I'm pretty sure elves CAN be charmed, they just have advantage on their saving throws. (Their immunity is against sleep effects, magical or mundane.)

Not a mistake but the synergy with this class and the new unarmed fighting style can’t be underestimated. Being huge fixes a lot of the issues with grappling so just being effectively a 30ft tall Incredible Hulk just Loki’ing any enemy smaller than Huge is definitely possible.

I would definitely play this class, having runes that help you customize your Fighter makes it very appealing. I hope WoTC add more runes, with a little work it could be the first constitution based caster in the game.

Another comprehensive video! I'm so torn between rune knight and psi warrior, both are super cool fighter subclasses.

Really appreciate how you have the video timeline organized

I made a rune knight stout halfling. so far one of the most fun chars ive ever played. the con bonus really helps and the fact that I have bonus stuff at being large AND small really makes RP fun.

Genasi i think its pronounced jen-ah-see as in genie

Two interesting uses of this subclass, in my opinion are: 1. Get as much reach as possible. That means getting possibly a bugbear and polearm master feat! The upgrade in size to Large and later Huge combined with the reach will allow you to control a huge area of the battlefield. Just polearm master is probably enough, honestly, if you don't enjoy the flavor of the Bugbear. Building defensively, possibly with Sentinel, will allow you to be a strong defender for your casters, simply because you're so hard to pass through! 2. Synergy with Tavern Brawler feat and Unarmed fighting style! This is the Rune Knight i will be making. Giant's Might allows you to have advantage to Grapple the target, Tavern Brawler allows you to grapple as a BA and Unarmed Fighting Style not only frees up your hands while keeping your damage competitive, also allows you to deal damage to a grappled target for free. Something inside of me feels really satisfied when picturing a Huge Dwarf grappling puny enemies and flicking them. Both these setups alongside Runes of Fire and Stone will provide you with solid control of the field, possibly being a very effective tank. Rune Knight sure isn't the best damage dealer archetype but to me it seems like it is going to be super annoying for the enemies to get through it in order to reach the casters.

Very well explained! Keep up the great content!

Lovely review, thank you!

This sub class seems incredibly fun to play from the start to the finish of a campaign! The abilities and the origin of the Rune Knight’s features are interesting and cool.

One thing to be noted about Rune Knight is it can apply the most single target incapacitation attempts in a turn as far as I am aware. This is fantastic for doing things like eating up legendary resistances to end a fight instantly, or to shut down multiple high priority targets. The thing about the runes is they generally just win action economy in the turn 1 of combat sense. Stone rune is a reaction that can be used before you even get to your turn in initiative to attempt to incapacitate. At the point in which you get 2 casts of fire rune, those can both be used on the same turn provided you hit with at least 2 multiattacks (and can be applied with ANY weapon attack, not just melee). Bonus action's best use is variable, but one way to use it is to cast storm rune to give enemies disadvanatage to saving throws on any effect has already afficted them, making it more likely to maintain a stun lock. Given they run on your Con modifier, you don't have to commit to any stat that you wouldn't otherwise use to improve the DC on these runes. Also, you have action surge. The best way to make use of action surge imo is to multiclass into Costal Druid of Land for 5 levels. This gives you access to fantastic spells to improve both your survivability and your stun lock ability. This includes web, entangle, earthbind, misty step, hold person, conjure animals, and mirror image, to name a few, as well as goodberry and healing word to help your friends. This build gives you access to the ability to turn one in combat do: stone rune, double fire rune, any spell that would incapacitate, then another stone rune as a reaction, all on the first run of initiative. That is 5 different saving throws you force an enemy to make, all of which take an enemy out of the fight, and it is possible to make most of those saving throws have fantastic DCs only by getting Con. Obviously this is more than would be necessary for most fights, and it does expend all your resources quickly, but it is the most "burst single target CC" you can get on a single character in the game. It destroys bosses that aren't immune to said conditions simply by means of making them incapable of doing things. All of this is recovered on short rests too, the spell slots even as long as they are 1st or 2nd level. Given, to get the full power of this build, you need a high level. But, I still think its worth mentioning just how turn efficient rune knight can be, even if the resources run out quickly. It makes for a really cool alternate tanking style, where you tank by making the enemies incapable of attacking in the first place.

I feel like all of the giant casts with level 3 runes are very upset that their runes are considered lesser than a HILL GIANT! Also runic shield can and will cause someone to get crit.

This subclass and warlock on the same party: okey we finished a fight let's rest a little grabs a snack.

If you have any caster in your party capable of casting enlarge or pick Duergar as race, you can grow to huge at lvl3 and gargantuan at lvl 18

I will play one of these today. Thank you for the video :)

playing a rune knight with the new giant feats, its awesome

I am so using this with a Kobold

Thank you for the video!! I'm playing a lizardfolk rune knight at the moment, but just reading all the info was too much, so much easier to process in audio/ video format ^.^

Hey I just found your channel because of your life cleric video I really enjoy your content You are doing the best guides if found out there And you have the perfect voice to do so Pleas keep it up Hoping for more subclasses guides from you

Fun fact rules as written the rune shield will stack with disadvantage.

