The Official Most HATED Race & Class In D&D
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2023
- Stastically speaking, who do we all like the least?
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Remember folks, the words “hated” and “unpopular” mean two very different things.
Oh you mean like Gnomish Cleric?
Let's also not miss the fact that this is specifically only accounting for the people that use DnD Beyond, which I doubt is close to the majority of DnD players
I was just about to raise that point. This seemed a bit... Dishonest?
@@drizzo4669 Nope. He meant Halfling Rogues, the rodents of D&D...
The kender rogue will always be the most hated even through editions its not in
They aren't playing humans, they're playing bonus feats.
It's a POWERFUL thing to start with.
Don't say that part too loud, lol 😂
Eh. Because even before Variant, human was still popular, especially with new players. Being a basic bitch, kind of human nature.
Min maxers are so annoying. And they cry so hard when they lose an encounter
@@Cornfiglep not really no, I just give the free feat to every player and I discourage min maxing and if my party starts to min max so do I and then no one is happy
Least Popular and Most Hated are two very different categories...
THIS. I'd be willing to bet a significant reason for the druid's lack of popularity might be the complexity and on the other hand for Fighters it's that you're basically expected to just get in and beat up stuff. Accessibility is kind of a big deal in a game.
Least popular isn't even the same as least played.
i agree, the title is clicbait and lie. Should report even if the creator is good. Lying should not be allowed
Nah I’d roll to argue
I rolled a 3
“What is the official most hated Race and Class”
Yo what?
“In D&D”
Phew.
How this only has 4 likes baffles me
@@davidmalone7069 probably because I made the comment over a year after upload.
@@purpledevilr7463 But it funny
I played as a Monk. When our group was kidnapped and ALL our gear was taken, no one was calling me weak. I could fight people naked.
They were literally brought down to your level and you felt special. 😭🙏🏾 Go monk players
@@dominicl5862 dont hate. Monks are the only class that you can build an avatar character with. And if you minmax them you only need a couple points of ki to end most standard encounters. Elemental mastery feat with elemental monks can lead to some ridiculous dmg on thundering blows or cindering palm, essentially turning your fist into a booming blade with advantage (in melee range) and bonus dmg
@@rocconatale9503 to the contrary. I just flavor my character to be a martial artist and I played a spore druid with polearm master and mobile and a quarterstaff. I could literally do elemental weapon, call lightning, flaming sphere, summon beast (appa). Then again I've been playing for many years. But once people become more mature with ttrpgs you stop looking at the flavor text and just read the abilities. You can quite literally completely re flavour everything in a class to fit your character concept. I also played a bladesingrr wizard who came from a Monastery's great library. He was a martial artist wizard doing all kinds of crazy fun stuff. No monk can do anything even near a Steel Wind Strike while greater invisible 🫥 and eleven accuracy for crit fishing 6d10 damage hits. And yes some of them would hit 12d10 cus a crit. Omg so much fun. And my first character of 5e was a Monk of the Four Elements, I've played many monks and tried them on multiple occasions. Once you understand the game system you just have to understand that monk under performs in every. Single. Aspect. I love monks conceptually but the class doesn't work. My DnD beyond name is literally: Out_of_Ki.
I played a lizardfolk paladin and this is basically what happened. The only piece of gear he used in the first place was a shield.
you and your hobbies...... ::shudder::
Asimar are probably there because the DM said "no."
I was gonna say that. What is it amongst the more basic races and classes
Funnily enough, my friends are running a campaign and 4 of us are playing artificers 🤣. We're all pretty different types and are using homebrew stuff, but still over half the party ended up as artificer.
Was gonna say this
@@tylerpizza3794 I think you may have misread boss
@@christophersteadwell3217 yeah I accidentally clicked to reply of this comment instead of one I saw about artificers but oh well 🤷♂️
This is crazy! That photo you showed at the end was a piece of art I had commisioned for an oc. Huge shoutout to Ebony Bodenbender who made the piece!
That IS crazy, shows you shouldn't just pop art from google image search into your vids lol
Nice find though. Can’t believe you came across the video
I’m glad somebody gave the artist credit for their work since the uploader didn’t bother.
Time to make a Aasimar ranger for the descent into avernus campaign I'm planing to play
heeyyy i'm playing an aasimar wizard for that very campaign right now :) 10/10 would recommend
Watch the DM say no.
"If you forgot something, it wasn't important"
"Yeah you're right"
*the list forgetting to add artificer to the statistics*
It's an old list, it was before Artificer was officially released.
