The 7' tall Brock Lesnar gimp the Thieves Guild brings out when the war in the streets gets out of hand.

awesome! love outside the norm ways of rping.,

thats hilarious xD

Imagine any "fixer" for a mob.

I have a character that's an artificer bard multiclass, but instead of being a musician, he's a clown using his comedy for his abilities.

You making a point. The oath usually to Protect and defend from evil not seek it out to fight and challenge like a prey. This is more a ranger or a rogue thing

I would say the divine sense ability can help with some tracking

Crusaders?

@@zechariahleal5365 In their eyes they were defending the holy land so the whole 'guardian' logic still applies. They're not tracking and hunting down all muslims, they're taking control of territory important to their religion and then defending it against 'heathens' trying to conquer it back.

I tend to agree, but now I realise that oath of vengence paladin would be better distinguished from the others by either sub class specific abilties, or rolling your own by taking some ranger levels.

"Remember that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer." - definitely a warlock

In Marvel, Sorcerer actually means what D&D calls Warlock, or more rarely Cleric or Druid. It's more about drawing power from powerful entities or planes of existence, usually but not always via pact (for a broad definition of "pact" that can range from offering prayer to wielding artifacts to more elaborate contracts). Their closest equivalent of Wizardry is more like nigh-godly Monk ki manipulation (and indeed the power gods and similar entities grant to their supplicants is their ki). And for completeness, yes, Scarlet Witch works like a Sorcerer in the D&D sense.

I like the D&D distinctions between wizard, warlock, and sorcerer. I know this is more of a semantics thing, but before I knew about D&D, I associated "warlock" with a pact situation, "wizard" with being born/otherwise naturally gifted with power, and "sorcerer" with learning magic 🤷‍♀️

@@amandasunshine2 Wizards in Harry Potter are sorcerers. I wonder how they would react if they met D&D wizards: _muggles_ that can do more powerful magic than theirs! Just by _learning!_

Dr. Strange, despite the title, uses spellbooks and named spells with complex quasi-mathematical origins, so the matter is pretty clearcut.

​@@SuscriptorJusticiero I'd say they're sorcerers multiclassing as wizards since they actually go do and learn magic as well

Yeah, same here.

Similar to how the video explained it, I've always seen a bardic college as somewhere between a school of thought or philosophy and also their background. As not all bards are performers, I think what truly unites them as a class is how they leverage their charisma. A college of whispers bard cuts their teeth in a much different way than the college of glamor. A "performance" from a young college of whispers bard could be a deceitful retelling of a narrative done in seedy underworld bars to gain influence for a mob boss. To me a college represents how a bard learned and apply their charisma to achieve their goals.

I pictured them more like fraternities

indoctrination camps, that teach you to use media to control narratives, and peoples minds. ;D. politicians would be bard/rogues.

That would actually be pretty fun. Basically making the creatures of nature your questgivers, instead of townspeople. Some eldritch beast is forcing out the local predators, and overkilling, so the ranger steps in to kill the monster, and restore balance to the land for the bears and wolves.

Now it sounds like Ash Ketchum as a Ranger

Lukka, if WotC could write a decent character

So, basically a pokemon trainer rather than the digimon tamer that most people view animal companion/ranger relationships as?

I usually rule that ranger companion can be revived just like a player can and that they get death saves... and in some cases where ranger in my games lost their companion I given them the option for the companion to become a "spirit animal" aka summoned ghost of said animal

Credit where credit is due, I also picked her partially as an example based on the Tulok the Barbrarian video, which starts her as a sorcerer to represent her talent at a young age: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7qgdcuEr8WsinU.html

To be fair, the Ascendant Dragon Monk does a lot to fulfill that fantasy more cleanly.

@@seanmurphy3430 Yeah but it focuses more on the martial arts using elements as an accent. So I would say sorcerer works more.

Yeah. I thought it was weird. The monk class is such a weird mismash of Asian stuff. So it is possible for someone to be interpreted as a monk by one person and something else by another person. The elemental subclass of the monk is a perfect representation of a bender though.

