Seriously man, this is exactly the type of channel I was looking for. You're doing the Travelers work my freind.

Mechanically it would be wise for Taliesin to choose a celestial pact because they currently have a 7 person party and only one who can do any healing. Though I've never known anyone in the Critical Role cast to do the wise thing.

It is a very tactical, economical sub class. You need to find the fine line between your spells, cantrips, and melee with Rite. While the spells will come in very slowly, the damage and second act (LVL 5-10) will catch up. Oh, and your background and flavor will greatly aid playing this.

My next character I'm thinking of playing is a Protector Aasimar who is being guided by an angel or some form of celestial. However I'm thinking about making him a Blood-Hunter under the Order of the Profane Soul, and to explain it as he is also being guided by a Fiend, demon, or something related. I feel like this would add some interesting developments to see the character be torn apart by these two very different beings I'm new to D&D however, so I'm curious for some thoughts, criticisms, and suggestions anyone of you has behind this and how to role-play and develop him

Building a witch hunter profane soul character, and loving the early level feel of the blood maledict to sunder spell alongside human variant feat of mage slayer. I saw a lot of comments about a hexblade comparison and I think for building a character that *feels* like a witch hunter, this is a great and fun way to go, having both RP, social, and in combat advantages specifically geared toward that purpose of hunting down nasties.

I like how you mention the feature similarities to existing things and how you explore the flavor as well! Great video!

Subscribed! In my current 5E campaign I’m playing a blood hunter with profane soul. Super fun and broken. Combining hex, rite of fire, and a bow that already does piercing damage and fire. C-Combo breaker!

The problem will come with multiclassing.....what happens with a warlock, bloodhunter.....unlike other spellcasting classes i think you would just add spells and cantrips, but also your spell slot max too.....

Profane Soul is my favorite BH archetype. The ability to multiclass warlock (hexblade and tome are my choice) turns this caster into a decent gish, and the ability to choose either wis or cha (depending on how many levels of warlock/BH you take) makes this an amazing choice. Take Grasp of hadar and Agonizing blast as your invocations to pull enemies to you as you set up your nova. Take as many as 6 levels in Warlock, as the Warlock shares slots with Profane Soul, but its cantrips are counted separately (and also has better spell advancement). The only downside to MC BH/Warlock is that certain invocations (Cloak of Flies and Maddening Hex) key their extra damage off of your charisma modifier, which won't be particularly high (13 in order to get that warlock mc).

I'm running a Hexblade Blood Hunter in a campaign and I'm really enjoying the playstyle. We're still pretty early into the campaign, but the Warlock/Fighter style has led to some great moments so far.

honestly, i believe that taliesin will go for the fey pact of this order.

I am doing this class for an upcoming campaign where I play a scourge aasimar twf pact of the celestial. I think it'd be cool if you did another more in depth video concerning fighting styles and the best spells. You have the only solid take on this class on KZfaq.

Oof watching this for the 1st time in 2019.

regarding your concerns over this sub-class "doing too much" i think you haven't realized that it doesn't get any access to spells above 4th level. Its not just "a slowed down warlock", but rather a drastically reduced (almost gimped) warlock, with a little more physical power than a warlock would normally have. This really goes back to your over-comparison of the blood hunter to the fighter, except this time you're doing it with profane soul vs warlock. It does explain why you would think it does too much since you seem to treat the class as "the same" to each, but it really isn't "the same" as either. I would advise taking a step back and really comparing them properly, instead of superficially. Warlocks go all the way to 9th level spells, whereas profane soul barely reaches 4th level. Fighters get heavy armour, 6 fighting style options, and 4 attacks, whereas blood hunters get medium armour, 4 fighting style options, and 2 attacks (the same as both paladin and ranger who both also get 5th level spells regardless of which sub-class is chosen). I do have my own concerns over this sub-class. I think it is the weakest of the 4, and the least unique (among other things). However, your comparisons to other classes are very innacurate and misleading. (everything else is great, i just think if you are going make these comparisons you need to get them right)

Will there be a podcast you guys? The people want it!

My main question about Profane soul is do the Bloodhunters adopt the features with their Pact for example at 1st lvl Hexblade gives a warlock "Hexblade's Curse" and Hex Warrior then more stuff at lvl 6 and so on.

Elder Scrolls fans can think of Blood Hunter Celestial (or Eldritch depending on your opinion) as Meridia's Champion, sure, you're serving a demonic being, but you're killing undead while you're at it, so what's the harm, right?

This or Hexblade, tough choice.

Would the bloodrights be considered a magic? In a campaign I'm Gm'ing the magic of the world is very unstable, and there's a DC(d20) that is refigured for each in game week. If they don't make the DC, wild magic happens.

If that's the case, does this mean that blood hunters change during the full moon?

Ok so I'm a str based Order of the Profane Soul BloodHunter. I use a great sword, at level 5 I am doing 2d6+x+1d4 rite damage with an attack and get to do this twice. Why would level 7s power Mystic Frenzy be an upgrade, I would get say 1d10 force damage from an eldritch blast and then one attack of 2d6+x+1d4. This doesn't seem like an upgrade. Am I missing something?

Woah

I suspect this is the one talesin may choose

Personally the class feels like the Bloodhunter trying to be a Eldritch Knight. As nothing against the class as a whole but it feels as though its the weakest. Due to the fact anything this class does the Hexblade does better spellwise and ability wise.

The Blood Hunter is pretty iffy with me as is. This subclass is pretty stupid. You might as well play a hexblade. Hexblade is better in my opinion without the massive HP drain

Oh boy. This order did not turn out very good. It makes the way of the four elements monk look good in comparison.