I feel like the Phoenix sorcerer would actually be a good fit for the Theros book

I would love a fixing video! I often have players who love UA thematically, but the subclass is completely broken

@roar104

4 жыл бұрын

How is it broken?

@calvinclark9478

4 жыл бұрын

mr roar104 Quite a few of the subclasses are unbalanced with some being ridiculously overpowered or completely underwhelming. Paladin subclasses are pretty good in comparison to say monk subclasses which rearrange the furniture of usefulness rather than give interesting playstyles to the monk, with the exception of Way of Astral Self which turns you into a stand user.

@gaberobison680

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly the problem with 5E is that its so klunky that balance is hard.

The Protection Cleric's Blessed Healer ability isn't based off the Life Cleric's 1st level ability, it's just a straight up rip off of the Life Cleric's level 6 ability. They're the exact same.

I assume one of the biggest reasons Treachery Paladin didn't make it is that most people probably read it and assume "This is just an anti-party subclass that encourages backstabbing" when in reality Treachery Paladin makes the perfect "Undercover Cop" type character.

@finnmchugh99

Жыл бұрын

Or a sort of vigilante... Like Night Lords from 40k

what about top 10 mechanics/content from previous editions youd like to see come back? like the spell scarred from 4e

@mayhemivory5730

4 жыл бұрын

Tizio Caio This! My first introduction to DnD was the Neverwinter online game, and I really love the spellplague design. Maybe it could work as a sorcerer subclass?

@ashleygozdor7774

4 жыл бұрын

We have mystic in UA but I would love a revisited mystic. Additionally, a little bit more structure like what we had in 3.5.

I have played as a Brute Fighter and a Way of Tranquility Monk, and I thoroughly enjoyed both. I loved the feeling of the Brute as the brother of the Champion who thought the Champion wasn't swole enough and decided to one-up him. Tranquility was my first D&D character, and I was digging the idea of monastic warrior who preferred to use words over weapons.

I miss Runescribe that could make a good subclass if fleshed out as Artificer

@ERBanmech

4 жыл бұрын

MelVixen that and it would gel well lore wise with my favorite UA subclass the Rune Knight fighter.

I really loved the stone sorcerer. I was sad that it did not make the cut! I fits very well with the black earth cult in elemental evil.

@zacharygadzinski3147

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe the subclass will make it into Critical Role's third campaign.

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@deKahedron

4 жыл бұрын

It was the same for me where I didn't think he was very energetic or perhaps wasn't trying at first, but over time I've learned to see past that

@timlobiondo5777

4 жыл бұрын

Odd. I was not sure about the first few vids I saw either but now search posts like yours and Treantmonks. I like different ideas and perspectives. Thx.

The good news for this list is that several members of the WotC design team have stated outright that they never totally dismiss a failed UA, feature design, or design concept. So, any of these subclasses could return in the future slightly (or heavily) tweaked. However, I can tell you right now that the Oath of Treachery, Protection Domain, and Theurgy wizard would be heavily modified as feedback has taught the design team that players in general greatly dislike any features that are too similar to, or are outright copied from, other sub/classes.

@marcperez2598

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like Theurgy came back as the Arcana Domain Cleric. Instead of a Wizard Cleric, it's a Cleric Wizard

I think the shooting class is essentially a crossbow master and sharpshooter feat in a subclass. Fighters get so many ASIs that picking them up if you want to be an archer or hand crossbow user it isn’t too hard- particularly as variant human. They allow you to do most of what the subclass does whilst gaining another subclass’ benefits and also at a significantly earlier level

@SquirePsycho

4 жыл бұрын

You only get half of either feats benefit. I would still end up picking up the feat.

RIP Theurgy. You will always be in our hearts as we multiclass into cleric to ease our suffering. 🙏

Honestly one of my favorite UA's is the Wildfire Druid. So little of the base druid deals with the death and rebirth side of wildfires, it makes a really cool character concept. (A druid who other druids and rangers don't necessarily like or trust, but who is absolutely necessary to keep everything moving in harmony)

@UmekCrafter

4 жыл бұрын

I like it except the part its only tied to fire. It could be called Cataclysm druid and represent hrash winters or hurricane storms as well

@whiskeyhound

4 жыл бұрын

@@UmekCrafter That's not a bad idea, but they were going for the whole thing of rejuvenation of nature, which requires a bit of fire.

@hoorahforsnakes

4 жыл бұрын

One of my players is playing a wildfire druid, and honestly it's so great

I can see why a lot of these didn’t make it in. Treachery Paladin simply doesn’t play nice with others. I can see a player constantly wanting to backstab their teammates and using the excuse “it’s what my character would do!” Sharpshooter is just a generic archer. Which you can already make with the other subclasses. Protection is great thematically but a terrible plagiarist. Seriously, so much wasted potential Stone Sorcerer tries to make a class with a d6 hit die into a semi-tank. Which doesn’t work. Theurgist is cool, but gives Wizard healing spells, which is a design philosophy no-no, and even more spell options. In addition it just makes more sense to multi class to me. Twilight Druid and Phoenix Sorcerer make a lot of sense though. I would love to see those.

@zacharygadzinski3147

4 жыл бұрын

Not a player yet, but I think those subclasses can be tweaked. Yet the treachery paladin would work in an evil campaign. It literally seems like the paladin would worship an evil god or a trickster god. Yet maybe these subclasses will be published once Critical role starts campaign 3. Or if another D&D stream gains in massive popularity.

