Shopkeep... but it's a playable character

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@freyanox9443 10 ай бұрын

I like Ginny's bright pink summer outfit contrasting with the merchants ghoulish black and white colors.

@GinnyDi 10 ай бұрын

the two genders 😂 goth & barbie

@FenriWasLive 10 ай бұрын

Barbenheimer

@antonlowe5370 10 ай бұрын

@@GinnyDi Pastel Goth summer!

@Extinct-Lizard 10 ай бұрын

@@GinnyDi Is the merchant you made a changeling?

@Calebgoblin 10 ай бұрын

@@GinnyDiGinny is Barbenheimer confirmed incarnate?

@fallenphoenixiv 10 ай бұрын

The potion seller is 100% how the artificer alchemist should've been done

@TheKyleFyles 10 ай бұрын

I'm in need of the strongest potions.

@fallenphoenixiv 10 ай бұрын

@@TheKyleFyles You can also take a look at this alchemist class

@fujin27 10 ай бұрын

My potions are too strong for you traveller

@slayallrebels5996 10 ай бұрын

Potion Seller, I'm going into battle, and I need your strongest potions!

@josephwilliams5292 10 ай бұрын

My potions would kill you traveler, you cannot handle my potions

@somejerkbag 10 ай бұрын

I used to play a cleric that would only heal you if you bought his 'insurance' 😂

@azearaazymoto461 10 ай бұрын

Lmao, they should make that another merchant subclass

@MonkeyJedi99 10 ай бұрын

There is a religion in my friend's game that works that way. Prospective clerics must bring in a minimum amount of money or a moderately powerful item to get "officially" in the religion. Adventurers or others needing one of that religion's services, either as a one-shot heal or a cleric to go on an adventure or to become posted in a remote town... they gotta pay!

@AngelavengerL 9 ай бұрын

ROFL i love that

@Indestructoboy 10 ай бұрын

Ahhh thank you so much Ginny! Now I’ve gotta get Maxwell to illustrate your esotericist for the class tome!!!

@GinnyDi 10 ай бұрын

Thank YOU for designing such a cool class!! 😍 It was a joy to create with!!

@mcullennz 10 ай бұрын

Taron makes the best support classes

@CrowePerch 10 ай бұрын

LETS GOOOO

@CrispysTavern 10 ай бұрын

Spooky weirdo shopkeeper is a vibe I can definitely get down with.

@MonkeyJedi99 10 ай бұрын

Only ten purchases to get a free human skull? Win!

@gavinboyer4634 10 ай бұрын

3:15 *Immediately selects 50gp worth of cabbages

@rubyseverinwhitworth9066 10 ай бұрын

That thumbnail has made this NPC already my favourite one

@mikeglasswell-gameplay 10 ай бұрын

I imagine the storefront goes to a warehouse in the merchants home town. And the warehouse workers are frantically working to grab gold and items and dropping it in the portal

@RichWoods23 7 ай бұрын

And the warehouse owner builds rockets with the profits he makes from his chain of dubiously tax-efficient warehouse businesses.

@gacha_xxtuber2218 8 ай бұрын

I love the fact that the merchant character in the clips you showed looks like a Changeling in their true form. A Changeling merchant with the swindler subclass would make a great con-artist character.

@kyleh3227 10 ай бұрын

I immediately need to know everything about this character. I need a name. I need backstory. I just need more.

@tiogah 10 ай бұрын

Ginny. PLEASE GOD. Make more of this character.

@happy-kh4uk 10 ай бұрын

So glad to see some of the bigger D&D/TTRPG KZfaqrs covering 3rd-party classes, especially Indestructoboy’s stuff. I own the physical book to this and it’s one of my favorite classes in 5E, 3rd-party or not.

@Vaati1992 10 ай бұрын

Idea for the portable storefront: a giant clam shell, perfect for a triton or sea elf!

@AngelavengerL 9 ай бұрын

that would be so cool!

