Did you notice our 3 Secret Eugene Krabs throughout the video?

Such a clean build. Love how you get straight to the point. Sometimes I just need the idea of the build not a 30+ minute deep dive of every possible decision to make.

Another good way to use the net is with the quick toss maneuver, that let you draw and attack with it using a bonus action even when you didn't take the attack action before. In this build, the maneuver would be a nice way to cast fog cloud and restrain with the net all in the first turn of combat.

love this idea it really fits for a pirate/seafaring campaign I'm part of rn, and the fog cloud will work great in an area like the deck of a ship

This build is not only powerful and original, is even thematically incredible! A Triton that uses a Net and has a Giant crab pet, wow man I love it. This should be the goal of every build in dnd in my opinion. Wonderful.

Only other way to use net in my opinion is with the catapult spell

The Crab being named Eugene just makes me happy!

Damn, I love this! Never knew the old beast master had this in him. I watch a ton of build guides of both the more optimized and the more flavorful variety, but you’re pumping out some of the most interesting ones I’ve seen. Everybody can do a bugbear gloomstalker echo knight, but this is where I’d put my money.

This sounds like an awesome bounty hunter build for a DM to use against their players. Send one of these against your murderhobo players to let them feel the consequences of their actions.

I made a Kobold Beast Master with a giant crab companion. I gave it plate barding and had it tank while I shot enemies with pack tactics. Note that the original beast master adds PB on top of its AC so it stacks with plate barding. The crab would dodge and take opportunity attacks to grapple.

A strong net build I’ve wanted to play is an Eldritch Knight sniper. I take a one level dip into Artificer for Int Magic Stones, Mending and some more low level spell versatility. Then go full Eldritch Knight with sharpshooter. (I want to reflavor the magic stones as rifle bullets and imagine I’m reloading when I cast the cantrip) Choose two nets as your bonded weapons. Before you get extra attack, using your action to net is fair exchange. Once you get War Magic at 7th level, you can cast a cantrip like Mind Sliver and then bonus action a net. While you still need to use a lower Dex for the nets, you’ve got Archery FS and Sharpshooter AND familiars help action. Between the disadvantage on Dex savings throws while restrained, Mind Sliver, Silvery Barbs and eventually Eldritch Strike, enemies will fear for their saving throws. I present the Eldritch GunSlinger

Cool idea and cool flavor, but be careful with Fog Cloud in an actual game. It has the same drawback as Darkness where the rest of your group can't see targets in it, potentially leaving them either blinded or with nothing to do.

Hafling with the lucky feat the llucky feat says you can choose which dice to use, so disadvantages become tripple advantages

Welp, I found my back up character for my Theros game

Eugene crab😆Brovo on making a build from ranger that sounds fun to play an can keep up decently with others.

This is so sick

Battlemaster Fighter can use the net efficiently with the "Quick Toss"-Maneuver.

This is a very fun and flavorful build that is great at suppressing the enemies capabilities whilst still doing tons of stuff. Good job. Another similar build I will compare is one from DNDshorts where a circle of the moon druid casts fog cloud and turns into a giant spider. Something fun to combine with this build is the magic initiate feat as it lets you get find familiar so you can have a bat friend as well, though for the underwater theme you could do a quipper instead.

My favourite form of a "Mist Master" is Moon Druid that casts Fog Cloud and then wild-shape in Giant Wolf Spider. Giant Wolf Spiders have 10ft Blindsense >:)

I might steal this for an NPC bounty hunter in a Waterworld-esque campaign I'm cooking up.

My best strategy with the net is somewhat complex. My build is a Hobgoblin Aberrant Mind Sorcerer (a squishy caster with a melee centered weapon?! How dare you!) Prof in Net from Hobgob’s martial training. The two spells to look at here are Hex and Booming blade. Pull hex at level 2 from the Aberrant spell casting flexibility. All that in mind, also carry a quarterstaff. First round: bonus action to hex, target strength checks. This lets us actually roll a damage die if we hit with net. Then, action to booming blade through the net. Ideally you’d have a high enough strength to make it worth it but if not, use the Hobgob’s saving face to try not to miss the attack. This turn, you get a d6 nectrotic damage through the net that is now restraining the target. Hex is giving you a bonus to damage while also making the target’s athletics checks to escape at disadvantage. Even if they do escape, they’ve used their action to do so and if they try to move, that’s booming blade damage baby. Next turn if the target is still in the net, break out that quarter staff and booming blade the target at advantage due to restrained and still adding the hex’s d6 necrotic. You’re not damaging the net since it’s bludgeoning damage. Have fun with what I call, the Hex Piñata

Change net looks description bag and crab looks description into Reindeer and call yourself Santa Claus. Every time you catch someone "H Ho Ho I got you".