@ATinyWaffle

4 жыл бұрын

I'd argue that the Stone Sorcerer is fine defensively; the only thing that doesn't exactly work is the smite spells. They get one extra hitpoint per level giving them monk and rogue amounts of martial HP and with AC= 13+Con+Shield (18 AC at level 1), they already have better AC then a monk and rogue for around level 1 to 8. Since they can ignore Dex more and focus Con, they'll have more HP than most monks and rogues. Also, you can probably learn one extra spell since you won't be needing Mage Armor.

@IShadowStrykerI

4 жыл бұрын

​@@ATinyWaffle To be fair the Rogue and Monk get a bunch of extra defensive abilities to make their health last longer that the stone sorcerer just doesn't (i.e. uncanny dodge, patient defense, evasion) so that comparison wasn't really the best, and while I agree it wasn't the worst tank I also believe the Giant Soul Sorcerer improved it quite a bit and showed that it could've been better (now if only they had smites...or got giant mode a bit faster maybe level 6?)

@ATinyWaffle

4 жыл бұрын

@@IShadowStrykerI I guess you've never heard of Shield, Absorb Elements, Misty Step, Mirror Image, Blur, Blink, Counterspell, Protection from Energy, Haste, Fly, or Greater Invisibility?

@IShadowStrykerI

4 жыл бұрын

@@ATinyWaffle I have and out of those only Shield, Absorb Elements, Mirror Image, Blur and Blink really compare and while they do exist they're more limited and usually don't do as much in the long run, except maybe Shield

Since you mentioned it 17 minutes into the video, I would love to see your take on all of these subclasses in the Fix It series.

Theurgy Wizard was the class I was most looking forward to.

@zacharygadzinski3147

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe it will be added someday, but maybe with a few tweaks to make it less OP. Keep some of the domain stuff, but add potion making and item crafting proficiencies that buff and heal. Theurgist runs out of spells from chosen deity. Starts making potions and medicines in case a battle breaks out.

@roar104

4 жыл бұрын

@@zacharygadzinski3147 how is it op? the wizard spells are amazing at controlling the battlefield or any number of other things you can use them for. You're giving up daily prepared spells for healing. Add on to that you have to hit level 18 to grab all your 9th level spells before you can learn any of the cleric spells not on the cleric spell list for the domain you had picked....The only strong thing about it is getting the higher level cleric ability several levels early, but even then it doesn't save the class. It's not bad and it's unique, but it's not OP

@zacharygadzinski3147

4 жыл бұрын

@@roar104 I was just stating that some people may find the class to be too strong. Yet they could try releasing it later without another UA. In other words, just plop it into a new book.

@Klaital1

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't that basically same as the Divine Soul sorcerer?

@spartanchief2

4 жыл бұрын

Klaital1 much more powerful and versatile than the Divine Soul Sorcerer

Phoenix Sorcery is a subclass is love to see most. I really enjoy how each subclasses benefit feeds off the mantle of the pheonix. Also the theme of is is really great and well constructed in my opinion. Kinda crazy it didmt become an official subclass

@EulerCosta

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

I love the theurge wizard! In Tomb of Annihilation, I played a Death Domain character that, rather than worshipping the various gods of death, he was just obsessed with studying them.

@leachofsouls

4 жыл бұрын

Playing a death domain as a good or even neutral character is easy. Way of the long Death monk makes for fun rping

The fixing series for these has begun! The Phoenix Sorcerer video is out: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e6h20o9_kqappdI.html

Omg, yes! I would love to see a fix for all of these

I'm currently playing one of a pair of shadar-kai twins who have devoted themselves to the Raven Queen. We decided we wanted them to feel very yin and yang to each other, where they have very similar end goals, but wildly different approaches. My bestie went Grave Domain Cleric, and I went Theurgy Wizard and Life Domain (as the Raven Queen's two domains are life and grave). The contrasts between the two characters are amazing and we find we don't really step on each other's toes. I have healing stuff when she needs a backup healer, we're the ultimate buff/debuff team, and even our stylistic choices as far as how and when we heal people is wildly different. The Theurgy wizard isn't particularly *strong* because of the limitation on when you get non-domain spells, and in some ways is kinda weak compared to a typical cleric, due to getting almost every ability 4-5 levels later than a cleric of that domain would. The trade-off is that you *eventually* get the full cleric spell list and you get the capstone ability for that domain a couple levels earlier. I don't see an issue in the balance, and if anything I think Theurgy supports the idea of more strictly supportive wizards than other wizard schools do.

Hey Buddy! I have really been digging you videos these past few months. Can't wait to see you get more subs. I know it's coming. I also would love to see your take on a build or two. Thank you for putting this out there for us.

The Lore Master Wizard was an awesome concept.

@trappyboi8678

4 жыл бұрын

But was extremely overturned and made the sorcerer class pointless, thus is a bad class

@charmandenator5686

4 жыл бұрын

I've been playing a Lore Master Wizard for a long time. I really like having the expertise in Arcana but it's definitely been too strong. It was getting kind of boring until I got an item that encouraged me to peruse an ice theme. The funny thing is I actually asked him when Xanathar's Guide came out if I should swap to War Mage and he told me he'd prefer me to stay as what I was.