@not_a_robot-1048 10 ай бұрын

I have a full character in mind already that this class is perfect for A tifling whose mother made a deal with both a demon and a witch with their firstborn as the price. Then, she ran away when the child was born, leaving the witch and the demon to fight for custody, Both came to an agreement and raised the child together, They learned about curses and magic from there foster parents and their portable store front would be the pet mimic. They were given as a birthday present😂😂😂

@mollywantshugs5944 10 ай бұрын

This is a perfect mixture of funny, creepy, and weirdly wholesome

@hungariangiraffe6361 10 ай бұрын

Lol this is great. Btw did you get the backstory idea from another dnd KZfaqr? Because I think I've seen it on another channel but I can't remember the name.

@eunhogarcia5293 9 ай бұрын

@@hungariangiraffe6361Zacspeaksgiant?

@hungariangiraffe6361 9 ай бұрын

@@eunhogarcia5293 I think yes

@armana1404 10 ай бұрын

I’ve long wanted a class just like this! It’s Sala from Indiana Jones as a character class! “That car belonged to my brother-in-law….”

@MandibleBones 10 ай бұрын

Gods, if I ever run an actual play of the World of Darkness, I'm going to see if I can hire Ginny to play a goblin merchant for a session, because holy shit is that changeling exactly what I want to creep out my players with. Great video and I think I may check out this character class, too, for my 5E games.

@Jimersion 10 ай бұрын

This feeds right into the D&D subsystem called Markets & Merchants I've been working on for some time now. Ginny always has some of the best inspiring vids. 👍🙂

@chris492549 10 ай бұрын

4:26 "It's basically Divine Intervention, but for shopping!" lol

@BlaineC2040 10 ай бұрын

This is such a cool idea for a class! I just about laughed out loud at the nail clippings bit...(In our current campaign those are some ingredients to the polymorph potions that are made by Loryn a Hobgoblin Alchemist NPC. )

@ManicSteakMuffins 10 ай бұрын

I might have to get this if my players decide to bring the adopted goblin merchant along on an adventure.

@GBS4893 10 ай бұрын

Jocat fan?

@ManicSteakMuffins 10 ай бұрын

@@GBS4893 just a very improvised on the spot NPC

@rayparibello 10 ай бұрын

The merchant cosplay in this video was super cool!

@darienb1127 9 ай бұрын

When I think of a Merchant class, my mind jumps to the Bravely Default and Octopath Traveler games (which are made by the same devs). In that, Merchants have the ability to buy items on command like this class does. But there's a couple other interesting things. In Bravely Default, Merchants can forcibly sell items into enemies for extra cash, buff the crit rate of allies by spending money, and can deal damage by spending money based off of their level + a certain amount of cash. In Octopath, the most interesting ability for me allows you to spend money to hire mercenaries to do an attack, with the type and strength depending on the rank of what you spend. I'm super happy to hear that there's a gambler subclass, but a part of me wishes that there was a way to hire mercenaries as temporary allies. I know the Pet Shop is kinda that already, but I also wanna call in the boys! Maybe these mercs have specific stat blocks for certain party roles and temporarily fill in a party's weakness... if you can pay the wage of course!

@Mark-ki7ic 10 ай бұрын

I have a need for this in my new campaign, plus I have just the player for it. She's been looking for a class she likes , this'll be perfect for her. (Girl is a born haggler)

@EmilyRitcheson 10 ай бұрын

After hearing about the toymaker subclass, I want to play as a thinly-veiled Drosselmeyer from The Nutcracker SO BAD!!

