I Made A D&D Class! The Element Bender - Full Breakdown
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2024
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Question, how do we know if a book will get added as official or not-? (And if Erevan will be part of the official one)
Like for Drakkenheim, I thought it wouldn't be added to apps like DnDBeyond, but I was wronged! So just asking you or anyone here in the comment section where I can find such information.
@@yuxushi8849 The acceptance of Drakenheim was a deal worked out between WotC & the Dungeon Dudes. That means any assimilation of Ryoko's would be from a deal between DnD Shorts & WotC. So far I think the answer is no but the physical book isn't shipping for a while so time will tell.
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As a backer of the book I have a question regarding the Elemental Strikes and Elemetal Combo abilities. As far as I understand, in the latest update melee Elemental Strikes count as unarmed strikes for the purposes of magic items and that also allows for scaling with the Monk's martial arts die or the Unarmed fighting style in the case of multiclassing (as well as the Elemental Fighting feat from the book).
My question is, does that also affect Elemental Combo's damage dice? If a bender were to say, take the Elemental Fighting feat to make their unarmed strikes deal 1d8 damage, wouldn't that mean their melee Elemental Strikes would become 1d8 + spellcasting modifier (since they're unarmed strikes)? So would the melee Elemental Combo attack scale by d8's instead of d6's, to a max of 4d8?
Additionally, would that mean that the Disciple of Ferocity's 15th level feature Elemental Ferocity increases the damage of their Elemental Combo to 5d8 for a melee attack (if they have the Elemental Fighting feat or Unarmed Fighting Style)?
The fact now we can play with a Primordial elemental class is just what the doctored ordered.
🥳🥳thanks so much to everyone who playtested and supported Ryoko's (close to 30,000 people)! Be sure to check out the full book for all the element bender spells and subclasses, and everything else!
i live in argentina, i can get it from here?
How I can get ryoko's guide pdf??
My group's DM backed the kickstarter and we're gonna be using stuff from it in our new campaign (starting in a few weeks!). My new character's gonna be a kitsune gunslinger, I can't wait to play him.
are there any chances of seeing a revisitation of the bestiary of the basic D&D manual in a Ryoko way? I honestly would like to see a stratified and differentiated combat for each dragon (I never appreciated that the only difference on the card was the color of the breath)
wait does unarmed fighting stack with elemental strikes turning the d6 into a d8? also I'm hopefully ordering reyokos guide for my birthday today
I know other people have said it, but I’ll say it anyway: This sounds like what Four Elements monk wishes it could be.
Everyone knows four elements monk sucks so bad they make their own better ones lol.
I do like how this one gives that whole martial spellcaster vibe the strength it deserves to have. I feel like I'd go all in on fire to actually feel like a monk that does damage lol
To be fair the changes that they made to it now make it a lot better
Looks at my storm herald barbarian four elements monk "don't test me kakarot" 😅
4 elements monk is the easiest subclass to fix. Just make it a Wis based third caster like eldritch knight and arcane trickster, give it the druid spell list, and at the levels where it gets subclass features let it pick two options from the list of things in the PHB version of the subclass. If they pick a thing that mimics a spell, then that spell gets added to their spell list. If they pick a thing that is not an existing spell and unique to the 4 elements monk, then they get that thing as a bonus feature that triggers whenever they use flurry of blows.
@@jaredtheastralartist2510 this, but until the new books release (and assuming that wotc doesn't nerf the new monk) I like this concept
As someone who's rewriten four elements and monks in general, it makes me very happy to see you using a lot of similar ideas. Time to see if my DM will let me use this in Grimhollow
Cool!
What kind of modifications do you give the Four Elements Monk?
@@MGP2210 I reworked 4 elements into a 1/3 caster, like eldritch knight or arcane trickster, but using warlock ideas and using ki to cast spells instead of spell/pact slots. My spell list is a bit more damage focused than the element bender's, which is something I may have to work on. I have a system similar to Will's for specialising in elements and getting extra effects too. The overall monk rework focuses on reducing /removing ki point costs for base abilities and moving them onto subclass features.
I've posted it in the homebrew sub-Reddit under the name Treebard if you want to go searching for it.
I love that some people commented that this class is like the kineticist and I'm wondering if we've watched the same video.
Like guys, even if the flavor is kinda the same (elementalist-like), the mechanics are different. Yeah, the elemental strikes are kinda the same (which are basic attacks), but the subclasses and the spellcasting are pretty different (I do not remember the Kineticist having spell slots... 🤔).