@bloodiedporcelain6320

3 жыл бұрын

@@trappyboi8678 I mean to be fair the sorcerer class is pretty useless anyway and only truly *good* for dips. I love my sorcerer, but I'll be the first person to admit that it's the weakest full caster and really needs to be revised like the Ranger was. It's got all the thematics I love and the mechanics are kind of awful and make it the worst full caster in the game. The Lore Master was overpowered but is easy to tweak to put it more on par with a standard wizard.

@trappyboi8678

3 жыл бұрын

@@bloodiedporcelain6320 No? The Sorcerer is the most powerful multi-dip in the game with the Warlock being the most powerful small-dip. The two together are insanely powerful, creating the oh-so-dreaded Sorlock. The Sorcadin (Paladin with Sorcerer) is also widely regarded as one of the most overpowered and meta-gaming multiclasses in the game, behind only the Sorlock itself. The class by itself is also far from weak, a Sorcerer constantly outdamages the other casters if you have any idea of how to manage resources due to their meta-magic completely breaking the rules of Bounded Accuracy.

@bloodiedporcelain6320

3 жыл бұрын

@@trappyboi8678 way to completely ignore the part where I said they're good for dips. They're a solid option if you're going to multiclass and the dip class is sorc. But that doesn't make them a strong class on their own. Put a sorcerer in a game against any other full caster (including warlock which gets crap for spell slots but makes up for it in how easy it is for them go get their spell slots back and how many invocations just make spells at will) and they are painfully underpowered. They have the tiniest list of spells known, they don't get many cantrips to balance the lack of spells known, the class's over all spell list is weirdly limited and things you would think "oh yeah sorcerer would totally know that!" they frequently don't know, sorcery points are a cool concept but you don't get enough and they run out quick if you're in a serious fight and some of the metamagic options are just *awful*, and even if you reserve all those points for converting to spell slots, the freaking wizard still basically gets to do the same thing if they get a short rest. There's literally no good reason to go sorcerer over wizard (or cleric if you favor divine soul) as a core 1-20 no multiclass build *other than* flavor. For flavor they are really neat, but on every other count they kind of suck and there's no way around that. A huge part of *why* is because the core class never got play tested the way most other classes did. Its the least popular full caster in most polls done online, and I wish Wizards would get off their asses and fix it, because the *concept* of the class is awesome, the execution just kind of sucks. It needs a revised build like they did for the ranger.

Sharpshooter fighter is redundant with a fighter that takes crossbow expert and sharpshooter feats. Might as well be a battle master.

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I also like the flavor of using the theurgist as a sort of occultist. But I think the reason theurgy was excluded was because it was literally stealing from clerics, which brings us back to the whole stepping on toes thing.

I would absolutely love a fixing video on some of these. Oath of Treachery and Phoenix Sorcerer are two subclasses I’m drawing inspiration from for some baddies I have in my campaign

You want to be really crazy with Theurgy? Pick Arcana Domain. At level 14 Theurgy Wizard, you get get access to Arcana's Cleric's level 17 benefit, which is... to get 4 wizard spells; one a piece of level 6, 7, 8, and 9. So your level 14 wizard is getting access to level 8 spells a level early and level 9 spells THREE levels early. PLUS, you're getting an extra slot! That is STUPID broken. But as for the forgotten subclass I'd love to have seen make it to print, I'd have to say the Lore Mastery wizard. At level 2, you get: A) your proficienies in Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion become experise, B) you can use your Int modifier for initiative instead of Dex, C) When your spells do any damage type except bludgeon, slashing, piercing, or psychic, you can change it to any other valid damage type AD NAUSEUM, NO LIMITS, and D) Once per short rest, when one of your spells requires a saving throw, you can change it to a different saving throw. You can make Fireball a Charisma save. WTF. At level 6, you get a sort of metamagic thing. You can spend a spell slot to augment your spell. Using a level 1 slot adds 2d10 force damage, using a level 2 slot increases its range up to A MILE, and a level 3 slot increases the spell save DC by 2. At level 10, once per short rest, you can immediately swap out one of your prepared spells for another one from your spellbook. What utility. At level 14, once per long rest, you can cast any spell of a level you have a slot available for. Any spell from any class. Dude. Lore Mastery is so cheesy it's ridiculous. I want it so bad.

Would love to see a video on rogue subclasses, homebrew classes and whatnot! Keep up the awesome content dude!

Im a new subscriber and ive found all of these videos to be super helpful. Keep up the good work!

Most of this subclasses lacks something in their mechanics, but the lore is pretty cool. I'd love if they revisited this changing the problematic abilities instead of just ditching them

