Errata (kind of): I forget sometimes that doffing/donning a shield technically requires an action (we treat it as a free action akin to drawing a weapon at our table) so, yes, for those mentioning it, it might be tricky to nova with a maul then pull out your shield for subsequent rounds if you're playing RAW.

@KevinVideo

Жыл бұрын

If you're able to pull it off, hopefully the player of this build can convince their DM to allow the PC to find or craft an animated shield. It is an action, but it lasts 1 minute, and it could be something that's done before combat starts.

@B.J.Camire

Жыл бұрын

Haha, I came to the comments as soon as you said it to let you know and here you've already got it 🤣 "He throws down his shield... after using his other hand to undo the belts holding the massive disk of metal to his arm, and NEXT round, pulls out his weapon and leaves a crater where an enemy used to be." 😁 Yeah, Animated Shield is that guy's new BFF.

@arcanavoresmanavault2637

Жыл бұрын

I forget this too sometimes. I hope one D&D gives you two object interactions. Open and close the door. Sheath one weapon and draw a different one. Draw both s Weapons at the beginning of combat, etc.

@jonathanhaynes9914

Жыл бұрын

Hey Colby, I've been thinking about a Dhampir build (inspired by your tank Dhampir). What do you think of using the Ranger (hunter) tech with the diivine strike feature of the war cleric, then adding in battle master and hexblade's curse dip?

@romanabanin2216

Жыл бұрын

No shields! My faith is my shield! FOR SIGMAR! FOR THE EMPIRE!

Colby hits us with that wholesome dad energy, welcoming us home every week. Always love that intro.

@kristiandahl1310

Жыл бұрын

​@@hadeszero4526 but he did

@basicallyimrob2271

Жыл бұрын

@@hadeszero4526 0:54 my guy

@hadeszero4526

Жыл бұрын

​@@basicallyimrob2271whaaaaa 💥 my brain skipped I totally didn't hear it. thank you.

@Migalouch

Жыл бұрын

If I don't hear it I rewind to hear it, bugs me if I don't notice it haha

@matthewmaloney4349

Жыл бұрын

100% agree, videos wouldn’t be the same without it and I love him even more for it!

The War Priest: D&D5e #128 Level 1:(see above) [cleric 1, subclass, race & feat] Level 2:(see above) [cleric 2] Level 3:(@16:50) [paladin 1] Level 4:(@17:56) [paladin 2 & fighting-style] Level 5:(@20:02) [fighter 1 & fighting-style] Level 6:(@22:30) [fighter 2] Level 7:(see above) [cleric 3] Level 8:(@27:19) [paladin 3] Level 9:(@32:33) [cleric 4 & ASI] Level 10:(see above) [paladin 4 & ASI] Level 11:(@34:05) [cleric 5] Level 12:(@36:32) [paladin 5] Level 13:(@38:18) [cleric 6] Level 14:(see above) [paladin 6] Level 15:(@41:00) [cleric 7] Level 16:(@42:03) [paladin 7] Level 17:(@42:30) [cleric 8 & ASI]

@SoHxPaladin

11 ай бұрын

this man's comments are the first i look for when checking a build to get a quick preview....

@BLynn

11 ай бұрын

@@SoHxPaladin thank you for your kind words.

@jpperron1835

4 ай бұрын

@@SoHxPaladinsame

When you want to make the enemy feel the weight of their sins a bit more literally.

If you play with real life pantheons, Freya is both a goddess of war and nature.

@lloydlineske2642

Жыл бұрын

Real life imaginary things... Opposed to imaginary imaginary things?

@Awstrev9595

Жыл бұрын

@Lloyd Lineske I'm pretty sure no one has actually worshipped the raven Queen, while people have and actually some still do worshipped or believe in Odin.

@lloydlineske2642

Жыл бұрын

@@Awstrev9595 And those people are wrong.

@tushinlungerjhider853

Жыл бұрын

@@lloydlineske2642* *tips fedora* *

@no1uno388

Жыл бұрын

@@lloydlineske2642 🤓

VERY important note 10 months later. When Colby says add a -5 to hit at 16:44 before "correcting" himself, that's mathematically correct. Subtracting a -5 would technically be the same as +5.