Oh come on, Artificer is easily busted enough to beat most other classes in popularity
@@illegalmemedealer3549 haha bomb go boom
The list was made before artificer was officially in any books
@@illegalmemedealer3549 Actually, no. Because it's busted most players would avoid it. Because it would be the mark of a 'munchkin' and no one likes those.
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What happened?
Druids are intimidating for many players as they can be difficult to play, was surprised the least popular races were aasimar, since charisma is main attribute for several classes & shiny eyes are cool.
Aasimar ranger.....
It could also be that some DMs don't allow assimars in their campaigns too.
I feel like people underestimate flying races playing as rangers. When I see or hear someone using a race that can fly they are usually a melee class that swoops down from the sky. Cool but flying out of reach and raining hell fire of arrows from above is kinda op
Either that, or DMs realize it and don't allow you to use them XD that works just as well as people not playing them when it comes to this survey
Fighters do it better.
For context: The survey he pulled this information from was taken before Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes released, and thus is wildly out of date and misleading. And a race not being played isn’t the same as “being hated”, Hate and indifference are two very different things.
Isn’t the assumed pretty disliked though?
*Aasimar
@@Sup3rFlight i think alot of people just forgot about them for lore reasons
@@Insomnia4321 Not in the least. They just aren't popular, because most people like to play for Edge and being a Lawful good leaning guy just ain't it chief. And yes I realize they don't have to be that, but bow howdy do people love flanderizing and boy howdy is that the stereotype.
Well now is gonna be a while until we DON'T find an aasimar ranger in a game.
Yep i know what my next character is
Sounds like it would be op
Welp, time to homebrew a divine ranger subclass (the huntresses of Artemis kinda thing) for my next campaign.
Seriously, it's kinda crazy how well a Protector Aasimar synergizes with the toolkit of a ranger to begin with.
Druid. He said Druid was the least played class. In fact, he explicitly said it was surprising that Ranger *wasn't* the winner for least played class.
@@matthewshiers9038 druid was the least played class in general. But the least common combination of class and race was Aasimar ranger
"Hey DM can i play Aasimar?"
"No"
That's it
sadness
:/
You need a better DM.
@@cheezybastard8661 Joke on you - i don't have any
Same, My DM has also banned Tieflings. His reasoning is because in his experience everyone always plays the same stereotype of Tieflings and Aasimars. Except I have played both (with his temporary permission) and because I wasn't the stereotype he'd come to know he forgot nearly every session what my characters' races were.
Need to keep in mind that created characters probably include npc's dms made for their campaigns. Human fighter is such an easy and universal npc to throw in, especially for a new party that needs some kind of guy to not let the local wizard die from a rusty nail
I'm currently playing a Goliath druid and I feel like it was a weird but interesting combo
Genuinely really surprised that the Aasimar are so unpopular. They make phenomenal clerics, sorcerers, and paladins.
It's cause they are not biblically accurate angels! :P
Honestly they're just a bit boring for the same reason tieflings are interesting.
A good aligned tiefling character has contrast.
Evil aasimar is a cool af char idea though, now that I'm thinking of it.
I tried one on a barbarian once in a campaign where the DM told me we would be facing a lot of undead
he became absurdly powerful
@@bonthebunnycat667 Yo, I would be so down to play "Two Spinning Wheels Covered in Eyeballs with Wings" paladin!
@@Miranda17137Hey, there's Scourge and Fallen Aasimar for a reason! But flight and extra radiant damage once a day for Defender Aasimar is pretty sick.
I think I know why druid is the least popular. It's one of the hardest classes to play as a new player with all the things you have to keep track of from spells to wild shape forms, etc. It can be overwhelming.
At least that's the reason why my players don't play druids often.
The class identity of a Druid is really rigid. If you’re playing a Druid you’re pretty much just playing Radigast the brown and no one else.
I believe it’s more of a flavour thing in the majority of cases. As a Druid you tend to kinda be much more limited in what you can go for character-wise compared to other classes. Whereas all other caster classes can get their power from an infinite amount of sources Druids and their spells are all mostly nature flavoured.
Looking back, I have no idea why I decided my first character should be a Kobold Druid
@@BoredTAK5000 Definitely this. If you're a druid, you're a treehugger. Congratulations, that's just about all you've got.
It's a hybrid class spellcaster and not one most powerful.
As someone who plays as an Aasimar Druid, this video made me feel special.
One thing to also say the skews the stats is that most campaigns dont allow every single race
Well, I now know what my next character will be
A human fighter... again.
