"Never Gonna Give You Up" is not in fact a one-hit wonder, since "Together Forever" was also a hit of his. But if you're going to associate a one-hit-wonder with a character who has Lay On Hands, you've gotta go with "I Touch Myself" by the Divinyls.
In the forgotten realms there is a human god called Kelemvor who watches over the passing from life to death. Lawful neutral, symbol is a skeletal hand holding balancing scales and his favored weapon (when that mattered) is a 2h sword. Works perfectly for this character.
My headcanon is that this character was raised as a templar [paladin], it turned out that they are a reincarnated saint of their order [divine sorcerer], started seeing visions sent by their deity [cleric]; the visions got worse and someone - or something - started talking to them [warlock], they decided to lay low out of fear of being branded a heretic (thus forced to fight back against their fellow templars) and joined a circus where they picked up many trades [bard] which they're now utilising to infiltrate the cult of their "patron". They might discover that the soul of the saint they happen to reincarnate as was something this patron and their deity had been fighting over for centuries and the saint wasn't even the first time this soul was born into the realms where mortals reside.
This reminds me a lot of Hanatarou from the Bleach anime, he was a "weak" healer soul reaper, but his blade accumulated all damage he healed from people, and then created a single burst attack equal to all damage he healed from his allies. And then it became a useles scalp for the rest of the day after bursting the damage. XD
One nice thing about this build is that if you are fighting a spellcaster, the single massive hit is going to make them maintaining concentration on a spell very difficult. 99 damage means the caster has to make a DC 49 Constitution save to hold their spell. Nigh impossible without special magic items or legendary resistance. XD
I was a Geni Warlock with pact of the chain and a quasit. I was almost down, like two HP or something. Popped into the ring. Made the quasit take up the ring, turn invisible and walk away to a safe place. Death avoided :)
"Let's go bard one" Man I swear I laughed so hard because I knew the subclass you were gonna go for and it was like "Wait why is he going bar- OH I HATE THIS BEAUTIFUL MAN"
I ran an all goblin party one shot in my Curse of Strahd campaign. The players caused a kerfuffle and killed a couple guards during the Festival of the Blazing Sun. While running away, one of my players (who was a Genie Warlock) hid in his vessel. The vessel was promptly picked up by Lady Wachter who was watching the whole thing go down. It was fantastic.
The moment you mentioned a character having a mental block to using their powers I thought of Nynaeve! Glad to see there's someone who thought similarly!
Man, I love these builds. May I draw your attention to the fact that, while Barbarians cannot cast or concentrate on spells while Raging, the subclass abilities of the Psi Warrior and the Soulknife are _not_ spells? Psychic Rage. Sith Lord? _...Darth Vader!_
I personally love when you describe possible options for your character's backstory when they multiclass, but I like this idea of a new "multiclass" for this character's design. Super cool, and also, chilling description from Descryb!
Love the idea of this character being an older soldier, maybe a warrior who's all but mastered close combat but now wants to explore his divine heritage and see if there's another path he can take, slinging spells and blessing allies rather than rushing in for the kill, but beware when he's forced to draw that old sword from it's sheath, you'll see what strength still holds in these old bones .
Nynaeve from wheel of time? One of the best characters in fantasy? Gonna have to disagree with that one. My opinion of course. But she rubbed me the wrong way
@@spencervance8484 that is exactly why she is a good character. The character descriptions is where Jordan did best. The repeating the same book again and again after book 5 for seve... well six, he died, more books... I ended up hating him and WoT.
Excellent, high-quality outtakes there! Story of my life: getting up for a drink, realizing I have to pee, and leaving the glass in the kitchen before I go back to my desk.
I’ve wanted to see you to make a build like this for so long. I’ve made a few iterations of my own, but they’ve always ended up being a once per short rest kind of build. Like a lvl2 grave domain cleric,lvl2 pali and lvl 4 sorcerer. Using 3rd lvl shadow blade, booming blade 4th lvl smite.
One thing that I think would be very cool to see is a “theoretical maximum damage” at lvl 17 where you assume things such as max dice rolls, critical hit, etc. and see what comes out the other end. To be sure the average damage output is impressive, but I think maximum and minimum damage are other interesting and worthwhile stats 46:54
My favorite part about this build is that it totally encourages other players in the party to tack on damage to that attack. Like if you had a trach warden his trach could spit fire on the attack etc., it just feels like a giant team power up and move! I love it!
I'm so glad to see Randall's art back! And by that I mean I'm glad you wrangled him back into the dungeon in your basement where you keep him churning out art for you 24/7
Genie's Vessel Shenanigans: Vessel was a ring, my Warforged Paladin Warlock, Sentry, was air dropped by the Aarakocra into the camp of target bad guys. Happened to land inside of a tent where he proceeded to burn it and everything around him down, a clear indication for the rest of the party to attack. This all went down with ACDC's "Thunderstuck" playing. It will likely be one of my favourite memories in D&D.
The best genie’s vessel shenanigans I’ve heard is to fill it with oil/explosives and catapult it at enemies, destroying the vessel and leaving a 20’ cube of toxic destruction. Enjoy!
Colby, You do your thing brother! I like all the multiclassing. Best think I ever witnessed with Genie-lock shenanigans our entire party escaped from prison by all going into a ring vessel and letting their invisible familiar carry us all out. The oubliette had nothing on us!
Genie story: Party was dying or dead. Reinforcements are on the way and my party is already rolling new stats fearing a TPK. My Genielock was the sole conscious survivor of a gruesome encounter. Adult red and cultists. I took my ring off placed it in the knot of a nearby tree pulled my dead and unconscious party members inside it. The reinforcements were all humanoid and never found my ring. Popped my limited wish for revivify on the cleric who just rolled an 8 on their last death save fail. They raised dead and revivified everyone else. DM was absolutely impressed. Party was flabbergasted. Genielock utility.
Alternative version: Instead of using quickened spell, you can take 2 levels in fighter for action surge, this way you can use Path to the Grave and attack wo/ using your bonus action. This means you can use your BA for a smite spell, which will give you a bunch of extra damage
It's funny you mentioned that Randall was at PAX Unplugged. I was also there and had no idea he would be there. I saw his booth and bought a couple of his books, making sure to mention that I love the work he does for your character builds. Only on the drive home did I realize I should have asked him to sign my books. It was great to meet him, though!
One of the cleric magic items can help alot with more Channel Divinity and a Bloodwell Vial allows the ability to regain metamagic points, both items are once per dawn
Yeah! Getting lucky with an amulet of the Devout might make the conquest paladin's guided strike potentially worth it, make the mega hit that much more assured. Plus armor of Agathys is an option with all those higher level slots you'd have.