Nice build! 😊

Call this build the “Fisher of Men” featuring Triton Bruce Willis.

Petition to rename this build to 'Crabsbow expert' 👇

I'd have to homebrew it, but I've always wanted a Predator-style net launcher. Like something made with the consistancy of razorwire that can be launched from a crossbow or something that begins to constrict a grappled creature. This would fit this build and allow the Triton to incapacitate a creature and then focus on others that pop up if you find yourself surrounded

SMOKE BUILD!!!! Hell yeah I love it, well more misty but I LOVE IT!

To keep with the water thing a few levels in paladin the water one would give you a free fog spell that moves with you

Been reading Mistborn recently so this build deffo got me to subscribe

Nice build, thanks! I've played around with a Fog Cloud centered Beast Master as well. And I'd go with the Giant Wolf Spider, myself being a small race. This way you have a mount with Blindsight that can climb and has a rather powerful attack given the additional poison damage.

Cleric necromancer Twilight (to buff temporary hp) + Animate dead (to create a beefed up meat shild (With zombies you get 3× 22+1d6+7 hp buff)

What a out of the box built kudos bro! ☕️ Now I'm thinking druid barbarian grappler build. Wildshape into a giant crab and go ham on the mobs. Tho ..... giant octopus.... lol

You can also be a Druid cast fog Wild Shape into giant 🕷️ spider or something else with blind sight. Also a good idea be size short. Cast fog at height Medium if your entire party is size small fog is not a problem. Also go multi-class fighter Echo Knight blind fight pick up crossbow expert as well for the net.

I love the idea of this and as a DM I would allow it, but RAW says you command your PHB animal as an action, not as part of an attack action. You can see what the wording would be if it replaced an attack with the FToD dragonborn breath weapon.

I played that build, except I used Custom linage for at river / coast ranger. I like your underwater vibe better.

This isn’t really relevant to the video, but I thing I found out about yesterday is that Dragon’s Wrath Weapons can be any weapon. So if your DM feels like being a funny guy they can give the party a Dragon’s Wrath Blowgun or Net.

You have to make a magic net... Called Internet 😂

I had this exact build in mind but didn’t think about using Crab/Old Beastmaster. Not sure if I could bring myself to using it.

Super cool build, one note though, if you use your action to command the crab to attack, and then attack alongside it, you cannot use Crossbow Expert to attack with your Bonus Action, since you did not take the Attack action

This just proves that even the worst classes (rangers aren’t the worst class as long as you use custom rules from Tasha’s and other books, but the standard rangers are quite bad) and subclasses (revised beast master is good, but not standard) can still be used to make a fun, flavorful and powerful build.

Second attack....CRAB

BTW love how your giant crab looks like a kinglar (a pokemon)

Your videos have been very On Target. It's funny cuz a lot of the bills you've made recently are things I've been thinking about. Your creativity with races and spells are a bit more on point. I thought about making a flying art rebuild that uses darkness as part of its protection. Or if you can animate an object place darkness on it. That way you can keep the darkness away from those to the party while being hidden

One thing I noticed at 3:11, You can’t make another attack when you use the net because the rule is worded “Once you have the Extra Attack feature, you can make one weapon attack yourself when you command the beast to take the Attack action.” This paired with the way the nets rules are worded(When you use an action, bonus action, or reaction to attack with a net, you can make only one attack regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make) means that you wouldn’t be able to make a second attack on your turn with RAW. Personally I would let it slide with the characters affinity for nets but keep in mind that the rules would be against you on this one.

I know the video is slightly older now, but do you remember where you got the art from for the thumbnail? I'm playing an Eldritch Knight that uses this combo and I really like that art.

