D&D's Lost Subclasses (And How To Actually Play Them)
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Let's talk about the subclasses WotC forgot, abandoned, or otherwise didn't print despite being released and being AWESOME! All of these are playable in your games and freely available online as old Unearthed Arcana (give them a google!)
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0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Treachery Paladin
03:52 - Undying Light Warlock
07:33 - Phoenix Sorcerer
10:18 - Theurgy Wizard
13:15 - Satire Bard
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I've been thinking more and more on this lately:
Why can't Wizards just spend more gp and time to add a non-Wizard spell to their spell list? When magic seems to come so easily to every other class, and Wizards have to pay so much just to play their class, it makes sense that their research skills enable them to access any magics - eventually. It would explain why Wizards can become the God of Magic, and with the right balancers, the burden of the spellbook could finally be a reasonable asset.
Well, these classes aren't "lost", they're Unearthed Arcana, and therefor not legal at most tables.
@@tehmanticore if the spells are granted by deities or other entities, they won't necessarily be available to wizards, as the casting requires some sort of cooperation by the patron being. The one that always confused me was that bards get cure wounds. I'm interested in the thought process behind that decision.
@Plugh13 It's certainly a break from tradition, and for when I've seen healer Bards played, a welcome one at that.
If the classes can share spells, and Wizards can become the God of Magic or the God of Spells (which can have Cleric followers), then I think there's more to it than that. It might need more figuring out than normal arcane magics as I said, but it should be possible for this, the researcher self-magicked class.
Play an aasimar. Be a wizard. Choose the school of Theurgy. Select the Arcana domain. Continue to spiral and disorient your allies with your circular theming
Wanted to say this. Its so funny.
I came here to say arcana domain theurgy wizard, but I knew in my heart it had already been said
Could also go nature domain, for a cleric themed wizard but the cleric is druid themed
I immediately read the arcana domain to see if the combo would be as awful as I thought. Your domain spells are all wizard spells, so you get nothing new here (I guess that if you add all of them to your spellbook you have access to the full cleric list, but that takes until level 9 at least and committing to adding 10 spells you might not want to your spellbook). At second level (I'm going by wizard, not cleric level) you get proficiency in Arcana and 2 wizard cantrips, also nothing new. Your channel divinity is a Turn One Fey/Elemental/Fiend/Celestial + Banishment so at least it's something. at 10th level you get to dispel a spell effect on an ally when you heal them, which you can't do because you don't have a single healing spell (unless you've added every single domain spell to your spellbook). And finally, at 14th level you add 4 more wizard spells to your domain spell list; this feature is actively detrimental to the Theurgist, because since one of those spells has to be level 9, there's a spell in your domain spell list that you won't be able to get until you are level 17, which means that if you went to the trouble of adding every single domain spell to your spell list to at least get some cleric spells, now you're locked out of doing that for 3 more levels.
All in all, insane build, you're pretty much playing without a subclass 0/10 utility, 3/10 flavour, 10/10 bafflement.
@@alegbh8713 There is one at every convention, people. Ignore.
Play rabbitfolk. Take Satire Bard. Become Bugs Bunny.
I have someone in my current group playing a Harengen Vengeance Paladin named Watership Down. It's not relevant to this video. I just wanted to share my childhood trauma brought to life in my fantasy escapism game.
Play a human multi-classed as monk/satire bard. Become Jackie Chan.
"Eeehhh, what's up, Doc...?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Or Play a bugbear Satire Bard - Fozzy bear. Wokka wokka wokka.
Joined by Kermit (Grung Inquisitive Rogue - he was a news reporter on Seasame St.) and Miss Piggy (Orc, Open Hand monk)
Let me guess, @@bskec2177 , you'd choose the Way of the Open Hand because she slapped Kermit so much?
I played a Death Domain Theurgy Wizard for Tomb of Annihilation. It was so cool. Basically, instead of being a worshipper of gods of death, he studied them all. Amazing necrotic blaster.
Wizards who study gods and learn their powers are just epic.
I'm not gonna worship you, but I am going to study your secrets until I know how you give the clerics their abilities.
@@SebasTian58323 wizards turn the esoteric nature of magic into a math formula to better understand it and control it. My favorite class for flavor
This honestly works with the nature of wizards so well, as most wizards are already doing this with Mystra and outside the evil ones are basically her unofficial clerics. Theurgy Wizard takes up the idea of being a mortal emissary of Mystra towards the Divines of other Domains and adds logic to some subclass types, like Divine Soul or Draconic Heritage Sorcerer would obviously have such a mind set towards their respective divine ancestry if they were a wizard.