Top ten monsters from previous editions you'd like to see introduced into 5th edition

please do a fixing video. A lot of these have good potential just need to clean up some details perhaps a name change 7. treachery oath- Oath of the third eye (less evil more focused on illusion) could pair well with an echo knight. 6. Stone sorcerer- Earth titan sorcerer/ Earth heart sorcerer (give a light armour proficiency and clear up some of the language used about bonus ) 5. protection Domain- Wall Domain (front line healer super tanky cleric, maybe the first level ability has a push back effect) 4. sharpshooter- The Vigilante (give thrown weapon and gun proficiency may be steady aim gives advantage on a called shot against an opponent, can be done up to wisdom modifier amount per long rest, thus helping rapid shot) pairs well with assassin rogue 3. phoenix sorcerer- Phoenix sorcerer sounds cool, would really love to hear your changes (maybe martial weapon and light and medium armour proficiency-martial sorcerer?) 2. Twilight druid- Harvest druid (honestly a new update of this class would work especially with all the current Druid UA, since it's adding a unique take on nature, honestly I joke about needing a martial druid, um this is it) a good option for a cleric-less party 1.Theurgy Wizard- WHY DIDN'T WE GET THIS. I feel like we already have loads of wizard subclasses and loads of clerics I think that the Theurgy should be it's own class, even the subclasses could be varied one could be more paladin, one could be more cleric based, one could more wizard top 10 list ideas- top 10 multiclass option for beginners, top 10 secret lore found in the multiverse, top 10 banned/spammed/bannable builds/, top 10 fan suggested/made homebrew that you like

I absolutely loved the Loremastery and Theurgy wizard. Loremastery just oozes with what it means to be a wizard for me, and Theurgy was what allowed me to play the style of necromancer I've always enjoyed. I also really liked the Brute, Monster Hunter, Rune Knight, and Scout fighter. they covered a good broad approach to concepts that I think the fighter needs. Brute was the champion I wanted to play. Monster Hunter had a great old magic, feel to it. Rune knight had some cool abilities and an awesome nontraditional power set, Scout was a really good take on a "martial focused" ranger. Twilight Druid was pretty awesome, save for the nuclear druid shenanigans with magic missile, and the fact the the undead slaying druid dealt necrotic without many ways to kill undead with it regardless of resist and immunity. Other than that it was an awesome idea. Stars druid and wildfire druid are looking on point too. With the exception of finger of death, I really liked the raven queen warlock, I also really like the noble genie warlock and the lurker in the deep. Astral self monk lets me play out my jojo fantasy's and way of mercy just has a bunch of cool and thematic abilities Fey wanderer ranger, and swarm keeper were awesome ranger options that really allowed for cool things with the class. Oath of heroism/glory was cool as all hell and I'm glad to see it coming to the theros book. Oath of the watchers has cool flavor, though I wish it was against all "Outsiders" rather than just the bad ones. They feel like awesome cosmic balance paladins and I think should be expanded as such. to me the phoenix sorcerer was okay, but it didn't get enough for an elemental focus sorcerer, Aberrant mind was pretty cool though. Wild soul barbarian I partly liked, but the beast barbarian is really cool. Technically not UA but the Zeal domain is still my favorite cleric, twilight was interesting. There were a lot of fun idea's over the years that a bit of fine tuning would make truly amazing.

@orionar2461

4 жыл бұрын

Lore wizard could make hold person a strength saving throw which no one should be able to do

@nystagohod

4 жыл бұрын

@@orionar2461 I mean it needed some fine tuning, but the general concept of messing with spells the way they did was amazing. I made it so loremasters could only change mental saves to other mental saves, and physical saves to other physical saves to cut the hold person shenanigans out. It needed work, but it was a great concept otherwise IMO.

@orionar2461

4 жыл бұрын

@@nystagohod Holy shit, I had the same idea

@nystagohod

4 жыл бұрын

@@orionar2461 That's amazing. Let's hope this is a case of some great minds than.

Phoenix is definitely cool, and I'd love to see your changes to it! I also really loved the Lore Master Wizard's concept of modifying spells, though it definitely needed a lot of work to be balanced.

I was like.. TOP 107 subclasses YES! .. oh 7 is good too.

@NerdImmersion

4 жыл бұрын

haha, not sure there is even 107

I'd love to play a somewhat evil Theurgy wizard of the arcana domain. He unearthed some stories of Mistrah's champions and through worship and study attempts to earn her favor. The only problem is it gets messy when you play a cleric wizard of the wizard cleric domain.

@GoblinLord

2 жыл бұрын

ah yes, The TRUE Weric Clizard!!

fixing videos are always awesome. Definitely do them.

I’m not gonna lie, I’m kinda glad Theurgy didn’t make it. Wizard is already the best class in the game because of its versatility, the last thing it needs is access to *another* spell list.

@Shalakor

4 жыл бұрын

I could see adding Only the domain spells being a fair balancing compromise. Then again, just about every other full spellcasting class already has a published subclass that gives access to the whole cleric list to learn (or can freely pick a small number of spells from any list), so maybe it really wouldn't be fair. Possibly just make it only the domain spells with them always prepared as per the normal domain spells feature, but as a tradeoff they're not added to your spellbook? They'd still be adding even more versatility, but at least they wouldn't be eligible to benefit from slot-spending-free ritual casting and it'd also mean the minutia of having spells in your spellbook that can't be copied is bypassed. That one aspect raises too many questions anyway. Like, as it's written, what if the theurgy wizard learns a domain/cleric spell that's also on the wizard list? Can it still not be copied by another wizard? Feels too game-y to have a spellbook like that.

@illoney5663

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like it could be interesting to have a Wizard subclass with access to some cleric spells, but the entire spell list? That's way too much.

@megaleioaltura5362

4 жыл бұрын

WIZARD, is the best class you say? Well let me introduce you to the PALADIN, this bad boi can fit so much fuckin SMITE in it, it’ll deal 15d8 + 10 damage before you can even SAY smite.