I love my Dragonborn Ranger. His name's Timmony
Hey man, human fighters are pretty solid characters with a lot of role play potential. They may be the least boxed in race and class to play.
warforged artificer for me, I like explosives and creating chaos
And it’s not gonna be the default human. You’re gonna use the variant Human.
My Druid was a half elven barbarian that forgot who he was entirely after eating some really potent mushrooms at a local apothecary. After eating so many, he found he could talk to animals, and, after many more, he even changed into one. The fellas in my group love the RP and get a good laugh each night. I love my Druid :D
An Aasimar that is of a new Druid subclass, The Circle of the Heavens (when you Wild Shape you gain Celestial themed characteristics to your Beast form, and at 14th lvl you can Wild Shape into a certain CR lvl Celestials) would be dope.
Why are Aasimar and genasi even a playable class? seems so wierd to have mythical creatures in a party with some random level 1 dudes.
@@pranayravi9449 ??? Um, yeah sure. And the idea of a party containing a thousand of years old elf, a literal humanoid dragon, or a non-evil demon half-breed makes more sense in a world of high fantasy than a Tiefling's cousin or a person with fiery hair?
@@andrewdowns3673 You mean an old dude with pointy ears, a lizardman, some guy with horns and a tail compared to the descendants of literal celestial biengs and elemental spirits from beyond our planes? yeah I do think it doesnt make sense.
@@pranayravi9449 The "some guy with horns and a tail" is literally the descendant of an infernal being. So your logic still makes no sense.
@@andrewdowns3673 wrong. Tieflings are humans turned into dudes with horns and tails because of pacts they made. they are not direct descendants of infernal biengs. Thats why theres a huge difference between a devil and a tiefling.
I see this as an absolute win. Human fighters SHOULD be the most common adventurer. Druids and Aasimar SHOULD be really rare.
And now we need a new spreadsheet to accommodate all the new Aasimar Rangers that popped up.
Druid has always been my absolute favorite class. I have no problem with people not wanting to play Druid. Works for me. Means I don't have competition when time to choose classes at session zero comes round.
Same, but of course when I joined my new group when the session 0 started I said I'd like to play a druid and everyone was cool with it. Almost exactly 3 minutes later the one guy who was running late arrives puts his stuff down and says "so is druid taken?".
He was super cool about letting me play the primary druid, and he just wanted to level dip as a druid, but the odds ya know?
Druid ranger cleric wizard are my go to classes
Which subclass?
@@RocKaFella57 I like spore druid alot actually, very fun and let's me build a tanky druid
Having 2 people of the same class at your table should never be a problem, your class is not your identity, and you can build your character to act and play nothing like another one at your table
My friends: "Why would you play a human when you have all these other race options?!"
Me: *proceeds to roleplay the ever loving shit out of a father that will do anything to get his son back. Anything.*
The indominable human Spirit previls
Extra feat.
The truth is... I don't play humans because I'm bad at playing as human. When it's a choice between playing a weird human and a normal lizardfolk, well, it's nice to be normal for once.
I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever considered playing a human. Feels completely counter intuitive. Why would i bother play a fantasy game as a regular guy? That sounds like Kingdom Come Deliverance with more dice.
Self insertion
If I ever go back to D&D Im definitely creating an Aasimar Ranger now, if I can remember this video by that time
I wonder if Vedalken is on the list, I have personally NEVER seen someone else play a vedalken, I made one myself as my first lgbt character as I felt making a vedalken trans was neat with how they kinda make their own identity as an adult, *something I know a fair bit about being myself trans*. She is a great character whom I would love to play someday but havn't had the chance in a campaign (one started but life happened and the dm had to drop)
The last part of the comment is too relatable 👌🏽
How about you actually think about your characters philosophy, motivations, ideals, and thematics? Tie into the party and make someone's entire campaign better by on purpose making a foil or supporting character to someone else? Maybe consider trying to express yourself through the mechanics to tie gameplay to narrative?
Oh what am I saying you're a 5e player.
@@punishedwhispers1218 My god you’re so pretentious. It’s not like those things have never been done with a character that started as a gag. Besides there’s plenty of potential for an Asimar Ranger, maybe someone who protects nature from extraplanar influences, including heavenly ones. It can even be interesting to start with those templates and go into more depth over time.
The fact that 5e continues to bring in new players is something to be embraced. Even if it’s not the best system it’s pretty beginner friendly, and what’s not to love about a wider audience sharing your hobbies?
