Id Insuation holds a special place in my heart simply due to Neverwinter Nights persistent world multiplayer servers having a Psionicist class. Id Insinustion works great even at low lvls, it simply stuns a creature for X turns, increasing with Psion lvls. No damage attached but as a hard control power; fantastic. I had no idea UA had reintroduced the classic psionicist manifeststions as spells! Ego Whip, Id Insinustion, etc.
If your build-craft extends to third party materials like Critical Role, I eagerly reccomend MCDM classes, which number 3: the Beastheart, a robust take on a Tarzan/Conan with savage beast companion (beastmaster rangers start crying now); the Talent, a true psion with unique powers and casting method instead of spellslots or power points; and the Illrigger, (whose name I am not fond of for classic fantasy, puts me in mind of cyberpunk, but the class mechanics are fantastic) which is a Hellsknight with various build potentials from 5 subclasses, a blackguard/inquisitor archetype. They have some serious customization options without multiclassing, and i wonder how they would mesh with other classes.
Have you thought about a melee caster? One of my favorite builds is a NG Fallen Aasimar Evil Divine Soul Sorcerer that I play as a Street Fighter style martial artist by casting “fist” via Inflict Wounds. During play I did end up dipping into Warlock for 2 levels to net two extra 1st level spell slots, and a dip for 1 level in Barbarian to net Unarmed Defense for a naked AC of 20. How would you guys build such a caster? (I’ve been able to reach an AC over 32 with a Barb 1/Bladesinger 19 build, but that’s a very different build).
Hey guys great video as always, I was wondering if you guys could either do a video where you create a range of low level builds (up to like level 7 or 10) or I was wondering if you think you could build a rogue/cleric build , I thought domain of trickery combined with swashbuckler rogue would be a good start but idk.
Hi and thanks for the comment. We have talked about doing low level build but have no plans to do that as of yet. The trickery cleric with swashbuckler rogue would be a good multiclass and we can do that one. We will let you know in the next few videos when we will do it.
I’m having a lot of fun with this build. The only change I made was taking Gift of The Gem Dragon first instead of the ASI so I can have it using Charisma to increase its efficacy. Then with then I took the ASI later and split it between Charisma and Intelligence.
That's a good change, we thought of that after we already posted the video, using charisma for that is a lot stronger. Glad you are enjoying it and love hearing from someone playing one of the builds. We have played several in our home game and always find something that works better than we expected or something that is less useful than we hoped so getting feedback from other people who have played them is great.
So, which one of you is in my server? This is my build and image I used. Getting as close to legal 5e Illithid as possible. Also, better choice is actually Dhampire thematically since one choice for sustenance is cerebral fluid. Getting around looking like a mind flayer is easy. Disguise kit until you get disguise self at will.
Hi this is Guy, I'm not sure what your server is but I did this build. Great minds think alike I suppose. Weird that we found the same picture but it is pretty appropriate. I thought about Dhampir and it really would work but I wanted to play with custom lineage, Dhampir would actually get better abilities though. As a sorcerer he could also get disguise self as a spell known. Zappiel said he just looked at your channel and it has Critical Role stuff on it. Is that what you mean by server? We don't play online as we have an in person game.
@@thedungeoncrashers7923 lol oh my channel? I'm not a creater. I followed critical role for a while, but it's not a game anymore. I actually watched roll play much more. But I play in a West marches server on discord. Also, getting disguise at will through invocation saves a spell slot. Didn't go for damage out the gate, let your minions work for you.
@@erikenn That's would be a pretty good plan, I was only going the 2 levels in warlock and wanted the two invocations I took but mask of many faces would be a great way to go.
I have done a similar build for spelljammer but I reskined a Thi Kreen as an mindflayer. Using the secondary arms feature as tentacle the telepathic speech was great flavor the psi resistance fit and I played off the color changing carapace as his squid like skin nature. It was interesting to see other players reactions
@@Bee-wk7hw Scared the shit out of my party this week with her as an NPC she is helping the party recover a spell jammer helm to put in their folding boat to fight a nautilus and its elder brain in an all out underdark war.
Thrikeen as tentacle hands is a great example of reskinning mechanics. I had a similar idea with the elephant race as a tentacular creature, using the trunk.
I have this ldea as my next character.---a halfling who was kept as a psionic "battery" for mind flayers.they sensed something else In him not realizing he was a gate to a alien god.eventually they probed too far causing it to kill all of them. unfortunately this shattered the halfling's mind further - causing him to hear voices of the mindflayer slaves killed and his patron-friend "who wants to help him".
You guys did way beyond my expectations freaking awesome 👍
They always do they killed it on the healer build I wanted
Another sick build what a great concept Donald Carter and great execution guys
Thanks Donald. We are glad you liked it.
Thanks The Deaderer. We are always happy to hear from you and we really appreciate the comments.