@nicholas3141

4 жыл бұрын

Megaleío Altura That’s cute fireball

@megaleioaltura5362

4 жыл бұрын

Shinjin • FIREBALL!?!? That’s funny, have a nice time getting past my CHAD D10 HITDICE, and my SHIELDMASTER FEAT, making that fireball USELESS

I love the Phoenix sorcerer. I had a player who played one in a game. It has an awesome theme and mechanics and it made a great background.

I loved the monster hunter. Worked great for two characters I had in a campaign that were related. Family of tabaxi siblings whose parents were killed by undead. It was very strong thematically, useful for combat (ability to add to saves and damage), and really added to the RP of the Vengeance Paladin by adding Celestial to it's languages, and adding proficiencies that made him fulfill a troubled and angry character seeking divine guidance. That he was willing and able to kill.

Yay, Stone Sorcery! I was just making a Gravity Sorcerer using that as a base. The gray auras involved reminded me of Dunamancy

@orionar2461

4 жыл бұрын

Graviturgy wizard is in new wild mount book

@SGRODmaster

4 жыл бұрын

@@orionar2461 Yup, Wizard, not Sorcerer. Still no love for the thematically better subclass. :'(

@pv1612

4 жыл бұрын

Thematically better?

@SGRODmaster

4 жыл бұрын

Magic that comes naturally is more appealing to me than studying for it. Sorcerers manipulate the flow of magic itself, and you don't become a hero by being a bookworm, yet wizards are the caster powerhouses and get all the things.

@orionar2461

4 жыл бұрын

@@SGRODmaster that's because 5e cut sorcerers short. You do realize that dnd was originally made for nerds right? So getting power from study and intellect had and still has a massive appeal. Getting from knowledge is a popular theme. It's your preference, but most who play love wizards.

I would like to see the Way of Tranquillity monk to get more love from the community. I played one for a whole campaign and loved it!

yes please fix specially the stone sorcerer

@optimus2200

4 жыл бұрын

the sharp shooter got shafted because it had too much similarities with feats. and people didnt like that. like a feat trait would be wasted or redundant with no additional benefits. How ever it would have been great to have this subclass because like come on there are games that doesnt use feats. or that it would be handy to save some ASI instead of taking a feat like Crossbow expert if you focusing on wielding a bow for example .

Speaking of UA subclasses. What does everyone think of the Wizard Lore Mastery subclass? Everyone says it’s OP, and I can see the reasons why. Casting a level 1 magic missile and doing 3(1D4+1)+6D10 force dmg that auto hits. Which I strongly recommended talking to your DM and negotiating terms of when if at all it can be used. I would allow such a thing only in already one sided fights, clean up, or in emergency use which is also determined by said DM. Besides the auto nuke, I personally think it’s a good class for the wizard because they don’t have much that stems far from spells and int base things. And this class improves both areas greatly and gives it more versatility with certain spells. Like dmg based spells and spells that require a buff of dmg, range, or a spell that you really want to work to turn a losing battle. It really gets under my skin that most of the dmg spells we cast are either resistant or immune to most if not all enemies we face. That is my personal opinion of it, but it’s always up to the DM whether it’s ok or not. So don’t be that guy who says their going to be a wizard and reveal the subclass last sec.

Stone sorcerer is interesting in that it literally is stone sorcery in name only. I use an altered version of the origin in my games, but rebranded it as "aegis origin". Basically abjuration magic stuff.

I would love a video or series of videos on revamps to these classes.

Great video, loved it :D

For a very brief period of time, I played a Paladin/Warlock multiclass with the Treachery Paladin. She was effectively a Conquest Paladin before breaking her oath, in service to a cult of demon worshippers, and once breaking it, became obsessed with slaughtering the cult and her former demon master. The Warlock patron was homebrew, but was effectively the leader of the Wild Hunt, using her talents for carnage in service of hunting the biggest game. She wasn't... Good, but she was a reasonably affable person, if a bit bloodthirsty. ...Then after three sessions of intense political debate and stifling travel, she smells war on the wind, summons her steed, charges off into the distance, launches herself off her mount, activates her Fallen Aasimar aura, and mows down a couple of enemies... Before being summarily executed because she went in alone and the rest of the party was sauntering along. We wete dying laughing. That was the shortest I've ever played a character.

And thank you for your hard work and your content is amazing

I have a player who has been using the sea sorcery subclass and it has been quite fun. He's still just level 3 but the only tweaks I've made so far were just giving him an expanded spell list.

Number one unpublished UA subclass for me is paladin Oath of Treachery. I think it was dropped because the fluff overlapped too much with the oathbreaker as a paladin who has abandoned their oath for selfishness and evil, but imo Treachery was a dramatically better implementation of that narratice theme. Oathbreaker's mechanics feel like a straight forward anti-paladin, as selflessly dedicated to evil as a traditional paladin is to good. There is nothing deceitful or selfish in the Oathbreaker's mechanics. Evil stuff sure, buffing demons and devils, animate dead oath spell, frightening burst CD. Again, cool antipaladin stuff, its all about commiting to evil, not abandoning commitment entirely. Treachery, though? Illusory double? Invisibility? Teleport away? Poison? Tricking enemies into hitting each other? Yeah, the Treachery paladin wasn't just villainous, they were *dastardly*, which is just fun, and a way better fit for a paladin who has abandoned their oath for self interest. Sadly there's some balance issues with it, some overcomplicated mechanics. It really needs a second pass to be ready for proper game time, much as the conquest paladin needed and and thankfully got. But I really do think Treachery was on to something fun and cool, touching on a neat and unique play style, and I wish it had gotten the attention it needed.

top 10 homebrew subclasses would be fun to see :D but ofc you need to do a lot of research to find them :)

I would love to see you fix these!

