I think my favorite thing about this subclass is that it is soooo easy to personalize and reward. Instead of giving a magic item to that player as a reward, give them a lead on how they can discover a new rune that only they can use. Good for role play, fighting, and lets everyone play a rune knight without it getting stale.
I saw this subclass and I immediately got images in my head of an adventurer getting into a wrestling match with a dragon. Frickin' epic! I'd say the Rune Knight and the Genie Warlock are my favorites from Tasha's.
I played a genasi genie warlock and the rp is so much fun. Also, the combos are great. Fire Genasi serving an evil water genie is great. Piss off the patron and he extiguishes you.
Mine is a goblin called Smol, taken when she was young and made to do the delicate detailed work of smithing. Eventually she learned enough and ran, always afraid they'd take her back to guard their runic secrets. I have her play quiet and protective of the team, but when she grows she gets loud and angry, often taunting smaller enemies.
the cloud rune is sooo good, I'm surprised you can take it at level 3. It's like a short rest portent for attacks -that you can transfer to another creature. -redirect an enemy or ally's critical hit to the primary enemy.
My first ever character is a tiefling rune knight. An apprentice of a fire giant blacksmith in the city of brass sendt off to the primordial plane to learn the different runes as well as mastering his blacksmith and fighting abilities
Really love this class the only problem I have with it is that you could use Rune Shield and cause an attack that was a hit to become a critical hit since it just says you use the new roll.
True, but it’s the same probability as making the new roll a natural 1 as well! There’s always some risk when you reroll, but sometimes you have to pull out all the stops! Thanks for watching!
Bugbear's extra reach doesn't apply to Reaction Attacks; only the Attack Action on your turn. So Polearm master's reaction attack caps at 15 feet with this subclass's capstone.
Aaahhh yes the fear of when to use it, fowtui for short. Never suffer this when hitting the like button on your excellent vids. Also now adding a bass to every encounter, Big aggressive something somethings heading our way. As always love it.
This fighter subclass is crazy good! I love it. Quick question, does Tasha's book mention if a player can swap between ruins at 7th, 10th or 15th? love the series, keep it up.
Rune Knight and Barbarian multiclass would be so awesome. I honestly kinda wish this would have been a Barbarian subclass from the get go but I’ll take what I get lol
Tavern brawler rune knight, grappling medium size enemies as a bonus action and using them as improved weapons with proficiency. When giants might is about to end throw the victim at the other enemy for fall damage using tasha's rule.
I'm currently playing a 4ft tall dwarf Rune Knight named Torvin, This orc barbarian challenged me to a fight, normally I would've just ignored him, but I was a bit drunk so a bar fight happened. Oh, the look on his face when I went from 4ft to 16ft tall! Ha!!
Flavor Flav has become a joke in my group (someone said it, I said it after, and we both got inspiration for no reason), so it's funny seeing Flavor Flav mentioned here lol
Flavor Flynn, I’m stealing that thank you! Even when this was in UA my friends and I found this class absolutely amazing and I’m glad you guys agree with us as well. This is been an interesting year but I’m glad I subscribed last year and I’ve been enjoying every video that comes out, so happy New Year’s guys and to another year and of course natural 20s!
If you have any spellcasters with the enlarge spell, use giant's might then they use the enlarge spell to make you bigger and you could have a fight of ultraman proportion.
This class is bonkers! I disagree that the synergy is that low though. Having all the options only makes the class better and allows you to ALWAYS have something to do with your bonus and reaction, which is not normally the case for the fighter. This is possibly another 13.5 or 14 in my book
Advantage on Slight of hand and deception and 1 attack redirected to an enemy. Psuedo expertise with all tools proficient with and shackles like a heat metal and hold person with saving throws instead of concentration. Advantage for Animal handling and intimidation and 10 min ability checks and saving throws for strength and constitution... a couple fight's improved safety. Insight advantage and dark vision 120ft and charm 1 craleature for 1 minute dreamy stupor with saving throws. Adv. On poison saving throws and resistance to poison 1min resistance to (basically melee) damage. Adv. On arcana and can't be surprised if not incapacitated and 1 min reaction of cause adv. Or disadv. Within 60 ft of you.
