Видео

1) a grappler can help with crowd control, keeping enemies in place and making them easier to hit for your friends. Having decent crwod control also makes you a better tank. If you can't pin an enemy down somehow, or keep their attention, they can just ignore you and run towards the squishy mage and punch him all day long. 2) you can still hit stuff while grappling, just leave 1 hand open. 3) Fun, not every build has to be aimed at outputting the most damage. 4)Having the possibility to grapple enormous creatures is just bloody epic.

@@Mr.Wizard101 I should indeed use timestamps on more of my videos. In my head this one was too short to bother, but I forget how handy they are.

Hunter is the better of the phb subclasses, but lacks scaling. Colossal slayer is only ever 1d8/turn, later similar mechanics scale their dice better. Horde breaker is great if the enemy clutters a lot. Variant human is often a better pick, but I steer clear from it on purpose. There are very few builds that don't become better with a free-pick feat at lvl 1, but it also becomes really boring really quickly for me to build around that. I like showcasing other races a bit more than just saying "picky vary human with feat x" every build video. It's true that some builds can steer parties towards a certain playstyle, but gloomstalker is not that decisive (devil's sight for sure has a stronger impact). The single ability that revolves around darkness should not decide the entire playstyle. It's just a nice exploration boon to have.

Glad to be of service! Let me know how it turns out.

I'm doing the same currently about to get 3rd level of warlock before the dip into rogue. How's your build going

@@iSplits I'm not really a min maxer so I didn't go bugbear and such, but I'm still lvl one close to lvl 2.. trying to decide if I should go straight into warlock or a few more lvls in rogue first..

​@@pervyelftahk4568 yea I went worlock first to focus on the hexblade damage and hexblade curse before I move rogue for sneaky stuff. I'm a Githzerai so get a free mage hand misty step and shield as I level up. Works well for survivability as Ur limited with only 2 worlock spell slots

​@@pervyelftahk4568 I'd say stick to rogue until you pick up your subclass, that's usually a big power bump well worth taking first.

I'm an absolute e rpg virgin when it comes to 40k, but I love the warhammer orcs in all of their incarnations!

Belgian! Only native English speaker in my environment is a Scot though, let's blame him.

Thanks! A compliment from people who spend their time helping people design inns and other players effortlessly counts double to me :D. Yeah, giving players some miniscule details to hyperfocus on can be fun. Gives them opportunities to add to the story.

@@TheAtticDungeon. Totally agree!

What you say about pack tactics is true, I worded it a bit poorly. Battlesmith can be a mounted class indeed, if you play a small race, but they don't really get any support for it, so you can pick up some things here and there to make it work. It's definately fun. I play a Dwarven Battlesmith atm, and he gets on his goat after he has Enlarged it and has a cool interaction because I have a Saddle of the Cavalier, so there's fun to be had with the disadvantage that gives combined with the disadvantage the Steel Defender can give.

​@@TheAtticDungeon. Sorry, but the steel defender using its reaction every turn to protect its rider is already way more support to the mounted playstyle that the cavalier ever gave. And the steel defender also can be healed by its creator with mending. Quite the contrary: the cavalier cannot protect or heal its mount, cannot fight better while mounted, the mount cannot protect it. It's only mounted feature is that it can move 10-15 more feets after dismounting and have a little higher chance to not fall prone when its mount dies, which in most cases doesn't matter because the enemy either doesn't have more attacks to use while its prone or the horde of enemies catch up and finish the rider anyway. And also a mount dying is so rare that it happens only a handful of times in a year long campaign. The cavalier is a joke as a mounted combatant. Even a ranger or eldritch knight is better who uses its spells to buff its mount with its spells.

@@gaborbazso7812 Ranger for sure is a better mounted combatant with that drakewarden subclass. I think the only downside to the Battlesmith is that you need to play a small race to consistently use your Steel Defender as a mount (if not homebrewing/ getting constant back up from spellcasters or handing out your fancy lvl 11 spell storing feature to the fighter so he can cast enlarge on your mount and keep concentration for that on him.) But I completely agree that the cavalier is more about crowd control than being a mounted knight. Poorly chose name because they wanted to have the class fantasy of amounted knight available to other classes I suppose?

@@TheAtticDungeon. Not really. They are just coming up with game mechanisms completely separately from the fluff, then they combine them and they don't even have any measurement guidelines to doublecheck themselves, which creates that the end result became a complete lie. The whole conceptual and fluff side of the cavalier is a mounted combatant. Not just the name, but everything written into the archetype description says that it is fundamentally unseparable to its mount. Then you don't get any game mechanical support for their claims and even those subclasses who are conceptually doesn't support at all and go to a completely different direction, outperform them on mounted combat. Even an eldritch knight who uses buff spells on its mount, which is not its specialty, become far more better mounted combatant than a cavalier ever could. It is a complete lie from WotC that the cavalier is a mounted combatant because it doesn't get any support for that, just its 2 ribbon features. WotC went headstong into the lie and people believe it because they lack critical thinking and are naive.