IDK, it seems to me that it's just comparing just for the purpose of diminishing the effort DnD Shorts has put into the crafting and testing of the class.
Just my thoughts, and to whoever's read this: Have a nice day! 🤗
I mean, of course they are going to be similar, both classes are based on the same thing. But adapting it to DnD is hard, and he seems to have done it pretty well, from my understanding
You know, some people are saying that in a good way I think. Personally, I had this vibe all along and it's not a bad thing ^^ I love elemental themed classes and it do share similarities with the kineticist but it doesn't mean it's the same. Shorts (and all the playtesters) did a great job at balancing the class and giving it unique features.
Good day to you too !
It's the internet. People WILL find ways to complain about ANY thing.
Spell-like abilities, which is basically just a spell but under a different name.
The kineticist is basically a feat-based caster. Very very much so a magic-based class.
I would say it absolutely plays like Kineticist though. That's not a dig at him that's just the fact. Especially the whole "pick one type of element and it gets stronger" deal.
That's not to say it's bad or a complete ripoff. The bare bones are the same though (not shocking since they're both trying to do the avatar-style magic martial arts theme).
I don't say any of this to diminish or throw shade; people catch inspiration from lots of things around them. It's not throwing shade to recognize that these two things are eerily similar. Pathfinder in its bones is D&D 3.5. That doesn't make it bad.
Something being compared doesn't mean it's diminishing.
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This is a very neat and well crafted class. I really like the flexible casting stat because it does really allow for a lot of customization. I'm glad it was shown and explained because I wouldn't have found out about it otherwise. Thanks for sharing.
This class is the whole reason I backed ryokos, it makes me so happy!
With this and Elementara from +3 press, i can have the avatar game of my dreams!
I play a weekly “play test” game with my siblings (taking turns DMing), and this is my next one! Was so excited when I read it in this newest Beta!
I’ve been loving ryokos so far, been using parts of it in my campaign since the day the first play test came out in I think December, and even tries running a campaign in a ryokos setting (failed due to scheduling but still had fun first few sessions). great job man the book was definitely worth it and just really cool.
I'm impressed that you created this class because I read it out of curiosity and it seemed interesting to me
Difficult to fully evaluate the class without the spells and some missing details, but the concept is great.
Im a huge fan of elemental magic / skills, and this approach was the best ive seen so far. You choose not only your element , but also how you use it: tidal wave crushing or a pure water healing. Versatile without overwhelming.
Only one thing i wonder if it could change is that every element could have two damage type based on them, instead of 1
Air: thunder & slashing
Water: cold & piercing
Earth: bludgeoning & acid
Fire: fire & lightning
Eager to see it fully done.
As someone who plays a Bender in one of the campaigns I'm in, it is a very fun class. The main focus of it is being incredibly flexible. Depending on what elemental affinity you have determines what kind of character you'll have. Water is primarily healing, air is that martial feel with a bit more spice, fire is that pure damage, earth is a protector. I am currently playing a Disciple of Fortification Earth Bender and especially with Disciple of Fortification, I am playing a protector. A majority of my character's spells give temp HP or prevent damage in some way. But his damaging capabilities aren't anything to scoff at either. I can't go into depth on the actual spells he has and I know this doesn't give a whole lot of info but I've been enjoying the class so far. Also earth is bludgeoning and acid
The play test version is in the description
@@ryan.the.relentless I've downloaded it, it shows one discipline, no spells and... something about pugilism to increase the lv 1 perk
@@YanWindFW Spell list begins on page 10
@@ryan.the.relentless spell list, yes. But quite a number of spells are new, exclusive to this book.
I'm really enjoying all the content in Ryoko's
Great class, fun to play.
I enjoyed every aspect of Elemental Bender when I was testing it! 🤙🏻
hey will, ive been reading the pdfs for this class and omg wow it is so good. cant wait to get a chance to play it
man i've had the early pdf for a bit but i hadn't sat down to go through it and really take it in yet. this is SO good. I made a monk subclass that was like this a while back i jokingly called "way of the one elements" haha, but this just so much more cohesive. Well done, yall. o7 well done. I can't wait to see a player try this at my table.
This class is soooo dope!!! Can’t wait to play it!!