@@punishedwhispers1218 honest to god, you are the kinda player I least want at my table you sound controlling like YOU want everything to be perfect. let people have fun and don't be condescending, why I like 5e the most of the systems I have played is it leaves more of the character up to rp not up to the book. part of the reason why I have disliked druids is how they feel soo hardwired.
I will forever be mad, angry, and fuming that the assimar is NOT in the corebook alongside the tiefling like they were in 3.0's monster manual.
I assure you the assimar would be played a lot more if it was in the main book.
Well, In One D&D there is no Aasimar on the species list. They added a generic furry and goliaths
@@lucascerqueira202 that's some sad shit. At least they say that onednd is gonna be compatible with 5e
@@lucascerqueira202 are you kidding me?!! alright. I'll stick to other games even harder now!
@@lucascerqueira202 didn't they get rid of all the half races as well? The more I hear about 1 dnd the more it sounds like shit. I already get slightly annoyed with 5e. If I had all the 3.5 stuff like my first dm I'd only play that.
I have always played as a monk. Not because they are weak but simply because the role play makes it far more fun. I played a month whose design and characteristics were inspired by Braum and Grog. A stupid but wise man with an insane amount of strength. He once knocked on a door and it flew off its hinges.
Aasimar Ranger is wild, I'm running a game with my mate, it's his first time playing so he used a character generator to get an idea on what to play and that's exactly what it spit out to him, his name is Giuseppe and he's a Swarm Ranger, hes always followed by the flock of hawks that raised him lmao
As a druid main, this breaks my heart 💔 No wonder people don’t realize Druids are more than just wildshape.
True, you can just ignore wildshape and you're still a full caster.
I learned about the spike growth + thorn whip/thunderwave combo from this very channel, and have mained a druid ever since. Can literally wipe out entire battalions of enemies with just a couple turns. Its truly remarkable
I’m always looking to experiment with a druid tank type of build.
My group banned them
@@itspretzels972 You banned druids? 🤨
The 538 data is polling from all dndb users, including free users who only have access to the SRD. Iirc the only druid subclass available thru the srd is circle of land and it doesn't include some races from non-free products like Aasimar, skewing the data
Wait… I’ve played an Aasimar ranger! And it was one of my first characters. He was a Scourge Aasimar, which I’m sure is the least common of the three subraces.
The character was a swarmkeeper who’s swarm was rocks, for any interested. Basically an earthbender.
“What’s the official most hated race-“
This had me wheezing at first half
D&D taught me not to judge anybody by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Character sheet, I think you mean.
As a person from the 80's who used to pen in all the areas of a character sheet on blank printer paper, as these were just not easy to come by. I have to agree! And getting a game started with a full group was damn near impossible, so our biggest requirement to join was having a pulse! DnD in the 80's taught me more about diversity, than any fake liberal today could ever know!
Nah, in D&D my guy is going to be racist to any non-human. If it ain't human then it ain't right.
Unless they’re a filthy knife ear, strike the earth rock and stone, forever! ⛏️
@@gwynjustice6664Rock and stone!
I know a lot of DMs who disallow Aasimar characters (in Pathfinder) because they consider it to be an advanced race that is a step above the base races at lower levels. Imagine getting to cast the third level cleric spell Daylight at level 1. Then there's the Celestial Resistances that give you 5 points of resistance to acid, electricity, and cold.
PF1 Aasimar are demonstrably more powerful than most other PF1 Races. 5E Aasimar are.....not
@@TheAchilles26 yeah they're just limited by needing to be basically always good or they race change, and the stats and abilities change.
Truly very op to have a once a day torch and slightly reduce very specific types of damage.
@@whydontyouhandledeez Daylight is a lot more than a torch
@@TheAchilles26 thank you.
I need to make a Minotaur Barbarian, that screams "HERE'S THE BEEF!" every time he rages
When I started D&D & only knew the names of the classes, the 2 I thought I'd try the least were the Druid & the Bard, especially the Bard. Then Tasha's came out with the release of the Spore Druid & after looking at the Druid as a whole I loved it & realized how uptight & stubborn I was being.
This is exactly why Human Fighter is my go to standard. I take it as a personal challenge to make the character interesting through roleplay.
I tend to have the most fun with a character when I come up with a character concept first and then try to build that concept. As opposed to picking a race/class combo I think sounds interesting or powerful.
One armed human fighter that uses a massive greatsword one-handed, not because massive greatswords are cool but so he can hold it up as a shield.