"... a hexblade warlock dip, that involves a patron that lives in a tree branch that you use as a club.. it could work.." what an idea. You have really good descriptions for stuff. Even the war priest description about how they are simply a support character but once in a while they drop their shield, pull out a giant hammer and make a crater. Immediately makes me visualize.

Mielikki comes to mind for War and Nature. She is the Goddess of Rangers.

That sponser looks amazing! It's not every day we get new classes. I'm always excited to see more of them, especially with all of these character ideas are festering in my head

@texteel

Жыл бұрын

kibbles has a previous book called "compendium of craft and creation", it has a full class for "inventor" (legally distinct artificer) with I think 10 subclasses, a full psion, a bunch of subclasses in the themes of gadgedtry and psionics for exsisting classes, new spells, new monsters. And half of the book is a modular crafting system that tries to cover pretty much everything. The current kickstarter of legends and legacies does feature add-ons that allow you to get the prevous book.

@Grooveworthy

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was really impressed by Colby's brief overview

Blessed Sigmar, by the comet and the hammer I pledge to the coming battle. I vow not to waver and never retreat, to stand tall against the flames of perdition, to drive back the shadow of Chaos with your holy light. VICTORY FAVORS THE FAITHFUL, LET US TEACH THEM FEAR!

I’m so glad you are doing a war cleric build! I love the idea of war clerics, but they always seemed a little underpowered in my mind

@gregevans4126

Жыл бұрын

I very much agree. I played one for Mine of Phandelver. It was fun, but it is needs to be improved for D&D One. I think adding Inspiring Leader as an eventual skill that and maybe a weaker than paladin divine smite could help.

@texteel

Жыл бұрын

its just not punchy enough. Warpriest and divine strike don't substitute for extra attack. But, because of warpriest, and divine favor as a domain spell, they are good dips for characters that have extra attack

@HSuper_Lee

Жыл бұрын

I had a friend who would call war clerics "better paladins." I would generally push back that war clerics don't get smites, and she'd dismiss it, thinking smites weren't that big of a deal. Then she played a paladin for a while, and suddenly she stopped talking about how good war clerics are.

There are only 3 official deities that have both Nature and War as a domain (4 if you include Quajath from Exandria in the Wildemount book), two of which are from Eberron and the other an Elven deity. The two from Eberron's pantheon are Balinor and the Spirits of the Past, and the Elven god is Solonor Thelandria. So there's a small list to pull from for some character ideas...depending on the setting.

Walnut from the C Team was a druid of Meilikki, the militant goddess of nature reclaiming society, and spring and summer (and subsequently, her other half, Maelyth, the goddess of nature reclaiming the living, winter and fall).

I think I would multiclass slightly differently. Keeping with your "mostly cleric" restriction, I would get to Cleric 5/Paladin 5 before moving into Fighter 2. Support abilities (your primary role) and extra attack would come a little bit faster, and then action surge pushes you ahead once the effectiveness of cleric abilities start tapering off. I haven't run the numbers, but my intuition says the power gain would be a little more steady rather than the massive power at level 6 and quick drop off seen in the video. But I bet the numbers wouldn't be that different, really. Too bad Guided Strike from conquest paladin doesn't somehow stack with Guided Strike from war cleric. That combo would be a perfect flavor win.

Is it just me, or is there... what I can only describe as unsettling haunted eldritch warbling in the background of this video? It really clashes with Colby being wholesome and peppy, it's like I'm watching creepypasta. "At level 6, we're taking a level in _offer your spawn to the dweller on the threshold."_

In my games, it will be a bad support character at level 6, as for he will have total 6 spell slots, best half of them used for nova round burst. But it wont stop me for starting as strict fighter 2 then converting to cleric of Tempus at least for 4 (or even 5) levels, and the becoming some of holy guard for some Eldath`s groves and multiclassing to paladin and then progressing cleric/pally to the same effect. Cool story of a soldier who converted to a faith and then finally found out what is worth to be protected. Good for me, I don`t make damage reports at certain levels! Thanks for video.

War Cleric is definitely one of my favorite Cleric subclasses. I like taking War Cleric dips on martial builds that make a lot of attacks, since they get Divine Favor from a 1st-level dip, adding 1d4 to each hit for a minute from a 1st-level slot.

