Been playing a Monk for months and even I found this very useful. There's some things I didn't even realize I was missing, and explains so much about why my monk sometimes doesn't do much damage.

Bladesong is not sung with the mouth. It is the whistling sound made by the Bladesinger's whirling weapon. Bladesong would not be interrupted by using the dragon breath spell, nor would it preclude the use of the spell.

As for the role-playing of the specter; since it is forced to follow verbal commands, you can just Command it to Pass on. Or Flavor a "request" of assistance before doings so would be to augment your attacks with advantage. Or maybe you /have/ to do it to the BBEG. Instead of killing them, they are suspended until this "Pass On" command is given. Maybe they evade the mortal coil by finding a new body?

Thank you for doing what Wizard of the cost won't do.

Healer feat is good for grim games where Long Rests are days apart.

The Matron is a goddess who guards the boundary between life and death. I think she works much better as a focus of worship for a Grave Domain cleric than a warlock patron

I have this caotic evil edgelord hexblade character with the twist that he made a pact with a benevolent entity and he is forced to act like a lawful good and be a hero; so he is looking for a way to break his pact since he is actually having a mental breakdown cause there's no return clause NPC: "We are so grateful that you build this orphanage" PC: "I hope all of you burn inside that building" NPC "What?" PC: "I said that i hope that all the kids have fun inside that building"

I love this 😂 currently doing research for a upcoming campaign for a lawful evil and this just clicked for me. Already decided on a leonis as a race but currently struggling on the type of barbarian until now.

getting a swimming speed is very combat oriented. underwater combat comes with a ton of detrimental effects if you don't have a swimming speed.

Wanted to make the most good boy werewolf I could so my longtooth shifter barbarian had become the group baby

The most obvious race choice is Shifter. Perfectly fits the theme of the subclass, and the wildhunt variant is incredibly strong paired with Reckless Attack. Free advantage for one minute is amazing.

They don't always pick Hexblade.

i noticed something you didint put a tier up for hexblade. you mentioned it but didint slot it.

I am also in the minority with you that I think the Alchemist is simply fantastic! Forget damage, leave that to the mouth-breathers, I will take the versatility of the Alchemist any day of the week and twice on Sundays!

Ritual spells do not use a spell slot.

what are all the spells?

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Thankyou very much I loved this tutorial :)

Hi Rich, my name is Rich too and I play an aberrant mind Sorlock and I’m going to see what you have to say about my Uber optimised build

My first battle was at a wood workshop ya'll can probably guess what happend

Does psi-bolstered knack work for attack rolls?

Take 2 levels into wizard and go for necromancy and you get some pretty good buffs for when you use your high level slots and also finger of death becomes better

This looks similar to a class I used to play back in the day called Favored Soul. We modified it a bit to fit our campaign. We had an established world where we had brought down a deity in our previouse campaign (Epic Leveled characters from 3.5), and in our next one, my new character (at first unknowingly) got to grow into that position due to a celestial need to keep balance amongst the deities.

Moon is more powerful as a druid, stars is more powerful as a level 2 dip

Great guide!

Majula theme=like and follow

15lvl power is a bit under whelming

How does the battle master have more versatility than an unlimited teleport! 😂

I think you are really underestimating the power of psionic sorcery. 1. It is an even trade from spell slots to sorcery points. This allows you to cast your level 1 psionic spells without using up the spell slots needed for shield etc... This is especially amazing if you take silvery barbs and hideous laughter, as these have no upcast benefits, thus you want to be able to spam these spells while using only the minimum resources. 2. It gives you a free subtle spell on any spell cast this way. Not only does this save you 1 sorcery point from having to cast subtle spell, it also means you can avoid taking subtle spell at all, freeing up a different meta magic 3. It allows you to cast the spell without components, take summon aberration.

I'm about to play a life cleric! I wanted to play a character that had control, support and healing on lockdown so the rest of the party could kick ass!

It’s easy to rebrand with a Baba Yaga type Hag patron: The Hag lives in a wintery forest filled with mist shrouded, skeletal trees. Above her cottage a constantly circling flock of ravens. Whatever deal you made with her, she has sent one of her ravens as a constant reminder she is watching you…

This is exactly what I was talking about with my friends recently, dnd was made accessible to low income social outcasts who used it as an escape and third space until stuff like critical role came along, now bare minimum stuff like rules and player guides are a whopping 40$ EACH effectively driving out all the poor people looking for escapism who considered it a safe haven. Great video, clear calm and simple❤

Imma reflavor him as a dessert mummie type mage and add earth spells. Spores will be sandstorm

With oath spells are those the only spells Ik as a paladin?

Ohhhh that’s how you know how many spells I wasn’t truly getting it from the book but you have really made sense of it thank you!!

If I were to revise this subclass, I would change it to "Pact of the Reaper." You form a pact with a personification of death, a psychopomp, a deity who records the passing between the life and the afterlife.