I mean human fighters can be interesting. Just like every other race/class combo. You're not really taking a challenge, you're just sitting in comfort
Which is completely fine. Everybody has different things they like out of dnd
I feel like Aasimars are so cool no one wants to be the "look at my cool character" guy, so they steer away, but secretly they have a whole campaign's worth of story about their cool Aasimar tucked away.
The real reason is most DMs ban Aasimars due to their flight ability, Aasimars are cool, and most people think so, they just are not allowed to play them
Which is a fair reason. Flight is pretty strong ability, especially when you go dungeon crawling, and some DMs just don't want to deal with it.
@@nihili4196 then nerf the ability, not the whole race.
@@Jackie_Tikki_Tavi You would have to rework whole race tho.
It's not impossible, but Dungeon Masters already have enough work as is. It is easier to just ban the race, unless you really want to play it.
Of course, you can always equip monsters with nets and crossbows, but not always it makes sense, and after some time it will start looking like you're targeting flying character.
Flying, especially in low level game is very unbalanced and tricky to deal with.
@@nihili4196 just limit its use number and efficiency/ speed. Lower AC. Have the player offer nerfs. It's not rocket science.
“Ok so in this game we’ve got all sorts of races. We’ve got elves that live for thousands of years, robots built from magic, forest wandering beast people, warmongering trolls, elegant flying dragon people and aliens from far off planets. Etc. which race do you wanna play as?”
Me asf every single time:
“A straight white male human fighter…”
I see no downsides though I almost always go variant but hey a human is a human.
Okay hear me out:
Aasimar Feywanderer Ranger.
Instead of an angel, you’re the spawn of the Feywilds. You fight with two clubs. Using the warcaster feat at level 1 (assuming you start with a feat) we shillelagh both of them through the Druidic warrior fighting style (probably taking guidance as the other cantrip because guidance is good). Take a one level dip in fighter to get dual wielding fighting style. Thus, we are now SAD, not MAD, plus we get the ability to face due to our WIS-modifier being added to any facing rolls.
Additionally, we are great at perception and insight, which are arguably some of the better skills.
If your DM is willing to work with you, you can probably get away with using a special kind of bow that allows the use of shillelagh with it through our backstory, or just outright uses the wisdom modifier, instead of two clubs and use the archery fighting style from level 1 fighter, which would further allow us to use sharpshooter.
Either way, your damage is 3* 1d8+WIS+1d4 (33 DPR on average with 18 WIS, adjust for Hitchance) at level 5 this way due to extra attack and offhand attacks in melee, or one instance less in range due to a missing bonus action attack with the bow until we get our fifth level spellslots to use swift quiver for two additional attacks on our bonus action. (As a sidenote: hunters mark works on melee attacks as well, so we can still use our concentration until we get conjure animals/conjure fey; healing spirit on a level 2 spell slot can save the party’s butts in a pinch)
You can work out how your character should look, and there’s more than enough flavor to go around with such a build.
And because we want to troll the DM even further, we take the observant feat, increasing our WIS by 1 at level 4, and our passive perception by a total of 6 for that level alone, to a total of 19; traps, secret doors, ambushes and the like should now very easily be spotted by us.
We DO want 14 in Dex though to make good use of medium armor. CON should also be reasonably high, although thanks to warcaster we’re not in much danger of dropping concentration.
Push 20 WIS at level 8, resilient CON at level 12 if you have odd CON, tough otherwise, push CON at level 16 and 19.
Dump Str and Int, CHA should be at least 10, preferably higher if you want to face, but not necessary.
If you already know you’re getting your hands on a serpent scale mail, push Dex instead of CON. AC > HP
Use the protector aasimar to make full use of your race; radiant soul revelation for MMoM; this increases your DPR during hard encounters by your Proficiency Bonus, BUT you can attack multiple targets in a single turn to double or even triple dip for that damage, although this may be suboptimal, depending on the situation.
Either way: you are now playing the rarest class/race combination with some killer RP potential, especially if you have a Druid with you.
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As someone who has a chronic issue with making too many Aasimar this really surprises me. Even my custom lineage characters are basically just Aasimar but different.
Would have thought it'd be a beast race like Loxodon or Minotaurs.
So if you look at how limited the races were there is a big chance this was the assimar from the dungeon master's guide not the one we know of today.
I have a Loxodon Illusion wizard im going to play once I find a game for it. Not very well suited for the class, but I think it could be a ton of fun to play a very chilled out elephant that does illusion magic. Was originally going to do divination because it seemed like it would be more suited to the Loxodon personality but divination is kinda weak imo
Quit calling me rare, dang it!
My Druidic Reforged (Droo-id) and Aasimar Ranger (DOOM) will be having words with you!