Don't forget as a Divine Soul Sorc, you get the free spell from your alignment, so you could have picked up Bless without using a spell slot. You also get 4 cantrips at Lvl 1.
Given that you have a weak wisdom mod I would take bless as a cleric or pally and take something else when picking that free spell from Divine Soul Sorcerer that would use your charisma as a spell modifier
May I give you a hand in explaining this one roleplaywise? 1. Paladin represents devotion to your chosen endeavors. 2. Sorcerer represents inner divine strength manifested through your devotion. 3. Cleric represents the bond with a deity that fits your beliefs the most. 4. Bard represents the discovery of a hymnal chuckful of psalms to said deity. Still in tandem with the divine theme. 5. Warlock (the hardest out of all of these) represents you bounding a genie to your will… at least partially. Djinni are the kindest of all of them, so I'd personally go with this one in particular. (Anyone can make a Warlock pact at any time to be honest, mind you.) This way you can omit the potential of commiting idolatry against your deity. There you go. :)
This is one of the few channels I gives my thumbs up to before the vid even starts. I’ve never regretted that choice and said “ I wish I could change my mind now” never happens. Gold, just gold man. Keep it coming
For the final 3 levels making it a level 20 character I'd suggest Wiz Divination so you get 2 guaranteed dice per day and if one of them ends up being a nat 20. You make sure that one hit is a nuke from orbit.
I've always liked the thematics of a cleric/paladin, but I think you highlight the unfortunate challenges. The nightmare I would have with this character is setting up my big attack: "I use my action for Path of the Grave!" DM: ok "I use my bonus action to quicken cast booming blade!" DM: they cast counterspell
I think your enemies tend to have counterspell a lot more frequently than the ones at our table do 😉. But yeah in that case, guess we’d want to pack subtle spell… expensive attack!
Liked this build, it made me think a bit more about a build I’m trying to figure out, specifically a build based around the Lightning Arrow spell. Effectively like a different kind of one hit wonder. The main allure of the spell is that it scales better than most blast like spells. On top of the fact that it takes into account Sharpshooter and any other modifiers to damage. Would be interested to see how you would do it. Yes that means this wall of text is also kind of a suggestion.
Refreshed the page to see if this one was up yet, and as it was loading I went "I bet it's called the One Hit Wonder." I see it and just call out, "I knew it!" We have a Genie Warlock in our Sunday night party. We haven't pulled many huge shenanigans with the Genie Vessel yet like smuggling someone in somewhere. But this is how we've taken advantage of it lately. We are currently level 13, and she can pull others into the vessel and stay there for a number of hours equal to double proficiency bonus. Our DM can be fairly hardcore and will throw several pretty strong encounters against us when we're like exploring a dungeon or otherwise somewhere that we aren't supposed to be, so we'll start to feel the attrition. We've loved (aside from the quick short rests) just hiding the vessel in a corner or a pile of other things and hopping in there and taking a long rest in the middle of a hostile fortress or wherever we happen to be since we can potentially stay in there up to 10 hours at this point. Literally hidden in an archdevil's fortress and taken a full night's sleep and there was no trace of us because we were in her (she's a pirate captain) little Jack Sparrow Compass of a Genie Vessel.
I was playing as a kind of vigilante hero with a secret identity. His "civilian" identity was a wealthy eligible bachelor who helped the party with social stuff. When it was time to crack heads, he handed a member of the party his ring and "teleported away" - or so his friends thought. As you've no doubt guessed, he actually went into the ring to change into his alter ego, and when the party got to the fight he would make his entrance as the Hanging Lantern! The players were all in on the gag, but they were great sports about it, the idea being that the ring "summoned" this dark spirit of vengeance and justice.
Merry Christmas! Thanks for the cool build. I like the Whispers bard and I feel like they get the short end of the stick most of the time according to most youtubers. They're still on the bard chassis, which is STRONG and add in a bit of burst when you feel like it. It pairs so well with Paladin 2, or Bladelock 5. I like the fact that I just scales up on its own with bard levels too, but doesn't require extra resources. You can also pair this with a non-finesse weapon unlike a rogue. Psychic Bladed Great Axe with Undead level 6 for an extra d12 of necrotic damage really starts consistently piling on the damage.
Totally expected an Eldritch Smite + Divine Smite build here. Add a smite spell with a bonus action, Sword Bard Flourish/Whisper's Bard, with Booming Blade with some racial damage boost on top. Pleasantly surprised to see another build with that juicy Channel Divinity.
My genie stories is, I put my ring (vessel) on my mordicaidens hound's collar. Since he is wearing it, we believe the collar and ring as well would be invisible. Thus, when I retreat to my vessel I am in my pocket dimension and it is contained on the collar of an invisible animal that can RUN AWAY if needed.
I envision this character as having multiple personalities. Each one being a different class. Along the lines of Sorak from the Tribe of One Trilogy (Dark Sun). Then, when this character enters into combat, they all combine their abilities at the same time. Could be a really fantastic (and challenging) RP opportunity.
You can also go straight Grave Cleric with a few levels in sorcerer and the metamagic adept feat. Casting hold person/monster on the enemy at the first round (using heightened spell and/or Silvery Barbs to ensure failure). Then on your next turn use Path to the Grave and a Quickened Spell Inflict Wounds. The best part of this combo is that it scales by 2d10*2 damage for every spell slot level you gain. At Level 5 you can net an average of 110 Necrotic damage at the expense of at least 2 spell slots and a channel divinity charge.
What a great idea, and the level advancement is fun all over the place and back and forth. I might not play this charter but having them on my team would be a blast.
Best use of my Djinni lamp was whilst escaping a heist. Balanced my lamp on the edge of a trash chute and threw myself into it, hurtling down the trash chute to safety. Sure I was "separated from the group" and "stuck in the trash", but it felt hella cool
As a lvl 3 Genie Warlock, my party and I were doing some classic "explore the sewers" quest where we ran into a few trolls. A few trolls for a lvl 3 party? Yes, somewhat unbalanced, but at the start we were doing well. As an Efreet Warlock I had fire damage on my attacks and we had a wizard with Chill Touch and we were focus firing then to great effect! Until for some reason everyone decided to change tactics midway and split up. I was chased by a Troll into a room and had just one turn to shove my vessel (a spice jar) onto a bar shelf and pop inside to hide, praying that the troll would fail their investigation rolls. Eventually, by the time the troll found me, my party had regrouped and I was able to pop out, Disengage and run back to the group. Lots of fun and some tense rolls!
