Warforged: -You're a sucker for the "emotionless character learns to love" story arc -You have a killer monotone voice and can keep a laugh in to keep the bit going. -You may not have the best eating schedule.
I have a warforged who's nearly the exact opposite, came into the world way to optimistic and trying to say hello to literally anything that moves and be friends with everyone, now he's slowly learning that the world sucks and everything is evil and should be shot. He also has a fairly energetic voice and can't help but tell jokes in the worst situations, like calling the queen of hell short or referring to her as "Dommy Mommy". He also loves pancakes.
The best moment in a recent campaign of mine was when my Cleric was alone with the Warforged Fighter, and I was just like "Hey can I roll to see if he has a soul?"
I've been using the fairy homebrew from Kbeale in DnD beyond. Gives me like 5 subraces of fairies based on certain insects. One of the traits lets me shrink an item at the cost of of the damage die going down by 1 size. So instead of my Glaive doing a d10 i use a d8.
Easy way to get around Ethereal creatures bypassing your dungeon: Just say that the bricks and mortar making the dungeon have a decent amount of lead in in them. In ye old D&D lore, lead disrupted the phasing and shifting abilities of a lot of creatures, and while it's not mentioned very often nowadays, it's never been out and out omitted from the lore, so it's still technically valid.
As a forever dm I thank you! I get tired of telling them that they just realized that the dungeon walls were their for their protect and that they just stepped into hp lovecraft territory now roll me a con and a wisdom save oh and here is a psychic damage roll.
Dhampir: You're either a castlevania fan or are goth. No expects. Parental issues like crazy Jumps at the opportunity to use Charm Person and/or Vampiric Bite Reborn: Same as the undead homebrew but you wanted more angst.
Hexblood: - You really enjoyed watching Hocus Pocus as a child - You were disappointed that there was no Witch class or Hag race so you chose the next best thing.
Reborn playee: "so, if I choose this line , does it work like a free revivify?" DM: "yes, but you will owe a lot of favours to a monster." player: "dude, I get 1 free revivify. it's good enough."
As an update, fairy and undead (minor undead) have been officially made into player races. These descriptions are still accurate, but for undead players I would add "you still don't understand why healing spells work on you".
I swear to god, it feels so good when the DM says "So you climb that rock wall. Everyone please roll me atheletics .... but you, Tabaxi." and then seeing the other players fail their check while you are already at the top. They now make me wait at the bottom so I can help other players though ...
As a tebaxi wizard/cleric user who upon seeing the party surrounded by dinos and an incoming meteor right after we stepped through a one-way portal instantly cast a Rope Trick and raced right up there going 'Nope nope nope'... Yeah, that climb speed is VERY useful. XD Felt both smug and guilty for most of the remaining party, but fortunately our other tebaxi (a Battle Smith arty) had made their Steel Defender a shape fit for climbing so it was able to help most of them up -minus the poor druid who got knocked off the rope and KOed by dinos before the Arty rescued him herself- but yeah. Definitely felt the tebaxi pride there that session.
@@FaisLittleWhiteRaven That is a horrible choice for multiclass. You basically have to cheat (or be absurdly lucky) with your stat rolls to make it work. Your DM is basically letting you get away with things. This is not quite in the territory of annoying other party members, especially if your rolls are good enough that you aren't wandering around with 8 as a constitution but it is something that will have everyone going....ummm, are you sure. You are essentially making a build that won't be able to land anything that requires a saving throw...
@@nonenone4461 Um it doesn't really take that much luck? Our table does a 'roll three sets of 4d6 (with the lowest number cut) for each stat' format with everyone picking the full set they find most interesting (average of 4d6 is 12.24 btw). Add to that that this combo only really needs 13 WIS (one of the best stats to have decent score on anyway) to enable the multiclass and then do the usual 'focus on INT and CON' for the Wizard side of things to get a decent result (or conversely only 13 INT and focus in WIS and CON if Cleric's the primary offensive side) and bamn. Wizard with all the early healing and buffing options of the cleric, or a cleric with a lot of utility cantrips and Find Familiar (though nabbing the magic init feat for this variant is probably better unless you REALLY want something from the wizard subclass like Arcane Deflection or the Bladesinger's Extra Attack or something). Also. It's a bit rude of you to assume cheating or DM 'letting us get away with things' right off the bat as opposed to say, reasoning that I might've just made several different character designs I liked the idea of playing and only went with the one that needed high stats when I actually got good enough stat rolls to play it. =/ Likewise our table is mildly bonkers so you're kinda barking up the wrong tree there~ XD We have a player who outright refuses to play with a positive CON mod ever and has firmly announced her goal of one day rolling a 3 CON character she plans to make a wiz/sorc (this same player made a character that using RAW rules could potentially 700 damage in a turn and always has dozens of back up characters just in case so barring one very fragile blind druid girl -who knew only spells that required sight- her characters have always made up for their squishiness), a player who lives for wacky joke builds -stares at the Bard/Barbarian- and another who has a unique talent for making multiclass monstrosities -Artificer/Monk/Bloodhunter/Wizard should not be as effective as they make it dammit- so well. I appreciate your concern for the others at my table but might be best not to assume what a person's table is like without invitation. That said, if you are curious about what I stats I did roll/how my character plays: STR 11, DEX 15, CON 15, INT 17, WIS 16 and CHA 12 before racial bonuses, and since we're using the Tasha custom character rules I then placed the +1 racial in Dex to up it to 16, and the +2 racial in INT to make it 19. (Aka: Pretty damn good and a lot more solid across the board than I was originally hoping for). As for how my cat plays, she's pretty much entirely a support Wizard but with access to a few extra utility cantrips (Guidance, Thaumaturgy, Light), shield and armor profs, crazy darkvision/initiative advantage gifting because Twi cleric, WIS+CHA saving throws, and some low level cleric spells I can throw out to support the rest of my team/enhance RP whenever its needed (Cleric spells can be upcast using Wizard spell slots so she can actually heal decently well too even if that's not her primary job, Ceremony is stupid but fun, Guiding Bolt if I really need Radiant damage and am out of holy water, and having Bless along with Shield of Faith/later Haste as an option when you're all about 'support in between firing off kabooms' is VERY handy). So yeah. Maybe not the flashiest or most powerful gal around but well, she started lvl3, she's lvl 11 (1 in Twi Cleric, 10 in War Wiz) now and is consistently useful to the team, with the combination of healing spells + feline agility/climb speed + Rope Trick + Mithral Plate (uncommon) + a shield + Durable Magic + Bless or Shield of Faith or Haste + a pick of Arcane Deflection, Shield or Absorb Elements, making her surprisingly hard to take down kitty while still being able to do most things I need her to do at any given time so yeah. Fun~
6:50 for the Undead, I remember one of my favorite characters I’ve ever played was this paladin named Egrup, who was a sort of half undead (undead but looked human) because he died while in war but a wandering necromancer brought him back a few days later. But he wasn’t edgy at all, in fact he was super wholesome a lot, just a huge alcoholic (another add: give your characters flaws! It gives the DM and you something to spice your play up). Edit: now keep in mind: Egrup didn’t even know he was undead (10 intelligence go brrr) and just thought he was really injured and passed out a couple days. And while yes he did have some spots where there were still cuts at his sides and one large gash across his cheek and eye, he just claimed they were war scars and covered any other sign of undead with some skin tone makeup.