@fraserfrays8440 10 ай бұрын

This character concept is giving massive Abigail Thorn energy

@GinnyDi 10 ай бұрын

What’s so funny is that I created her while reading the audiobook of “leech” by Hiron Ennis, which is narrated by Abigail Thorn 😂

@BrooklyKnight 10 ай бұрын

The perfect class if you're trying to play a campaign as Boxxo

@glennstewart5397 10 ай бұрын

I have created a world for D&D, one of the classes is the same a you are talking about. Although I based the class on the 2Ed Smuggler. My 'World of Lanthra': was worked out to 3.5 Ed and test players loved what I set up. I ran a year long Campaingn, everyone that started the campaign finished and attended every second Saturday from 3:00 pm to 10:pm with a brake for supper (an hour). Start them at level one and most ended up 15 - 16 lvl. I tried to publish the world and the maps books and charts, keep hearing; 'Sorry no chance to do it!' I still have the world maps and such!

@HateSonneillon 10 ай бұрын

This class sounds really cool, I had always though a merchant class that uses money as their resource would be fun but wasn't sure how to complete the idea as a full class. I think your character makes this class even better though.

@bast713 10 ай бұрын

I love the cool stuff the D&D community cooks up

@mattbriddell9246 10 ай бұрын

Fun class! I'd recommend looking at the Dancer that Taron made as well.

@GinnyDi 10 ай бұрын

I read through both the Dancer and the Alchemist when making this video. All really creative and thoughtfully crafted!

@alexanderwizardjar9540 10 ай бұрын

I found this class JUST yesterday, what are the odds! It's really cool every time you cover homebrew content

@PerryPictures 10 ай бұрын

30 second mark: “I’m in! Say no more!” Switched to sponsorship ad, “wait I did want to hear more tho about the merchant class!” This idea is really fun 😊

@SodaPopBarbecue 10 ай бұрын

Coolest. Team-up. Ever. Get Griffon's Saddlebag and DND Shorts in there, and the circle is complete.

@captainthorrek262 10 ай бұрын

The gourmand subclass, and Dancer class, sound like a lot of fun!

@G33KSP34K 10 ай бұрын

I actually had a DnD campaign back in the day where the group were exotic beast and monster wranglers, and would go out to catch and retrieve specific beasts and monsters to sell. It was fun, this reminded me of that. And ofc, great merchant outfit.

@googiegress7459 10 ай бұрын

Counterpoint: adventuring party of 11 merchants all haranguing and wheedling one lone "adventurer" class character.

@id9907 10 ай бұрын

Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that this class's catch-phrase is going to be "I can fix this!" 😁

@snoproblem 10 ай бұрын

Oh, I could really get into a class like this, the possibilities, the character choices/ growth, the sheer fun! 😁 EDIT: Pet Dealer? You could play as a Newt Scamander expy.

@mystrtwenty 10 ай бұрын

Damn Ginny! That curse was brutal. 🤣

@dobo9150 10 ай бұрын

Ginny: *drops a new character-based cosplay* me: *squints* ....Chiana?

@KiyasuPVP 10 ай бұрын

A love every part of this. I especially love the play you get around long rests and having to pay up as a party. I could see going into the red to defeat the BBEG and suddenly you're in your next campaign as the party is in debt to some entity or even the next BBEG.

@this_epic_name 10 ай бұрын

"no lover will have you but your own right hand" omg

@Antimuffin 10 ай бұрын

"Divine intervention, but for shopping"--well I'm on board!

@mareklwhip4590 10 ай бұрын

This is actually super cool. One of if not the only homebrews I can see myself really wanting to spend money on!

@nanorider426 10 ай бұрын

For 3.5 and AD&D this merchant class is gold because these old systems have a price list for magic items. Thanks Ginny Di and Indestructoboy. ^^

@scobythebloodless2310 10 ай бұрын

I wish I had known about this a year ago! I think the esotericist would have been a good fit for my friendly, witchy, Apothecary character. I love your esotericist!

@pennclick 10 ай бұрын

Basically the Octopath Traveler merchant class. Love the flavor!

@TreantmonksTemple 10 ай бұрын

This sounds like my kind of character class.

