Why was my first thought seeing that name, "If the character only has one eye then they can be a Psyclawps!"

I think you just barely missed out on my absolute favorite bit of synergy between these two classes. Level 6 of Beast Barbarian (in addition to a 4th rage per day) gives you the option to increase your jump distance by the result of an athletics check. Given your probable Expertise in Athletics and eventual reliable talent, this character can also just do a standing high jump over 25 feet straight up, no action required. Peak performance is a running long jump that covers 57 feet, which you can actually make by taking a cunning action dash and still take the attack action at the end. The imagery of starting a fight, raging, and literally pouncing like 30 feet from a total standstill onto an enemy and mauling them is just fabulous.

Colby, these videos are like therapy and you’re one of my favorite content creators on the platform. Just hearing you say “welcome home” every video and then “Deep Diving” into the character build is a one two combo that, as Todd Howard says, “just works”. Thanks for all the hard work, creativity, humor, and fun you bring in every video!

Level 1:(see above) [barbarian 1 & race] Level 2:(see above) [barbarian 2] Level 3:(@20:16) [barbarian 3 & sub-class] Level 4:(@23:08) [barbarian 4 & ASI] Level 5:(@23:20) [barbarian 5] Level 6:(@25:31) [rogue 1 & expertise] Level 7:(see above) [rogue 2] Level 8:(@30:46) [rogue 3 & sub-class] Level 9:(@36:15) [rogue 4 & ASI] Level 10:(see above) [rogue 5] Level 11:(@39:06) [rogue 6 & expertise] Level 12:(@39:35) [rogue 7] Level 13:(@40:05) [rogue 8 & ASI] Level 14:(see above) [rogue 9] Level 15:(@43:45) [rogue 10 & ASI] Level 16:(@45:05) [rogue 11] Level 17:(@45:39) [rogue 12 & ASI]

A good monster for your Psiclaw tribe to pattern themselves on is the Umber Hulk, a classic D&D baddie that is known for having massive claws and a level of psychic affinity. They have been core monsters to D&D for some time now and thus would be pretty reasonable for a barbarian tribe with psionic tendencies to emulate.

☠️ We are ALWAYS watching. But yeah I love this build but wish it could benefit from more. Honestly, Gem Dragonborn thematically fits as a race so well here, I think. The psychic blades mixed with the physical claws of a dragon is just so amazing to me.

My first thought from the title was "so if Jean and Wolverine had a kid?" Excited to watch. Cheers!

You could totally flavor as having ties to a *Gem Dragon.* Harness the power of gem dragons with your draconic claws and psionic abilities.

I'd like to see your take on a Battle Master multiclass that focuses on lots of different ways to manipulate foes in combat via forced movement and status effects (like shoving and/or pulling, tripping, fear effects, impose disadvantage, etc) to give them more to do in combat than just attack to deal damage and make martial fighting more fun and versatile.

These thumbnails just keep getting better and better! Dual weapon fighting is such an iconic style, it’s a shame that even after all these years of 5e, it still takes so much work to make it even come close to just using a greatsword or a bow. But I look forward to hearing you use it to the fullest extent!

Our table made a homebrew feat that let's a dual wielder take a -5 to hit to make a dual strike, where you hit with both weapons at the same time (using only the higher hit modifier and damage modifer of the 2 weapons). Pretty decent with regular weapons, but the potential goes through the roof if you have magic weapons.

Tuesdays are my favorite, thanks Colby. 🎉

I really appreciate coming back to your videos even years past when they are uploaded. I truly feel like I'm welcomed home pulling up these videos.

I'd personally go with Plasmoid. The prospect of entering a locked room via the keyhole and then proceeding to grapple everyone and kick all kinds of ass without any equipment whatsoever is something I've been brainstorming ideas about since i read about them in UA, and this seems like the perfect opportunity for it.

The split claw/axe extra attack does indeed work, there is no foul there, i think Crawford Twitter has even reinforced that before

Wait a second, did you just make Psylocke/Gallade into a D&D build?! I'm SO ready for this!

i would like to personally thank you and your voice for helping me get to sleep early for the first time in months.

☠ Soulknife is one of the classes I would really love to play sometime. Thematically, seems very cool and fun. I'm glad Wizards is looking at ways to fix Two Weapon Fighting in One D&D!

I love that I knew exactly what the core of this build is gonna be the moment I saw the title.

I love this one! I would definitely make the psychic blades look like extensions of my claws.

My first thought with regards to tying the two classes together is to theme the bestial shifting as biokinesis, wrapping everything into the psychic side of things.

☠️ Love all your videos and the outtakes are the best! Excellent taste in music and tshirts!