Very misleading title. It says NEXT TO NOTHING about how to be a hexblade without being an edgelord. It's just an overview of the abilities of the hexblade, and suggestions on race and feats.

dip 2 levels into scribe and then you can change any of your spells so they trigger alchemical savant

Currently playing Rise of Tiamat as a lvl 10 paladin. Thinking of becoming a warlock as well as the pesky dragons keep flying away from me

Queen's Right Hand (14th) is basically a second 7th level Mystic Arcanum, and the spell is the kick the subclass is supposedly lacking. It's not lacking, it's right there. It's late but it's right there. Regarding the lack of combat stuff, if it was another class, I'd say sure, but the spell list has Spiritual Weapon, and it's still a warlock so we really cannot complain, there's Eldritch Blast, that pretty much nobody wants to _not_ use anyway, so it's safe to say that the subclass is good, combat wise. Something that someone else mentioned, Soul of the Raven is incredible (6th). You gain all the benefits from the raven being perched on your shoulder, so it can only be affected by AoE spells, cannot take damage, notably, but also, it lasts indefinitely if you decide so, and, you can (should) concentrate on a spell. Having the help action available is also nice, so you can be invulnerable, untargettable, flying around, helping allies, while concentrating on whatever you want, including Spiritual Weapon, Bane, Hex, and others. I personally find it great, the one thing I do agree with, is that the Raven Queen is a very specific entity, and could have been a little broader (something like "The Emissary") so it can be flavored. It can still be flavored, but still.

I found that Guardian of Nature is a fantastic spell to pair with this class. YOu can turn into either the Primal beast (primal fungus?) form to gain +10 ft movement, stack Longstrider with that and you get =20 ft movement to keep creatures within your halo of spores. You can also change itno the Great tree (Great mushroom) form and it turns 15 ft around you into difficult terrain, and you can still have the extra 10ft move with longstrider, so you can control a nice area and slow down enemies, and you gain bonuses on concentration and other saving throws. Then there are the zombies. :) they only have 1 HP, but it can force a fighter who doesn't have area of effect to be harrassed by 4 to 5 zombies, who culd grapple and bit him. The Temp HP are Temp, but are nice. Mechanically is one of the weaker druid classes, BUT, druids are strong, the extra spells are nice, and at the table, if you deep dive into the RP aspect of this, change spells names like Faerie Fire to Fungal Fire or maybe explain that Longstrider are the spores enabling you to move 10 ft. faster, or healing, etc, its very, VERY fun at the table !!!

Pleeeeease make a video about Eldritch Knight!

One note on a comment you made. There is no healer subclass for Wizard...

Can dancing lights be different color?

What if you were to give an artillerist the sharpshooter feat?

Thanks for the nice overview! I give Spore Druid a C+ mechanically, but A+ for flavor.

How can one combine gaseous form and cloudkill if they're both concentration spells?

There's one thing about this subclass that made it potentially broken at 6th level and beyond. Remember, the raven you get CANNOT be effected by damage or other harmful effects. And when you merge into it, YOU gain that benefit. Meaning you could literally be immune to ALL damage and harmful effects whenever you want to. Granted, you have to basically stay out of the fight (outside of the Help action anyway) to benefit from this. But you basically gain stronger version of the 9th-level invulnerability at will and no concentration! Wild.

People overlook the Alchemist because it has the least amount of damage thinking that that's the only thing a class/subclass is good for. No on both accounts. >>The level 1 feature, in my opinion, works a lot better with the Spell Points system (look at the DMG), as you don't waste higher level spell slots for more Elixirs >>The whole point behind the level 5 feature is so that it can still keep up good damage (but not GREAT) as to not be too outshined by its counterparts. >>Considering how many more enemies have negative ailments (both small and large), having 5 free casts of Lesser Restoration a day is GOLDEN. In addition, your healing elixir will go from 2D4+5 (an average of 10) health to what is effectively 2D4+2D8+10 (an average of 24) health. That's almost 2 & a half times more effective than before. >>At level 15, all Artificers will still be using level 4 spell slots (effectively a level 8 full caster) & yet the Alchemist will be able to cast a level 5 AND a level 6 spell for free and WITHOUT the need of a 500GP diamond. As extra fluff, the Poison & Acid resistance is great if you didn't already have resistance to it & immunity from the poisoned condition (as opposed to just advantage on saves like other classes/sub-classes/races provide) is great. My personal build on an Alchemist Artificer started off at level 8 & was a pseudo-Nemesis type character from Resident Evil. He ends at 21/14/20/20/10/8 with 243 average HP & 20+ AC. His artifacts are a Belt of Hill Giant Strength (instead of an actual belt it's a harness of tight tubes, vials & wires pumping mutagen steroids in his system), Improved Arcane Focus (the DM allows it to turn into a +3 at level 17 & THEMATICALLY functions as a portable alchemist tank & chemical launcher, akin to a flamethrower-bazooka hybrid), Ring of Free Action (to reinforce the idea of a large, imposing creature endlessly marching straight at you), Resistant Armor (Might as well add even MORE resistances to the mix), Boots of Speed (repeating what I mentioned with the Ring of Free Action), Cloak of Protection, Ring of Protection (loot, not an infusion) & a Homologous Servant. This lead me to having 11/8/17/17/6/5 on all of my saving throws which is a BLAST. The DM gives everyone a free non-half feet at level one but it has to be greenlit & you have to use an ASI at for instead of another feat. I picked Magic Initiate: Druid for Goodberry, Primal Savagery & Thorn Whip.

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