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Undying light seems fairly similar to celestial warlock. Granted, I think celestial is more about healing as support as a lot of the features are swapped around and scale accordingly
It's the same features rearranged with a different set of spells
I'm pretty sure that Celestial Warlock was a revision of Undying Light
definitely was the prototype I think, although they play quite differently due to levelling difference (and I MUCH prefer the lore of Undying light!!)
It’s just got its strong abilities first and the weaker ones last. I prefer Celsetial, since the scaling bonus action healing at level 1 makes you a very popular player without sacrificing damage
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Undying light warlock: Ohhh boy, I love walking into the line of fire!
Zealot barbarian: first time?
I played a Phoenix Sorc in an ongoing campaign and she wound up with awesome lore around her origins and ultimate fate (she used up all her magical ability to revive the World Tree at the campaign's end). I loved it.
I really wanna play a Pheonix sorc one day
I'm currently playing one in Icewindale, and I love it.
I was in a curse of Strahd game with a phoenix sorc, I was playing a Favored Soul from the UA before Divine Soul was relased in Xanthar. We also had a bard ... it's like all the charisma classes ... it was nuts but at the same time so much fun.
Had one of them see play in my first campaign. She got crushed by a rock and died.
@@FluffieXStarshine I play an Artillerist Artificer in our own Curse of Strahd game that had a mental break and signed a pact with a homebrew Dark Power known as the Shepherd of Fire. It's a flavor skin for Phoenix Sorcerer levels, and a blast to play.
She also has a few levels in Rune Scribe. It's an old UA class from when WotC was considering adding prestige classes to 5th edition, and it's a lot of fun!
Forge Theurgy Wizard. A true tank Wizard.
I don't care how big the room is--I'm immune to fire damage. I CAST FIREBALL!!"
I love playing a Phoenix Sorcerer/Fighter/Paladin that uses a whip. Reflavor the whip as a chain, and after convincing the DM to give me a cool mount, then I'm playing _Ghost Rider._
Okay but imagine this. Theurgy Wizard with the Tempest Domain. You now have Tempest Domain's powerful channel divinity, with access to powerful spells for Lightning and Thunder from the Wizard Spell List
So now you have a Wizard who can just decide "Nah. I'm just going to deal maximum damage on my Chain Lightning instead of rolling"
This is partly why Theurgy wizard was insanely overpowered
@@PhoenixKnight777 Is that much more broken than just taking 2 levels in tempest domain and being a scribes wizard though? this also gives you the proficiency's of cleric, including heavy armour and martial weapons, it gives you some good level 1 spells and cantrips, and lets you change any damage spell to lightning and then do max with it, lightning ball, 48 average damage in a 20 foot radius sphere, I think that is more broken than the theurgy wizard personally.
@@Feanor6450 It depends on your build, Clerics by their nature are designed as leaning more towards half-caster with a stronger lean towards spellcasting, If you want to go full caster Theurgy Wizard of Tempest, added in with the Sorcerer subclass provides more benefits towards being a full caster with Thunder and Lightning.
@@truekurayami ah good point.
Take metamagic somehow and grab Transmute Spell. Give your Meteor Swarm lightning damage and max half of its total possible damage
My favourite unreleased subclass is Onomany Wizard
My DM let me play the subclass in a one-shot. I was a multiclassed Onomancy Wizard with Grave Cleric. The concept of the character was that they would receive names from their god for people who need to die to maintain the fate of the world, with their god being The Fates (or an analogue for The Fates).
It was a higher level one-shot, so it was 7th level Onomancy Wizard (for 4th level spells) + 5th level Grave Cleric. The resonances were very fun to use.
My favourite character of all time was a Mastermind Rogue/Onomancy Wizard. I absolutely loved the theming of the subclass, so its disappointing that it never got brought into an official sourcebook, but at least I still have the functional subclass on my D&DBeyond account because it remains as playable legacy content as long as you still have a character with the subclass.
No love for the Primeval Guardian Ranger? Becoming a tanky tree was such a fun idea, but they shelved it to avoid having large-sized PCs...only to introduce the Rune Knight and Path of Giants a few years later.
Are these unearthed arcana?
@@MrDavidKord Primeval Guardian was Unearthed Arcana in 2017, Rune Knight is in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, Path of the Giants is in Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants.