Helps separate them thematically from a War cleric or multiclass fighter/cleric.

I loved that addition, yeah! And it gels pretty well with the fact it comes at level 3 - you've been building towards this, finding and feeling out your purpose, and now, at last, you have an epiphany, swear an oath (literally or perhaps just in your heart - what matters is the commitment, not just the ritual), and gain new u understanding of yourself amd your abilities, while being blessed by the Divine for the choice. I especially love that one weird Paladin variant in 5e PHB where it's kinda like a druid-paladin. I made one that one of these days I'd love to play in a proper game, because I picture her having always loved both nature and people, and her Oath represents the final connection to the sacred spectrum that is Life itself clicking into place as she finds her purpose and gains favor from the divine entitie(s) connected to the natural world. Such a lovely concept, I think, and it fits really well with both her love for the natural world and her friendly, fiercely compassionate personality.

@@studioyokai Hell, the PHB has a subclass of paladin that doesn't even *have* to be good. The oath of vengeance is one where the paladin's own goodness and virtue are second to the destruction of an enemy. The oath of conquest from Xanathar's is also kind of like that. Their tenants talk about crushing the hope of their enemies and generally being sworn to law before goodness.

@@studioyokai - i actually have a couple Oath of the Ancients paladins and they are so much fun. And always a light in dark times. Happy to party and have a good time, but will absolutely suit up if the village/town/city is under threat. Or .. if there are marauding monsters, a threat to the wilds.... Or something otherworldly afoot. They aren't so high and mighty, lawful stupid. But just try to be the best they can be and help others the best they can. Lead with compassion and care, but will absolutely destroy evil, especially real evil, real malevolence, in a heartbeat. I love both of them so much.

I absolutely agree! My partner and I were talking about this the other night, and we decided that a paladin, more than anything, is defined by the fact that they're strongly committed to a cause or ideal. That may or may not be channeled through a deity, but at its core a paladin must have conviction (unless they're an Oathbreaker, which in itself also hinges on the fact that the paladin *did* have a cause)

I always see them as a swashbuckler rouge and a collage of swords bard

Skalds, Greek poets, Celtic bards, Shakespeare the bard, etc

@@starking2162 Yes, those are things that are either cognates in other cultures, or uses of "bard" in English; but that isn't really getting at the particulars of bards in Celtic cultures or the powers with which they are attributed in those cultures.

I love when history interacts with fantasy in cool ways! Especially from less mainstream sources. From what I understand, Celtic mythology is full of incredibly cool stuff, but there isn't as much surviving lore because they didn't write things down as much as some other cultures?

@@SLorraineE Not exactly--if anything, the medieval Celtic cultures wrote more than the surrounding cultures. Yes, they were a primarily oral culture before that, but once they became literate, they produced a great deal; some of it never was written down, and some of what was written has been lost; but what survives is extensive. Beowulf is the only Anglo-Saxon epic that survives, for example; we have four recensions of the primary medieval Irish epic, and about twelve mostly complete manuscripts of it, plus hundreds of other tales. This writing is all taking place right around the time that Beowulf was also written.

It be nice if there were spellcasting foci that were available to the Bard that aren't instruments. As much as a table can get together and agree that the bard can focus their magic through multiple forms of art, the rules as written basically make it a requirement that a Bard is a musician.

I've always homebrewed Bards when I DM to be any magic artist. Like one who can paint runes in the air with a brush to cast spells

@@KyleDavis328 It's really frustrating that you can't play a dancer bard in 5e! You can in PF, though, at least PF1e.

@@FlameUser64 2e Bards use performances for certain class skills, ands some of them need to be visual performances like dance, and there are enough types that use that kind of performance for you to pull off a dance bard.

I initially read, “one note on bards” as “on note bard” , which would actually be a great roleplaying opportunity ... or subclass!