@targetdreamer257

3 жыл бұрын

It's Tim! I miss my Tim deck, it never worked but I still miss it.

I too, like the thematics of Earth Sorcery, but I thought the damage bonus thing made little sense. Considering the capstone accomplishment of this sorcerer is likely the Earthquake spell, I think I would change their ability to allow bonus damage equal to your Charisma modifier to prone targets or targets in a fissure of the earth with any spell damage. I too love the Sharpshooter, and I also wonder why it wasn't published! I have a player also playing the Phoenix Sorcerer, and she seems to love it, too. We innovated a juvenile Phoenix familiar she quested with the party to obtain (and cast the spell for), and it helped make up for any deficiency in the class itself. Theurge is perhaps a bit too good, you get most of the awesomeness of Cleric, especially for the Life Domain, and get those awesome heals. Then also Healing Word with Wizard Cantrips to back it up? Not much wrong with that.

I'd enjoy a video on what you'd like to see in a new subclass/what would make you want to play a certain class. As an example: you've mentioned in this video, your review of Wildfire Druid, etc. "I'd play this druid because...". Not requesting you to make your own Homebrew Subclass (though that would be nice), but what would draw you personally to try a class you don't typically play, if it had "this" playstyle/build/theme, etc. Just wanted to say thanks for your thoughts and content. Hope you have a blessed day.

My favorite UA is the rune knight it had a bunch of cool abilities with the tunes and its gimmick to grow was pretty neat

Top 10 Flavorful Multiclass options. I like that you talk stats, but I wanna see you talk flavor

Sharpshooter with crossbow master is really strong.

I'd argue that the Stone Sorcerer is fine defensively; the only thing that doesn't exactly work is the smite spells. They get one extra hitpoint per level giving them monk and rogue amounts of martial HP and with AC= 13+Con+Shield (18 AC at level 1), they already have better AC then a monk and rogue for around level 1 to 8. Since they can ignore Dex more and focus Con, they'll have more HP than most monks and rogues. Also, you can probably learn one extra spell since you won't be needing Mage Armor.

I'm still waiting for Pale Master, loved that prestige class in 3rd and 3.5.

LoreMaster/Universalist/MetaMagician and Psionicist/Mystic. I'm a simple man, I like the Wizard's Wizard and I like psionics. I'd also like to see a proper Witch that isn't a reflavored Wizard/Druid/Warlock/Artifacer, though Artifacer's make great witches. But maybe a Wizard subclass that lets them do nature-healing-druid stuff would be nice

Man I love the Phoenix, Stone and Sea Sorcerers and I would love videos on them and how would you fix them.

A fixing video for dropped UA would be really neat! I only recently found your channel and you might have already done this video and I missed it.

I once played a Rune Knight Fighter Goliath, and while it could do some really insane stuff (With some help from the Sorcerer casting Enlarge/Reduce) it was never overpowered. The Runes were comparable to Action Surge and Second Wind, great abilities, but one-time use and never game-breaking. An example of this is the Frost Rune, which gives you a +2 to Strength for 10 minutes upon use. So, you get an extra +1 to your Strength modifier basically. Good, but not broken. The other one was the Cloud Rune, once per short rest, I could re-direct an attack targeting me to damage someone else except the attacker, so a good ability that can stop an especially powerful attack, but not broken.

I've been playing a Circle of the Twilight Druid for the Lost Mines of Phandelver module, and I'm having an absolute blast with her. She is a joy to play. 11/10, extremely highly recommend. :3 Top tier spell options for her: Thunderwave and Ice Knife. Boosting AoE damage with Thunderwave is huuuuge. I *AM* the fireball! xD Ice Knife is great for getting a high single target hit with a secondary AoE burst (though the AoE in that case will not be boosted by Harvest's Scythe, but casting it at a higher level does boost the AoE that way.)

I played a sort of powered up version of the Protection Domain. Radiant defense was turned into a bonus action and it added 1d10 + cleric level temporary hp to the target. Once depleted, it did 1d10 radiant damage to whoever depleted it. It paired amazingly well with a low AC frontliner like a barbarian, but having it be a bonus action is probably too powerful unless you add the restriction that you cannot cast a spell of 1st level or higher on the same turn you use it. I actually like shield of the faithful. You shouldn't have to multiclass to get something that thematic. As for critiques: Blessed healer is uninspired and I don't necessarily like warding bond or protection from evil and good. Warding bond is just not the best to have on your healer and I think your should be allowed the versatility of shield of faith over pfe&g especially given how the latter requires fairly expensive holy water to even cast. Ultimately, I love this subclass. The very idea of proactive rather than reactive support is awfully appealing. Wall of Force + Sacred Flame also allows for some cheeky combos considering the latter ignores total cover.Even two of the things I dislike, warding bond and blessed healer, kinda word well together. I just think it missed the opportunity to use temporary hp more.

I liked the brute, I was very strait forward. So I made one of my own but it’s divine and has actual role-playing ribbon abilities.

New intro animation is really cute!