The main issue is simply this, you are not the only player, and players will get mad at you because your giving them all disadvantage making it harder for them to deal with the enemies and enemies often have multiple allies, you might restrain 1 or 2 but the others will move out, you cant move the fog cloud. so you might get 1 or 2 IF you hit, but if you end up low on the turn order your front liners are gonna be on the enemy, meaning you fog cloud you screw them over too

Hey, new sub here keep it up.

If only nets were a melee weapon with reach instead

Can you do a verdan goblin build i would like to see what you can come up with if you want of course?

Next, make the Moist Meister!

The often overlooked capstone of this subclass works even better with the haste spell. Now you use your hasted action for the net attack, 1 regular attack, eugene gets to use 3 attacks, your bonus action attack and we should still have enough room to dip 3 lvls of echo knight to action surge and make for more attacks.😊😂😅 Well if we are going with a nova build we could also consider a different races. My recommandation are either bugbear (heheh😂 yeti) or Fizbans silver dragonborn (to stay theme adjacent) as for the spells we can pick those up with 😂 Strixhaven Prismari or Quandrix (Quandrix is the better choice) (Lorehold is interesting though, since it gives spirit guardians that now means there's 2, 1 for you and 1 for your Crab) or Ravnica Rakdos Cultist (Orzhov Representative is interesting though same reason as Lorehold. Simic-Scientist gets you polymorph though 🤔 does the crab get to a high enough challenge rating?, that you could turn you both into a giant ape?😂😅 Edit: oh as for fog cloud that's already on the ranger spell list.😅

Xbow xprt, 3rd bullet: WHEN YOU USE THE ATTACK ACTION WITH A ONE-HANDED WEAPON, you can use a bonus action to attack with a hand crossbow you are holding. Beastmaster Ranger's Companion, 2nd paragraph: ... You can USE YOUR ACTION to verbally command it to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, or Help Action. If you don't issue a command, the beast takes the Dodge action. Once you have the Extra Attack feature, you can make one weapon attack yourself when you command the beast to take the Attack action. At no point does a Beastmaster use the Attack action with his pet. This was one of the principle complaints against the subclass from the beginning, as that distinction precludes the bonus action attacks from two weapon fighting, crossbow expert, and polearm master. Your also won't be benefitting from Hunter's Mark via the beast's attacks. Then there's the pet... Giant Crab has a +3 with 1d6+1 (avg 4.5) . A Giant Poisonous Snake (also 10ft blindsight) has +6 with 1d4+4 (avg 6.5) AND 3d6 poison, save for half (10.5 on fail, 5.25 on success). Even on a successful save, the snake does more than double the base damage of the crab. I know the whole grapple and restrained thing was a big part of the concept. But remaining in melee range of an enemy that you're not damaging enough to kill is just soaking unnecessary damage. The best condition to apply is dead, and that requires damage.

XD . I thought that i can only get one attack a turn using nets.

The one problem I see with this build is your allies can’t help you in the fog, I played a blind fighting Paladin/ rogue arcane trickster and I found out unless your allies can see the enemy they will not go into that fog unless they have the fighting style now not to say it’s a bad build but you also need to work with your allies on combos.

Where does it say that your fighting style is automatically gained by your animal companion? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

I've been thinking about adapting this build as a goblin with a swarm of bats re-flavored as horsefly's just for the sake of naming it fart goblin Suboptimal? Yes Funny? Also yes I'm a literal child

I guess this works if you're playing solo...

It is a net argument in favor of the ancien beast master

I can't believe you didn't call the build Mr Mister! 😆 I hope you will redeem yourself in a future video by using that name on another fogcloud/weather magic based build!

Net of returning lol

net uses strength to hit, right?

Ok people, tell me how you would rule this - Returning Weapon Infusion on a net. Is it: 1. A useless net Or 2. A net that hauls the restrained enemy to the thrower ?

I wonder if you took a level of forger cleric, if then, using the blessing of the forge to make the net magical, you'd make it much harder to destroy since then it's a magic item? Plus then if you hit a concentrating spell caster with your +1 net, they need a Con save...

Reskin the crossbow as a harpoon gun for a full aquatic theme

You took something that was the weakest part of the game to break the game and drive the DM crazy!!!!