Another incredible build! Somethings that i'm not sure you considered, but i think could be a way to bump the damage: - Taking warlock 5 instead of Bard 5 - Taking pact of the blade instead of chain, This way you could get improved pact weapon for a +1 to attack and damage and Eldritch Smite for extra 4d8 damage on your big attack. I haven't done the math, but it seems to me that this could be better for your nova round even losing the advantage from the familiar. Ietherway this would defietily hurt the suppport capabilities of the chracter. Thank you for another episode!
Once you hit 4th level slots, it might be better to try and fit up to warlock 5, since you can spike both Eldrich smite and Divine smite on the same hit
What a night 😯 there were screams in our neighbor's apartment. I and serveral others inside the building went there to help, it was very stressful 😯 I really need some dnd asmr right now 😅 I had to stop watching mid video, looking forward to falling asleep listening to the rest of it 🥰🎄thanks colby
Here's an alternate take of this build that I feel would net a fair bit more damage than what you were able to get out by being a slave to the spreadsheet. Only go 4 levels into Sorcerer and Bard to open up room for two more Warlock levels. Get Pact of the Blade instead of Chain (Maybe even get Magic Initiate if you have room so you can grab Find Familiar there even if it's not as good), and grab Eldritch Smite at 5th. AKA, forgoing a d6 for an extra 4d8. I think that's probably a much more optimal option if you don't want 3rd level Bard or Sorcerer spells.
Just search “Path to the grave, would sneak attack/divine smite be counted as part of the attack?” topic in Sage advice, the official ruling already confirm this build won’t work, though I cannot post the link in RUclips.
My favorite use for the Genie Vessel that I've come up with (though I haven't used it) is the Paladin Bomb (AKA "I'm on a horse"). Put your paladin friend in the vessel, let them summon their steed and do whatever other preparation they need to and then toss it into the fray of your enemies and either attack it or break it in some other way. The paladin pops out already mounted in the midst of your enemies. The shock value alone would be priceless. For a more effective option, just do the same thing but with someone who knows Thunder Step or some other great self-AOE spell.
This is the build I came up with a while ago (modified since I made it pre Tasha's) for a similar premise (though I didn't restrict myself to 1 attack per round): 27 Custom Lineage Conquest Paladin 6/Hexblade Warlock 5/Grave Cleric 6/Battle Master Fighter 3 18 Str 15 +2/+7 18 Dex 8 -1/+4 13 Con 13 ->14 +2/+13 13 Int 8 -1/+4 9 Wis 12 ->13 +1/+12 0 Char 15->17 ->18->20 +5/+16 Feats: Res (Con), +1 Char + 1 Wis, +2 Char, Great Weapon Master Once per short rest, you can deal: 2d6 Slashing (Greatsword) (Avg. 7) 1d8 Slashing (Battle Master Maneuver) (Avg. 4.5) 5 Slashing (Char mod) 10 Slashing (Great Weapon Master) 1 Slashing (Improved Pact Weapon) 6 Slashing (Hexblade's Curse) 4d8 Radiant (3rd Level Divine Smite) (Avg. 18) 4d8 Force (3rd Level Eldritch Smite) (Avg. 18) Avg. Total (Normal): 69.5 Avg. Total (Crit): 117 With Path to the Grave: Avg. Total (Normal): 139 Avg. Total (Crit): 234 Your to hit bonus is +7 with GWM (+5 from Char, +6 from proficiency, +1 from Improved Pact Weapon, -5 from GWM). Tactics are Path to Grave, and then action surge, getting 2 chances to hit. With the +10 we can grant ourselves with Conquest Paladin's Channel Divinity, we hit an AC of 19 on a roll of a 2. We can also trade 9 damage (on average) from the maneuver to add +1d8 to hit (with precision strike), making our min roll 20 to hit. If we want to use our larger resources: 2d6 Slashing (Greatsword) (Avg. 7) 1d8 Slashing (Battle Master Maneuver) (Avg. 4.5) 5 Slashing (Char mod) 10 Slashing (Great Weapon Master) 1 Slashing (Improved Pact Weapon) 6 Slashing (Hexblade's Curse) 5d6 Radiant (5th Level Branding Smite) (Avg. 17.5) 5d8 Radiant (4th Level Divine Smite) (Avg. 22.5) 4d8 Force (3rd Level Eldritch Smite) (Avg. 18) Avg. Total (Normal): 91.5 Avg. Total (Crit): 161 With Path to the Grave: Avg. Total (Normal): 183 Avg. Total (Crit): 322 For magic items, a Flame Tongue, Frost Brand, or and +x Greatsword would do wonders. You could also go Paladin 5/Warlock 7/Cleric 6/Fighter 2. You'd lose 5th level spells slots, but you'd have 2 4th level spell slots from Warlock. We'd also lose Aura of Protection, which is a nice support ability. Another option is to take Lucky in place of either Res (Con) (we'd lose 1 HP per level & eventually lose 6 from our Con Save) or the +2 Char (we'd lose +1 to hit & 2 damage).
Came back to say i played this build in a lvl 10 one shot and did 134 damage in my nova round to the boss of the one shot. It was awesome. I never did actually get around to healing anyone though, but bless was very helpful to the party.
Thanks for introducing me to the grave cleric. I immediately jump on creating a Grave Cleric 2 - Assassin 4 with Quick Toss maneuver. Could work well with bugbears (from MOM) or old fashion Goblin.
My table was playing waterdeep dragon heist. I was playing a tortle genie warlock/paladin. We entered a dark sewer, i was the only character who didn't have dark vision, so i handed my vessel to a party member and zorped in. They promptly threw me right into the sewage..... So not exactly a badass moment of using my vessel, but still fun.
I dont care what video you make. all i want to hear is "welcome home, this is where you belong and i am so glad you are here" and my day is already better.
You could go Paladin 2, Grave 2 and Shadow Sorcerer X. Starting with either Paladin or Sorcerer. Sick the hound, cast Hold/Monster Person to get Auto crit. Next turn Path to the Grave for vulnerability and quicken Booming Blade with Smite. This dosent work on Legendary monsters, but thematically "Send his soul to damnation" or "Your time has come", however you want to flavor it. Supporting your group and controlling the battlefield. When you face a foe worthy enough for you to swing your sword, you smite them down with a single blow.
I'm a Genielock player. We kind of kicked the hornets nest of bad guys when we were trying to assassinate a corrupt lord that was responsible for the prices on our heads. We got caught seeing him performing a dark ritual with a bunch of cultists and had set about trying to get evidence on him. So we knew the ritual would be happening that week but we decided the Cobra Kai approach was best. Well we didn't the cult had so many members as we were starting to have problems with all of them. So our arcane trickster and druid were the only ones with the stealth scores to avoid anyone. So I suggested we pick a room and hide the group in the lamp somewhere safe. The top of a large wardrobe worked. The druid also broke a few windows and wildshaped out of there to make it look like we had escaped into the forest. We spent our time there going over where we were and where we needed to go in order to avoid them. The lamp wasn't found and when we were rested, we managed to get better stealth checks into the hidden chamber in his bedroom.