Your content is good. I don’t have a lot to add, but comments are supposed to help channels. I like your channel. All these words are empty and I hope I’ve helped with the algorithm in some small way.

@NerdImmersion

4 жыл бұрын

They definitely too! Thanks for the algorithm help and the kind words!

I think the reason they didn't publish sharpshooter is because they felt it made the Ranger look even worse

Here is my thought experiment. Level 1-Life Cleric, Level 2 thru 20- Theurgy Wizard with Twilight Domain! ♥️ Certainly wish they would revise the Theurgy school!

Sharpshooter Fighter is literally the exact class I've been looking for. I've been wanting to do a full-on archer build for a long time and that sub-class is perfect. I might ask my next DM if they'll allow it.

@shawnball359

4 жыл бұрын

I would like to see a sharpshooter that uses firearms like percy

@Klaital1

4 жыл бұрын

Just pick Battlemaster fighter and take sharpshooter and crossbow expert feats and you have nearly all features of sharpshooter and the great stuff from battle master on top of that.

@whiskeyhound

4 жыл бұрын

Have you looked into the Brute subclass, most of the stuff from the sharpshooter can be gotten from feats and the Brute can deal a lot more damage using some of it's features.

Dude! Phoenix Soul is my single favourite UA subclass. I have been wanting it to get published ever since I discovered it, but I think I'll just bite the bullet and tweak the UA version so that I can finally play it.

Hi there, as a DM, fixing the Treachery Paladin would be great!

I'll like to see a video on each of these subclass on how to make them better or how to add them to the game.

I'd be fun to play a arcana domain theurge wizard. :D

I think the biggest problem with the Treachery Paladin is the name. You‘re not supposed to betray your comrades. Maybe change it to Disruption or something. You‘d want your enemies to betray each other and use a treacherous/unorthodox fightingstyle like poison while doing so. Mostly an issue on the players side.

i think sharpshooter was discarded because it steals too much from feats. no disadvantage when a target is within 5 feet: that's part of crossbow expert, a feat you'd need if you wanted to use crossbows and not lose all your extra attacks. ignoring half and 3/4 cover, that's the sharpshooter feat. though if they changed the wording to ranged weapon attacks i think it would actually be quite a worthwhile subclass (and definitely better then the arcane archer) as suddenly you could also be the thrown weapon master. not locked into a dex build if you bring enough axes (fuck yea, this is how you make a dwarven ranger), or you pick up tavernbrawler and become proficient with improvised weapons and start trowing glasses, chairs, tabbles, enemies. some fun potential.

Speaking from one year in the future, it sounds like the Phoenix Sorcerer was more or less reworked into the Wildfire Druid

Aww, I was hoping for the Rune Knight. Archivist seemed like a neat idea too. And Lore Wizard! I definitely want Lore Wizard.

@melvixen1943

4 жыл бұрын

Rune knight is fairly recent. iirc at the end of 2019 and the video mentioned a 2018 cutoffdate.

I'm not sure if you have done this but I would like to see a video about magic items from previous editions that you would like to see reintroduced into 5e along with any tweaks to them if any.

@NerdImmersion

4 жыл бұрын

I can do that!

I'd love to see ya go over each of these and tweak/work with them to see them in the main game. I haven't been able to catch u on everything you do or have done due to my military duties, but I'd love to see your thoughts on some of these. I do have to agree on many opinions here with not understanding how some weren't published. In my opinion, however, some classes have too many subclasses that may go underused or not used at all based on player preference. Clerics have 16 Subclasses (if you include Plane Shifts) and Wizards have 12. I would personally like to see more Druid and Sorcerer Subclasses, maybe cap all Subclasses around 10-12 as those are nice numbers.

The poison immediately after the attack for treachery paladin is such a good concentration breaker because it will make that weapons attacks cause 2 concentration saves, due to being a separate damage instance. Also, Phoenix Sorcery looks awesome.

@SwordKirby110

4 жыл бұрын

@sum body Player's Handbook rules on concentration, whenever you take damage while concentrating you must make a concentration save to maintain it. Smite damage is added to your attacks damage and thus is a single save but does get doubled by a crit. Green Flame Blade can cause 2 saves, 1 on hit and 1 to whoever the flame jumps to, if applicable. Booming Blade can cause 2 saves, 1 on hit and 1 on their next turn, if they willingly move. Ice Knife can cause a very high number of saves, 1 if the attack roll hits it's target and 1 to every target that fails the saving throw. There is an important distinction between an effect being added on to something else and something happening that is followed up by an effect. This poison damage effect specifically happens after the attack, therefore it cannot crit but does cause a concentration save.

The biggest prob with the Phoenix Sorc is Mantle of Flame. It needs to be 3 times a long rest or 1+ your Cha Modifier. you could also just make it a short rest ability

I'm genuinely shocked that the Giant Soul sorcerer or the lore wizard weren't on here, was it because they got reworked into other (worse) classes? also i know it's a really unpopular opinion but i think if they had reworked 2 of the disciplines (light and darkness and psionic assault) and made action economy clearer the mystic would have been a really good class to have published, what do you guys think.