"What is the official most hated race..."
That was a dangerous start to a video
Crazy, an average person picking up a sword is the most common class. Almost like real life history.
It's a fantasy game, the question is why is the most common fantasy so mundane?
God you must be boring
@@slaplapdogBecause people are basic. No one ever wants to experiment or do anything outside of thier comfort zone of regular human. This applies to literally every game with character creation or character rosters
@@danielbarnes1241That or u know extra feat. I agree it is basic but also a feat is a feat.
Because starting out as an avarage joe then becoming a hero is far more awesome.
Holy crap. I once made an aasimar ranger. My life is now changed forever.
I keep swearing I will make an Aasimar, I just have never gotten around to it (Even made 2 Giffs back in 2.5e)! But rangers since first edition have been go to characters! Actually back then, they were the strongest fighters!
I know it was 4 month, but you are fucking shiny. So i throw pokeball at you
I'm on my second Aasimar monk atm, lmao
Same dude! I was literally JUST making an Aasimar Ranger
I want to make an Aasimar Hexblade… tricked into making a packed with Shar he shines until he calls on his packed weapon (scythe) then his form changes into a visage of the grim reaper where he sends the souls of his fallen enemies to Shar…
I want to make a backstory where he’s abandoned in the underdark and ostracised because of his shine… lonely, he just wanted friends… this is how Shar tricked him…
Now, ironically, people get scared of his dark form and still don’t want to be friends… this is his reason for keeping the souls around after death… just for a little company
A shiny at full odds is 1/4096, or roughly 0.0244% so almost 3x as likely as a shiny actually, at least in modern gens, in old gens the rate was 1/8192 or .0122% or 1/6 the rate of ass rangers
the idea of normal human mercenary (fighter) who pitted against all of the fantasy danger is kinda epic
Not really. If you consider that that's what the fantasy part as normal to the world, it's the same as an elf or dwarf.
@@nono-ch8oy I don't think that qualifies as a sentence.
Exactly, that's what I love and always go for. Basically batman the normal human being the leader of the justice league.
It also doesn't ruin your horror campaign because all the characters can see in the dark.
@@TripleBarrel06 Because pretty much everyone but humans has darvision you have to mark your darkness magical.
For a lot of races it makes no sense to have darkvision either.
I miss the day when I could min max my character, and still play the game and roleplay it well. I'm not the best roleplayer, never have, but I also don't like being useless to the party. So why not allow my character more benefits and advantages in a fight? Especially considering the vast majority of D&D is combat oriented simply because the game is built around those kind of encounters. Not saying a good DM can't make a campaign with less combat, but even in those games there is going to be combat. Also who ever said you can't min max a face character, a healer, or a utility character? No one ever gets mad when people make really good diplomats that can almost never fail a persuasion check, but the second someone makes a ranger that can do 40 Damage a turn, suddenly everyone's up in arms.
I once fought a barbarian bear totem dire troll that had a ring of fire and acid resistance. Everyone died except for the ranger and I. We managed to cheese our way to victory and pretty much everyone quit as soon as the troll died, leaving the dm, ranger and I to finish the campaign. Good times.
"Bro that ranger looks sick!!!"
"Still picks human fighter"
And the fact the first Aasimar I created, was a ranger. I will never get over this. :D
I'm playing as a monk in BG3. Tried sorcerer first, and didn't even know why I was part of the party. Two spells, than poke them with my stick, which missed most times. So I switched. Monks seem extremely versatile and well rounded. I've single handedly taken down groups. I've never played D&D, and I'll confess my knowledge on everything is very limited, as BG3 is my only exposure to the rules in any way, but monk seems like a tremendously useful class.
Playing an Aasimar Druid in my current campaign, definitely an underrated race
I'm actually an aasimar ranger in a campaign right now, too... Had no idea they'd be so rare.
Her subclass is swarmkeeper and she has a swarm of flesh-eating moths! Sort of based on the biblical locust plague :3
Glad to see a video like this again. The 'enjoy' at the end felt so good. I honestly appreciate your work over the past weeks so much but this video made me happy
I actually never liked the Fighter Class. My first Character ever created was an Elf Cleric, because my Party needed a Support.
As i learned a bit more about Roleplaying i picked up the Fighter, with an Half-Elf Fighter which got to lvl 10 and got his own Castle and Husband (I gave the Character Sheet to my best Friend and she got "demoted" into an NPC).