I always wanted to build an "Investment of the Chainmaster" Chainlock under a DM that would let me have a Gazer familiar. Taking all of those neat eye rays and boosting their DCs to my caster DC sounds awesome. A strict RAW reading of the eye rays doesn't say that they are attacks, meaning it's arguable that you wouldn't even need to use your bonus action to command the familiar to use them. Even if it did take your bonus action, it's still two beams which is pretty decent... Ahhh, if only.
With a paladin 6, hexblade 1, sorcerer 6, quickening booming blade, a longsword, smiting with all 3, 4th level slots, and using your 5th level slot for spirit guardians, you can pump out 150 - 160 average damage. This one shot build is crazy!
I was SHOCKED that there was no hexblade in this. My initial thought was go hexblade, max out Cha to hit and damage, but you were able to do that with Strength in the end and the genie bump was nice to have. Despite the concept of being a "one-hit wonder", taking the haste spell would allow you to do two strikes. Yes, you wouldn't have bless, but there's at least a 50% chance that someone else in the party is going to have that. Of course, someone could cast haste on you, or you might have boots of speed. As for my own choice of a one-hit wonder song (I love me some Rick Ashley though), I'd have to go with either Go The Distance by Michael Bolton or Please Don't Go by K.W.S. Honourable mentions have to go to Save Tonight by Eagle-Eye Cherry and The Bitter End by Placebo.
My man just dropped the best braid tugger ever. Colby let's be friends as I go through my read through, also way of the kings is another great book to start an amazing series
Best we've used the genie home was around level 10 or so. Was shortly after the party can join inside the object. We needed to infiltrate a military base of orcs and ogres. The idea we came up with was to all climb into the ring. Then the druid took the ring and shape changed into a tiny spider. Hid and climbed along ceilings and such to get to where the boss was located. Waited until he was in a vulnerable situation and then the druid jumped off the wall and that was the code for time to come out. We all came down prepared for battle while the Half-orc half-ogre military commander was resting.
I fun alternative for people that don’t like to use custom lineage is going legacy goblin for the fury of the small feature to do extra damage equal to your level once per short rest.
@@vinspad3 I was even considering using goblin over taking great weapon master so you don’t need to take the negative to hit. I feel like everything’s riding on your attack landing so It might be nice to have a little bit more wiggle room.
I love Slow on this character. Bless is getting +d4, but Slow could do the job as well since they drop AC by 2 AND don't get reactions. Since they can't do reactions you can pull back 5ft and possibly get the 2ndary effect of for even more damage.
WAIT A MINUTE! THIS IS THE BUILD I REQUESTED A MONTH BACK! I thought it would land at top of tier 3 and you were able to knock it into tier 2 at times! GREAT JOB!!!
Ok, for the first 14 levels, I thought this character could be a guard at funeral processions in a Ravenloft-esque setting, charged with making sure that nothing funky / necromantic happens. Eventually they would be promoted and deliver a dirge or eulogy. And then the warlock levels came... :D
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Congrats on using all 4 charisma based casters in 1 build!
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Bro, spoilers......
@@TheOriginalE lmao
@@DnDDeepDive High five/
Always a treat to have the rock music back
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Loving hearing the old intro theme, good nostalgia from watching DnD Optimized videos back when the Pandemic started.
I need it more!
"Never Gonna Give You Up" is not in fact a one-hit wonder, since "Together Forever" was also a hit of his. But if you're going to associate a one-hit-wonder with a character who has Lay On Hands, you've gotta go with "I Touch Myself" by the Divinyls.
Oh wow, that is a DEEP 80's cut. Nice.
Yeah, you should make a character totally based on using inflict wounds spell!
🎵 Oh I don't hurt anybody else, after I go nova I heal with spells...🎵
always a big fan of Lights Out . turns out Astley was an actual musician and not just a meme
Divinyls was a one hit wonder? Dude, no. Very much NOT a one hit wonder
In the forgotten realms there is a human god called Kelemvor who watches over the passing from life to death. Lawful neutral, symbol is a skeletal hand holding balancing scales and his favored weapon (when that mattered) is a 2h sword. Works perfectly for this character.
Exactly what I was thinking.
My headcanon is that this character was raised as a templar [paladin], it turned out that they are a reincarnated saint of their order [divine sorcerer], started seeing visions sent by their deity [cleric]; the visions got worse and someone - or something - started talking to them [warlock], they decided to lay low out of fear of being branded a heretic (thus forced to fight back against their fellow templars) and joined a circus where they picked up many trades [bard] which they're now utilising to infiltrate the cult of their "patron". They might discover that the soul of the saint they happen to reincarnate as was something this patron and their deity had been fighting over for centuries and the saint wasn't even the first time this soul was born into the realms where mortals reside.
This reminds me a lot of Hanatarou from the Bleach anime, he was a "weak" healer soul reaper, but his blade accumulated all damage he healed from people, and then created a single burst attack equal to all damage he healed from his allies. And then it became a useles scalp for the rest of the day after bursting the damage. XD
I remember that
I had to Google the name. I forgot what he looked like
One nice thing about this build is that if you are fighting a spellcaster, the single massive hit is going to make them maintaining concentration on a spell very difficult. 99 damage means the caster has to make a DC 49 Constitution save to hold their spell. Nigh impossible without special magic items or legendary resistance. XD
I was a Geni Warlock with pact of the chain and a quasit. I was almost down, like two HP or something. Popped into the ring. Made the quasit take up the ring, turn invisible and walk away to a safe place. Death avoided :)
This build is nothing like I imagined. Well done, Colby. Consider my gast flabbered.
lol
"Let's go bard one"
Man I swear I laughed so hard because I knew the subclass you were gonna go for and it was like
"Wait why is he going bar- OH I HATE THIS BEAUTIFUL MAN"
I ran an all goblin party one shot in my Curse of Strahd campaign. The players caused a kerfuffle and killed a couple guards during the Festival of the Blazing Sun. While running away, one of my players (who was a Genie Warlock) hid in his vessel. The vessel was promptly picked up by Lady Wachter who was watching the whole thing go down. It was fantastic.
Unhinged healer is my new favorite flavor of support
The moment you mentioned a character having a mental block to using their powers I thought of Nynaeve! Glad to see there's someone who thought similarly!