@UmekCrafter

4 жыл бұрын

Rune Knight is absolutely fenomenal. Finally a fighter subclass that goes on level with battlemaster

@whiskeyhound

4 жыл бұрын

I think Lore Wizard tended to get a lot of complaints about being overpowered and that some of the spell modification stuff stole the uniqueness of sorcerers having metamagic. I feel like the mystic had a good system that was just simultaneously overexplained and unclear how it worked due to a lot of flavour text, it was just too damn long to read how the thing worked, I've played around with an autofilling character sheet that had the mystic coded in, and it made the whole thing a lot easier to understand, with 2 aspects basically being cantrips and spells and 1 being basically just the eldritch invocations.

@IShadowStrykerI

4 жыл бұрын

@@UmekCrafter still think its worse that what giant soul could've been

@IShadowStrykerI

4 жыл бұрын

@@whiskeyhound outside of strength/dex hold person what other combo was overpowered for the lore wizard? and yeah i kinda get that it steps a bit into sorcerer territory but i also felt that the change elements/saves thing could've been metamagic and still had the lore wizard as a wizard subclass as well

@whiskeyhound

4 жыл бұрын

@@IShadowStrykerI Not too sure what most people's complaints were, but I could see an illusory fireball or other high damage spells that changing the save to intelligence could prove tricky for a lot of monsters.

Sharpshooter was probably partially scrapped for the same reason as the Protection domain, their lvl 3 ability is something that partially overlaps with the Sharpshooter feat(which is something you are basically guaranteed to take with this fighter anyway, so it's kind of redundant), specifically the "ignores half and three quarter's cover". The lvl 10 ability has half of the Crossbow Expert feat; not getting disadvantage when shooting with an enemy in melee. Though, the biggest problem is the lvl 18 ability. With this, on the first round of combat, a Sharpshooter fighter could launch 8 attacks in a single round(10 at lvl 20)each dealing an extra 11(12 at lvl 20)damage. Assuming 20 dex, you're dealing 128(170 at lvl 20!) damage without accounting for magical weaponry nor accounting from the dice of the ranged weapon in question! This amount of damage is absolutely ridiculous. Adding in the Sharpshooter feat and each attack will deal 26 damage(27 at lvl 20)before taking into account what weapon you're using. If you were to have something as simple as a +2 longbow, a lvl 20 Sharpshooter Fighter could deal 290 + 10d8 in a single round(not counting crits), which, again, is utterly insane. If the fighter in question is an elf with the Elven accuracy feat and an Oathbow, they can simply give themselves advantage on any really potent enemy, making their attacks extremely likely to hit and ending with a total of 270 + 10d8 + 30d6 without accounting for critical hits.

The top 7 UA classes I would personally most want to come official are, in order by class, Armorer arfiticer, Path of the Wild soul barbarian, Circle of Wildfire druid, Rune Knight fighter, Way of the Astral Self monk, Aberrant Mind sorcerer, The Lurker in the Deep warlock.

Agree with number 1, wanted to make that broken warforged Archivist/Theurgy Wizard combo. He had a bandito ammo belt across his chest filled with scrolls >.

Please share some of the fixes/changes for your Phoenix Sorcerer, I’ve recently started playing with one with a glassblowing background and it’s such great fun!

I once saw a homebrew warlock invocation that let you use Mold Earth to summon a rock spike out of the ground that deals slashing, bludgeoning or piercing damage, would be pretty fitting for the Stone sorcerer

@svenabel2987

4 жыл бұрын

I used Phoenix sorcerer for an NPC/a family of npcs for the backstory of my and another PCs backstory and we just met one of them in our last session (the other PCs brother) and we freaked out because they really hate each other

Im actually playing a theurgy life wizard multi classed with shephard druid and its sooo much fun

One of my favorite unpublished sub classes is the oath of heroism paladin

I just want modern magic oficialized. it was the coolest content to me.

They got to add a Fey Sorcerer to parallel the shadow sorcerer

Top 10 of your favorite UA class features would be nice. Ps: yeah a fixing of not published UA would be nice.

really want to hear more about the phoenix sorcerer

A dragonborn Stone Sorcerer sounds SO cool

I can confirm that the stone sorcerer falls flat in reality even though the theme's cool. I played one in a campaign, I was an earth genasi stone sorcerer. Even with me mostly pulling 'stone spells' from the elemental evil supplement it still never felt like I knew what my character's identity was mechanically or thematically and in the end me and the DM ended up writing that character out. The problem I think is that a lot of the skills push you towards a 'gish' playstyle, but realistically, a blade pact sorcerer does that fantasy way better. I felt the AC buff and the weapon proficiency's were cool, but pulled away from that 'earth bender' feeling. I really want that fantasy of using the earth to keep enemies away by knocking them prone around more or creating difficult terrain making it impossible for them to close the distance, rather than having to tank attacks on the chin, but never found this classes kit was able to meet that fantasy. I'd also have liked the ability to summon weapons made out of stone, rather than getting shield proficiency, but again, that's really stepping on the warlock's toes.

I play a seeker warlock, it was my first D&D character. I like the concept and the character, but we almost never take down time or spend time in towns because our party is so oversized we haven't finished a dungeon in over a year and a half...and puzzles and mysteries are usually brute forced past. Any time there's some mysterious ancient knowledge to uncover we're always on a time limit of the room about to collapse, a ritual to revive a mummy lord about to be finished, or villagers about to be sacrificed. Never get to do anything with my pact other than use my star chain once a day usually to just roll two 8s on an investigation check and say "Well there goes that class feature for today.