Glad to see you plugging kibbles, been playing their stuff for a while, I love his creativity and finger on what 5e needs!

@dylanboczar999

Жыл бұрын

Quite a surprise to hear about such a huge tome of player content from him tbh, my impression was that he kinda hates the crunch of D&D and much prefers RP-driven games like City of Mist. I recall a video (granted, a few years ago) in which he basically advocated for little-to-no dice rolling 😂

This is perfect advice for my fallen angel PC in a Hell-based campaign that’s about to kick off. Was thinking sorcadin but this fits my concept way better.

There was a homebrew feat i came across a long time ago that let Orc races switch their casting stat to STR by engraving runes on their skin. always wanted to build a war cleric with that!

16:44 Mathematically, it would be adding a minus 5 to hit, not subtracting a minus 5. You had it right the first time! 👍

Three out of four of those new classes you mentioned in the Kickstarter were originally in fourth edition. Gotta love how people constantly say they hate that edition, but still take ideas from it.

@johannesstephanusroos4969

Жыл бұрын

Maybe we hate the gameplay, not the classes -shrug-

@AwesomeWookiee

Жыл бұрын

I loved so much of the flavour and ideas of 4th edition, but make no mistake it was absolute drudgery! All the classes were well balanced because they felt the same, and it wasn't a roleplaying game anymore, it was just an MMO that you did all the math for.

@animefan3794

Жыл бұрын

@@johannesstephanusroos4969 “you may use this ability on a short or long rest” is just 4e’s “encounter power” with extra words. Same with long rest recharge and “daily power”. I’ve been at multiple different tables that straight up adapted 4e’s minion monsters (1 hp, no damage if they succeed on saves) with the only real difference being “which of 5e’s six different saving throws would these be proficient in?” To the people claiming “every class felt the same”, go watch Matt Coville’s “Dusk” streams and find the points where those players feel like they’re all doing the same thing in combat.

@johannesstephanusroos4969

Жыл бұрын

@@animefan3794 No u

@TheBritishPoro

2 ай бұрын

This to me is kinda like not liking Warlords of Draenor expansion for WoW. The raids were great, the quest lines were amazing, the zones were beautiful, the story was cool, but the systems SUCKED, so it all felt shit to play, while having tons of good elements.

"By Sigmar and the hammer, I judge you all!"

@MrCuddles194

Жыл бұрын

I understood this reference. 😄

@johannesstephanusroos4969

Жыл бұрын

That's going in the Book of Grudges

I love how often you upload videos about characters concept that I was thinking about few days ago. Because of you i can really enjoy my characters, thank you!

For a nature oriented aggressive deity in Forgotten Realms, I would recommend Lathander Greater God of: Spring, Dawn, Birth, Youth, Vitaliy, and Athletics. He is NG and has a long history directing his faithful to take the fight to evil, especially undead.

Love how much you boost up other creators! Your character builds are a ton of fun.

Bravo! This is an amazingly well rounded character. More like this please😊

Death Ward let us take down Strahd. Had a rogue with the lightsaber carving him up, she got got by one of his minions, but Death Ward kept her up and the next minion missed by 1. Our healer went next, dropped an epic 3d8 Cure Wounds that was max on the dice roll. With a bit of luck on Strahd's turn, she lived through till her next turn. She chased down the vampire, stride for stride with our Frenzy Barbarian and landed the killing blow sneak attack once they were both there.

Excited for the build! Thanks for the work as always Colby!

Holy moly this build looks amazing! Thank you for the awesome content!

I really love all your support/damage character builds. I always get put into the support role (which I don't mind so much), but I wanna hit things too. So these builds have been really helpful.

I’m so glad you did this build now! I created a backstory around it for the upcoming campaign and got the best anticipation to play a character I’ve had in years! Kudos to you Colby!

Cool build and thank you for your great job Colby! I'm a big fan of your sustained damage builds over nova damage builds but , in this case, I feel the combination of power and support is amazing and makes play it as soon as I can 😍

This was another absolute banger my man. Please keep up the good work and excellent material.

I've been waiting for/thinking about making this build for a while. Great job!