My new favorite character build!
Thematically you could set this up from level one by having your Paladin sing prayers.
Man, I love these builds.
May I draw your attention to the fact that, while Barbarians cannot cast or concentrate on spells while Raging, the subclass abilities of the Psi Warrior and the Soulknife are _not_ spells?
Psychic Rage. Sith Lord?
_...Darth Vader!_
Already done with #112, the Psyclaw
@@thewordywarlock7159 I know what I'm watching!
Thanks, mate.
I personally love when you describe possible options for your character's backstory when they multiclass, but I like this idea of a new "multiclass" for this character's design. Super cool, and also, chilling description from Descryb!
Love the idea of this character being an older soldier, maybe a warrior who's all but mastered close combat but now wants to explore his divine heritage and see if there's another path he can take, slinging spells and blessing allies rather than rushing in for the kill, but beware when he's forced to draw that old sword from it's sheath, you'll see what strength still holds in these old bones .
Had to do a double take when I heard Nynaeve's name, last place I expected to hear it. One of the best characters in fantasy!
Nynaeve from wheel of time? One of the best characters in fantasy? Gonna have to disagree with that one. My opinion of course. But she rubbed me the wrong way
She was meant to rub you the wrong way. What made her a great character.
she's pulling her braid in your general direction
@@spencervance8484 that is exactly why she is a good character. The character descriptions is where Jordan did best. The repeating the same book again and again after book 5 for seve... well six, he died, more books...
I ended up hating him and WoT.
@@PalleRasmussen robert jordan died around book 11 or 12. Sanderson finished the series
Excellent, high-quality outtakes there! Story of my life: getting up for a drink, realizing I have to pee, and leaving the glass in the kitchen before I go back to my desk.
I’ve wanted to see you to make a build like this for so long. I’ve made a few iterations of my own, but they’ve always ended up being a once per short rest kind of build. Like a lvl2 grave domain cleric,lvl2 pali and lvl 4 sorcerer. Using 3rd lvl shadow blade, booming blade 4th lvl smite.
The One Hit Wonder: d4 #121
Level 1:(see above) [paladin 1 & race]
Level 2:(see above) [sorcerer 1 & subclass]
Level 3:(@18:40) [sorcerer 2]
Level 4:(@19:05) [sorcerer 3 & metamagic]
Level 5:(@21:39) [cleric 1 & subclass]
Level 6:(@24:37) [cleric 2 & channel divinity]
Level 7:(see above) [paladin 2 & fighting-style]
Level 8:(@31:26) [sorcerer 4 & ASI]
Level 9:(@32:39) [bard 1]
Level 10:(see above) [bard 2]
Level 11:(@35:24) [bard 3 & subclass]
Level 12:(@37:11) [bard 4 & ASI]
Level 13:(@37:34) [bard 5]
Level 14:(see above) [sorcerer 5]
Level 15:(@42:12) [warlock 1 & patron]
Level 16:(@44:33) [warlock 2 & eldritch invocations]
Level 17:(@45:13) [warlock 3 & subclass]
One thing that I think would be very cool to see is a “theoretical maximum damage” at lvl 17 where you assume things such as max dice rolls, critical hit, etc. and see what comes out the other end.
To be sure the average damage output is impressive, but I think maximum and minimum damage are other interesting and worthwhile stats 46:54
Thing, is Max and min damage don't necessarily tell much if they for exemple only happen 1 time in 200.
He did make a "minimum damage/rolls only" build with #74, the Wil Wheaton Nuclear Wizard
My favorite part about this build is that it totally encourages other players in the party to tack on damage to that attack. Like if you had a trach warden his trach could spit fire on the attack etc., it just feels like a giant team power up and move! I love it!
What is a 'trach'?
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 Presumably a Drake.
I'm so glad to see Randall's art back! And by that I mean I'm glad you wrangled him back into the dungeon in your basement where you keep him churning out art for you 24/7
Genie's Vessel Shenanigans: Vessel was a ring, my Warforged Paladin Warlock, Sentry, was air dropped by the Aarakocra into the camp of target bad guys. Happened to land inside of a tent where he proceeded to burn it and everything around him down, a clear indication for the rest of the party to attack. This all went down with ACDC's "Thunderstuck" playing. It will likely be one of my favourite memories in D&D.
(50:00) are y'all really listening to the wonderful and soothing voice of D&D's Internet Dad on *2x speed??* HERESY!
I'm actually so happy to hear rock music at the beginning of your video!
Ah yes. The music of badass builds is back.
The best genie’s vessel shenanigans I’ve heard is to fill it with oil/explosives and catapult it at enemies, destroying the vessel and leaving a 20’ cube of toxic destruction. Enjoy!
Colby,
You do your thing brother! I like all the multiclassing. Best think I ever witnessed with Genie-lock shenanigans our entire party escaped from prison by all going into a ring vessel and letting their invisible familiar carry us all out. The oubliette had nothing on us!
Genie story: Party was dying or dead. Reinforcements are on the way and my party is already rolling new stats fearing a TPK. My Genielock was the sole conscious survivor of a gruesome encounter. Adult red and cultists. I took my ring off placed it in the knot of a nearby tree pulled my dead and unconscious party members inside it.
The reinforcements were all humanoid and never found my ring. Popped my limited wish for revivify on the cleric who just rolled an 8 on their last death save fail. They raised dead and revivified everyone else.
DM was absolutely impressed. Party was flabbergasted. Genielock utility.
Epic moment!
Alternative version: Instead of using quickened spell, you can take 2 levels in fighter for action surge, this way you can use Path to the Grave and attack wo/ using your bonus action. This means you can use your BA for a smite spell, which will give you a bunch of extra damage
That's assuming another party member was casting Bless so you have room to use another concentration spell.
Yep! Kinda like this... ruclips.net/video/m_FijEvKUyM/видео.html
It's funny you mentioned that Randall was at PAX Unplugged. I was also there and had no idea he would be there. I saw his booth and bought a couple of his books, making sure to mention that I love the work he does for your character builds. Only on the drive home did I realize I should have asked him to sign my books. It was great to meet him, though!
One of the cleric magic items can help alot with more Channel Divinity and a Bloodwell Vial allows the ability to regain metamagic points, both items are once per dawn
Yeah! Getting lucky with an amulet of the Devout might make the conquest paladin's guided strike potentially worth it, make the mega hit that much more assured. Plus armor of Agathys is an option with all those higher level slots you'd have.
Don't forget as a Divine Soul Sorc, you get the free spell from your alignment, so you could have picked up Bless without using a spell slot. You also get 4 cantrips at Lvl 1.