10 is average intelligence...aka most people you see in the world. He should know he was undead just fine by his wounds never healing, a lack of appetite (unless a ghoul/ghast), a lack of thirst, etc. Also...alcohol wouldn't effect him, immunity to poison from being undead remember? Psychological addiction though...totally! However that isn't the same as alcoholism.
Pixie: -You wanted to play Fairy, but the race wasn't vindictive or petty enough for you. -you like the racial bonuses and wanna get as close as you can to breaking the game without fully stepping into "OP" territory -you're *really* excited about Unearthed Arcana
@@cuptainreese It's not out yet but it includes fairies and the Harengon who are rabbit people, with another book coming latter that includes Owlin who are owl people.
@@cuptainreese These things are published online on the Unearthed Arcana website as possible future ideas. 90% of them are not good enough to become real content. Almost always, these things are banned because of game balance issues. Everything in Tasha's for example, was a past Unearthed Arcana idea. And almost all of it was changed so much because the originals don't work. I think that Feywild is unlikely. The next player book is going to be about mutations, curses etc. Players who get lycanthrope etc. Why? Because Grim Hollow Players Handbook was just released. THEIR version of these things is very good. The recent Unearthed Arcana version was HORRIBLE. If they don't work on this, Grim Hollow will quickly become the standard (as if it isn't already). Van Ricten's made a feeble attempt but I consider that failed. I wouldn't play it. But Grim Hollow....player becomes some shambling THING, with an arm growing out his chest that sucks blood. Yes please.
I’ve wanted to play this class since I heard of it. Then after a week of searching around, reached the page saying this is Homebrew. I still want to play it lol I hope I’ll eventually find a DM to let me play it :)
@@bunny_._8933 They are to elves what tieflings are to humans (i.e. elf + demon = fey'ri; human + any fiend = tiefling). I think they were playable as a +1 level adjustment monstrous race in 3.5e.
Warforged: You find it fascinating that you don't technically need to sleep. You're always stuck with guard duty either because of the party or you volunteered. You're also glad you no longer have to constantly track how much food you have and don't need to hold your breath
as a slime player, i feel like i gotta say this, it's actually really op (i'm talking about the plasmoid that was added btw) squeeze through cracks on the wall, morphing to divide yourself or make a hole in your body to dodge attacks, shift into locks to unlock it and something idk would work but here it goes: disguise yourself as a potion or something like that and make and enemy drink you, you can come out of him like in the alien vs predator movie or just stay inside him to hear conversations inside the enemy base makes an amazing rogue
not to mention the shape self mechanic pairs sooooooooooooooooo well with spells like disguise self or alter self simply because you can change your basic arrangement of limbs
@@captaincreamer4480 only difference is eating one of then pisses off the whole town, while the other terrifies them into submission... Keep your damn chickens in your yard, guys, so the players dont think youre giving them free lunch, and maybe you wont need to be up in arms every few hours when food walks into their path.
In a pathfinder campaign I dmed a decade ago My friend wanted to play a half-orc, and I was like, why not be a Full orc? so he was. At the time, I probably would've said the same thing about Aasimir about Angel
I was going to say for Fairy "You are infuriating to play with, both in- and out-of-universe," but my goodness, the description you gave fits absolutely 100% perfectly. I _do_ in fact try "to imagine what getting hit by a sword feels like as an 8-inch tall creature," as well as other things "as an 8-inch tall creature," either with or without wings. I am also more than happy to play the role of Exposition Fairy if given the chance.
Changeling Whispers bard is the most terrifying race/class combo in all of D&D. Take the actor feat and you can easily kidnap and murder someone, then just steal their life.
Gnolls: "You probably just thought they looked cool in Baldur's Gate 1, but hey hyena's are cool right? Also you probably aren't interested in character relationships.... unless you are, which makes this choice suddenly seem like a terrible one to anyone else..." probably don't look too much into how hyena's... 'reproduce.' .... Never any love for the Gnolls :(
My beast barb Goliath is being pursued by Yeenoghu, the 'subclass is basically against his will, and raging like that will bring him closer to Yeenoghu's control (or 'point at village and destroy). Party is trying to figure out but currently love his damage output too much to do something about it. And the character refuses to believe what he's up to while raging.... Fun! And slowly turning into a very large Gnoll or Flind.
"I want to play a werewolf." DM: "Class?" "Domain of Light Cleric." DM: "Huh, that sounds interesting, a holy character that's been cursed with Lycanthrope..." "I also want to multiclass with a level in Bard." DM: "... wait a minute."
other PC: "hey I like that idea! Make it two" DM: "Now hold a ti... do I hear.." *Army of the Night slowly rising* DM: "ooo.. It's going to be all clerics all ove" *Deafening Killers with the Cross* Party: "Where ready to take back the holy land" DM: "Sobs in heretic"
I like how we now got Fairies, Undead, and Slimes as playable races (Given Plasmoids aren't out yet from this point but still). Seems a lot of the popular homebrew races are going to get some love eventually if you try hard enough.