@@samwildstein2092 Oh mb I know Rune Knight, I'm talking about the ones in the video and Primeaval Guardian.
I played a fire genasi fiend warlock that broke free of their pact and was reborn as a phoenix sorcerer
ooh that's actually a cool twist, I like that.
that's dope!
I remember playing the UA Brute Fighter. I had so much fun with it. I remember being so sad when there were no plans to officially release it
Slight correction: Nourishing Fire doesn't give you temporary HP, it lets you regain HP equal to the slot's level + CHA modifier. At least, that's what it was in UA.
I see the College of Satire as being the stand up comedians of D&D.
I like the dice at the bottom left that represent each chapter, nice touch
Can’t wait to fail at reading the mind of the corrupt noble just to watch him loudly fart during an important meeting
Really glad that you made this video. Ted/Nerd Immersion had a player use the phoenix subclass so he tweaked it so that it was in line with Tasha's subclasses and fixed the janky wording.
Would definitely love if you did a follow up video on additional subclasses we never saw such as the archivist artificer (I know a lot of people were fuming that never got printed), brute and sharpshooter fighter, giant soul and stone sorcery sorcerer, Raven Queen and seeker warlock patrons, as well as the onomancy wizard. The Raven Queen one is probably the one I was most disappointed that we never got, but my 3.5 friends who enjoyed the truenamer class were really looking forward to the onomancy wizard subclass.
I spilled coffee all over myself this morning, spent the day stuck in mind numbing tasks, and was feeling low. I now have new classes to play AND a new TTRPG that my remote self can play, even alone. What a turn around, thanks!
I really like your videos man, please keep them coming.
They are very helpful to a newish player like me and attempting DM.
Thank you.
I played a Half Drow Paladin of Treachery once, he was great. He had a giant Komodo dragon as a mount. ❤
@DnDShorts, thank you so much for being you. I love your content. I don't make a lot of money but it didn't stop me from supporting Ryoko's guide. Just know you are appreciated.
Undying Light Warlock sounds really similar to Celestial.
Came here to say this. Think this may have been a precursor as it's same abilities but some in a slightly different place
I created an oath of treachery paladin about 2 weeks ago, loving the idea behind it's abilities. Thank you so much for putting it into the eyes if the people.
The Phoenix Sorcerer is Joshua from Final Fantasy 16.
Undying Light Warlock sounds really similar to Celestial
I think it has all, or at least most, of the same features, just at different levels. This was probably a prototype for the celestial warlock
Love this video and would love to see more like it. Keep up the good work. Love your content.
I REALLY like the dice with the timers. It's fantastic and really helps my Autistic/ADHD brain focus so I don't have to keep checking where RUclipss lil red bar is. Thanks for your effort!
Not only do I love all of these options, but there's something very funny about having known about them or played in a game with them before. I was so hyped to hear the satire bard brought up cause that tumble is SO ICONIC
I wish the College Of Satire was just really sarcastic and had an ability called Poe's Law where nobody understands what they're trying to say half the time
Love your vids, looking forward to when Ryoko's comes out.
Great video somewhere I have all of these good UA subclasses printed out in a dusty folder I lose and find to make a new character and lose again. This will save me from having to reread it constantly
Loved this video. Would love to see more UA videos
I love ALL DnD Shorts videos!
Old issues of Dragons Magazine contain many fun and off-beat character classes. Most are not very good, but a few can be a lot of fun. Classes like The Jester were just over the top.
Fantastic video, I liked all of these subclasses.
These all seem really cool, and there's a few more that I really liked when I saw them.
Giant Soul Sorcerer- basically Rune Knight for sorcerers. You get different powers and spells based on which giant you're descended from.
Stone Sorcery- Tank Sorcerer. You get more HP and permanent mage armor, your can protect your friends, and if they get hit you can teleport next to them and literally smite them. You get smite spells added to your spell list, that seems so cool.
Revised Beast Master-It's a better beast master, but the standout ability for me is that your beast levels up with you, even getting ASIs when you do. It doesn't specify, but as DM I would allow the beast to take feats instead, which could lead to some wild shenanigans, like a beast proficient in greatswords or a beast with a familiar and firebolt from Magic Initiate.
i love your channel so much! Thanks :)
These are awesome, i love hearing about weird subclasses^^
Ummm this was your best ad yet. Great finish.