I rarely encounter players that play monster races tbh. They're not thought of as being boring whatsoever. Don't forget that a lot of people play d&d to play those iconic races. Since the game encourages you to create your own setting and cities, it's weird to think goblins are never accepted and thus should be given something to offset any potential social disadvantage they might have...

Variant Human joins the chat, popular with optimisers you say?

​@jesseseva2219 Touche. That one connected. I guess I am old school D&D where you didn't play monsters, you killed monsters. And there was a distinct difference between the two.

Thanks, don't hesitate to use the build and ride into battle!

How beefy is the overhaul page-wise? Currently juggling quite a few things, but you've made me curious.

Well, the good news is that my stuff stays online. Take your time to go through it :D. Thanks for the compliment though.

Oh that would definately work as well, but does the world need more variant humans? 😂. I thought changeling to be a bit more fitting of the concept. Love that you'd be willing to go vary human for something "small" like mask of many faces instead of picking the "big" feats.

@@TheAtticDungeon. gotta sell the deception!!! Mask of Many Faces or Misty Visions on a Misty Visions on a Trickery Cleric is almost OP

I love it when a cool concept gets supported by a nice reflavour. Hunter ranger will certainly serve you well here. Don't forget that the extra damage from Giant's Might applies to your reaction attacks as well (it works the same way as a rogue's sneak attack in that regard). Makes Giant Killer even more vulnerable. Also the irony that a giant will be using Giant Killer...

You had me at "dual wielding vigilante nun". Sounds like a great concept backed up by a fun build!

Love it when some rule snippets get tossed my way!

The free attacks are a superb lvl 1 feature, especially great if they have something that can piggyback off that ( pala smite, rogue sneak attack, ranger hunters mark,...)

I think I'll just make sure all my chars have cooking proficiency when we're playing. just to make sure we cook up anything edible ...or rocs.

I tried a different link. please let me know if it's still doing weird things. Thanks for the heads-up!

I thought you'd be more inclined towards the paladin build :D. To be fair, by now I have some one shots lying about that fit in the "musical one shots" collection that we oculd test out.

I like to switch things up a bit 😉. What songs did you use for inspiration this time? Always willing to help test them 😉

Thanks! Feel free to subscribe remain up to date.

It's a lovelely, colorful little room :D. Just large enough for me to shout at a camera.

I was unaware with the term, when I made this video I just wanted to fudge the dice as much as possible as a player. If i redid the build today I would obviously also add Silvery Barbs to the list, that spell is an absolute gem for this build.

Oh in that case, look up the Animated Spellbook for "Murry". You basically presented that, but with more fluff to make the concept even more funny. ;p@@TheAtticDungeon.

Thank you very much for the additional examples of struggling with longevity and the compliment! The manga sounds like a nice read. I might play an elf at some point, I always liked the Eladrin and their "changing with the seasons" gimmick.

True, but they are generally better off with longbow/shortbow since they can make bracers of archery later on and can slap the +2 infusion on the bow. Mind you that I ignore this info myself and play an arti with repeatershot on a musket 😃 Artificers can do pretty much any weapon build as a battle smith thanks to the infusions and some niche spells.

@@TheAtticDungeon. Thing is Artificers aren't proficient in the bow. They're proficient in the light crossbow. Mind you the Artillerist has some interesting ideas.

@@timjackson9334 The Battle Smith gains proficiency with Martial Weapons as part of their lvl 3 subclass features. And, arguably the Battle Smith is the only one who should be concernced with weapons. Armor Smith has a set of build in weapons that get buffed by subclass features.

@@TheAtticDungeon. At level 3. But what is the difference between a light crossbow and the longbow? Both have the same damage output.

@@timjackson9334 The longbow has greater range from the start, all other difference would mainly lie in the gameplay options afterwards: Crossbow needs the repeating shot infusion to profit from extra attack or the crossbow expert feat. if you take the feat you are limited to a +1 bonus since those infusions don't auto-upgrade at lvl 10. The crossbow expert feat does open other options as well and, if I remember correctly, eliminates your disadvantage penalty at point blank range. Bows kan always profit from extra attack, no feats/infusions needed. Hence you could take the normal +1 infusion for them which auto-upgrades to a +2 infusion at lvl 10, which is the same lvl that you can create Bracers of Archery for an dditional +2 damage. Pre-lvl 3 this al doesn't matter of course, you just fire the thing, which will have a +1 bonus, once and be done with it. They serve a similar purpose, being a long range bow user, but their specifics are quite a bit different.

The fact that 5e combat usually only lasts a few turns makes this build appealing, I think.

People forget this and call them boring and generic...silly humans!

Thanks, I strive to make my stuff actually useable at the table, so no need for lvl 20 world shaper builds then. And I'm all the happier if people take what I present and edit it, no need to carbon copy!