A cool race to make your RUne Knight would be a Dragonborn imo, with some slight buffs (can highly recommend the Warrior's Codex Reforged for this)

My firbolg just hit rune knight. He is already 7ft tall. He will be massive by the end if it

While I do like this subclass, what I really hated was that the rune aspect was kinda underrepresented. It's more "giant Warrior" than "rune knight", and while I get lorewise why this happened, honestly, I'd prefer both of these themes separated. I'd prefer more abillities focused on the runes themselves probably giving each more uses (depending on the rune) and SPECIALLY more types of runes, not only those based on the types of giants. Example of abillities I was sure a rune Knight would have: 1. inscribing a rune on the ground that causes a explosion when stepped on. 2. Inscribing runes on two surfaces and making the energy transfer between: you hit one, and a part of the damage transfers to the other. 3. A rune to make things heavier and enemies slower. 4. A runes that make normal magic unusable in a given area 5. Runes that implants a command on someone 6. Runes that create golems. Maybe I'll look for some homebrew. Or make some.

I actually made a rune knight centaur that’s based on the lynels from botw.

The Frost Rune is great for a grappler build.

You literally put me to sleep sir. Thank you I was tired...

No wonder I didn’t know about this class. Didn’t realize it was new. I’m Duegaring this thing, of course! Let’s get it.

What I hoped for was to see if the possibility of adding the Rune Knight into my Spellblade build would be beneficial; I'm 50/50 on it. My attempt is to RP the magical sword Crystalis (based on the old NES video game of the same name) and the Rune Knight`s runes DO possibly allow for it, but I'd have to work it in with 3 more subclasses for it to work properly: 1. Eldritch Knight fighter 2. Hexblade warlock 3. Evocation wizard The list may very well continue since I'm still in the R&D of it in order to make sure all of the bugs are worked out.

Fire and cloud/stone rune at 3 Fire, Storm, and Hill runes at 7 switching out cloud/stone ...I think I'm liking that switching out thing...

I wanna make a gnome, halfling, or a goblin that by level 18 becomes huge! That'd be so funny/fun!

my bugbear lancer would like to know the location of another +5 reach

So, I picked up the magic initiate feat to get access to the enlarge spell along with things like guidance which allows me to effectively become huge or gargantuan for a minute a day.

Good video, but you spelled Genasi wrong and the part with the frost giant had weird formatting, particularly with the image that was only partially moving. The stone rune had a similar issue as well. But still a good video overall! well done!

hmm, I'm thinking Firbolg or Goliath, Superior Technique-Lunge, Lance and Rapier, and then take Martial Adept at lvl 4 for Parry and Riposte

Going to go Rune Knight 17 and Totem of the Bear Barbarian 3 most likely, for some fun damage reduction and nasty damage output.

Subscribed today sorry I thought I already had but I hadn't.

Made a rune knight juggernaut warforged fighter. Has max strength and due to being what it is can carry over 1000 pounds. Also has a maul and near max con.

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Eventually I'm going to be in a campaign that has the transformations in the grim hollow book so I'll be playing a winged tiefling Hexblade warlock (primarily) and I'll get the fiend transformation and I'll be taking 3 lv's of fighter for rune knight so I can get the deceptive nature for the fiend down (cloud rune) and gain access to infernal chains (fire rune) so that once I reach the 3rd rank of the fiend transformation I can get access to a boon that grants me a weapon of my choice that can be from the simple or martial list that does slashing damage and it will turn the damage type to fire so I'm going to be going with greatsword and the boon gives the blade an extra 2d6 fire damage so I'll basically have a flametongue greatsword as a boon so my battle plan would be to hit an enemy once to get them in chains hit them again action surge to hit them 2 more times while I benefit from the enemy being restrained and if anything tries to hit me I'll have them hit their chained friend with cloud rune and if I were to kill someone I suck out their soul and have them be a hexblade's spectre

Would be cool to see a fairy rune knight. be as big as a thumb, then suddenly large/ huge sized. LMAO!

3:45 Gensai...? I hate to be THAT GUY, but it's Genasi. (jen-aw-see). BTW.

Can they be places on a tortle’s shell?

I played this class last week on an one shot A goblin dex fighter with clud and fire runes First thing we done was hold Person on an orc boss and let him burn to death 😁 A little later the cloud rune safes our cleric from 3 apes And than the not little anymore goblin has to fight a dire wolf and a bed dragon!! Nearly alone... But it worked rly well 😁

This class totally breaks the grappling rules.

"Your reach increases by 5 feet" Now imagine playing this as a Bugbear while using a lance. That's a reach of 15 feet.

Take grappler feat, use giants might, then have a wizard cast enlarge on you. You can now grapple dragons, terrasques, or even Tiamat. Lol

have you considered a Fairy Rune Knight? enlarge/reduce + giant's might tho, mfn Ant-Man

"Gensai"

Hear me out, a stick inscribed with a stone rune and you now have THE STICK OF TRUTH

A goliath and a gnome rune knight duo and the gnome is furious when the goliath grows taller too.

An orc or Goliath rune knight could get the tavern brawler feat, go big, grab a medium creature, and go clubbing.

Gensai = Genasi*

I hate this subclass with a passion. It's incredibly broken if you're DM doesn't change the game to nerf it. Here's an idea: Either steal a large creatures weapon or just pay a blacksmith to make you a weapon sized for a large creature. Before fighting drop it on the ground. Then once you're enlarged pick it up and start striking people with your giant double dice weapon with your rune knight damage bonus.

xXxARTHASxXx

I'm very sorry but Genasi*

I’m once again disappointed. While it has a strong start, it just pitters off as you grow. I’m most disappointed in the giants might ability. Low B or high C rank. Great video though!

Watch it before playing RK my ass, give me one reason i should watch that before playing RK, like, seriously, you just read classes abilities and then give it a rating... Not to mention itd be faster to read it yourself, but then you wouldnt know its A tier.