I'm happy some of these are getting more love/ notice. I once upon a time played a Oath of Treachery Paladin changeling. The Jester Knight. Its essentially a better version of Trickery domain from the cleric but for Paladin and I love it for that.
Two UA's I also loved were Stone Sorcerer and Onomancy wizard. Stone Sorcerer because I am all about that Hybrid life and we dont really have a proper rep for Geomancy and the like in DND outside of a few spells. Onomancy because Name magic nonsense can be REALLY interesting in how its used. I was able to play this once in a One shot the devil who dropped and in darkness (the spell) just proceeded to get blasted by me whos hiding behind a wall, hitting him with a remote fireball that does Force damage. It was wacky and I loved it.
Cool I'm gonna check at least one of these out
Love this video concept. Perhaps you could due all of the UA classes?
i LOVE the satire bard, that’s such incredible flavorful mechanics. Like that seems like so much fun
Awesome video! Thanks
I would love if you cover more of these subclsses.
Nice use of the Majin Vegeta sacrifice, good job
I love Theurgy Wizards. I have been running them in my games for a few years now as NPC Priests and even had a player like them so much they made one after their first character died. A Life Theurgist that made it from 3rd to 10th level before dying in a tragic mishap within the Shadowfell.
One of the PCs in an Icewind Dale campaign I'm running is a Phoenix Sorcerer who plans to multiclass into Undying Light Warlock down the line. The flavor combo of those two subclasses in particular is absolutely DOPE, plus it's absurdly viable from a mechanical standpoint.
❤ Nice love to see this type of stuff.
I KNEW PHOENIX SORCERER! JUST PLAYED ONE RECENTLY!
I absolutely love the Phoenix Sorcerer! It would give me the excuse to play as an actual phoenix (picking Aarakocra for my race).
One really fun aspect of Theurgy Wizard is it expands your choices for Spell Mastery and Signature Spells. Any cleric spells you get from theurgy count as wizard spells for you, and are written in your spellbook, so you can get things like at will Cure Wounds or Sanctuary
Seeing the planeshift documents get covered wiuld be cool too!
Planning a warforged armoror artificer multiclassed with Tempest domain theurgy wizard and i love it!
Small nitpick, Celestial Warlock is the same as the light warlock, just with the features slightly changed and in a different order. Having healing light at 1st level and giving a 60 foot range is amazing.
I'm about to run a Witchlight campaign with a couple of friends that both took the Witchlight Hand background, and one of them asked if they could use College of Satire for their Bard. I immediately fell in love with it, and let it in.
a theurgy wizard picking arcana cleric as their domain would be the equivalent of that time Brian Cranston walked around wearing a mask of his own face.
Can't believe you left out the part of Theurgy Wizard where you can just take spells from the cleric spell list after gaining all the subclass spells, and that they count as wizard spells for you! I am convinced at will Cure Wounds with Spell Mastery is the main reason it never got published.
I play a Phoenix Sorcerer/Undead Warlock multiclass in our group's Eberron game!
She was a runic scribe in a former life when she was attacked by a vampire, and in order to stop the transformation into a spawn she absorbed and bonded a rune of fire magic into her soul. It's a really fun character to play thematically. When she's transformed using her Form of Dread, her Mantle of Flame is black and red fire that swirls around her.
I'm running a campaign using the EGtW soon and I've been looking for a good class to assign to Leylas Kryn. That Undying Light warlock looks like a winner, so thanks!
My brain is so drained I read subclass as succubus and was greatly confused, concerned and intrigued
when you mentioned Theurgy Wizard, you was basically describing Elminsters class from the Forgotten Realms area that has Myth Draynor in it
All your multiclass building videos and NOW lost subclasses!?! You're driving me CRAZY!!!... Thank you sir.
Just a couple of comments...
1. Without meaning to poach your material from Ryoku... Could you find find us some more "lost" elemental subclass builds for a L5R flavored game? (A metal mage, a sea sorcerer, a wood witch, an icey enchanter... etc)
2. If the builds are OP and are all members of the same party, do they help even everything out?
My personal favourite forgotten subclasses are the MTG clerics: Solidarity domain is an interesting support tank combo, Strength domain lets you be a war cleric with shileighleigh or thorn whip, Ambition is a slightly different trickery cleric, and Zeal domain is tempest domain turned up to a million (replace lightning damage with fire damage and give it haste and fireball). I love these subclasses but never see them talked about
oh that add was a great chuckle
I am actually setting myself up to play an Oath of Treachery Paladin in our next campaign.