@LeeCarlson 10 ай бұрын

I loved the video. I also loved this character and hope to see more of her. Perhaps even a roleplaying interaction. You have also sold me on the character class and looking over the complete bundle.

@corbynwilding3205 10 ай бұрын

Though i haven't played much DnD, i already have some ideas for characters. And after watching this video I definitely have ideas for merchants if I were to pick the book up. Wonderful work on the video, Ginny, and love to new little freak! Hope we get to see more of them potentially

@hubertboisvertboucher2071 10 ай бұрын

Damn that's a real interesting one ! Especially in a hign magic setting. You need to like to play a fully support oriented character but the storefront is so cool !

@cartreezy1631 10 ай бұрын

Bought this a few months back and I can tell you it's one of the most fun classes I have ever played! The guy that makes them has a bunch that are EXTREMELY well thought out.

@megasquidd 10 ай бұрын

Super entertaining video, Ginny. Well done. I'm also pretty intrigued by the Merchant class.

@roberthornyak5875 10 ай бұрын

I play an artificer with the homebrew subclass the caravaneer. Basically a magnificent mansion in a wagon. It serves as a portable base, allows for crafting on the road, and a business opportunity for travel or an inn.

@mikeglasswell-gameplay 10 ай бұрын

Channeling Gretchen from the recess cartoon

@andrearichardson7931 10 ай бұрын

I would love to have a character with just a thousand pockets full of goodies

@GinnyDi 10 ай бұрын

as a DM, I would 100000% approve "coat with tons of pockets" as a "closable container" suitable to be the portable storefront 😂

@stl7694 10 ай бұрын

great concept would love to see it.

@bradenschroeder3144 10 ай бұрын

I have been playing a moleman merchant with this class in a cyberpunk themed campaign and it has hands down become my favorite character and a friend favorite as well. Can not reccomend it enough!

@gnomes1377 10 ай бұрын

Ohhh the eyes, love the terrifying eyes

@polarstriker3854 9 ай бұрын

woah i absolutely LOVE the “spooky weirdo” you’ve created for this video! this seems like a really neat class haha

@unholycheeto8182 9 ай бұрын

This class is a perfect companion addition to my 1on1 session I run.

@Bee-qe5hm 10 ай бұрын

Love this - Also reminds me of the octopath travler merchant class which is legit af

@Nionivek 10 ай бұрын

I am glad 3rd party content is getting some much needed love.

@greysen10 10 ай бұрын

I had to get this for my own games. Like, Im all about Support characters myself, and the idea of not just stealin... I mean borrowing from NPCs, but taking all my party member's gold? Oh joy!

@flyingalienqueen 10 ай бұрын

Your whole merchant look, the clothes, the hair, the makeup, the accessories, is perfectly coordinated in just such a phenomenal and captivating way!! Love it so so much!

@Novachild37 9 ай бұрын

I love Taron's classes been running them in my games as options for players and almost always have a fair portion of the party choose them

@cedricsmith4590 10 ай бұрын

This was an interesting video. Your cosplay of the merchant is amazing.

@johnrogers1747 10 ай бұрын

I love Indestructoboy's work! I found out about him through his Rune Keeper class, and I love how different, but easy to learn the rune magic system is.

@bananabanana484 10 ай бұрын

This would make a great Cleric to a god of trade or money

@liesbethverlaeckt8083 10 ай бұрын

This is SUCH a fun class idea!! It seems to lean heavily into the support and flavouring, which is RIGHT up my alley! 😆

@arche2460 10 ай бұрын

I really love homebrew and I can't wait to get this! It sounds so hecking cool and I'd love to play a Merchant character so much

@mollywantshugs5944 10 ай бұрын

This class is great. I also really like the spooky shopkeeper.