My brain at 3 am: JUST GO TO SLEEP ALREADY!!! Me: look! I drew a kobold with an armor that doesn't even fit him! (☆▽☆) (I really love drawing these tiny little brave lizards)
I played a changeling rogue bard. It wasn't the most optimized, but it was based on the idea of hiding in plane sight. They were such a fun character to play.
Fairy. Heard “tiny race” was a category, and took it as a challenge. Also don’t mind spending an hour negotiating character balance with your DM. Chose Pixie because Sprite would be too simple. Want that middle ground between cute and obnoxious that leaves the rest of the table unsure if they’re going to let you die in the next encounter. Thought wielding a dagger as a greatsword was funny, until you tried it. Picking a class is just deciding how handicapped you want to be.
Fairy: You wanted to live out your Tinker Bell fantasy, only to learn they are 2’8” tall and Small instead of 1’ and Tiny. Which means you get a Dog mount instead of a Cat. But hey, flying speed and Fey immunity to Humanoid spells comes in handy. OR you’re a Rune Knight Fighter who wants to grow to 44’ Gargantuan once a day for combat, being simultaneously the smallest and tallest character in your party, with a love of roleplaying “Who’s Puny now!?”
For a long time I'd had a concept in my head for a "Tiny Tank" character that would just soak up damage like no one's business despite being under four feet tall. When Unearthed Arcana presented an official Fairy Race option - my brain immediately saw the logical extreme of the idea and went for it. I now have a Fairy Barbarian character just waiting for an opportunity to be used in a campaign.
It could be the undead creature type they're afraid of. A lot of healing magic doesn't work on undead (or constructs). But they tried out multiple creature types for that one Unearthed Arcana that had dhampirs and such, and then when they released those races in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, they were just humanoid!
my favorite race is gith, and unlike the first installment, this time i actually feel called out lol. good job. also i love the funny little faces you gave all of them, especially the goblin and the lizardman they're adorable. love those derpy lizard faces.
5:22 Here's a related fun fact! The quickest you can move in dnd is around the speed of sound, and the quickest you can move for extended periods in dnd is half the speed of sound. First thing you'll need to do is be a level 18 monk and a level 2 fighter. Now you have a +30 movement speed and action surge. Then you need to be either a tabaxi or centaur. Play tabaxi to move at the speed of sound for 6 seconds, but play centaur to move at half the speed of sound for 6 seconds and a quarter of the speed of sound for 1 minute. The final things you need to do is have a wizard caste haste on you, and have boots of speed. If you went down the tabaxi route use feline agility, then action surge, and use all 3 of your actions to dash. Your speed has been doubled already by the boots of speed, and haste, and now it's been doubled 3 more times, giving you a speed equal to 60x2^5, or a little bit quicker than the speed of sound. For centaur, you follow the same procedure, minus the feline agility, and you still move super quick, but you don't have feline agility so you're half the speed. And since you're capable of continuing afterwards and have a higher speed bonus, you do become quicker than a tabaxi. And if you're interested, the top 3 quickest races with this setup is in this order, Tabaxi at number one, centaur at number 2, and aarcaokra at number 3. Aaracokra would be higher if they could actually use boots of speed but alas, they are only fast cuz of flight.
You can rework boots of speed into wing straps to function on flight speed (it is part of the whole dragons as mounts section of the books), and Aaracokra can fly at max speed for half a day sooo...they are the fastest. Also, any DM that allows such movement also tend to make it a sonic attack that hurts everyone...due to the sonic boom of breaking the sound barrier. I may have made my party's wizard deaf once...
I have actually came up with a couple of homebrew races and two of my players in an up coming campaign actually plan on using them so I am pretty excited to see how they are played
Kitsune: You found a completely broken homebrew and managed to just barely sell it as balanced to your DM... Your character then became iconic in your play group.
Maybe if Kobold is your favorite race what that really means is that you saw "Monsters can be heroes too!" and decided it was the most adorable thing ever. Now every Kobold you make is some variation on Coal the Kobold and her adorable innocence.
There are some interesting races that just came out in different sources. Wild Beyond the Witchlight brought in Fairy (covered in this video) and Harengon, Strixhaven introduced Owlin (a variation of aarakocra), and Unearthed Arcana is (re)introducing Spelljammer races: Giff (hippo folk), Auto-gnomes (gnome golems that have gained sentience), Astral Elves (as if standard elves don't live long enough), Hadoze (ape man crossed with flying squirrel), Plasmoid (basically as the Slime race was described), and Thri-kreen (giant intelligent preying mantises)
i'd love to see other bug races for other insects, like a race of giant rove beetles who can eat decomposing organic matter with no consequences and have a built in AOE chemical spray attack, a race of flightless moth people who use their wings shields and get bonuses for being near light sources, a race of blood-sucking mosquito people with thermal vision and a boost to dexterity, or a race of termite people who can eat wood, spit glue and are very good at digging.
Apeling Race: *In the center of trouble on purpose or not *HUGE Monkey King fan *Diet Sun Wokung *Absolutely no impulsive control, first thought only thought
Hehehe i did not know about this race. Now ive got the urge to make a Goku knock off... Or maybe Vegeta, since hes closer to my actual personality... Just to mess with my dm.
My favorite race is elves, especially Eladrin. The idea of your appearance and temperament changing depending on the season makes for great role-playing in my opinion
God you brought back memories of my undead character. Mr. Daperington the bard...yes I made him off a meme, I never seen a DM more terrified of a tuxedo wearing skeleton with a trumpet.
My favorites are half-orcs with non-traditional classes/backgrounds (my current guy is a warlock noble) and gnolls. My gnoll wizard was raised by a half-elf necromancer who used the young fellow as a convenient cleaning crew for his mistakes. And subsequently taught him magic and Elven :D
my DM: your party is attacked by a group or marmeids me playing as a kenku: Can I mimicry the mermaids to annoy them? he: yeah sure, roll a d20 me: rolls a nat20. got a mermaid harem
two halflings (or really any small race) in a trenchcoat: -you love messing with your dm making the character split apart and playing two at once -that or you really just find it funny to be two dudes in a trenchcoat in a game -you my good sir, are very cool and creative cow (yes a straight up cow, nothing special): -how did the dm let you do this i mean come on -you have a very patient dm (both are things my friend has played before) goose: -you are an agent of chaos with a very patient dm, more patient than the cow one
Scanlan was a gnome, not a halfling. However, in the current campaign, Liam's character Orym of the Air Ashari is a halfling. However, it is still possible to roll two nat-1s in succession. I've seen it happen, and not to Wil Wheaton.