I've used many different builds to play a bender. This one is by far the best I've seen! I'll definitely be trying it soon!
So glad I backed Ryoko’s. There has been so much INCREDIBLE content available. I’m stoked to someday play as a Bender! It will be a while though since we have a weekly, 3-game rotation.
I need to buy/support this YESTERDAY!
SOOOOO HHYYYPPPEEEEEEEEE. I have been waiting for this breakdown for so long!!! I have had an Earth Gensai character that i wanted to be an earthbender since the moment i learned about dnd!! But i found out that there really wasnt much in the way of bending in 5e.
So THIS.....THIS has made my day and is a fantastic late birthday gift!!!
Thank you DnD SHORTS!❤
Ive been looking forward to you coverign this in a video. Very keen to play a water/ fire fusion bender when i convince my friends to run a Ryoko's campaign.
Really cool idea! Thank you for the PDF too! I might have to see if I can homebrew this in DnD beyond (the system my crew uses for our games). Thanks again!
Inspiring class, looks awesome!
Playing a Bender has been so much fun for me (save for the fact that my dice rolls are utter BS, but that's a separate issue). My DM and the other Players have all been very supportive and understanding when I made changes to my character because of the Playtest updates. We're currently at Lvl 5 and about to face off against our first "mega-boss", so I'm hoping to introduce Ryoko's Combo-Attack mechanics as well.
Ryoko's Guide is fantastic! I heavily recommend it!
Read the pdf, seen the video, been inspired ... I can't wait to hold the book in my hands (pdf's are all nice and fast but I'm an old fashioned book guy). Thank you very much. 😃
Had to buy the Ryoku book as soon as i saw this, the thing just gets better infinitely
This sounds fantastic.
it will never not make me smile to see xenoblade music in these videos. i've been trying to think of a way to make a new class for a while but i keep thinking of something that's pretty similar to blood hunter. awesome to see the creativity in game design here
My own DM had us play test this as they were helping write the book and I absolutely LOVE this class
I really love how you put classes and subclasses in this adventure, that are obviously inspired from popular anime, but with some cool twists.
The Fighter and Wizard subclasses are very cool, but the Monk subclass and the other class you made are even better nods to the source materials :) Can't wait to see what else you got in store for us.
Dude this class is so cool! I'll have to check out Yokai Realms.
WOW this is awesome. Nicely done!
This is cool.
I've made 4 Homebrew classes (technically 6, but we don't talk much about the other 2):
1. Gold Knight: originally based on the idea of a gold Knight from fire emblem, a gold knight is a character who specializes in using a mount to overcome most of the disadvantages of heavy equipment. Has more than 30 subclasses.
2. Blood mage: a spellcasting class that uses health to cast spells instead of mana (which I use to refer to spell points or spell slots). Has a very defensive focus and was very difficult to balance. Allows the DM to rebalance the cost of spells with as little as two words if need be. Either "you're overpowered", which increases the cost of spells, or "you're underpowered", which lowers the cost of spells.
3. Battle king: as electric knight is to wizard, battle master is to battle king
4. Unique: a class that lets you spend skill points obtained by leveling up on features.
The dark two:
1. Ninja: It was very similar to rogue and I lost the paper that had this class on it.
2. Expert: A class that makes your character die if they take any damage, ever, but comes in with tons of defensive features to avoid damage and gets a much higher offensive output. I believe there were 7 extra attacks in there. States that if you die your new character has to be one level lower. I still ban it in most of my games. One of the handful of things I've made that I actually consider OP.
I was on the fence for Ryokos Guide, but im definitely getting it now.
Amazing class, and amazing book to! 10 / 10!
I love ALL DnD Shorts videos!
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Thank you for existing pal
Legitimately sick. 🤘
This Friday kicks off my groups next long term campaign , I was given the ok to use Ryoko material. The plan is to go 1 to 20 water affinity, disciple of ferocity. Excited to see this class’ longevity.
Okay, this sounds really cool
Can't wait for my physical copy of ryokos!
Yeah this looks super fun.
Sounds brilliant!
Glad to see this class isn't just "It's a monk, but..."
Nice work!
the class seems lovely! i would definetly be concerned about the stat choosing though. not the stat choosing itself, but because WIS is by far the superior stat for a myriad of reasons, the main one being that it is the one that has a save that matters. its a bit like letting, say, your fighter choosing between attacking with STR or with CON, one of those is _not_ like the other lol
Super cool! Would really like to play it. Also, love those pants!