I haven't been able to find a good group to play with recently and your videos have kept me interested and ready to play. So thanks for that 😁

I saw the short yesterday and immediately knew what was gonna happen :) Very much looking forward to this episode

I said I was excited when I saw the teaser for this build, and I was NOT let down! This build may not have the most damage but it does look so fun to play and it will be a character I play at some point, though not any time soon since I am currently playing a rune knight fighter/bear totem barbarian build. edit: ☠because I was told to do it at the end of the video.

Barbarian 6 seems really crucial for this build to make sure your claws do damage to all creatures. Also you get a pretty cool jumping ability that works really well with your crazy athletics skill.

I found the time for another marathon of these builds!! Starting with the newest ones going backwards! Love the content, your ideas for builds always inspire the characters I make! Keep it up Colby!!! ❤

Am I the only one that likes to think of the Beast Barbarian subclass as THE subclass for all the beastial races, like Leonin or Lizardfolk? I mean, they already have claws, fangs, and a tail. It really makes that character seem like just a beast and not lycan, and I love that.

Thanks Colby - so much fun to learn about your builds!

I love your outtakes ☠️❤️ keep up the great work with these builds, this is one I'm gonna have to try

Ive literally been waiting for you to make this build ever since Tasha's came out! love using dhampir as race in this build.

☠️ - I ALWAYS watch the outtakes. This character concept might be my favorite so far. Can’t wait to hit my player’s warforged battle smith artificer with 4 attacks!

Your shirt in this episode is amazing!

Amazing video as always, I love that despite being the "slave to the spreadsheet" type, not every new sustained DPR build has to top the last one on the spreadsheet and you're just as content a hundred plus episodes later making something that sits near the bottom but would be really fun to play. One quick note about something you said in Final Thoughts: The psychic blades can only be manifested by taking the Attack action, so another PC allowing you to get a reaction attack wouldn't allow you to get Sneak Attack damage because those abilities say you can "make one weapon attack", not take the Attack action.

This is the first time I actively didn't skip your ad. I think I'm gonna buy some minis!

Man, Colby. Every week! It's just so amazing! Thank you so much, brother.

Very clever build. Way to turn the malus of only being able to claw once per turn and only being able to psychic blades once per turn and making it work for you. Hats off.

Displacer beast? Fits well with the teleportation, as well as flavouring the claw attacks as tentacle strikes maybe

Awesome character idea as always. Eldritch claw tattoo would be a great item for this character

Commenting during the ad at the beginning before the video starts because I know this is going to be awesome as per usual.

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ I don't know my favorite part of your videos. Can't decide between the amazingly fun build or the outtakes

So I'm playing a character similar to this- a path of the Beast barbarian (level 6). My utilization of the bonus action isn't Psi Claws, it's Tavern Brawler, I then combine my Jump 6th level feature with my Tabaxi speed boost to jump into the air and drop the enemy. After just trying this out for the first time, we rolled a random treasure and we got a ring of Jumping.... I haven't even begun to calculate the mayhem I can cause with this now! Anyhow, given me some food for thought, I hadn't considered Rogue previously; my intent was to go Ranger for spells that increase my movement speed.

Always love your videos! Your voice is very soothing, yet your enthusiasm is at the same time invigorating. Also, I enjoy the outtakes (☠️) and your sense of humor. Have a blessed day!

This build was amazing. Cannot wait to share this with my party,

Gotta say, this build sounds so fun. What a great find and design! Nice one Colby :)

Welp! This just jumped to the top of my characters to play list. Love the concept and the flavor! 10/10 Chefs kiss! Also ☠️

Flavor your blades as claws that manifest over your regular claws. First attack is regular claw, then your other hand grows psionic claws for the second attack, which empowers your first attack hand with psionic claws for a third attack, then you finish with the depowered hand used in the second attack. Also, flavor the thrown blades like you shot a claw out. This character isnt going to be a front line fighter but it will be more of a utility skirmisher. Especially if you take the mobility feat. Berserker Barrage in and through.

☠️ Oh yeah, the outtakes are awesome 😊 Great build, Colby, thanks!

☠. I never miss them. In addition, this has also made it to the top of my next playable list. Perfect balance between optimization, creativity, and flavour. Amazing!

I've actually been theory crafting a character like this, except instead of Rouge levels, I'm multiclassing into the Homebrew Pugilist class with Squared Circle subclass to become a ferocious grapple beast

The best part is right before the vid begins and my mind is flooded with ideas on what he's gonna have for us. Edit- A few minutes in, and this is going to be FASCINATING to revisit after the OneD&D changes to dual wielding.

Finally! I made this build a long time ago, excited to see your take on it!

I was so amped for another twf build after yesterday's short. Woohoo!

☠️ the outtakes are the best part of my week, 10/10 content right there

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh it's the build I'm literally playing, I'm so so happy this video exists. Tiny bit suprised we aren't going con 16 at the start.

Aww yes! A beast barb with a bunch of attacks build. I would have love monk but this is so fun too!