I actually like Loxodon rogue because using their trunk to pickpocket is legitimately the funniest thing to me for no reason. Like, imagine this big, passive elephant man who gives you a warm hug. You wouldn't suspect that nice boi of being the town pickpocket, would you? Also, it really plays into the "hiding in plain sight" gimmick I sometimes go for, although changeling is by far my favorite race. Something about shapeshifting, hiding in plain sight, and being able to get away with almost anything with minimal consequences makes me way happier than it needs to
Dhampir Lineage: You died a little inside whenever the benefits of a climbing speed, flying speed, or increased walking speed were mentioned in this video.
Dhampir can have a flight speed if his original race also has it, for example if I am an aaracokra dhampir you still can fly, and If you don't have a flying or swimming speed you gain proficiency in two skills, in fact all lineages have it.
I usually try to have water breathing and an innate swim speed available for any wizard I ever make. This may have something to do with my love for utility spells. That and I always want to minimize the risk of silly death anytime flowing water gets involved.
I’m a little surprised you didn’t discuss any of the new lineages (custom lineage, dhampir, reborn, etc). Some good fun and wicked builds to be had with those.
To be fair Custom could look like Anything (essentially being a modified version of Variant Human), and the Dhampir, Reborn, and Hexblood are like a month old (aside from the UA versions) and again could look like Anything. Of course, I can't wait to do up Sir Daniel Fortesque, as it were. Don't forget Custom Origins, which let you move the stat boosts around, and change up prior weapon/armor/tool proficiencies, as well as skills.
@Joseph Douek It's like Variant Human, without having to be a Human. Tuvok the Barbarian has used it in a few of his videos - Davey Jones (PotC) and Detective Pikachu come to my mind.
Skeleton Race: Inside the DMG on modifying NPCs, there is a template for making yourself a bony boy. Take the Human race, remove the Human's ability score increases, and then place the template on top. You now have a playable Skeleton race. (You can even do this for other races, but you should work with your DM as to what's logical in keeping on your new character or not, such as the Dragonborn's breath weapon. You could even have the breath damaged changed to Necrotic while keeping the attack's other properties.) It's very interesting playing a character who is mute that has to pantomime their intentions, can survive environments that most races can't, and is extremely terrified of 10ft+ falls. (In the recent Guide that was released, you could take the Dark Gift that grants Message that's component free which could allow you to speak in utterances.)
@@ballisticm0use72 Uh, I have D&D Beyond, so O don't have a page number. But in the DMG, under the Dungeon Master's Workshop, Chapter 9. There is a 'Creating a Monster' and 'Creating a Spell' sections within that chapter. Between those two sections is an area that allows you to create Monstrous NPCs and Monsters with Class Levels. There is a table that shows several monster stat templates that you can apply to CR 1 or less NPCs.
@@sethb3090 You don't get it. It's a fighter with a level in cleric with a +3 handcrossbow. Or a devotion paladin with a +3 greatsword. One of these uses crossbow expert to rule all. The other uses great weapon fighting. Or you can be a true chad and go polearm expert with sentinel. I once made a DM weep with that....ON MY WARLOCK. People underestimate darkness + devil sight.
I have a friend in our DnD group who either plays a Paladin, Warforge, or both, so my mental stereotype of Warforge is: "You are the immortal titan of the God-Emperor" Cogs and bolts, and Ancient Lore Fashioned fearsome engines of war Those it defends, in fear, shall adore as its Halberd leave nothing but gore....
FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR HUMANITY! The strength of the Emperor is Humanity, and the strength of Humanity is the Emperor. If one turns from the other we shall all become the Lost and the Damned.
I play just about anything small because I get to do dumb voices and do dumb shit like make a lightsaber entirely out of tin cans, that was actually something my last character did, he was a kobold and the dm ended up making it cannon in that campaign that all kobolds have an unhealthy obsession with tin cans
@@jrrollins84 After looking it up, I've found my problem: I was thinking of the interspecies monster girl anime, not the "I Can't Believe It's Not" hentai lmfao
I just like having a flight as a tiefling warlock being the eldritch air support and the invocation that pulls people to you with your EB does not say it cannot go up the Y axis and weaponizing gravity
The gnome one was too accurate My friend who has a gnome character won’t stop using fireball (even when we’re in wood buildings) and constantly gets called short
I really appreciate the "spider entry on the next slide". Thank you for being considerate to those of us with irrational fears that we can't explain but still somehow stick with us throughout our entire lives.
If I had friends to play DnD, I would totally play a Locotha Artifice that pilots a mech, allowing it to move on land. I want it to be like a pet to the party, but have it be an evil genius that is plotting world domination. I love the idea of a dumb looking fish, be an evil genius. Not sure how I would follow through with the world domination, and genocide of most races, but if I could I think it would be fun.
I played a Locotha paladin for a one shot named fishsticks. The party just lugged him around in a cart filled with water the whole time. He ended up getting eaten by goblins. Good times.
the oni picture with a nezuko head made me think of making it an actual character and now I want to make a demon slayer campaign where we fight mulan Jackson or mulan kibutsuji if you're boring.
Lizardfolk: -You enjoy learning about other cultures both in and out of fiction. -You dislike stereotypes against people based on their appearance. -You probably enjoy camping.
I'm playing Lizardfolk for the first time & the biggest challenge I have so far is being a person with more primal emotions, & not defaulting to acting like an animal. Also their speech. I come off, to the party, as very distant & unsympathetic but still very cooperative if the situation is explained to me.
Appreciate the disclaimer for the incoming spider race. I don’t have arachnophobia myself, but I‘m always happy to see creators considering what might pose an issue to their audience.