Congrats mate, you just made one of the coolest classes in TTRPG history 👑
Awesome. I hope there are more wood and metal-bending flavored options in there somewhere too, to match the esoteric styles from the AtLA show (hope Nick doesn't sue you), as well as classic Eastern element philosophy. I very much look forward to future build and concept videos and shorts from you in the future regarding this class. I'd especially like to see a video explaining its development process; like how much has it changed from your initial drafts Will, who else contributed chunks of it, and what were the surprises you encountered during its playtesting? What ended up on the cutting room floor (what _could have been_ and _might be_ in the future)?
The book really does interest me but, for now, I just can't afford it. So I wanted to say thank you, wholeheartedly, for the pdf so we can at least give this amazing idea a whirl.
I´m playing a Tabaxi Bender and its one my favorite characters the class its incredible very funny and adaptable its a great hit, thanks for the excelent work
This actually looks like a very balanced and fun to play class
Eagerly waiting for my copy of Ryoko's and the kaiju one!!!
This is cool and would be fun to play.
Sounds really cool!
Because the Bender Magic comes from within you and you need to be physically fit to do bending properly, my I suggest use Constitution as the spellcasting modifier?
Perfect timing xD a friend of mine wants to DM an avatar campaign and this might just make his day ♥️
If you want to do full on avatar, it might be worth checking out the Avatar Legends ttrpg, since that whole system is designed for it, instead of just a 3rd party class.
Omg finally I can play an actual Avatar,
thank youuu ✨
Got a friend who will love to see this
Vigor is support (probably water bender)
Feral is damage (such as firebenders under sozin's comet)
Fusion is lava bending (Ghazan and Bolin, TLoK) and
Fort is just an earthbender with rock armor (or metal if you're like toph)
this seems like a lot of fun! It has a lot of potential for additional level of home brew as well to do non-traditional elements like light and darkness 👀
This would make such a cool party. Imagine a party of 5 or 6. Four of them each bending a different element. Maybe even 2 fighters to add some versatility. The BBEG could even be a really powerful version of one of the element benders. Sounds like a great party. I’d watch a tv show about that.
I was hoping you'd do Ryoko stuff the class are very Interesting
I'm just going to say it...I love everything about this. So much I just sent the link to this video to my DM lol.
Interesting. It looks like you started with many of the same basic ideas and inspirations that +3 Press did with "Elementara," but took it in a different direction mechanically. And it looks very much like both ideas could work together seamlessly at the same gaming table. Which is great because I backed both projects on Kickstarter! Rock on!
Love the promo tagline for Erevan's: "Turn a TPK into a TP-Yay!" XD
Taking the same elemental affinity every time sounds like creating an insanely OP character
I have always wanted to flavor psi knight’s psychic abilities as wind instead. This class just made that dream come true. Definitely picking up the guide at some point
In one campaign, we had a guy that would always summon elementals of different types. A water elemental was included in a drunken raid of a bakery and one of the bakers threw a bowl of cake mix at it. It became a cake elemental and our party named it Duncan after Duncan Hines. Best npc we ever had. 😂
I hated i couldnt buy in on ryoko at the time. Of all of the options, this class (as i have been trying to homebrew a better elemental monk), was the thing i looked forward to the most in the book. Thank you for being as giving as you are and giving us this amazing approach.
after playtesting it: full ferocity airbender is so fun
When I heard about this class in other videos, I was afraid this would be only one element focusing class, glad there are much space for combining. Now would be interesting to see Disciple of Fusion.
This sounds like a 5e kinekist
I’m so here for this. Time for “THE BOULDER” tm
Even with the official and numerous fan games for Avatar, I have not found one I was satisfied with, so 4 years ago I started working on my own (before the official kickstarter came out).
I might at least try these Classes out. Happy to geek out about bending.
Very cool. I may have to give this a try if my current character dies.
I’ve made a Green Oniborne in this class too show off to my players how cool it can be!
I have preordered ryoko's
As one of the people who bought the Ultimate package, no, thank you. I've been having a blast putting together spell an item card for my players, as I spend our current sessions, role playing the Japanese god of entertainment/dawn that's teaching them about your world. I'm so excited to have the physical stuff in front of me.
Absolutely enjoyed the short campaign I played as an oniborn fusion elemental bender who's fire bending was tied to her anger and was strong enough to burn everything (hence the fusion), had an absolute blast, pun intended, playing her!