Your best thumbnail yet. And I'm always hyped for Beast Barbarian.

My favourite race for beast barbarian is Tabaxi. If you can find some way of getting the jump spell (feat, multiclass or ally) then you can use the 6th lvl jumping feature, feline agility and athletics expertise to jump like 100ft+ into the air. Imagine jumping into the air and grappling a flying target so you both fall to the ground.

What a stellar combination

"My life for Aiur" the character

This is a good job. Though I may add tht a couple of tattoos are in brand and can help a bit with this hybrid- lifewell (so you drop to 1), Eldrich Claw (making your claws +1 magic and once a day letting you use blade and claw tacks fully at 15’ radius with d6 force) among others.

So many Rogue/Barbarians lately, absolutely love it!

Your voice is really soothing and it works as ASMR for me lmao. You’re amazing and so is your content

Yes! I love this class combo. Ive made like 5 of them in DNDbeyond haha.

I had this character on the docket for my next campaign! So happy to see your take on it. Me, I’ll be rushing level 6 Barbarian for the climbing speed. My “vision” for the character is a jaguar-esque shifter who grapples someone, dragging them up a tree and dropping them before pouncing.

This was one of my favorite builds I've played. The stark contrast between the psionic techniques and primal aspects made for such a fun character. Fantastic build and video, d4! Love your work! Edit: "Stark contrast," not "starch" :]

In my game, I had a player who was a Beast Barbarian/Brutality Monk(homebrew subclass I made where he can spend Ki to take damage, which buffs his attacks) and I remembered thinking of all the items I could have given him. He was a Leonin from a tribe that worshipped the Dawnfather, and eventually he got a tribal horn from ancients past that gave him some crazy abilities. One of them was getting 1d8 radiant damage... on EVERY attack. I was fully aware of how strong it would be(barb 3/monk 17 after all) and so making 3 claw attacks + 2 unarmed strikes as a bonus action was an insane damage bump for him. They were in Tier 4 after all, they were all OP. Edit: oh and I forgot, ☠

Such a bad ass synergy ☠️.Have never wanted to play either class tbh, but definitely want to try this combo.

☠ definitely going to be using this build with some tweaks (mobile & sentinel) in a one-shot a friend of mine is going to run in December which is currently TBD on level but somewhere between 8th-12th. basing her off of Cerise Hood and going to be a fey werewolf w/soulknifes re-flavored as fey magic psychic claws. I even have an old Slayer of Domiel mini to use complete w/red cloak of monster hide. Perfect 😍

Finally I got to watch this one. Really nice concept. ☠ That was a great include.

Yes, I was so psyched when I saw the buff to 2-weapon fighting in the UA! One of my greatest D&D inspirations has always been Drizzt Do'Urden, and you just can't build him in 5e in a way that is actually as powerful as he should be.

☠️ I’m new, and now I’ll be watching the out takes… especially for more serenades

Who is this handsome man with imagination, intelligence and such a smooooth delivery?

I really enjoyed the video. I had once looked at doing a similar build with zealot Barbarian, crusher feat, and unarmed fighting style.

The beast I have come to mind for this build would be a panther. I imagine this character sitting in a tree, or above in general, patiently waiting to launch their ferocity on their prey. As always, love your videos and keep up the wonderful work!

I was planning on playing a Loxodon shield master that you did a build on before. His beast barbarian background was caused by a draconic patron of his village. Most became draconic bloodline sorcerers but he didn’t manifest magic but draconic rages. His first transformation was to manifest the bite, claws and tail of a dragon but thereafter he was able to hold more control and now only manifests one. This character could be transforming due to the influence of an emerald gem dragon, becoming more draconic at times whilst eventually manifesting psychic powers.

I think the Crysmal - might be the optimal psionic creature … they are very tough a trait a barbarian tribe would prize and they have psi powers … also for flavor your claws could manifest as crystal

☠This sounds like it would feel so freaking cool to play! I think it's shot up to the top of my list as well.

☠ Love staying for the outtakes! Sometimes I look up the songs you sing, if I don't know them already.