As a Locathah player, I'm just here to say that thanks to the Armorer subclass for Artificer, you should theoretically be able to permanently be in a suit of water SO HA! WE'VE DONE IT!!
One of my favorite campaigns was modern high school themed; in which i played an unaware lycanthrope and another party member played a monster tracker (undercover as my teacher) who came to hunt her (neither of us knew until later in the campaign)
I once played a Yuan-Ti (abomination) Rouge in a very hombrew heavy campaign. For some reason, our DM made the horrible decision of deciding that draconic was this worlds equivalent of Italian, and all of the lizardfolk/dragonborn/yuan-ti etc had Italian sounding names. Thus spawned Giovanni Slithers, who spoke in a bad southern accent and pretended to be a bounty hunter from a spaghetti western the entire campaign. It was a good time.
I greatly appreciate the arachnophobia warning. Thank you. Also, now I want to play an orc reskinned into an oni. Because I love orc's "GET BACK HERE I WASN'T DONE HITTING YOU" a little too much now.
Not so close with my Kenku, thank you. Having a Kenku who is capable of incredible ventriloquism while magnifying his voice to epic proportions is satisfying. Not for the mere trickery of being able to do so, but for the look on a DM's face when used in interesting ways. A skill challenge being chased by innumerable baddies through a mine? Kenku grins cockily and uses intimidation at advantage as he thaumaturgies up the sound of a behir. Have to say that pairing of Kenku and cantrip never gets old 😁😁😁
I had a kenku bard who went the opposite extreme. Full support to where their only viable means of self-defense was repeating rude things he heard at the local tavern for vicious mockery.
My Kenku was raised by elves in a monastery, and over the course of his life, picked up not just words, but entire speech patterns. He is more or less able to speak normally, which he considers a gift from Corellon.
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Warforged:
-You're a sucker for the "emotionless character learns to love" story arc
-You have a killer monotone voice and can keep a laugh in to keep the bit going.
-You may not have the best eating schedule.
-you are who you choose to be. (Superman!)
Listens to lots of Metal
I have a warforged who's nearly the exact opposite, came into the world way to optimistic and trying to say hello to literally anything that moves and be friends with everyone, now he's slowly learning that the world sucks and everything is evil and should be shot. He also has a fairly energetic voice and can't help but tell jokes in the worst situations, like calling the queen of hell short or referring to her as "Dommy Mommy". He also loves pancakes.
You know me too well!
The best moment in a recent campaign of mine was when my Cleric was alone with the Warforged Fighter, and I was just like "Hey can I roll to see if he has a soul?"
"Why is it that all the scariest dnd races are always the hottest"
The Tarrasque:
bouta play as a tarrasque bard
Wdym the Tarrasaque is too atractive
You've never seen Tarrasque pin up art have you...
@@lbobby6116 hell yes
The lich
That last one was SO accurate, my sister is new to dnd, and as soon as I said “you can be any fantasy related race”. She instantly said “Angels?!”
What's Ur sister's name, so I can say "Yes" to her?
@@joshuadelministro4954 Gabriela, lol
I have a changeling bard who is basically just a philosophy grad.
"How can anyone know who they truly are?"
OMG, I play changeling bard philosopher as well currently. The amount of possibilites is just endless
my changeling bard is stereotypically chaotic neutral
Have you gave someone depression
@@rocket20067 I killed a boss by giving them depression with existentionalism speech
@@Hoologramek wow I might need to try this
Me with my fairy barbarian,
"Hm that's a big axe", other races "that's a small axe"
What source book do fairies come in???
@@cuptainreese Unearthed Arcana 77 - Folk of the Feywild.
Along with rabbitfolk, owlfolk,
And a hobgoblin variant.
Yeah had a Fairy Echo Knight with a dagger for a longsword xD
@@inasapostle13thapostleofthe12 now that is clever, congrats on your creativity.
I've been using the fairy homebrew from Kbeale in DnD beyond. Gives me like 5 subraces of fairies based on certain insects. One of the traits lets me shrink an item at the cost of of the damage die going down by 1 size. So instead of my Glaive doing a d10 i use a d8.
Easy way to get around Ethereal creatures bypassing your dungeon: Just say that the bricks and mortar making the dungeon have a decent amount of lead in in them. In ye old D&D lore, lead disrupted the phasing and shifting abilities of a lot of creatures, and while it's not mentioned very often nowadays, it's never been out and out omitted from the lore, so it's still technically valid.
As a forever dm I thank you! I get tired of telling them that they just realized that the dungeon walls were their for their protect and that they just stepped into hp lovecraft territory now roll me a con and a wisdom save oh and here is a psychic damage roll.
Ye Olde asbestos
Makes sense any powerful mage/tyrant/whoever-the-fuck-builds-dungeons worth their salt would make sure its not trivial to get through
have running water go along the edges of all the dungeon walls.
lead and salt in some very strong metal no creature is going to get through that wall
This whole “What D&D ___’s say about you” is becoming what FNAF means to Game Theory, but for Blaine Simple.
I mean… it’s a serie, so FREE CONTENT!!
@@sergeantgarlic6820 true
Except Blaine's content is actually good ;)
@@mattevans4377 don't diss on MatPat
@@musicalsystem927 I didn't realise he was your chosen God, lol.
Dhampir:
You're either a castlevania fan or are goth. No expects.
Parental issues like crazy
Jumps at the opportunity to use Charm Person and/or Vampiric Bite
Reborn: Same as the undead homebrew but you wanted more angst.
Counterpoint on Reborn:
I just want to have basically the protagonist from Dark Souls.
Hexblood:
- You really enjoyed watching Hocus Pocus as a child
- You were disappointed that there was no Witch class or Hag race so you chose the next best thing.
Nah I wanted Reborn so I can actually be healed!
Reborn
playee: "so, if I choose this line , does it work like a free revivify?"
DM: "yes, but you will owe a lot of favours to a monster."
player: "dude, I get 1 free revivify. it's good enough."
boffum 😌
As an update, fairy and undead (minor undead) have been officially made into player races. These descriptions are still accurate, but for undead players I would add "you still don't understand why healing spells work on you".
That's why I'm in the comments at all
That last one is the same for warforged.