Yes!! Matt Mercer generally gives his players enemies that play to their strengths (see: an entire dragon based arc with a ranger whose favored enemy was dragons); but even he had make his BBEG immune to stunning strike 😂

The others call her op because it was the first time a pc played a monk and on paper their abilities seem op. Like they treated stunning strike like it was the craziest feature and acted like she had Infinite ki. The reality was that she got stunning strike to work a third of the time and she struggled with ki more often than not. She also uses a homebrew class that is much better than most of the available options

@@user-pi8pi3wj7h And probably also because she's Marisha.

Captain jack sparrow

My default rogue was always the acrobat/engineer. I get around the locked doors and traps, rigged my own and was a scholar. It annoyed the party when we were clearing out an abandoned wizard's tower. A cult of ogre magi worshippers had moved in and we moved through the tower avoiding the bulk of their forces, seeking out their leaders and champions and such. As we advanced I installed traps behind us so that we wouldn't be surprised and flanked. We came to the throne room and we killed the half ogre shaman and his advisors. As he lay dying, he threw a rock at a gargantuan gong which rang out. From the hall behind us came a slow booming tread. Something heavy and large was coming, the floor shook and a dense metallic scraping could be heard as some fiercesome weapon was dragged against granite flagstones. The party, tired, bloodied and depleted readied themselves to face the dreaded abomination rumoured to be housed here, the half blue dragon son of the ogre magi queen. The butcher of the 4th regiment at raven's field. The devourer of orphans and the render of the baronial bloodline. Doom Bringer. Zael. The room shook, books toppled, a candelabra toppled. There was a soft *hwiiip noise*. The sound halted outside the unlit door way. Something heavy and metal crashed to the floor and then the ajar doors burst open... And the decapitated head of Zael rolled into the throne room. It came to rest on it's bloody stump. For a moment the boulder sized head looked at the party then the mouth opened as if to speak and the head toppled to one side, eyes rolling back in it's head. I'd one hit killed the final boss of the session, 'off screen' with a trap that used my old vorpal cutlass as it's blade. My group banned me playing engineer characters after that.

@@AnonEyeMouse I think that one's on the GM for letting you pull that off. Did they allow your trap to deal sneak attack damage or what?

Ooh that's an interesting point! Truthfully, it's hard to find non-R-rated footage of Fighters who wouldn't instead/also be Rogues or Rangers (or Paladins, like you said). I was gonna use a clip from Gladiator, but... that was pretty violent to put on this channel lol

@@SupergeekMike If you need any suggestions, Kirito from Sword Art Online, Tristian from Stardust, and Shaun from Shaun of the Dead (or really any non-Ranger from a Zombie movie) would be my go-to examples.

Valid but she does a lot of combat so maybe a mix of a paladin and a class capable of packing a punch

@@chrisstoltz3648 but she actually deals damage so maybe fighter in there

@@SupergeekMike Like Batman. He fits the Rouge, but considering he also mastered every martial art, I'd say it's a fair bet that he has at least some levels in fighter (if we were to convert him to Dnd).

He also said it was one of the least complex, which it can be but it can also be one of the most complictaed depending on the build

What makes warlocks annoying is how if you dont take Eldrich Blast, you arent playing warlock right. I made a Melee focused hexblade, and the party asked what i was thinking not taking eldrich blast.

@@trealosgaming3345 EB is just a good cantrip, it is the best one in fact. Even if you are melee focused having a ranged option is good. You can not always reach melee on your turn, and it is the best damage dealing cantrip you have access to.

I feel like you're kinda missing the forest for the trees - you're describing WHAT Warlocks do, when the point here is to try to pin down WHY they work that way. The fantasy of a Warlock - the character that players want to embody when they pick the class - is someone who makes a devil's bargain (sometimes literally) for power, their magic coming from an external force in exchange for something. And you can kind of reverse engineer the class's design decisions from there - they're a class that mostly plays like a martial, using eldritch blast in place of ranged weapons, but who gets about 2 big spells they can cast per encounter, which represents the idea of borrowed power pretty well. Their invocations convey the idea of esoteric knowledge and power, distinct from that of other arcane casters and even other warlocks.