I would grab something else and grab bless as a cleric spell so I can have a more useful spell that can utilize my better spell casting modifier (CHA)
Given that you have a weak wisdom mod I would take bless as a cleric or pally and take something else when picking that free spell from Divine Soul Sorcerer that would use your charisma as a spell modifier
TGIT! THANK GOODNESS IT'S TUESDAY!
May I give you a hand in explaining this one roleplaywise?
1. Paladin represents devotion to your chosen endeavors.
2. Sorcerer represents inner divine strength manifested through your devotion.
3. Cleric represents the bond with a deity that fits your beliefs the most.
4. Bard represents the discovery of a hymnal chuckful of psalms to said deity. Still in tandem with the divine theme.
5. Warlock (the hardest out of all of these) represents you bounding a genie to your will… at least partially. Djinni are the kindest of all of them, so I'd personally go with this one in particular. (Anyone can make a Warlock pact at any time to be honest, mind you.) This way you can omit the potential of commiting idolatry against your deity.
There you go. :)
Love it!
It's 1980 baby and Disco will never die! Great video by the way. 👍
Honestly my Tuesday night after work would not be the same without another great video. Keep them coming Colby
This is one of the few channels I gives my thumbs up to before the vid even starts. I’ve never regretted that choice and said “ I wish I could change my mind now” never happens. Gold, just gold man. Keep it coming
Aha 😄 I have been waiting for this one since yesterday's preview 😄 I am so curious
For the final 3 levels making it a level 20 character I'd suggest Wiz Divination so you get 2 guaranteed dice per day and if one of them ends up being a nat 20. You make sure that one hit is a nuke from orbit.
I've always liked the thematics of a cleric/paladin, but I think you highlight the unfortunate challenges. The nightmare I would have with this character is setting up my big attack:
"I use my action for Path of the Grave!" DM: ok
"I use my bonus action to quicken cast booming blade!" DM: they cast counterspell
I think your enemies tend to have counterspell a lot more frequently than the ones at our table do 😉. But yeah in that case, guess we’d want to pack subtle spell… expensive attack!
I’ve been considering commissioning Randal for a while now, but that art today 🤤😍 TAKE MY MONEY
Liked this build, it made me think a bit more about a build I’m trying to figure out, specifically a build based around the Lightning Arrow spell. Effectively like a different kind of one hit wonder. The main allure of the spell is that it scales better than most blast like spells. On top of the fact that it takes into account Sharpshooter and any other modifiers to damage. Would be interested to see how you would do it. Yes that means this wall of text is also kind of a suggestion.
Refreshed the page to see if this one was up yet, and as it was loading I went "I bet it's called the One Hit Wonder." I see it and just call out, "I knew it!"
We have a Genie Warlock in our Sunday night party. We haven't pulled many huge shenanigans with the Genie Vessel yet like smuggling someone in somewhere. But this is how we've taken advantage of it lately. We are currently level 13, and she can pull others into the vessel and stay there for a number of hours equal to double proficiency bonus. Our DM can be fairly hardcore and will throw several pretty strong encounters against us when we're like exploring a dungeon or otherwise somewhere that we aren't supposed to be, so we'll start to feel the attrition. We've loved (aside from the quick short rests) just hiding the vessel in a corner or a pile of other things and hopping in there and taking a long rest in the middle of a hostile fortress or wherever we happen to be since we can potentially stay in there up to 10 hours at this point. Literally hidden in an archdevil's fortress and taken a full night's sleep and there was no trace of us because we were in her (she's a pirate captain) little Jack Sparrow Compass of a Genie Vessel.
Thanks Colby!
I was playing as a kind of vigilante hero with a secret identity. His "civilian" identity was a wealthy eligible bachelor who helped the party with social stuff. When it was time to crack heads, he handed a member of the party his ring and "teleported away" - or so his friends thought. As you've no doubt guessed, he actually went into the ring to change into his alter ego, and when the party got to the fight he would make his entrance as the Hanging Lantern!
The players were all in on the gag, but they were great sports about it, the idea being that the ring "summoned" this dark spirit of vengeance and justice.
Glad you enjoyed the build i sent you. I liked the changes you made. Yours does less damage but is more reliable.
"i have no control over this" 😄 this is the colbyest of all Colby's multiclassing
I would use the Genie's Vessel as a portable workshop on my Forge Cleric or other crafty person to be able to craft during while traveling
Yeah, or scribing spell scrolls or anything else that would normally require down time somewhere with a stable surface.
Merry Christmas! Thanks for the cool build. I like the Whispers bard and I feel like they get the short end of the stick most of the time according to most youtubers. They're still on the bard chassis, which is STRONG and add in a bit of burst when you feel like it. It pairs so well with Paladin 2, or Bladelock 5. I like the fact that I just scales up on its own with bard levels too, but doesn't require extra resources. You can also pair this with a non-finesse weapon unlike a rogue. Psychic Bladed Great Axe with Undead level 6 for an extra d12 of necrotic damage really starts consistently piling on the damage.
"Boy howdy" is what i will always say now if i crit! This was a rollercoaster of different classes but I enjoyed it. Thanks for the video!
Totally expected an Eldritch Smite + Divine Smite build here. Add a smite spell with a bonus action, Sword Bard Flourish/Whisper's Bard, with Booming Blade with some racial damage boost on top.
Pleasantly surprised to see another build with that juicy Channel Divinity.
Loved it! I'd love to see a build like the other elemental builds that revolves around a less common damage type like acid or psychic or force.
My genie stories is, I put my ring (vessel) on my mordicaidens hound's collar. Since he is wearing it, we believe the collar and ring as well would be invisible. Thus, when I retreat to my vessel I am in my pocket dimension and it is contained on the collar of an invisible animal that can RUN AWAY if needed.
I envision this character as having multiple personalities. Each one being a different class. Along the lines of Sorak from the Tribe of One Trilogy (Dark Sun). Then, when this character enters into combat, they all combine their abilities at the same time. Could be a really fantastic (and challenging) RP opportunity.
You can also go straight Grave Cleric with a few levels in sorcerer and the metamagic adept feat.
Casting hold person/monster on the enemy at the first round (using heightened spell and/or Silvery Barbs to ensure failure).
Then on your next turn use Path to the Grave and a Quickened Spell Inflict Wounds. The best part of this combo is that it scales by 2d10*2 damage for every spell slot level you gain.
At Level 5 you can net an average of 110 Necrotic damage at the expense of at least 2 spell slots and a channel divinity charge.
Nice! Would also help make room for Eldritch Smite.
Love this build! These restrictions are amazing to burst creativity
Yess! I saw the short and was excited to see what you do with it! Hooray new video.