Can’t wait to play a gnome or a halfling that grows in battle and smacks things. Heck you could have a small character that carries a big heavy weapon as big as him. People would say: “why is he carrying around that weapon that’s clearly too big for him” just pure fun
I hate being the dm......there are so many classes I would love to play, this being one of them but I can never play 😭. I want to hulk out and turn into a giant monster
I (Jamison) feel your pain. I just make NPCs with characters to fill the itch most times. Sometimes they turn into enemies or rival parties... thanks for watching!
The warforged is always a good pick for fighter and especially rune knight. +2 con great for runes, +1 AC awesome for fighter. You become optimus prime lol.
The first character I made after Tasha's was a Gnome Rune Knight who was taught by a Cloud Giant. The Cloud Giant passed away so my gnome is looking for a new teacher
This feels more for homebrew. Fighter really needs or wants a spell? Here's a rune of light! Fighter is lacking some charisma because the game decided he needs strength, con, and wis/dex more? Rune. Fighter didn't take gwm or ss or pam or sentinel and chose a roleplay feat?! Here. A run. Gives your weapon a once per long rest divind favor when you active giant's might.
Bugbear rune Knight. With that maneuver feat. Lunging attack. 2 hander, polearm master, sentinel?? 18 fighter/2 paladin So you can "reach out and smite someone." "I can hit it from here" "Dude!! Your like 40 feet away from it." (Drax impression) "I can hit it." "AL'RIGHT......." Player rolls attack and hits. "I smite." (Still in Drax voice) "Drax player" reaches over and closes the gobsmacked players mouth hanging open.
Hey guys I'm trying to build a Goliath named Atlas who's a weightlifter using the subclass and I have a question how big can you get in d&d and how much weight can you lift
This is probably the biggest you can get (thinking off the top of my head without checking) becoming huge without outside help. You could get Huge then have a friendly spell caster use Enlarge on you making you Gargantuan. When it comes to carrying, you can carry weight equal to 15 times your strength score (in pounds). You can push/pull/lift 30 times your strength score, but if you’re over your carry capacity you’re movement drops to 5ft. Also, in addition to that, for each size above Medium you are, you double the maximum weight. IE you have a STR score of 20 and are medium size. You could lift 20x30=600 pounds. You change to Large size, it doubles to 1200. You change to huge size, then it doubles to 2400. You can go hulk on some stuff as a huge creature for sure. Thanks for watching!
@@URGE my plan is that Goliaths have a powerful build at the start. Bear totem barbarian eventually doubles their carry limits and gains advantage on strength checks. Rune Knight fighters gain the ability to gain the ability to become the next size up, now lifting x6 the normal medium size creature. Now add two levels of dunamancy to half or double the weight of an object, and can cast enlarge or enhance ability on myself. Getting unarmed Fighting style from fighter, I think Atlas the Goliath could go toe to toe with storm giants at their size, maybe test the strength of Titans to gain favor of the all father, Creator of Giants.
I have a Artaficer/rune knight that has a +10 to hit AC on my hand crossbow and has as it first feat crossbow expert var humen so what do you think for a level 5 PC 3 in Artaficer 2 in fighter once i get one more level it will become a rune knight so what are your thoughts guys
You can and with quite a success! You will have passive of +17 to Athletic before any roll and advantage. So average of your grappling will be 32.5 while Tarrasque averaage will be 20.5. But you can also use your Storm Rune and give him disadvantage to every skill check every turn, making that average for Tarrasque 16.5
@@prestoneubanks8458 I still wouldn''t pass up the opportunity for rage resistance -in heavy armor once or twice per short rest. I would skip stone or fire.
@@elliotbryant3459 This is a year old but y give up fire? U can use it on hit so it doesn’t use up your bonus action or reaction so it’s really nice to have. And it’s just extra dmg even if they succeed. And if they fail well then it really screws them. And if they fail and have legendary resistance it uses up one of those which is huge (pun intended lol).
@@davidstratton696 For me, I would not be able to pass up hill, storm & cloud. After getting those it would kinda depends on the character for the others. Fire rune is not a ton of damage and doesn't scale, so the average 7 damage a round is less impactful the further you get from level 3, and the fire damage gets more resist/immune blocked wirh higher cr enemies. Also many later enemy's strength saves are likely scaling faster than your DC. But when it works, restrained is pretty sweet!
I think you rated the class synergy wrong. Having many options, for say the reaction, doesn't mean that's a bad thing. It means you have a variety of ways you can react to what is happening on the battlefield. The more ways you can react to what is happening, the better you will be and help control the flow of combat or the direction of damage. From what you said in the video, you made it sound like having options was a bad thing.