This is insane, the exact build I have been thinking about making! Lo and behold there is a D4 video right on time!

Really love your videos. When the calm intro start I just relax and know I'm about to be entertained and learn something new. Thank you very much for all the content. And now I want to know what the other 4 things on the to-do list older than war cleric are!

I really enjoyed the One Hit Wonder build you made and it was a niche I never really thought possible which is super cool, so am super hyped to see more of these types of builds. I also really like you keeping the build mostly the same class which makes it easier to present to my DM as a character concept without them throwing up at the multiclassing :)

I'm very new to dnd and your thoughtful videos have helped me understand how things work, thanks especially for the life cleric/lore bard support character video!

The outtakes at the end made my day. Good work!

Already backed Kibbles! I have been waiting soooo long for you to do a war cleric! Pumped!!!

Wow, that's exactly what I wanted and exactly when I need it! Thanks!

I love Clerics, my curent character is a bow wielding orc. I grabbed 2-3 levels of Rogue, which gets us extra damage on bow weapons. Damage round is Guiding Bolt followed by Sneak Attack bow, Guided Strikes almost guarantees both attacks hit.

I think Artemis may be a good pick for a good for a nature/war cleric Though I feel a bow becomes essential suddenly

@kjp24

Жыл бұрын

Nah no worries mate. That sudden want of bow is just her bad-ass good-girl divine energy flowing through from just mentioning her name.

Always love the videos!! I was pretty surprised at just how robust this build was. I was honestly expecting a worse paladin. One of my players used Death Ward to great effect!! He put death ward on the party's front line (a rogue/paladin) while they were up against a mummy lord. The mummy lord's Rotting Fist was negated because the health reduction would have killed the player. Then the player was able to take a turn right after, getting sneak attack, extra attack, and smiting (on an undead) meaning a fantastic finish to the short campaign I was running!!

My God man... the Counting Crows reference sold it for me. One of my top five bands from being a teen. August and Everything After was a masterwork. It was the best of times it was the worst of times...

I think assuming the monster is going to lose a strength save is bad. Strength saves are usually very high for monsters, especially as the levels go up, so that source of advantage on all subsequent attacks in the nova round is giving this build a lot of boost. Moreover the build stays at 12 constitution for the entire campaign, which must feel awful without warcaster or resilient constitution.

So, I finally got into my very first group. We had our session 0 last Sunday and our first session is this Sunday. I'm trying the Clockwork Sorcerer TANK, with some twists.

@Venjax420

Жыл бұрын

Curse of Strahd is my first campaign.

@DnDDeepDive

Жыл бұрын

Congrats!

I played a Wood Elf War Cleric of Tempus for the Rage of Demons campaign until level 13. He had been given some cool magic items like a Rod of Lordly Might, Slippers of Spider Climbing, and a Belt of Storm Giant Strength, as well as a magic shield +3 with special powers which had to be rolled for but eventually lost while captured. Eventually, I decided to have him multiclass into a Fighter. Still deciding what subclass to choose but Rune Knight, Echo Knight, and Eldritch Knight are candidates. His feats were War Caster, Heavy Weapon Master, Resilient Constitution, and Magic Initiate Wizard to get Find Familiar (a Tressym, which automatically detects poison and also flies). The campaign ended with the cleric deciding to fight a battle against the demons inside the Drow city of Menzoberranzan. It resulted in destruction of the city, which caused the Tempus priesthood to censure him for causing destruction to "innocent bystanders" but he hated the evil works of the inhabitants anyway so he didn't care about the judgment and will just fight for Tempus as his Fighter without advancing in the cleric ranks. Now he's temporarily retired until another campaign opens up for level 15 and upwards.

Your face when the fighter jets kept going overhead, priceless. Great build, great video, that level 6 nuke you can drop is crazy

I FEEL LIKE WE HAVENT SEEN YOU IN FOREVER! 2 weeks was forever. Love your videos Colby!

Ranger has the Druidic Warrior fighting style. That gets you two cantrips.

Great video Colby, thank you!