Going to have a lot of fun with this one!
Be sure to pick the sentinel feat. (Because of how it works with mirror image) 😉
We have a homebrew Bard Class that might be worth looking at: College of Love (Troubador/ Gallant). At 3rd level, you get to pick three of the following skills or proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion, Deception, History, Martial Arms, Medium Armor. Poetic License : Also a 3rd level, you learn to inspire others to express themselves and find their passions. An ally that has a Bardic Inspiration die from you can roll that die and add the number to a Charisma or a social based Skill check; he may choose to use after he has rolled but before the Dungeon Master has ruled whether it succeeds or fails. Silver Tongue: At 6th level, when you cast the spells charm, friends, or suggestion you can choose to have either give the target disadvantage when making a saving throw to resist or making the spell subtle so as to try to make the creature unaware that it has been charmed. If the latter, so long as the commands or suggestions made upon the creature aren’t too outrageous or too far out of character, it must make Will saving throw in order for it to realize it has been charmed and become hostile as per the spell description. Otherwise it will consider its actions while under the bard’s influence an odd moment, perhaps brought on by strong drink or a momentary lapse of reason. Love’s Arrow: At 14th level a Gallant and his allies, when fighting in the cause of Love and the virtues that he believes in, can expend a Bardic Inspiration to add to a Death Save to avoid dying (having received a vision of his beloved or another dear one asking him to remain). Alternatively, if the last Death save fails upon reaching zero hit points, he or an inspired ally can roll a Bardic Inspiration die to receive an equal number of temporary hit points to try to do one last heroic deed and say an inspirational final farewell before expiring. If magically healed or bandaged before this final death, the bard or his ally stabilizes but any temporary hit points gained from this Bardic Inspiration are gone.
As a Dark Pit main and a paladin player in DnD I appreciate his theme playing on the paladin part.
"Flavorful like momma's chili" is my new favorite phrase
I want more dragon subclasses
Where's the Dragon Pact Warlock at?
More dragon themed ones that worked better would be nice...
I’d want more fiend and fey subclasses and also a lycanthrope subclass
4:40 I'm actually pretty sure you CAN'T keep adding the charisma mod to Flaming Sphere each turn since Radiant soul does say "When you cast" meaning during the instance, ala fireball, or scorching ray.
Also you can do that Agathys/Damageshield combo with Fiend.
I really like the stone sorcerer. It is the melee sorcerer we never got to see.
I’d love a pt2 to this, Ranger in particular has a couple badass unearthed Arcana subclasses we never got officially printed.
I came up with an apparition sorcerer origin. Concentration while unconscious, spell casting while unconscious, out of body observations/spell touch, and possession of targets like magic jar without the jar.
My first 5e character was a drunken master monk/trickery cleric eladrin. The treachery pally reminds me of that character. She could redirect missed attacks, make a duplicate, deal poison damage - and with the elven advantage feat, I was generally rolling 3 d20s and taking the best.
With your homebrew suggestion for the Satire Bard, my first reaction is that it would be a little problematic because it would let players purposely do some meaningless roll to get rid of the penalty, but the more I thought about it the more that absolutely falls in line flavorwise for a kind of jester bard who will do some kind of stunt and purposely fail to play it up for laughs (like slip on a banana peel or get pied in the face). Cool video all around!
The only gripe I have with Phoenix Sorcerer is that the transformation can only be used once per long rest. Once used up, your basically just a sorcerer without a subclass for the day. I would say that to fix up the subclass is to have the transformation be used an amount of times equal to either your Charisma Modifier or your PB per long rest. Alternatively, it can still be used once but instead recharges on a short rest.
My fix for it was to allow it to be used again for 5 sorcery points.
@@omous7770I actually really love this idea! 5 seems a little steep but it makes sense for how strong the transformation is!
I once played a multiclass undying light warlock/Phoenix sorcerer it was so much fun. It took so much to keep him down lol
I really liked the Raven Queen patron for warlocks, although I reimagined it as a Hag I encountered in a wintry forest
The Treachery Paladin is basically Talion from Shadow Of War. Thank you a lot for finding me something I could play easily without needing to multiclass Ranger,Warlock, and Fighter or needing to look at Homebrews.
Genie Warlock 10 plus Ranger(any subclass) Deft Explorer 10 equals upto 288 fireballs in a day, every day, forever.