I made one that my dm approved for playtesting, called a gambler, that was similar to gambit from X-men, you could throw playing cards, force cards on magic item decks, and even choose your place in initiative order at higher levels, it was pretty cool,
This is pretty cool, I recently played a custom druid which I made that was based off moon druid but could shift into elementals using the summon elemental spirit stat block scaled by max spell level. Played up to level 17 with it! If this class was about back then I would've probably played it as the idea was to make an Avatar character :)
Oh man, imagine playing this as a genasi. There some cool themes to explore, like a genasi of one element whose affinity is for a completely different one, like a water genasi who just feels completely connected to the fire affinity. Then, the inverse, a genasi who wants to discover the nature of their mysterious heritage and do so by delving into the affinity that matches their element. An earth genasi who goes all-in on the earth affinity, where the consider their primordial form to be an elevated connection to whatever force made them a genasi.
Imagine a bender has a child who is a genasi whose element matches the one they have the highest affinity for: an air bender begetting an air genasi. There'd be superstition around it, for sure, that the affinity is what brought it about (even though that might not be the case), or that achieving a heightened state of affinity blesses you with a genasi child. Genasi might even be considered a good omen amongst communities of benders, and communities of benders would likely receive a higher volume of genasi travellers and migrants.
I really like the class. Often, new classes feel like they'd be better suited to being an existing class' subclass, but this one definitely doesn't. Very impressive, and well put together.
I'll have to double check the class. I just had the mental image of my Fire Genasi who uses a homebrew Pugilist class from Dm's Guild as a Fire Bender. She'll ignight her fists in flames then introduce the bandits to one big old beat down
When the spell casting was brought up, I thought it was gonna be Constitution because of the "power within you." Being able to choose the stat makes the class so much more versatile and can go into so many different directions.
I am loving the class and the xenoblade background music
Been play testing it since release, the acid bludgeoning is so much better for earth, tho I still wish it was bludgeoning piercing and slashing I just feel it fits, tho that being said we home rule that the elemental attacks can be those or their element if the attack makes sense for it (basically all bar fire)
I’m with you, Piercing makes more sense than Acid.
I feel like someone would need explain the latter to me why what even works thematiacally.
this makes Four Elements Monk even more worthless then it already is, looking forward to using this
That's impossible. It was already a hinderance to your Monk just for having picked it.
this is so cool
This was really good. Any chance you might cover the Tamer class?
Four elements Monk is looking at you out the corner of his eye with murderous intent
Looks good 😋 🤤
Man this could combo with Cleric in some pretty crazy ways
💯 wanna try the fusion subclass
The problem with this class, and monk, is that unarmed attacks don't scale well into the mid/late game. It's something you must have noticed playing BG3, since despite the incredible tools that unarmed attackers get in that game (tavern brawler, lots of extra dices and mods), they still slightly underperform in the late game compared to weapon builds. The result is that if you want to make this class work, you're going to have to multiclass 1 fighter or cleric.
I think my build would go something like this: fighter 1, bender 19 (with the subclass that is shown). We take air and water, protection fighting style, magic initiate (from human variant) for shield, and when our attack is high enough great weapon master. We only care about str and con. During the early game, we cast bless, then at lv 10 we start casting haste on ourself (with equipment that improves our con saves to get to at least +9). The rest of our spell slots we use for shield mainly. The avatar form gives us +2AC and +55 HP at lv11, which is huge given that we're already pretty tanky, and we play it exactly like an eldritch knight.
Must get my Ryoko's Guide in my Veins, now. Why yes, I did Kickstarter it, why do you ask?
Makes me think of the Kineticist Class from Pathfinder... Which really isn't that surprising, considering both have Avatar as a source of inspiration.
Yes, same thoughts here. Well... at least is a good implementation of the kinestisist in DnD.
Can we get a video breakdown of each of the subclasses and elements? I feel like everyone wants to further see your thoughts and opinions on those and see these ideas in further detail.
Probably not because that’s one of the selling points of the book. They gave one of the subclasses for free alongside the base class as a teaser + testing platform; but if you want more then need to purchase the book. While physical products don’t arrive until next year, the PDF’s that come with the book are released when ready (final pdf should be releasing soon)
I love that you can choose the same affinity again! Good idea! I mean not everyone can be the avatar right? :p