You were right the first time when you said "add -5". If you subtract -5, that becomes a positive, and now you have a +5. Yay, math. I agree that going paladin feels more like a "war priest". If you went more fighter, it'd arguably be more of a "templar" instead. Fun fact: Pathfinder 1e has a warpriest class. It's a hybrid of the cleric and fighter, and has paladin utility. Colby needs a recording deal at this point. Too great of a voice to be ignored for this long. Appreciate the Counting Crows name drop. So many people don't even know them. They're a really good band, and I'm glad I have their albums and got to see them in concert. I wonder if the military base had scheduled some maneuver training that day. We have that here too. Less so during the freezing winter though.

Ooh these are my favorite kinds of builds!!!

I’m currently playing a Gish rework of this build and I absolutely love it. Because this build does such nice melee damage my spellbook is almost all utility and my parties survivability went through the roof

Another fun build brother! I love cleric/paladin builds

Started waking up earlier recently and I've been WAITING for this one

Orion from the Warhammer series is a good choice for a War/Nature diety

I look forward to every Tuesday it's like seeing a friend I haven't talked to in awhile love your videos Colby crazy how many video you have now when I first found your Channel I think you barely have 30

I had a fun idea for a build I’d like to see. A monk tank. The dwarf racial feat dwarves fortitude lets you spend a hit die to heal when you dodge, and combined with durable you regain twice con mod minimum. So it would be an ancestral guardian / monk that primarily uses ki for the dodge action. Starts as barbarian actually for the alternative unarmored defense that they get

Love the idea for the build! Combat Clerics are fun! Side note, I've used trip attack a lot and I'm not sure I've actually tripped anything. Mostly we fight big stuff so their Str is huge, but maybe one day...

Oh a new intro 🥰 so nice to get an other dnd build 🥰 my friend plays a war cleric, this is gonna be fun 😃

Played in a game where the player played a single-class war cleric like he wanted to be the heavy hitter you’ve made here. I appreciate the “rules/restrictions” you impose on some of these builds.

Just had to say that the idea of you Warlock patron of nature living in your club is sick.. I imagine having the massive centipede that lives in there and speaks telepathically, everyone just thinks it's a familiar but in reality it's your god 😆👍

Thanks for the love! ❤❤❤

@DnDDeepDive

Жыл бұрын

Of course!

Glad ya finally got around to building one. War Priest is one of those archetypes that just calls to ya. Always looking for ways to make one. Think you did well! Now just waiting on your take of an Aladdin genie Warlock/Bard build support character or the astral self/spore druid mix (think Groot or a certain fellow KZread personality 😉🤣) Keep up the good work sir!

31:28 🎶WHOOOO lives in a tree branch you use as a club?🎶

Just past 300K on Kibbles woot. Let's keep it going everyone.

Won of my most FAVORITE Duunlee Coppercoat. 13 War Domain/7 Battle master Hill Dwarf with the tough feat. He got a weapon that could ad Temp HP for every one he killed. When he was able to suck a large HP creature, Dude could be dropped from ORBIT and still get up to fight. He had 220 base HP before the Temp HP. One of the biggest thing I stumbled on to by accident was Crusader's Mantle and Conjure Animals combo. The ranger summoned 8 (just the base level) panthers. When they hit with a claw they have a chance to knock it prone. If the creature is prone they get a second bite attack. Crusader's Mantle would as 1d4 of radiant damage on EVERY ATTACK. If all hit that would be 8d4 + 16 slashing, 8d6 +16 piercing, plus 32d4 radiant damage. Sure there are better CR 1/4 creatures then the panther but that was kind of his thing, Beast Master with a panther. I think the DM picked Panther.

Man, those air routines really weren't behaving with your shcedule 😆 Love the content, and cant wait for the PF2E build next week!

Thanks for the video!

This is so fun! Thank you :) Gives me great gishy vibes

Jets are busy attacking those pesky weather balloons

The "Warp" Preist: Lvl1 War preist variant human+crossbow expert , 6 levels battlemaster archer (precision strike) +sharpshooter +ASI, 13 levels your favorite wizard. Obvs Dex and INT are your main stats here, we're only using cleric spells for bless and word of healing on downed party members. Point of this build is to get bonus attacks and damage early in game-play but not be boring at later tiers of play.

Really fun video. It makes me want to design this character! I like the pathfinder builds but I honestly love these dnd ones more.