“That Sums up all Current DnD Races”
Me: Laughs in Van Rickten
Strixhaven and Feywild books are also likely to have new races from what we saw in recent UAs, so Blaine is clearly not keeping up with recent books.
"Van Richten"
There is no "K" sound in there
-sincerely germans, scots, scandinavinas and dutchs
Me: *laughs in 3.5*
Hexblood: You like to spy on your friends, and maniacally giggle. Also, Hex. On your friends.
I swear to god, it feels so good when the DM says "So you climb that rock wall. Everyone please roll me atheletics .... but you, Tabaxi." and then seeing the other players fail their check while you are already at the top. They now make me wait at the bottom so I can help other players though ...
As a tebaxi wizard/cleric user who upon seeing the party surrounded by dinos and an incoming meteor right after we stepped through a one-way portal instantly cast a Rope Trick and raced right up there going 'Nope nope nope'... Yeah, that climb speed is VERY useful. XD
Felt both smug and guilty for most of the remaining party, but fortunately our other tebaxi (a Battle Smith arty) had made their Steel Defender a shape fit for climbing so it was able to help most of them up -minus the poor druid who got knocked off the rope and KOed by dinos before the Arty rescued him herself- but yeah. Definitely felt the tebaxi pride there that session.
@@FaisLittleWhiteRaven That is a horrible choice for multiclass. You basically have to cheat (or be absurdly lucky) with your stat rolls to make it work. Your DM is basically letting you get away with things.
This is not quite in the territory of annoying other party members, especially if your rolls are good enough that you aren't wandering around with 8 as a constitution but it is something that will have everyone going....ummm, are you sure.
You are essentially making a build that won't be able to land anything that requires a saving throw...
@@nonenone4461 Um it doesn't really take that much luck?
Our table does a 'roll three sets of 4d6 (with the lowest number cut) for each stat' format with everyone picking the full set they find most interesting (average of 4d6 is 12.24 btw). Add to that that this combo only really needs 13 WIS (one of the best stats to have decent score on anyway) to enable the multiclass and then do the usual 'focus on INT and CON' for the Wizard side of things to get a decent result (or conversely only 13 INT and focus in WIS and CON if Cleric's the primary offensive side) and bamn. Wizard with all the early healing and buffing options of the cleric, or a cleric with a lot of utility cantrips and Find Familiar (though nabbing the magic init feat for this variant is probably better unless you REALLY want something from the wizard subclass like Arcane Deflection or the Bladesinger's Extra Attack or something).
Also. It's a bit rude of you to assume cheating or DM 'letting us get away with things' right off the bat as opposed to say, reasoning that I might've just made several different character designs I liked the idea of playing and only went with the one that needed high stats when I actually got good enough stat rolls to play it. =/
Likewise our table is mildly bonkers so you're kinda barking up the wrong tree there~ XD We have a player who outright refuses to play with a positive CON mod ever and has firmly announced her goal of one day rolling a 3 CON character she plans to make a wiz/sorc (this same player made a character that using RAW rules could potentially 700 damage in a turn and always has dozens of back up characters just in case so barring one very fragile blind druid girl -who knew only spells that required sight- her characters have always made up for their squishiness), a player who lives for wacky joke builds -stares at the Bard/Barbarian- and another who has a unique talent for making multiclass monstrosities -Artificer/Monk/Bloodhunter/Wizard should not be as effective as they make it dammit- so well. I appreciate your concern for the others at my table but might be best not to assume what a person's table is like without invitation.
That said, if you are curious about what I stats I did roll/how my character plays: STR 11, DEX 15, CON 15, INT 17, WIS 16 and CHA 12 before racial bonuses, and since we're using the Tasha custom character rules I then placed the +1 racial in Dex to up it to 16, and the +2 racial in INT to make it 19. (Aka: Pretty damn good and a lot more solid across the board than I was originally hoping for).
As for how my cat plays, she's pretty much entirely a support Wizard but with access to a few extra utility cantrips (Guidance, Thaumaturgy, Light), shield and armor profs, crazy darkvision/initiative advantage gifting because Twi cleric, WIS+CHA saving throws, and some low level cleric spells I can throw out to support the rest of my team/enhance RP whenever its needed (Cleric spells can be upcast using Wizard spell slots so she can actually heal decently well too even if that's not her primary job, Ceremony is stupid but fun, Guiding Bolt if I really need Radiant damage and am out of holy water, and having Bless along with Shield of Faith/later Haste as an option when you're all about 'support in between firing off kabooms' is VERY handy).
So yeah. Maybe not the flashiest or most powerful gal around but well, she started lvl3, she's lvl 11 (1 in Twi Cleric, 10 in War Wiz) now and is consistently useful to the team, with the combination of healing spells + feline agility/climb speed + Rope Trick + Mithral Plate (uncommon) + a shield + Durable Magic + Bless or Shield of Faith or Haste + a pick of Arcane Deflection, Shield or Absorb Elements, making her surprisingly hard to take down kitty while still being able to do most things I need her to do at any given time so yeah. Fun~
For my first dnd session I will use the race of tabaxi and the class of Druid
so I can make jokes about being a medicine cat from warrior cats
@@FaisLittleWhiteRaven Wait multiclassing allows multiarchetype/subclass as well? I will remember this
6:50 for the Undead, I remember one of my favorite characters I’ve ever played was this paladin named Egrup, who was a sort of half undead (undead but looked human) because he died while in war but a wandering necromancer brought him back a few days later. But he wasn’t edgy at all, in fact he was super wholesome a lot, just a huge alcoholic (another add: give your characters flaws! It gives the DM and you something to spice your play up).
Edit: now keep in mind: Egrup didn’t even know he was undead (10 intelligence go brrr) and just thought he was really injured and passed out a couple days. And while yes he did have some spots where there were still cuts at his sides and one large gash across his cheek and eye, he just claimed they were war scars and covered any other sign of undead with some skin tone makeup.
10 is average intelligence...aka most people you see in the world. He should know he was undead just fine by his wounds never healing, a lack of appetite (unless a ghoul/ghast), a lack of thirst, etc. Also...alcohol wouldn't effect him, immunity to poison from being undead remember?