@@seanmurphy3430 Exactly. The Warlock is very unique and fits that fantasy well. You're quite literally "weird"; a practitioner of witchcraft. You have these esoteric abilities granted to you by a patron who marks you with strange powers. The low number of high-level spell slots fits that theme of borrowed power, as you've said. It doesn't take long for a Warlock's power to run out; their patron is mighty, but not particularly generous. It fulfills the fantasy of high-risk, high-reward, power at the price of sustainability and consistency.

@@Brittanysplittany And yet that can fit together naturally to me. "Beware the wrath of a kind man." comes to mind. Another that comes to mind is this: "When your a God, you get a lot of requests: for spells, for miracles, for advice. You get to know a bit about your clerics, the kinds of things they tend to ask for. So when a voice you vaguely know suddenly asks for something that is unusual, it catches your attention." The kindly healer asking for the power to do harm will get attention. The brutal enforcer asking for the power to cure disease will get attention. The loyal Paladin rendering an ultimatum to their god for vengeance is going to be noticed. (For good or bad.)

I just added the list to the description :)

I live on the edge

Thank you, Dael! 😁

I'm a cleric IRL and I can relate to that description. 🤣

🤔 Hmmmm

So Paladins are firm believers in "right makes might," and since their conviction does in fact give them great power, they have strong evidence to believe that they are right even if they actually aren't.

Is it "good" to intrude on a kobolds lair and wipe out entire families? Is it "just" to attack a demon for existing? Is it "right" to claim a moral high ground and dare to preace about what YOU want to protect when you don't even consider the enemy? White knights are hypocrites. The devil you know just won't pretend. No one acts without self interest. As Samuel states, "Might makes right". Either you are STRONG enough to keep what's worth having. Or you are too WEAK to hold on to it. Morals won't change that.

Thank you so much!

Haha that’s a great way to describe those.

Wait, how are the Incredibles a passable analogy of Fighter, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue lineup? Granted, both Bob and Helen fit the bill as fighter, Dashiell is closest to the Rouge. Violet strikes me more as a sorceress (with only two spells known) first of all. Secondly, who among them would remotely fall under Cleric?

@@Lordmewtwo151 I admit it's a bit of a stretch, but I was looking for something to explain the team dynamic to a group of new, adult players, all unfamiliar with D&D. Violet works as an arcane caster analogy, if you don't look too hard 😉. Cleric is always hard to find analogies for in other media, as it's such a D&D-specific role. I was going for Helen in the "heart of the party" cleric role, rather than the healer or divine caster, but I do concede she's the most tenuous of the four 🙂.

@@bencarter1646 Fair. Regarding your point about Violet and arcane casters, I concede that, but sorcerers are *also* arcane casters (as are bards and I think Warlocks). As for Cleric, healing magic is a thing in other media, but characters with it are usually more in line with arcane casters than divine casters.

This is my current main bard. He *can* sing, and he *is* a musician. And he's proficient. But he's an orator. A storyteller. He uses music to back his stories. And he is a Blade bard. He's very good at stories with action and swordplay. Displays of fencing. A masterful stage fighter. But facing him in the real world with a blade is a nightmare. At low levels he's possibly more dangerous than a Fighter.

Yep, that’s really what distinguishes the wizard from the other classes.

Nothing that buffing Con through the roof and taking the Tough feat can't iron out.

And the dearth of good Thunder/Lightning spells.

Right? That's very much an Open Hand vs Drunken Master/Fist monk fight. And even the protag takes on like.. iron fist and hung gar, though he probably is more Kensei or Open Hand, with the former focusing on staff technique.