Flavour is on point!! And the dscryb description! Chef's kiss!
Colby you are making sure my tuesday evening is always great with a fun dnd build! love the work you been putting out and keep it up
What a great idea, and the level advancement is fun all over the place and back and forth. I might not play this charter but having them on my team would be a blast.
Thanks for the video Colby! Really enjoy it and it covered/used some mechanics I’m not familiar with 👍🏻
Really like those more "alternate playstyle" builds! Although just maximizing damage can be fun, I find these much more interesting
Yep, this was a build I'd been wanting to see and have been tinkering with on my own.
Best use of my Djinni lamp was whilst escaping a heist. Balanced my lamp on the edge of a trash chute and threw myself into it, hurtling down the trash chute to safety.
Sure I was "separated from the group" and "stuck in the trash", but it felt hella cool
As a lvl 3 Genie Warlock, my party and I were doing some classic "explore the sewers" quest where we ran into a few trolls. A few trolls for a lvl 3 party? Yes, somewhat unbalanced, but at the start we were doing well. As an Efreet Warlock I had fire damage on my attacks and we had a wizard with Chill Touch and we were focus firing then to great effect! Until for some reason everyone decided to change tactics midway and split up. I was chased by a Troll into a room and had just one turn to shove my vessel (a spice jar) onto a bar shelf and pop inside to hide, praying that the troll would fail their investigation rolls. Eventually, by the time the troll found me, my party had regrouped and I was able to pop out, Disengage and run back to the group. Lots of fun and some tense rolls!
Another incredible build!
Somethings that i'm not sure you considered, but i think could be a way to bump the damage:
- Taking warlock 5 instead of Bard 5
- Taking pact of the blade instead of chain,
This way you could get improved pact weapon for a +1 to attack and damage and Eldritch Smite for extra 4d8 damage on your big attack.
I haven't done the math, but it seems to me that this could be better for your nova round even losing the advantage from the familiar. Ietherway this would defietily hurt the suppport capabilities of the chracter.
Thank you for another episode!
Once you hit 4th level slots, it might be better to try and fit up to warlock 5, since you can spike both Eldrich smite and Divine smite on the same hit
What a night 😯 there were screams in our neighbor's apartment. I and serveral others inside the building went there to help, it was very stressful 😯 I really need some dnd asmr right now 😅 I had to stop watching mid video, looking forward to falling asleep listening to the rest of it 🥰🎄thanks colby
Glad I could help!
Here's an alternate take of this build that I feel would net a fair bit more damage than what you were able to get out by being a slave to the spreadsheet. Only go 4 levels into Sorcerer and Bard to open up room for two more Warlock levels. Get Pact of the Blade instead of Chain (Maybe even get Magic Initiate if you have room so you can grab Find Familiar there even if it's not as good), and grab Eldritch Smite at 5th. AKA, forgoing a d6 for an extra 4d8. I think that's probably a much more optimal option if you don't want 3rd level Bard or Sorcerer spells.
Well I think he said he only wanted to use one spell slot for the nova
Just search “Path to the grave, would sneak attack/divine smite be counted as part of the attack?” topic in Sage advice, the official ruling already confirm this build won’t work, though I cannot post the link in RUclips.
@Zynovus ? "Normally considered part of the attack that delivered them - it's all one damage source" This build works?
@@Fail_Inc Honestly, you need to ask your DM's ruling about this. There are so many grey areas in RAW & RAI so it's your DM's call for ruling.
My favorite use for the Genie Vessel that I've come up with (though I haven't used it) is the Paladin Bomb (AKA "I'm on a horse"). Put your paladin friend in the vessel, let them summon their steed and do whatever other preparation they need to and then toss it into the fray of your enemies and either attack it or break it in some other way. The paladin pops out already mounted in the midst of your enemies. The shock value alone would be priceless.
For a more effective option, just do the same thing but with someone who knows Thunder Step or some other great self-AOE spell.
The best part of the week has arrived folks!
...And leaves an enemy in a crater. I laughed so hard. Mainly because I think you described me, and that hit home.
This is the build I came up with a while ago (modified since I made it pre Tasha's) for a similar premise (though I didn't restrict myself to 1 attack per round):
27 Custom Lineage Conquest Paladin 6/Hexblade Warlock 5/Grave Cleric 6/Battle Master Fighter 3
18 Str 15 +2/+7
18 Dex 8 -1/+4
13 Con 13 ->14 +2/+13
13 Int 8 -1/+4
9 Wis 12 ->13 +1/+12
0 Char 15->17 ->18->20 +5/+16
Feats: Res (Con), +1 Char + 1 Wis, +2 Char, Great Weapon Master
Once per short rest, you can deal:
2d6 Slashing (Greatsword) (Avg. 7)
1d8 Slashing (Battle Master Maneuver) (Avg. 4.5)
5 Slashing (Char mod)
10 Slashing (Great Weapon Master)
1 Slashing (Improved Pact Weapon)
6 Slashing (Hexblade's Curse)
4d8 Radiant (3rd Level Divine Smite) (Avg. 18)
4d8 Force (3rd Level Eldritch Smite) (Avg. 18)
Avg. Total (Normal): 69.5 Avg. Total (Crit): 117
With Path to the Grave:
Avg. Total (Normal): 139 Avg. Total (Crit): 234
Your to hit bonus is +7 with GWM (+5 from Char, +6 from proficiency, +1 from Improved Pact Weapon, -5 from GWM).
Tactics are Path to Grave, and then action surge, getting 2 chances to hit. With the +10 we can grant ourselves with Conquest Paladin's Channel Divinity, we hit an AC of 19 on a roll of a 2. We can also trade 9 damage (on average) from the maneuver to add +1d8 to hit (with precision strike), making our min roll 20 to hit.
If we want to use our larger resources:
2d6 Slashing (Greatsword) (Avg. 7)
1d8 Slashing (Battle Master Maneuver) (Avg. 4.5)
5 Slashing (Char mod)
10 Slashing (Great Weapon Master)
1 Slashing (Improved Pact Weapon)
6 Slashing (Hexblade's Curse)
5d6 Radiant (5th Level Branding Smite) (Avg. 17.5)
5d8 Radiant (4th Level Divine Smite) (Avg. 22.5)
4d8 Force (3rd Level Eldritch Smite) (Avg. 18)
Avg. Total (Normal): 91.5 Avg. Total (Crit): 161
With Path to the Grave:
Avg. Total (Normal): 183 Avg. Total (Crit): 322
For magic items, a Flame Tongue, Frost Brand, or and +x Greatsword would do wonders.