I think my favorite thing about this subclass is that it is soooo easy to personalize and reward. Instead of giving a magic item to that player as a reward, give them a lead on how they can discover a new rune that only they can use. Good for role play, fighting, and lets everyone play a rune knight without it getting stale.
Hell yeah 🤘
I saw this subclass and I immediately got images in my head of an adventurer getting into a wrestling match with a dragon. Frickin' epic! I'd say the Rune Knight and the Genie Warlock are my favorites from Tasha's.
I played a genasi genie warlock and the rp is so much fun. Also, the combos are great. Fire Genasi serving an evil water genie is great. Piss off the patron and he extiguishes you.
So I'm about to become Thanos with all the infity runes!!
Mine is a goblin called Smol, taken when she was young and made to do the delicate detailed work of smithing. Eventually she learned enough and ran, always afraid they'd take her back to guard their runic secrets. I have her play quiet and protective of the team, but when she grows she gets loud and angry, often taunting smaller enemies.
the cloud rune is sooo good, I'm surprised you can take it at level 3. It's like a short rest portent for attacks -that you can transfer to another creature. -redirect an enemy or ally's critical hit to the primary enemy.
I´m playing a lvl5 rune knighht an this ability is the most fun part of it... DM crits? Not on my party!
An amazing subclass for fighters. Nothing boring about playing this.
My first ever character is a tiefling rune knight. An apprentice of a fire giant blacksmith in the city of brass sendt off to the primordial plane to learn the different runes as well as mastering his blacksmith and fighting abilities
Really love this class the only problem I have with it is that you could use Rune Shield and cause an attack that was a hit to become a critical hit since it just says you use the new roll.
True, but it’s the same probability as making the new roll a natural 1 as well! There’s always some risk when you reroll, but sometimes you have to pull out all the stops! Thanks for watching!
Just save it for crits, you can't use it very often really. Better to save it for crits.
A bugbear rune knight with polearm master is scary
Nothing can escape your reach.
The question is, to dip or not to dip into barbarian for that sweet succulent rage?
Bugbear's extra reach doesn't apply to Reaction Attacks; only the Attack Action on your turn. So Polearm master's reaction attack caps at 15 feet with this subclass's capstone.
YES I’ve been waiting for the is moment but I have a question...what’s your fav subclass form tashas 😏
I (Jamison) like Rune Knight, Stars Druid, Phantom Rogue, and Armorer Artificer probably the most overall. Thanks for watching!
The bonus action management hinders and helps this subclass. Ultimately I love it. My favorite fighter class
The growth factor is also nice RP. Intimidate an entire town by becoming Huge...
Aaahhh yes the fear of when to use it, fowtui for short. Never suffer this when hitting the like button on your excellent vids. Also now adding a bass to every encounter, Big aggressive something somethings heading our way. As always love it.
Hey all you human fighters... STONE RUNE
Happy new year guys!
I have one such human fighter, and I have better darkvision than everyone else. Caveat is that I have negative wisdom so my perception sucks.
This fighter subclass is crazy good! I love it.
Quick question, does Tasha's book mention if a player can swap between ruins at 7th, 10th or 15th?
love the series, keep it up.
You can switch runes whenever you finish a long rest! Thanks for watching!
Step 1 make a Goliath fighter
Step 2 make it so he was risen by giants
Step 3 call him little Jhon
Step 4 pick rune knight
Rune Knight and Barbarian multiclass would be so awesome. I honestly kinda wish this would have been a Barbarian subclass from the get go but I’ll take what I get lol
Tavern brawler rune knight, grappling medium size enemies as a bonus action and using them as improved weapons with proficiency. When giants might is about to end throw the victim at the other enemy for fall damage using tasha's rule.
I'm currently playing a 4ft tall dwarf Rune Knight named Torvin, This orc barbarian challenged me to a fight, normally I would've just ignored him, but I was a bit drunk so a bar fight happened. Oh, the look on his face when I went from 4ft to 16ft tall! Ha!!
"And a possible bonus action" literally in the description of action surge 😂
Flavor Flav has become a joke in my group (someone said it, I said it after, and we both got inspiration for no reason), so it's funny seeing Flavor Flav mentioned here lol
Feels like a great multiclass class
Flavor Flynn, I’m stealing that thank you!