Settings! I can help with that. *The Forgotten Realms* are pretty much "D&D Classic" -- it's one of the oldest campaign settings and has a ton of lore, and sort of sets the mold for the medieval fantasy that base D&D strives for. There's people who are going to @ me for this take, probably, but The Forgotten Realms is treated as the "default" D&D setting. *Eberron* is basically a fantasy version of Post WWI Europe -- The old order crumbled after a great war and there's a tenuous balance, non-government organizations (the Dragonmarked Houses) are almost as powerful as the kingdoms, and new magical technologies have transformed all aspects of daily life. There's a lot of intrigue, and a lot of Casablanca-style gray and grey morality where heroes and villains aren't always clear-cut and there's a lot of Indiana Jones-style pulp adventuring. *Exandria* is the world that the campaigns of Critical Role are set in. It started off as a mostly-standard D&D setting, but has grown in complexity and lore over the years and now has an Enlightenment-era feel -- the world is entering a Renaissance period and emerging from the shadows of The Calamity, an ancient divine conflict. *Dragonlance* is Knights And Sorcery, and has a post-apocalyptic flavor. Following The Cataclysm and The Rain of Colorless Fire, the Gods almost completely withdrew from the world, and a lot of fantastical elements went away (Dragons and Clerical Magic among them). But now those things once lost are beginning to reemerge. *Ravnica* is a transplant from the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering, a plane that is one giant city. It is the ultimate urban setting, where ten guilds have a strong influence over daily life but are kept from dominating each other by a magical agreement called The Guildpact, though since The Guildpact is invested in a planeswalker who is often out wandering the multiverse, the guilds grow ever bolder when he's away and conflict ratchets up. Unlike many D&D settings, there's not a large emphasis on discrete Gods -- there's a church, but it functions more like a bank and a criminal syndicate with divine trappings. Some other settings you may have heard of: *Spelljammer* is Fantasy IN SPACE! A Spelljammer is a magical ship that can cross the endless expanse of the universe, so it's sort of the ultimate "sail to adventure" sort of setting. In Spelljammer, you can have pirate adventures one week, make port and have adventure in any D&D World another week, and then play around with Alien Weirdness and Negative Space Wedgies the third week. It can be very Pirates Of The Caribbean meets Star Trek. *Ravenloft* is a horror setting. The Dark Powers, mysterious entities with an unknown agenda, have pulled in villains from across the multiverse. Each of these villains finds themselves the lord of their own domian...but these domains are designed to torment them for whatever sins brought them to the Dark Powers' attention. Each Domain reflects a different sort of horror and tragic fate. For instance, Strahd, the most famous of the Darklords, is a vampire in the mold of Dracula, and his realm lives in terror of him -- but he is tormented with the reincarnation of a woman he coveted and could not have, and events always conspire to have her show up, him find her, and then circumstances snatch her away before he can claim her as his own. Thus, his obsession keeps him from real satisfaction. *Theros* is Xena & Hercules: The Campaign Setting. In a time of myth and legend, in a land of ancient gods, warlords, and kings, heroes take up the mantle of Champions of the gods, and travel the land performing mighty deeds. The Gods of Theros are super-active, and their rivalries and bickering can shape nations. The heroes are a cut above, blessed with special gifts and fates. There's plenty more (this is a 50-year-old game, after all), but these are the ones that have had the most done with them with D&D 5e.

Glad I could help!

That should be fun!

Yes! This. Understand the core but do with it what you like. As long as the DM is OK with it, of course.

for me it depends on how the players handle certain situations. not even healing if you could stabalize someone is certainly cruel except if you would end the fight in the next 1-2 rounds and patch him up later. DnD and PF has a history of "killing/CCing someone is the better healing" and this remains to be true afaik. so when I decide to cast a cure spell or a CC spell, the later one will almost always be the right coice unless I can literaly save someone from (almost) certain death or it is the fastest way to get him back into a fight. then there is the other thing, if a player thinks he can leeroy into every fight because someone else plays a cleric and suddenly strategic fighting is out of the window because there is a healer around. as a classic ex wow player, I developed a habbit to let those players get clobbed down, so they will learn for later events

Assuming you mean the MCDM Mystic? It takes me a while to make these videos so I'm holding off until the Mystic is finalized and officially published - otherwise, by the time the video comes out, they could be on their second or third revision. Once it's out, I want to do a video about the three MCDM classes, since they're also pretty popular and worth discussing.