I really like the Cleric/Druid approach, because you can go for a Supporter build or even something other, like i did with one of my Clerics back in the Day. (Started in AD&D 2nd Edition)
She got played as an "Tempest Cleric" Back in the Day it was called Lightning Cleric or something like this. (There was an Entire Handbook, for different Sub Classes for Clerics).
It was insane and i loved it - Once a Day you could Call Lightning Strikes for like 20D6 or something, it was amazing :D.
The strongest race and class combination in my opinion is a changeling college of eloquence bard. Charisma is OP as it is for persuasion, deception, intimidation and performance. Pair 20 charisma, with the ability to change your looks at will from a changeling, glamoured studded leather to change your clothes at will, silver tongue ability, you cant roll less that a 19 for deception checks, take the actor feat so you have advantage on deception or performance checks while pretending to be someone else and....well i mean you could break a game with that much power.
I don't play D&D but suddenly I feel the urge to make an Aasimar Ranger.
Don't do it. Asmar monk instead
I like Aasimar and still wish they were included as a base race.
But, I can honestly say I have never once thought of an Aasimar Ranger.
I once played as a Dwarven rogue. Don't ask questions. Plus side my DM created an engineering class for me. So I was a rogue that specialized in drops and gadgets.
I've GMed two D&D oneshots and played in one. In the first oneshot someone was an Aasimar. In the second someone was a druid.
I can't believe this. I play druids 90% of the time. They're so much fun and so versatile. The druid always feels to me like the one I can do the most with. My party tends to always look at me to solve problems
Maybe it's just me :/
To be fair, Druids are pretty complex class, so I see why it would be not too popular, especially among new and less experienced players
I think most people play a race and class for the fantasy of it all, druids lock themselves into the most narrow fantasy of all classes.
That's the thing though, they're a bit _too_ versatile. At any given moment, you have a metric ton of tools at your disposal, so picking which tools you should use for any given situation would be challenging to learn. Not to mention you basically have to have the monster manual handy to use wild shape to its fullest potential.
As a current aasimar stars druid, it's an incredibly fun build to make. Combine angelic form with starry form and at level 2 just obliterate everything from existence with your holy lasers
I've played an aasimar and it was really fun, especially with the lore me and my dm wrote together after I shared that, while she had wings, she couldn’t fly because of one of her wings being cursed to never heal from a wound. She was a Palidan but she was one of my favorite characters I've ever played
Druids are so fun I played one in baldurs gate and turning into a polar bear is so op Earlygame nobody can match you
Why do I suddenly have the urge to make an aasimar ranger for some reason?
That is surprising. I love playing Aasimar, a fun divinity or hellish backstory or oriented quest can be really good.
The emergent story here is great; as far as the world is concerned, the Witches of Genis are the worst evil followed only by a series of ravaging Orc warlords. Meanwhile, the mysterious Warlock has been hailed as All-Prophet for every major religion and is doing sundry quests like creating a haunted city or stirring up orc hordes outside of the public eye; Bob's rivals think THEY are the villains due to his mastercraft subterfuge, and the Supplicant is an unknown entity. No one knows what's going on but She Who Will Feast and her enlightened pawn. I imagine even the Warlock and other agents besides the Supplicant & Bob don't know the true goals....and Bob is serving mostly out of fear and despair, knowing he can't back out now or he'll lose everything he's built in the halls of power. He must obey the Serpent's Supplicant.
I made a Fire Genasi Circle of Wildfire druid. By far my favorite druid I've ever seen, the reaction from our DM when I told him my Wildfire Spirit could teleport my whole party (there were 3 of us at the time) through a portcullis to the other side without doing a puzzle room was priceless. Plus the spells you get are amazing added firepower (ha) to the build. I urge anyone who likes blasting things to try that Circle, a sincerely fun and underutilized option imo.
What's crazy is I made an Aasmiar Druid on DnD beyound in 2019-2021 for a campaign that went to lvl 16, and I love him as one of my most favorite characters. Even got art work done of a scene from the campaign which was a huge turning point in the campaign and brought tears to the players at the table.
I love getting art work done, especially of major scenes or plot points. I'm about to get one done of a big reveal that happened in my last session during the most intense combat I've ever had in dnd.
I love finding an artists for character commissions. I've gotten three done. Makes playing that character more alive if that makes sense.
It's nice when you're the one who draws and animates the characters, like me xD
I loved playing a druid. The Goodberry became a joke for us. I spent all excess spells on them before going to sleep at the end of the day. We never needed rations. My greeting when meeting a new person was to pull a Goodberry out of my pocket an offer it to them. I almost always had around 20.