Psychological addiction though...totally! However that isn't the same as alcoholism.
Still alcoholism
@@Nempo13 alcoholism is when you have a subconscious urge to drink alcohol often
Also Yuan-Ti Pureblood:
*I AM RESISTANT TO EVERYTHING!
**I. AM. GOD!!!*
Sounds about right
when that yaun-ti pureblood is also a Brandon sanderson fan:
I am almighty!
I AM ADONALSIUM REBORN!
Also you're still hoping that the DM forgets about the fact that you can cast calm animal on snakes and makes an encounter around snakes.
Pixie:
-You wanted to play Fairy, but the race wasn't vindictive or petty enough for you.
-you like the racial bonuses and wanna get as close as you can to breaking the game without fully stepping into "OP" territory
-you're *really* excited about Unearthed Arcana
For real the feywild races got me hyped that they're soon releasing a feywild adventure
@@liminalsoup where do you get these feywild races? Is there a book I missed???
@@cuptainreese It's not out yet but it includes fairies and the Harengon who are rabbit people, with another book coming latter that includes Owlin who are owl people.
@@GoldenAlphaOmni
half demon
*I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING*
you like devil may cry
@@cuptainreese These things are published online on the Unearthed Arcana website as possible future ideas. 90% of them are not good enough to become real content. Almost always, these things are banned because of game balance issues.
Everything in Tasha's for example, was a past Unearthed Arcana idea. And almost all of it was changed so much because the originals don't work.
I think that Feywild is unlikely. The next player book is going to be about mutations, curses etc. Players who get lycanthrope etc.
Why? Because Grim Hollow Players Handbook was just released. THEIR version of these things is very good. The recent Unearthed Arcana version was HORRIBLE.
If they don't work on this, Grim Hollow will quickly become the standard (as if it isn't already). Van Ricten's made a feeble attempt but I consider that failed. I wouldn't play it.
But Grim Hollow....player becomes some shambling THING, with an arm growing out his chest that sucks blood. Yes please.
I play a shifter, and I find it genuinely hilarious that people always portray us as the party’s dog
Hey, they'll never suspect the dog is an actual threat
@@Furydragonstormer Until they realize it can talk and is a f*ckin WEREWOLF
Fey'ri:
You wanted to play a Tiefling, but weren't quite ready to give up the elven trance feature.
And you annoyed your DM until they allowed you to take elven accuracy.
I’ve wanted to play this class since I heard of it. Then after a week of searching around, reached the page saying this is Homebrew. I still want to play it lol I hope I’ll eventually find a DM to let me play it :)
So it’s kinda like a elf and trifling love child??? Pls explain I’m really confused sorry-
@@bunny_._8933 They are to elves what tieflings are to humans (i.e. elf + demon = fey'ri; human + any fiend = tiefling). I think they were playable as a +1 level adjustment monstrous race in 3.5e.
@@TheHunter_2525 ahh thank you!!
Warforged: You find it fascinating that you don't technically need to sleep. You're always stuck with guard duty either because of the party or you volunteered. You're also glad you no longer have to constantly track how much food you have and don't need to hold your breath
Artificer armorer make your body the armor
as a slime player, i feel like i gotta say this, it's actually really op (i'm talking about the plasmoid that was added btw)
squeeze through cracks on the wall, morphing to divide yourself or make a hole in your body to dodge attacks, shift into locks to unlock it
and something idk would work but here it goes: disguise yourself as a potion or something like that and make and enemy drink you, you can come out of him like in the alien vs predator movie or just stay inside him to hear conversations inside the enemy base
makes an amazing rogue
not to mention the shape self mechanic pairs sooooooooooooooooo well with spells like disguise self or alter self simply because you can change your basic arrangement of limbs
i read the “tastes like chicken” on lizardfolk but misread it as “tastes like children”.
What’s the difference exactly
@@captaincreamer4480 only difference is eating one of then pisses off the whole town, while the other terrifies them into submission... Keep your damn chickens in your yard, guys, so the players dont think youre giving them free lunch, and maybe you wont need to be up in arms every few hours when food walks into their path.
honestly its close enough dont worry
They’re the same tho
Eh, no difference
I found that last one particularly funny. Angel: for the player that doesn't know Aasimar exist.
In a pathfinder campaign I dmed a decade ago My friend wanted to play a half-orc, and I was like, why not be a Full orc? so he was. At the time, I probably would've said the same thing about Aasimir about Angel
I thought the exact same thing lol
Honestly I’m kinda irritated by this. Aasimar are just a cheap version of angels. Why not just… play a real angel?
@@owenrobinson5031 cause unless you're one of those Biblical angels with 1000 eyes and a wheel for a body you're kinda cringe ngl
@@lazardragicevic5096 gotta say, “kinda cringe ngl” is quite possibly the least convincing answer I’ve ever heard
I was going to say for Fairy "You are infuriating to play with, both in- and out-of-universe," but my goodness, the description you gave fits absolutely 100% perfectly. I _do_ in fact try "to imagine what getting hit by a sword feels like as an 8-inch tall creature," as well as other things "as an 8-inch tall creature," either with or without wings. I am also more than happy to play the role of Exposition Fairy if given the chance.
Changeling Whispers bard is the most terrifying race/class combo in all of D&D. Take the actor feat and you can easily kidnap and murder someone, then just steal their life.
Pick up detect thoughts and it's basically fool-proof
@@roxythelipstickpixie72 and metamagic adept subtle spell
Changeling Eloquence bard 10/10
Reminds me of the MTG card Dark Imposter "Ah, this is a nice life. I can see why you were so desperate to keep it."
“Taxabi...”
Shows Chipflake
Was surprised to see a reference to them
Oni: Shows Nezkuo
Yea, the Chipflake reference was second only to the rimuru reference.
Was wondering if I'd find any other comments noticing that. Lol.
Gnolls: "You probably just thought they looked cool in Baldur's Gate 1, but hey hyena's are cool right? Also you probably aren't interested in character relationships.... unless you are, which makes this choice suddenly seem like a terrible one to anyone else..." probably don't look too much into how hyena's... 'reproduce.'
.... Never any love for the Gnolls :(
Don;t gnolls repro w/ magic?