I have actually always looked at these when I was making a character, we even have had a Pheonix sorc in a game
We've got a campaign rolling up, DMs let me roll up the Theurgy wizard, but hes also been chilled with my multiclassing into Cleric. Only doing a single dip for the domain. But shes rolling up the beauty and fate UA. Hyped AF
Mordenkainen’s codex of allies did a fantastic revamp of Collage of Fools Bard that I use for my Jester character in Curse of Strahd
I loved the stone sorcerer, it was flavoursome AF.
I wish we got a Phoenix Sorcerer that worked like Pathfinder 1e's take on the concept, where you can make your fire spells heal your allies
Did anyone else consider that a lv.20 life domain theurgy wizard can cast cure wounds infinitely, basically becoming the greatest healer ever with both the lv. 1 and 17 heal bonuses from the cleric? I love this LOL
Gracias amigo, good stuff 😁😎🙌
Another “lost” subclass is the Love Domain Cleric, which got deleted almost immediately and replaced by the much less interesting Unity Domain
The world we live in. War and Death domains are fine, but Love is problematic.
@@kamchatmonk is not that the concept of love was problematic, it's that the way the channel divinity future is described is gross and rapey and the general concept of a character whose whole thing is magically forcing people to fall in love is creepy at best. The mechanics of the class were pretty much fine and the spell list wasn't bad in a vacuum, but I'm the context of the test of it, it's just nasty
Same reason philter of love doesn't exist anymore.
Using magic to make someone fall in love or be infatuated with you is just not great and we've all known at least one guy for whom "God forces people to fall in love with me" is a character concept that is going to be badly abused
I was really hoping this was going to feature the Path of the Depths Barbarian. It was one of the most fun Barbarian subclasses I’ve played, not because it was particularly powerful but just so flavorful. There was nothing that put you in the nautical vibe like manifesting a spectral anchor and dragging enemies toward you.
There was this universal subclass I remember reading about called "the Warmage" and the best way I can describe it is basically the guy from Orcs must dies skill set with summoning and fighting but the problem with them was they couldn't cast things like fireball, healing or even any kind of light spell. The only thing they could do was summon objects/fortifications (i.e barricades, spike pits, a freaking tower, a regular barrel etc. etc.) and living things (faceless knights, archers, barbarians etc. etc.) but they all had to be drawn in a magical notebook and each had to be understood by either making the object or travelling with them for a certain amount of time. And the other bad thing is that when they summon something it will stay until it's dismissed but while it exists your mana pool is lowered by a cost so you can make multiple of something that costs less but is less effective or you can make a few effective summons for more. The bad thing about that is if that summon dies your mana pool DOES NOT return to normal until you long rest. Not many people talk about this class because it shares a name with another class, if you lose the book you literally have to redraw everything and it's not a very effective class until you spec into it. It has a bit more detail (like for instance if you are a warrior class beforehand you can draw yourself into the book and you have a summon already without the research) but this comment is already very long and I don't want it to be longer.
Satire Bard is one of my favorites
I play a Theugy Wizard and another benefit is if you learn all the spells on you cleric spell list you then have access to every Cleric spell.
I also play a Forge Cleric.
I could see a wizard like this faring decently well picking up twilight domain. Getting that 5th lvl paladin spell that gives you something like spell evasion would be entirely worth it and if it's a gestalt campaign you could add peace domain cleric too. Although I take aasimar and gravitate towards rune knight. Becoming the ultime aura/turn disruption specialist with maybe order instead or it would be too cheezy powergaming. (But rune knight does also work really well with peace domain or cleric domain)
I could also see amark of warding dwarf rune knight/theurgy tempest wizard with metamagic initiate being very decent. 😂😂😂😊
I would be interested in seeing a lost subclass for each class in the future. I didn't even know that these existed.
Another one I recently actually wrote an update for is the Stone Sorcerer. Also Raven Queen Warlock.
Phoenix soul sorcerer is so fun with Transmute Spell and Elemental Adept. Ignore fire resistence on powerful fiends and dragons, and make EVERY spell a fire damage spell with a few sorcery points.
We're creating a whole set of sub classes for the base classes for Khor The World of Many Portals. Those sub classes are EXTREMELY MARKETABLE to players & DMs who want "world-specific" subclasses that can easily be "ported" to their own worlds.
I'd like to learn more about Khor and your subclasses. Where would I go?
Very interesting video, the only Sub-Classes mentioned that I would like are: Undying Light Warlock, Phoenix Sorcerer, and Theurgy Wizard. The other 2 are not my style/preference.