Literally had an aasimar ranger in a rine of the frost maden campaign. The player had the coolest moment when killing the boss. They got made really big from a previous encounter and used their size to yeet the bbeg into the void
Just played a Druid, and I'm currently rolling up an Aasimar... Guess I'm just a hipster.
I guess that just makes you a bespoke bloke.
Kratos giving dnd knowledge, didn't know I needed this.
I wish their data included whether someone was staying in a single class or taking a 1 or 2 level dip. I'd wager that if you remove multiclassing from the equation, you'd see something like a wizard or warlock being the most popular.
The absolute urge to make a fey wanderer ranger radiant soul aasimar with fiend favored enemy raised in a wondrous forest amongst a thriving elven society as a sort of holy figure, being seen as an incarnation of an angel as a part of some prophecy, that inevitably takes up an oath of the ancients in the name of the forests elven queen, to protect the beauty and purity of his home from wretched and scheming invaders and to extent, the world. Not only would it be aasimar Ranger, I’d be ranged smiting too :D
Druid might be the least played because it's the most complicated. They're full casters who can change their spells every day, they have to keep the stats for a half-dozen Wild Shape forms on hand, and their Subclasses radically change what role they fill. You could have a party of four Druids with different Subclasses and each could easily fill the 4e roles of Controller, Defender, Leader, and Striker while playing very differently from each other.
Proud that mine was probably one of them, Eirwen Tennorel was beloved by my group and I was pretty sad to move on but glad that she had a great run and a good DM for her story
Just once I'd like to see a breakdown of how popular "Human" is while separating Human from Variant Human. I'd put money on the level 1 feat of Variant Human being the main reason "Human" is so popular.
Rest in Power my fellow Druids
My dm chose what race our characters would be to get us out of our comfort zone, and he made me a human. I have never once played a human character
Too many dungeon masters traumatized by the power of an early level druid
I literally had a DM ban the Moon druid for me... Guess what I wanted to play...
It should be warforged, all the time. Its an overpowered race.
Druid is overpowered, even after 3 nerfs to its spells. Wildshape is an underated overpowered ability. however it is reliant on the player knowing about animals, which a druid kinda should.
Stealth? Tiny spider
Poison generation? Venomous cobra or scorpian
Tied up? Transform and get out of those shackles.
Stuck in a cage? Become a mouse and slip through the bars.
Higher levels let you fly for almost free meaning that the only things you have to fear are other flying creatures and the most dangerous one is the dragon, but you can scout from the air.
Combine warforged with a druid and you now have the most broken multi- tool in existence.
Warforged live forever, with no age cap, don't have any need for food, drink or even air. they can sell their magical berries for money and study books in a library for ever, picking up skills all the time.
I, a halfling gnome barbarian, challenge your least popular race/class combo 😂
That's hilarious because the 1st character I ever created was a protector Aasimar Ranger named Alaric. He was an orphan who turned out to be the son of the norse goddess Skaddi. And he's actually kind of the largest damage dealer of my party
Guys let's have a campaign where the entire party is Aasimar rangers
Thats a great idea
Every DM I've had has had nightmares of a flying archer PC, and has disallowed Aasimar
Humans are a race that have "no" shiny gimmicks, but that's a trick: Getting flexibly applicable bonuses is the shiniest trick!
Also human legs are weird and bad we need more fuzzy races! /hottake
I'm surprised more people don't want to be druids. You can literally turn into animals and if you pick circle of the moon at level 2 you can turn into a brown bear.
Now I want to create Assimar Ranger or Druid.
An Aasimar Circle of Stars druid would work well thematically. The aasimar wings would give you extra radiant damage, as would the starry form.
The picture of the ranger is the picture for the elf character in a German pen and paper called das schwarze Auge „The Black eye” I play one myself since 10 years so half my life
I played a druid through Rime of the Frostmaiden. The unfortunate problems with Druids are that nearly every worthwhile spell requires concentration, wild shape is either very strong (Circle of the Moon) or utility only (every single other subclass), and tracking summoned creatures is a lot of work.
brb gotta go make an Aasimar ranger
Oddly enough, is I almost made an Aasimar Ranger for my first ever character in a campaign. I still ended up making it a flying Ranger switching over to Aarakocra, but still, funny that I came so close to the rarest pairing in the game back in the day
I'm amazed my favorite D&D race is the least commonly chosen, and it's even weirder to me how I haven't yet made an Aasimar character despite it being my favorite race.
DMs usually say "no" to Aasimar anyway, so that answers part of the question.