@tabicat.puccino7425 9 ай бұрын

I thought of a class, Artist, you have evasion spells and can make any map, and other support like things like, restore, location, avoid, cloak and etc. and can have any surface display a map of their mind and can show certain key point like traps treasure or monster, with great enchanted skills, create anything on paper then adding mana to it but if the sketch is destroyed so is the creation which will cause it to appear. But the paper which its drawn on is sacrifices as a trade, it can be prepared in advanced or made while in focus, different item values cost causes you to use more paper and mana, different things like to made an axe you must an axe exactly how you want it, you need details, and an example of the material like a splinter and an iron bead, you can make any thing as long you can focus on it like you can either summon a golem on a large piece of paper or use a small paper but put a lot of mana to control the size.

@demetrinight5924 10 ай бұрын

This sounds like lots of fun for NPCS. As a player character having access to designated equipment on demand sounds awesome.

@melvinhogberg 10 ай бұрын

my friends made a commoner class that just builds stuff, it can set up roads, build houses and farm for food, a really nice support class.

@jessiewionzek4832 10 ай бұрын

I love this class!!! The source material is SO FUN. I have a goblin merchant (vagabond subclass) character named Twig whose main reason for adventuring is to find treasure, sell it for $$$, and eventually hire a mercenary army to avenge her family, who were chased out of the goblin kingdom during a violent coup in which the goblin king & queen were murdered. Her portable storefront is a gigantic backpack that's about five times as big as she is. She also has a pet mimic :)

@Greenknight3 10 ай бұрын

I took this concept and ran with it, I'm playing a halfling gourmand that will probably be the party mom. Aunt nimblebrew.

@shutupnora 10 ай бұрын

this is so COOL! I already have a million ideas for characters with this class, definitely gonna check it out

@tmytyson 9 ай бұрын

Ginny's take on the Esotericist immediately reminds me of those Twilight Zone episodes where Death or the Devil is a traveling salesmen. Outstanding aesthetic.

@TheAzureGhost 9 ай бұрын

Reminds me of DSA (The dark eye in english) , a german TTRPG where you pick a profession at character creation instead of a class which can range from traveling merchants, over doctors, hunters, bandits up to absolvents of a mage college. You learn new skills mostly from buying training from npc or other players or get enough money together to afford going to a reknown martial arts / magic college ect. (you can start as an absolvent though but that might come with a dept you have to pay off)

@StevenFowlerDPhil 9 ай бұрын

I like TDE!

@HiveLordLusa 10 ай бұрын

This is a great video topic, I'm in love with the class concept and I'm not even halfway through the video, haha! I am immediately keen to do something with this based on the classic RE4 merchant and his lovely weirdness.

@AngelavengerL 9 ай бұрын

This seems like a class that would be so fun to play. Like i could imagine you doing a smarmy car sales man type persona, or the snooty high end label shopkeeper, or the person you see in video games that's creepy and has like a trench coat with things in pockets lining the insides. A perky one that is giving everyone fashion advice whether they want it or not. Soo many ideas!

@Hannah_Becton 9 ай бұрын

Your Changeling Esotericism Merchant and my Changeling College of Spirits Bard would be fast friends; I'm sure of it~ I love how we've both latched on to the naturally spooky appearance of their true forms.

@waddlesquad8199 10 ай бұрын

I've always wanted to play a travelling merchant character and this class embodies that trope using the 5e mechanics fantastically! I'm especially interested in using that character with variant loot described in the PHB, where rewards could stuff like precious metals and expensive artwork, so my character could roll into town and sell stuff they looted from a dungeon at a premium. "Special offer!: An ancient statue to a forgotten god, carved out of real obsidian! Only 400gp!"

@user-jn4sw3iw4h 10 ай бұрын

9:30 I'm seeing: - someone in town seems to be casting something harmless - a merchant spotting a deal looks a bit closer - merchant shouts to a passing wizard, 'ow shit, you there: lvl5 counterspell, over there NOW' would you? (as a dm I'd argue that any other information/discussion would be off the table as we're already lining up 2 reactions)

@Indestructoboy 10 ай бұрын

Sounds like a great way to make the class features pay off in a cool way!