Id Insuation holds a special place in my heart simply due to Neverwinter Nights persistent world multiplayer servers having a Psionicist class. Id Insinustion works great even at low lvls, it simply stuns a creature for X turns, increasing with Psion lvls. No damage attached but as a hard control power; fantastic. I had no idea UA had reintroduced the classic psionicist manifeststions as spells! Ego Whip, Id Insinustion, etc.
and thanks for giving me a perfect cult leader.... the flavor is perfect for my cult :)
If your build-craft extends to third party materials like Critical Role, I eagerly reccomend MCDM classes, which number 3: the Beastheart, a robust take on a Tarzan/Conan with savage beast companion (beastmaster rangers start crying now); the Talent, a true psion with unique powers and casting method instead of spellslots or power points; and the Illrigger, (whose name I am not fond of for classic fantasy, puts me in mind of cyberpunk, but the class mechanics are fantastic) which is a Hellsknight with various build potentials from 5 subclasses, a blackguard/inquisitor archetype. They have some serious customization options without multiclassing, and i wonder how they would mesh with other classes.
Have you thought about a melee caster? One of my favorite builds is a NG Fallen Aasimar Evil Divine Soul Sorcerer that I play as a Street Fighter style martial artist by casting “fist” via Inflict Wounds. During play I did end up dipping into Warlock for 2 levels to net two extra 1st level spell slots, and a dip for 1 level in Barbarian to net Unarmed Defense for a naked AC of 20. How would you guys build such a caster?
(I’ve been able to reach an AC over 32 with a Barb 1/Bladesinger 19 build, but that’s a very different build).
Hey guys great video as always, I was wondering if you guys could either do a video where you create a range of low level builds (up to like level 7 or 10) or I was wondering if you think you could build a rogue/cleric build , I thought domain of trickery combined with swashbuckler rogue would be a good start but idk.
Hi and thanks for the comment. We have talked about doing low level build but have no plans to do that as of yet. The trickery cleric with swashbuckler rogue would be a good multiclass and we can do that one. We will let you know in the next few videos when we will do it.
I’m having a lot of fun with this build. The only change I made was taking Gift of The Gem Dragon first instead of the ASI so I can have it using Charisma to increase its efficacy. Then with then I took the ASI later and split it between Charisma and Intelligence.
That's a good change, we thought of that after we already posted the video, using charisma for that is a lot stronger.
Glad you are enjoying it and love hearing from someone playing one of the builds. We have played several in our home game and always find something that works better than we expected or something that is less useful than we hoped so getting feedback from other people who have played them is great.
So, which one of you is in my server? This is my build and image I used. Getting as close to legal 5e Illithid as possible. Also, better choice is actually Dhampire thematically since one choice for sustenance is cerebral fluid. Getting around looking like a mind flayer is easy. Disguise kit until you get disguise self at will.
Hi this is Guy, I'm not sure what your server is but I did this build. Great minds think alike I suppose. Weird that we found the same picture but it is pretty appropriate. I thought about Dhampir and it really would work but I wanted to play with custom lineage, Dhampir would actually get better abilities though.
As a sorcerer he could also get disguise self as a spell known.
Zappiel said he just looked at your channel and it has Critical Role stuff on it. Is that what you mean by server? We don't play online as we have an in person game.
@@thedungeoncrashers7923 lol oh my channel? I'm not a creater. I followed critical role for a while, but it's not a game anymore. I actually watched roll play much more.
But I play in a West marches server on discord.
Also, getting disguise at will through invocation saves a spell slot. Didn't go for damage out the gate, let your minions work for you.
@@erikenn That's would be a pretty good plan, I was only going the 2 levels in warlock and wanted the two invocations I took but mask of many faces would be a great way to go.
I have done a similar build for spelljammer but I reskined a Thi Kreen as an mindflayer. Using the secondary arms feature as tentacle the telepathic speech was great flavor the psi resistance fit and I played off the color changing carapace as his squid like skin nature. It was interesting to see other players reactions
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@@Bee-wk7hw Scared the shit out of my party this week with her as an NPC she is helping the party recover a spell jammer helm to put in their folding boat to fight a nautilus and its elder brain in an all out underdark war.
Thrikeen as tentacle hands is a great example of reskinning mechanics. I had a similar idea with the elephant race as a tentacular creature, using the trunk.
@@tylerh2548 Thanks I think skinchanging is a great tool in D&D it makes things freash and fosters more creativity.
I have this ldea as my next character.---a halfling who was kept as a psionic "battery" for mind flayers.they sensed something else In him not realizing he was a gate to a alien god.eventually they probed too far causing it to kill all of them. unfortunately this shattered the halfling's mind further - causing him to hear voices of the mindflayer slaves killed and his patron-friend "who wants to help him".
no one is saying it so while i love the video and no shade but, 'A-BEAR-ANT'? really? its pronounced 'AB-ER-ENT'
Guys, your opening is far too similar to "The Dungeon Dudes". You should work something else out.
That is good to know. Thank you for pointing that out and we will work on it.