Even when this was in UA my friends and I found this class absolutely amazing and I’m glad you guys agree with us as well.
This is been an interesting year but I’m glad I subscribed last year and I’ve been enjoying every video that comes out, so happy New Year’s guys and to another year and of course natural 20s!
You two are the boss! Thanks for the video!
The fun part of this class is that if you pick a small race, you gain two sizes and still become large. Massive halfling. :)
If you have any spellcasters with the enlarge spell, use giant's might then they use the enlarge spell to make you bigger and you could have a fight of ultraman proportion.
I like this subclass. I didn’t hate the prestige class either though; I’m kind of ready for prestige classes.
Why do I imagine a multi class w Path of the Beast barbarian. Fun w bonus actions.
Rewatching this Review after the GIANT UA Reviews came out 👍🏻
Woot! Happy Hands are back in the house!
You always want some resource management without any your next move becomes mandatory.
You can use fire rune to double expertise and get plus 8 bonus not including modifier
So you saying I can be a titan...HALFLING TITAN!
🎊 happy New Year D&D community 🎉
This class is bonkers! I disagree that the synergy is that low though. Having all the options only makes the class better and allows you to ALWAYS have something to do with your bonus and reaction, which is not normally the case for the fighter. This is possibly another 13.5 or 14 in my book
Advantage on Slight of hand and deception and 1 attack redirected to an enemy.
Psuedo expertise with all tools proficient with and shackles like a heat metal and hold person with saving throws instead of concentration.
Advantage for Animal handling and intimidation and 10 min ability checks and saving throws for strength and constitution... a couple fight's improved safety.
Insight advantage and dark vision 120ft and charm 1 craleature for 1 minute dreamy stupor with saving throws.
Adv. On poison saving throws and resistance to poison 1min resistance to (basically melee) damage.
Adv. On arcana and can't be surprised if not incapacitated and 1 min reaction of cause adv. Or disadv. Within 60 ft of you.
Right on time... partly
Can’t wait to play a gnome or a halfling that grows in battle and smacks things. Heck you could have a small character that carries a big heavy weapon as big as him. People would say: “why is he carrying around that weapon that’s clearly too big for him” just pure fun
I used the idea that I’m a giant to pick up an enemy and football slam him into another
I hate being the dm......there are so many classes I would love to play, this being one of them but I can never play 😭. I want to hulk out and turn into a giant monster
I (Jamison) feel your pain. I just make NPCs with characters to fill the itch most times. Sometimes they turn into enemies or rival parties... thanks for watching!
This is probably the first fighter subclass that makes me actually wanna play a fighter.
and you get to actually use your con for the saving throws. also KHAN!!!
Really awesome spin on the fighter. Thinking of playing this next, what race do y'all think could work well with this subclass?
The warforged is always a good pick for fighter and especially rune knight. +2 con great for runes, +1 AC awesome for fighter. You become optimus prime lol.
If I were huge, I'd chuck people like skimming stones over a pond.
The first character I made after Tasha's was a Gnome Rune Knight who was taught by a Cloud Giant. The Cloud Giant passed away so my gnome is looking for a new teacher
I just played a level 13 minotaur rune knight, with unarmed fighting style
What race do y'all think would be best for this? Minotaur, Dwarf, Warforged, or Goliath?
polearm master plus sentinel with this would be strong
Those feats use your bonus action and reaction wich this subclass already short of
This feels more for homebrew. Fighter really needs or wants a spell? Here's a rune of light! Fighter is lacking some charisma because the game decided he needs strength, con, and wis/dex more? Rune. Fighter didn't take gwm or ss or pam or sentinel and chose a roleplay feat?! Here. A run. Gives your weapon a once per long rest divind favor when you active giant's might.
Hey! Just a reminder, people care who you are, you should do name plates when you introduce selves. Dony down play who you are
Bugbear rune Knight. With that maneuver feat. Lunging attack. 2 hander, polearm master, sentinel??
18 fighter/2 paladin
So you can "reach out and smite someone."
"I can hit it from here"
"Dude!! Your like 40 feet away from it."
(Drax impression) "I can hit it."
"AL'RIGHT......."
Player rolls attack and hits.
"I smite." (Still in Drax voice)
"Drax player" reaches over and closes the gobsmacked players mouth hanging open.