@GinnyDi 10 ай бұрын

Wait, I’m confused as to why there’s a random passing wizard capable of doing level 5 counterspell who automatically trusts the merchant? 😅 that’s some improbable context…

@user-jn4sw3iw4h 10 ай бұрын

@@GinnyDi That's indeed the thing. Apart from 'this would be rare enough, for it to be an interesting question'. It's very much not a given the wizard would trust the merchant. That's what makes it interesting. (Unfortunately the most likely way i'd see this actually happening is a mid/high level one-shot (or other 'swap in') character introduction. Where the trust would come from metagaming 'played by not-dm'-trustworthy) But - if you were that merchant, - and as such would be pretty likely to clock a sufficiently powerful wizard - and spot a 'probably fine', ow shit this is a domestic terrorism situation, and I can't counterspell (because you just spent your reaction on, being the only one who recognizing the danger the entire marketsquare is in) It seems like a sensible 'desperate move' to me. And as someone who's currently playing a 'high int, low wis'-wizard. I'd consider it an interesting non-trivial question. I mean, it's not 'play the other half of this conversation, in character'-playlist level of character-building, but.....

@Runt4U 10 ай бұрын

Ah, yes, the build I’ve been waiting for

@edwardmccartney5405 10 ай бұрын

such a great homebrew class. my favorite homebrew class on DMsGuild is the Witch by warlock homebrew.

@briarvalley8309 10 ай бұрын

"Are you going to use my fingernails clippings in some dark life destroying spell that can kill an enemy by just a quick glance?" "Nah its just for my homemade babaganush, gotta get that protein am I aright?"

@MorganeNestPasNormale 10 ай бұрын

Amazing. My players LOVED the Wandering Emporium in my (heavily homebrewed) version of Descent Into Avernus. It would be great to play a Merchant next, and make him a Wandering Emporium employee (probably someone who used to be in a pact with a devil, and now works for them on the Material Plane). I'd love to see my friends faces the day they find out their merchant companion is working for an old campaign "villain"...

@mariereed2531 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this recommendation! I got the book specifically for the Gourmand subclass and it fits perfectly for a character I've been wanting to play but couldn't find a class that had the right fit. Plus, the other subclasses look awesome, too!

@Ravenovia 10 ай бұрын

Oof, I can’t get this right now, but the Merchant plus the Domestic Handbook? Those two books would make my dream campaign-Stardew Valley, but DND! XD

@djkillermemestar1265 10 ай бұрын

love this cool looking character

@FireBowProductions 10 ай бұрын

Killer cosplay. Love it.

@renamation8098 9 ай бұрын

I love the merchants design. Shes so cool and scrunkly

@DarkSoulsSauron 10 ай бұрын

your curse had me in stitches. gonna use that

@schaughtful 10 ай бұрын

Wow this class sounds so flilling fun! It’s great that it’s innate features drive party interaction

@StevenFowlerDPhil 9 ай бұрын

The Dune Trader splat book for 2e Dark Sun is one of the best splat books written imo and introduced a playable trader class. It’s an integral class to Dark Sun and Tim Brown’s “spiritual successor” the Dragon Kings Project. I actually had a few “kits” published for a 1-2e merchant class in Gygax Magazine.

@jac0b88 10 ай бұрын

I made a character who started as an NPC shopkeeper, but they developed into a PC (concept only) because they sounded fun. A moth like humanoid old lady who runs a clothing shop. A mix of rare materials and crafting procedures enhances the item into a magical piece. I thought of her in a hanging sleeping roll next to the party camping (like a cocoon) while chewing on something she was knitting also. From there i realize she fits as a unique flavored armorer artificer. That was tbe only shopkeeper pc ive made and look forward to playing.

@mollywantshugs5944 10 ай бұрын

I kinda want to run a merchant who goes adventuring because he owes the mob money and would like to keep his kneecaps, actually