Just finished work, brilliant timing Colby

I started adopting this build for a campaign I'm in, and I want to propose a couple updates to it that I think are pretty powerful and fun, but still keep the mechanical concept in mind. I imagine a noble that was cursed, turning him into a beast, and as he becomes more ferral, his body becomes more rotted start fighter 1, and take two weapon fighting (if you dm won't let you use your claw as a light weapon, then take a level in monk at second level, and take defensive fighting at level 1. You will take a hit to your AC doing this, because you won't be able to wear plate armor, but for the sake of numbers....) take barb 5, and get your subclass, and take slasher feat. take 2 levels of circle of spores druid. This gives you 1d6 on every attack roll, which is 4 per turn at this level (8), and gives you a reliable thing to use your reaction for even if 2d4 is pretty small, it's something. take fighter 3, and take champion. Yes, this is boring, but you already have reckless attack, and a huge + to hit, so the crits at 19 are just so powerful At this point, we go back to barb and take it to lvl 9. This will get you magical attacks on your claws, so you get around the resistances, and it will give you brutal critical. take 1 more level of fighter if you want for the asi. you may be able to make the case to your DM that unarmed fighting should count for your claws, although this build is still strong without this. If you can get this though, your damage increases a lot. if your dm allows this, I would even consider taking this at barbarian 8, and then maxing strength, just so you can get more use out of brutal critical At this point, you are level 14, and can go a few routes for your last 2 levels. You can either continue in barb, to get some utility with relentless rage and infectious attack, or you can take 2 more in druid to get your wildshapes to return on a short rest, which makes your damage much more sustainable. You may notice I took slasher at lvl 5, and not with custom lineage. This is because I think there are 2 better options for race. Either take bugbear, mainly for the reach, but if you ever do get initiative over someone else, you will pretty much one shot them, or take shifter, so you can nullify the advantage enemies get on you because of reckless attack. I think both of these options are both thematically better than custom lineage, but also mechanically more powerful. as for magic items, if you can get your hands on an insignia of claws.... This version of the build still gets the 4 attacks, except you can also action surge to get 5 if you ever get to use your bugbear surprise attack, (assuming you rage as a bonus action) so you have pretty decent nova damage options. This also gives you a much better damage scale, as you will consistently increase in damage throughout the game, instead of the psyclaw falling off after like 11.

I understand that Colby wants to hone in on the *sustained* dpr for this build but I would probably start taking levels on fighter at level 9 to get action surge and maybe add some other damage dealing elements like rune Rune Knight

In fact Tri-kreen and longtooth shifter could both do this trick without multiclass. If you're a tri-kreen, you could hold a shield, two short swords for two-weapon fighting, and one empty hand for the claw transformation. If you're a longtooth shifter, you could use your shift ability and instantly make a bonus unarm strike with your fangs and continue to do it in the following turns. Both methods make a 1d6+str attack instead of 1d4+str. But for Tri-kreen you would need a two-weapon fighting style.

I'm on my computer so I can't do a skull and crossbones but I can tell you that I always watch the outtakes. XD

I appreciate listening to your builds. It really kicks my character building into gear. Hoping for a harengon graviturgy wizard someday. ☠️

☠️! Thanks for making Tuesdays awesome Colby!

Your thumbnail is awesome!

very cool video love the character concept, just want to point out the psychic blades ability says "Whenever you take the attack action, you can manifest a psychic blade from your free hand and make THE attack with that blade."

This is for sure the next character I’ll play. I’ll probably go Simic Hybrid just for even more beast type flavor with added utility from the glide they get. ☠️

☠Skull and crossbones ! Of course we watch outtakes. This is the part where you sing !

Longtooth Shifter has a bonus bite attack

"shoot claws that grow back later" There was a thing for that in earlier editions. There were mechanics for "fleshgrafting", and one of teh options for it was a "fiendish claw". It dealt 1d6 slashing damage? I think. It worked as a natural weapon, and you could fire off your 3 nails, using "magic missile" as a supernatural ability, once a day.

I was originally kinda skeptical of this build thematically, but after your description of the tribe, I'm now thinking of a civilization of Tritons or Sahuagin that are in some close contact with an Aboleth or other eldritch entity of the depths and I'm now very excited to put it in my aquatic campaign!

Fantastic and fun build I never considered. (I always watch the outtakes, mostly to hear you sing ☠️)

YES COLBY BACK WITH ANOTHER UPLOADDD!!!

☠️ of course we watch all the outtakes ❤️

Your idea to allow the use of rage in return for Exhaustion is genius. I wish they'd implement this for all limited features...

A version of this build I tinkered with a while back when Spelljammer launched used the Thri-kreen. You can hold a shield in one of your main arms, attack with the claws on your other main arm, and then do the Soulknife shenanigans on the small arms, still getting all the same number of attacks, but with the added defense and utility of the shield (I took Shield Master on the build). Was fun to tinker with.

Nice Job Colby! Currently playing a build similar to this. Surprisingly tanky and great DPR! A suggestion for you to up those DPR numbers, take level 6 in Barbarian, use the Jump feature from Beast Barbarian to add Fall damage. I would also suggest Bugbear from MOM, all those sweet attacks get an extra 2d6 on round 1!

On an asside, you got me curious about a build: Start with a C Lineage (with Crossbow Expert) Rogue wielding two hand crossbows. Then complete it with Sharpshooter, a pair of +3 hand crossbows, and +3 bolts. Now you have a dual wielding gunslinger with two 1d6+16 cannons before Sneak Attack.