Hey guys I'm trying to build a Goliath named Atlas who's a weightlifter using the subclass and I have a question how big can you get in d&d and how much weight can you lift
This is probably the biggest you can get (thinking off the top of my head without checking) becoming huge without outside help. You could get Huge then have a friendly spell caster use Enlarge on you making you Gargantuan. When it comes to carrying, you can carry weight equal to 15 times your strength score (in pounds). You can push/pull/lift 30 times your strength score, but if you’re over your carry capacity you’re movement drops to 5ft. Also, in addition to that, for each size above Medium you are, you double the maximum weight. IE you have a STR score of 20 and are medium size. You could lift 20x30=600 pounds. You change to Large size, it doubles to 1200. You change to huge size, then it doubles to 2400. You can go hulk on some stuff as a huge creature for sure. Thanks for watching!
@@URGE my plan is that Goliaths have a powerful build at the start. Bear totem barbarian eventually doubles their carry limits and gains advantage on strength checks. Rune Knight fighters gain the ability to gain the ability to become the next size up, now lifting x6 the normal medium size creature. Now add two levels of dunamancy to half or double the weight of an object, and can cast enlarge or enhance ability on myself. Getting unarmed Fighting style from fighter, I think Atlas the Goliath could go toe to toe with storm giants at their size, maybe test the strength of Titans to gain favor of the all father, Creator of Giants.
I have a Artaficer/rune knight that has a +10 to hit AC on my hand crossbow and has as it first feat crossbow expert var humen so what do you think for a level 5 PC 3 in Artaficer 2 in fighter once i get one more level it will become a rune knight so what are your thoughts guys
Seems interesting! Depending on your artificer subclass, you could go all kinds of ways with that combo! Thanks for watching!
@@URGE battle smith is what the Artaficer is
Bugbear rune glave master.
Doesn’t this subclass imply that you can grapple a Tarrasque at 18th level (one size larger than your huge size)??
You can certainly try! They do have crazy strength mods though, so keep that in mind! Thanks for watching!
You can and with quite a success! You will have passive of +17 to Athletic before any roll and advantage. So average of your grappling will be 32.5 while Tarrasque averaage will be 20.5. But you can also use your Storm Rune and give him disadvantage to every skill check every turn, making that average for Tarrasque 16.5
The big question for me is which rune do you opt not to take?
If you already have dark vision and don’t care too much about the charm, stone rune is probably the one to leave out. Thanks for watching!
If your a dwarf you dont need hill
@@prestoneubanks8458 I still wouldn''t pass up the opportunity for rage resistance -in heavy armor once or twice per short rest. I would skip stone or fire.
@@elliotbryant3459 This is a year old but y give up fire? U can use it on hit so it doesn’t use up your bonus action or reaction so it’s really nice to have. And it’s just extra dmg even if they succeed. And if they fail well then it really screws them. And if they fail and have legendary resistance it uses up one of those which is huge (pun intended lol).
@@davidstratton696 For me, I would not be able to pass up hill, storm & cloud. After getting those it would kinda depends on the character for the others. Fire rune is not a ton of damage and doesn't scale, so the average 7 damage a round is less impactful the further you get from level 3, and the fire damage gets more resist/immune blocked wirh higher cr enemies. Also many later enemy's strength saves are likely scaling faster than your DC. But when it works, restrained is pretty sweet!
which subclass is 14? I just went back and looked at several of the top tier subclasses (hexblade, divine soul sorc, etc.) but those weren't it...
Curious about this as well
Circle of Moon Druid is the 14. Thanks for watching!
@@URGE oh, yep, I can definitely see that.
I think you rated the class synergy wrong. Having many options, for say the reaction, doesn't mean that's a bad thing. It means you have a variety of ways you can react to what is happening on the battlefield. The more ways you can react to what is happening, the better you will be and help control the flow of combat or the direction of damage. From what you said in the video, you made it sound like having options was a bad thing.
Which class got a 14 tho?
Circle of the Moon Druid was the 14. Thanks for watching!
I highly dislike lore of that subclass. But Runes? They awsome! Propably second after Battlemaster subclass in category of versatility.
Dreammmmy stuporrrrr
Lol. This is "lightning fast"?
The once per turn kinda sucks... A worse rogue?
So you're just gonna ignore all the other subclass features?
I hate this subclass with a burning passion, apparently they forgot all the issues with size category that they wrote enlarge/reduce around.
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