue 3, ranger (BM) 5, fighter 3 and back to rogue til the end. Take the beast of the sky, which has flyby and make it give yourself adv on every attack. Rangers get HM anyways, so you don't need the mark of finding race. You also don't need to waste a feat on the fighting style because you get one from ranger, which can be either dueling or thrown weapon fighting. You get Hunters mark and the effects of faerie fire. And there you have it. Sustained dpr with room for an "emergency" nova round.

@backlash660 2 жыл бұрын

At 31:54 when you mentioned Luke Skywalkering your light sabre I immediately thought this character needs a Sunblade .

@tosch9057 2 жыл бұрын

Easily one of my favourites. Been thinking about a sustained DPR dagger(/psychic blades) throwing soul knife for a while.

@ayokunmiolatunde6932 2 жыл бұрын

Love the video man. Now im excited to see what i can come up with for my soulknife tabaxi. (Think lab experiment that was thought to be a failure that gave them psychic abilities) also reminds me of the pokemon espion since it's a psychic cat 🐱.

@LittleBananaJoe Жыл бұрын

I see how mechanically evocation makes sense. And that war magic or bladesinger make sense. But thematically this is the one build where divination is an absolute must in my mind. The powers of your mind have expanded so vastly that you can actually see the future. Your mind has surmounted the constraints of not only space but time itself (yeah chronurgy does not exist)

@GrumbleGrunt 7 ай бұрын

I know I'm a year late seeing this, but I was genuinely thinking about this multiclass last night, and here I am today, finding Colby's build on it... Sir, you genuinely are an amazing resource and I love all of your videos.

@DnDDeepDive 7 ай бұрын

Cheers!