You could also go Paladin 5/Warlock 7/Cleric 6/Fighter 2. You'd lose 5th level spells slots, but you'd have 2 4th level spell slots from Warlock. We'd also lose Aura of Protection, which is a nice support ability.
Another option is to take Lucky in place of either Res (Con) (we'd lose 1 HP per level & eventually lose 6 from our Con Save) or the +2 Char (we'd lose +1 to hit & 2 damage).
Came back to say i played this build in a lvl 10 one shot and did 134 damage in my nova round to the boss of the one shot. It was awesome. I never did actually get around to healing anyone though, but bless was very helpful to the party.
This is 100% gonna be my next character. Love the concept, love the flavor. Too bad I'm up next to DM so it might be a while
Thanks for introducing me to the grave cleric.
I immediately jump on creating a Grave Cleric 2 - Assassin 4 with Quick Toss maneuver.
Could work well with bugbears (from MOM) or old fashion Goblin.
Cue the Rick Roll 🎵 First I'm gonna buff my team, then I'm gonna take you out. Never gonna guess how much I'll hurt you 🎵
My table was playing waterdeep dragon heist. I was playing a tortle genie warlock/paladin. We entered a dark sewer, i was the only character who didn't have dark vision, so i handed my vessel to a party member and zorped in.
They promptly threw me right into the sewage.....
So not exactly a badass moment of using my vessel, but still fun.
I dont care what video you make. all i want to hear is "welcome home, this is where you belong and i am so glad you are here" and my day is already better.
yay!
There was a Genie warlock with Pact of the Tome and Tome of Ancient Whispers to get a familiar. So ring in teeth of familiar cat. Then familiar hides.
You could go Paladin 2, Grave 2 and Shadow Sorcerer X. Starting with either Paladin or Sorcerer. Sick the hound, cast Hold/Monster Person to get Auto crit. Next turn Path to the Grave for vulnerability and quicken Booming Blade with Smite. This dosent work on Legendary monsters, but thematically "Send his soul to damnation" or "Your time has come", however you want to flavor it.
Supporting your group and controlling the battlefield. When you face a foe worthy enough for you to swing your sword, you smite them down with a single blow.
I'm a Genielock player. We kind of kicked the hornets nest of bad guys when we were trying to assassinate a corrupt lord that was responsible for the prices on our heads. We got caught seeing him performing a dark ritual with a bunch of cultists and had set about trying to get evidence on him. So we knew the ritual would be happening that week but we decided the Cobra Kai approach was best. Well we didn't the cult had so many members as we were starting to have problems with all of them. So our arcane trickster and druid were the only ones with the stealth scores to avoid anyone. So I suggested we pick a room and hide the group in the lamp somewhere safe. The top of a large wardrobe worked. The druid also broke a few windows and wildshaped out of there to make it look like we had escaped into the forest. We spent our time there going over where we were and where we needed to go in order to avoid them. The lamp wasn't found and when we were rested, we managed to get better stealth checks into the hidden chamber in his bedroom.
I always wanted to build an "Investment of the Chainmaster" Chainlock under a DM that would let me have a Gazer familiar. Taking all of those neat eye rays and boosting their DCs to my caster DC sounds awesome. A strict RAW reading of the eye rays doesn't say that they are attacks, meaning it's arguable that you wouldn't even need to use your bonus action to command the familiar to use them. Even if it did take your bonus action, it's still two beams which is pretty decent... Ahhh, if only.
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That intro music got me pumped
With a paladin 6, hexblade 1, sorcerer 6, quickening booming blade, a longsword, smiting with all 3, 4th level slots, and using your 5th level slot for spirit guardians, you can pump out 150 - 160 average damage.
This one shot build is crazy!
I was SHOCKED that there was no hexblade in this. My initial thought was go hexblade, max out Cha to hit and damage, but you were able to do that with Strength in the end and the genie bump was nice to have. Despite the concept of being a "one-hit wonder", taking the haste spell would allow you to do two strikes. Yes, you wouldn't have bless, but there's at least a 50% chance that someone else in the party is going to have that. Of course, someone could cast haste on you, or you might have boots of speed.
As for my own choice of a one-hit wonder song (I love me some Rick Ashley though), I'd have to go with either Go The Distance by Michael Bolton or Please Don't Go by K.W.S. Honourable mentions have to go to Save Tonight by Eagle-Eye Cherry and The Bitter End by Placebo.
My man just dropped the best braid tugger ever. Colby let's be friends as I go through my read through, also way of the kings is another great book to start an amazing series
A one hit wonder? One thats an abberation?
That dude needs to have Funky Town as his birthplace.
I absolutely love this build! Something about it screams human adventurer to me😁
Id love to see a cowboy type character video, a gun, lasso, maybe a grenade, seems like theres a lot of flavor options
Favorite one-hit wonder? Maybe "Come on, Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners
Here it is!
Best we've used the genie home was around level 10 or so. Was shortly after the party can join inside the object. We needed to infiltrate a military base of orcs and ogres. The idea we came up with was to all climb into the ring. Then the druid took the ring and shape changed into a tiny spider. Hid and climbed along ceilings and such to get to where the boss was located. Waited until he was in a vulnerable situation and then the druid jumped off the wall and that was the code for time to come out. We all came down prepared for battle while the Half-orc half-ogre military commander was resting.
I always clip my Genie's Vessel ring to the collar of my cat familiar while I'm inside. I chill out all comfy while my cat does the walking for me lol
I fun alternative for people that don’t like to use custom lineage is going legacy goblin for the fury of the small feature to do extra damage equal to your level once per short rest.
It would definitely push you to maybe have 1 less multiclass so you can grab more feats to get 20 Str Max and GWM. I like it!
@@vinspad3 I was even considering using goblin over taking great weapon master so you don’t need to take the negative to hit. I feel like everything’s riding on your attack landing so It might be nice to have a little bit more wiggle room.
that’s mainly because most of my games only go to level 10. So it’s a little difficult to take a feat over an ability score improvement.
RANDALL IS BACK! HOORAY!
I love Slow on this character.
Bless is getting +d4, but Slow could do the job as well since they drop AC by 2 AND don't get reactions. Since they can't do reactions you can pull back 5ft and possibly get the 2ndary effect of for even more damage.
WAIT A MINUTE! THIS IS THE BUILD I REQUESTED A MONTH BACK! I thought it would land at top of tier 3 and you were able to knock it into tier 2 at times! GREAT JOB!!!
Ok, for the first 14 levels, I thought this character could be a guard at funeral processions in a Ravenloft-esque setting, charged with making sure that nothing funky / necromantic happens. Eventually they would be promoted and deliver a dirge or eulogy. And then the warlock levels came... :D