The trick to playing a support is to not play a lazy bottom that doesn't really help out making some energy, but instead everyone should bring what they like and preferably something that brings some energy to the table.

"... and then use a quarterstaff and a shield all the time instead of pulling a big maul in your nova round"... What about a big ass wooden mallet xD? That's shillellag approved.

War + Nature deity: I'd go with Gallic deities - Cernunnos, Lugh, Taranis, Toutatis all kinda fit the theme.

Whut, Staff of Power!? Every caster will be jealous 🙂 Great build, by the way!

Hammertime was the last build that I thought I might ACTUALLY enjoy playing. So it was a bit of a drought for me, though I enjoy hearing all the concepts and creativity. THIS build sounds fun AND powerful... And I'm a support/control junkie... So good job! Thanks!

Fun fact: my favorite band in the world, Between The Buried And Me, took their name from a Counting Crows lyric. Good stuff 🙂

Oh ho ho... death ward story: I'm playing a Grave Domain cleric in a Curse of Strahd campaign. One of the items we need to seek is in the castle. While crossing the draw bridge, a plank breaks under my foot (really bad roll on a d100). I fail my Dex save and the guy walking in front of me fails his perception check to notice in time that I'm in trouble. As I'm falling I call up something to the effect of "find me at the bottom!" and cast death ward on myself, which I never would have previously prepped, but it is auto-prepped for Grave Domain. I end up at the bottom of a thousand foot drop, having died and been brought back to life at 1 hp with multiple broken bones, waiting for rescue. Grave Clerics... short for "never-dig-a-grave clerics"

@DnDDeepDive

Жыл бұрын

Ha!

FWIW, the War domain's limited number of BA attacks per day isn't so bad when you remember that Spiritual Weapon is a domain spell for them, so you'll almost always have access to at least one other way to weaponize your BA (at least from level 3 onward). On a straight classed Cleric, you'll probably have at least an 18 Wis eventually (even if you want to max your Str as a War Cleric), which should be enough War Priest attacks to get you through at least one combat a day before you can fall back on good old Spiritual Weapon/Spirit Guardians in later fights

Paladin is the best support class in the game already. Bless on turn one, include the most people in your aura, go to town on turn 2.

1:50 I'm glad you specified that, really wouldn't want to recreate the scene in Robin Hood Men in Tights where he asks to "lend me your ears" lol

As soon as you said God of War and Nature... I was like the Cheesy Colby Jack is back at it. Points for Anna Begins. Agreed they missing out. Got to check out the entire August and Everything After album. Especially Perfect Blue Buildings.

I like the idea of a support build that hulks out on occasion. Thanos "fine I'll do it myself" energy

i recently made a new instagram to share the stuff i make for dnd on, and its getting close to 100 followers and when i noticed that i said to myself "so close to breaking the centennial barrier.." you might be rubbing off on me a bit haha but youre so great to listen to while i work and youre so wholesome and calm and i am grateful for what you do! keep up the good building

Jarilo in the slavic pantheon is a God of war and nature :)

Kibbles is publishing and sponsoring now?? Hell yeah the Griffon's Saddlebag stuff they post on reddit is my favorite source for magic items and it's great to see them publishing stuff in books now!

You just did a free boost for a buddy’s KZread channel. I knew it! You ARE a helluva guy! I knew it, I did, I knew it!

Otherworldly patron that lives in a log cabin on chicken legs that wanders the great forests of the world...

Thank you for another video

You were correct, you would be adding a -5. Subtracting a -5 would be the same and adding 5 ;)

Anytime I see/hear variant human it just tunes me right out. So much in fact that I just allow a starting feat for any race in the games I run.

Hey Colby! I have been considering how I could build a cleric who can bonk as well as they can bless, and this vid came just in time! Thanks always for the hard work!

Woot! Had the idea for this kind of build. But I was thinking 5 or 6 levels of kensei monk then full war cleric. Yeah, it takes a bit to ramp up with cleric. But then using the aoe version of divine favor for allies. xD

Excellent build but shadowed by the amazing outakes ;)

You should do a mini series where you challenge yourself to not multiclass. Do one character for every class, but no multiclassing, just to see how much you can get out of each class alone.