My beast barb Goliath is being pursued by Yeenoghu, the 'subclass is basically against his will, and raging like that will bring him closer to Yeenoghu's control (or 'point at village and destroy). Party is trying to figure out but currently love his damage output too much to do something about it. And the character refuses to believe what he's up to while raging.... Fun! And slowly turning into a very large Gnoll or Flind.
"I want to play a werewolf."
DM: "Class?"
"Domain of Light Cleric."
DM: "Huh, that sounds interesting, a holy character that's been cursed with Lycanthrope..."
"I also want to multiclass with a level in Bard."
DM: "... wait a minute."
I think I didn't get the reference, what character is this?
@@Gabe600 It's a reference to the metal band, Powerwolf, who are werewolf catholic priests.
@@cytorakdemon god dammit i like Powerwolf but i thought you were talking about some fictional character I didn't know.
INCENSE AND IRON!
other PC: "hey I like that idea! Make it two"
DM: "Now hold a ti... do I hear.."
*Army of the Night slowly rising*
DM: "ooo.. It's going to be all clerics all ove"
*Deafening Killers with the Cross*
Party: "Where ready to take back the holy land"
DM: "Sobs in heretic"
There is one rule, no playing as a Slaad.
*"Grung"*
There are two rules...
I like how we now got Fairies, Undead, and Slimes as playable races (Given Plasmoids aren't out yet from this point but still). Seems a lot of the popular homebrew races are going to get some love eventually if you try hard enough.
Dwarf: You wish your irl beard was longer and you were able to braid them like a proper dwarf
We can't all be 4' tall with a 3' beard...
Sigh....we all have that one friend. Especially if he is black. It was funny in our teens but now, in our 50's,
Of course
As a kobold lover who also likes to draw characters, I feel like this completely matches my personality.
For real. I have so much fucking art of my kobold it's scary.
Yep. It's exactly the kobold player in the campaign I'm currently running. 😅
My brain at 3 am: JUST GO TO SLEEP ALREADY!!!
Me: look! I drew a kobold with an armor that doesn't even fit him!
(☆▽☆)
(I really love drawing these tiny little brave lizards)
I wish I could draw my koboldy boi. He's so cute and a proud papa of 6 eggs!
See I agreed with everything for the Kobold except the color part lol
Kitsune: At least one of your characters is your fursona.
yep. That is me.
either you have a fursona, or somehow, half of your ocs turn out to be Kitsunes. speaking from experience.
I feel this way too hard
Or you just like Ran from Touhou.
well, they range from Fursona to Persona....and do WolfKin count?
When a player picks a ghost, the DM is going to turn the whole campain into a exorcist reunion.
I played a changeling rogue bard. It wasn't the most optimized, but it was based on the idea of hiding in plane sight. They were such a fun character to play.
Fairy. Heard “tiny race” was a category, and took it as a challenge. Also don’t mind spending an hour negotiating character balance with your DM. Chose Pixie because Sprite would be too simple. Want that middle ground between cute and obnoxious that leaves the rest of the table unsure if they’re going to let you die in the next encounter. Thought wielding a dagger as a greatsword was funny, until you tried it. Picking a class is just deciding how handicapped you want to be.
Wonder why there are no Fairies or Pixies taking advantage of the Obvious speed boost their wings give them?
Fairy:
You wanted to live out your Tinker Bell fantasy, only to learn they are 2’8” tall and Small instead of 1’ and Tiny.
Which means you get a Dog mount instead of a Cat.
But hey, flying speed and Fey immunity to Humanoid spells comes in handy.
OR you’re a Rune Knight Fighter who wants to grow to 44’ Gargantuan once a day for combat, being simultaneously the smallest and tallest character in your party, with a love of roleplaying “Who’s Puny now!?”
For a long time I'd had a concept in my head for a "Tiny Tank" character that would just soak up damage like no one's business despite being under four feet tall.
When Unearthed Arcana presented an official Fairy Race option - my brain immediately saw the logical extreme of the idea and went for it. I now have a Fairy Barbarian character just waiting for an opportunity to be used in a campaign.
Pixie Ranger. using push-pins as arrows.
Emichiru says hi
I'm actually surprised the undead is not an official race it seems most fantasy settings have them playable like Warhammer.
It could be the undead creature type they're afraid of. A lot of healing magic doesn't work on undead (or constructs).
But they tried out multiple creature types for that one Unearthed Arcana that had dhampirs and such, and then when they released those races in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, they were just humanoid!
There are some undead things you can do now with the van richten book
Likely due to control undead
It is though, Reborn and Dhampir
@@screwtapee Their creature types are just humanoid in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. Unlike 2021 Gothic Lineages, where they originated.
my favorite race is gith, and unlike the first installment, this time i actually feel called out lol. good job.
also i love the funny little faces you gave all of them, especially the goblin and the lizardman they're adorable. love those derpy lizard faces.
This, is what we needed
Also kobold is way too accurate how did you find me
i was thinking the same thing
Ditto!
Im the same here!
I have never felt more called out than in this moment
Hail Kobold brethren
Pro tip: be a Yuan-Ti Pureblood and take the Chef feat. Now you're cooking with poison.
well played
Now, all you need is a friend who plays Grung (and a DM who will let you/them)
Now you have a constant supply of poison to cook with.
@@mavenheavrin7357 Genius, Maven. Simply genius.
It's facking RAW
Me, a shy and straight person who loves tiefling: Now hold on a minute
I chose bard tiefling as my first ever character in DnD without even knowing anything about it, I feel so called out-
Tieflings are pretty gay, and that's okay
Love how it all panned out to ur name and pfp lmao
My favorite DND character is a tiefling fighter who turned out to be my gender envy character without even knowing lmao.
Mmmm my rogue tiefling who totally also feels called out.
heyo tiefling bard gang lol
5:22 Here's a related fun fact! The quickest you can move in dnd is around the speed of sound, and the quickest you can move for extended periods in dnd is half the speed of sound. First thing you'll need to do is be a level 18 monk and a level 2 fighter. Now you have a +30 movement speed and action surge. Then you need to be either a tabaxi or centaur. Play tabaxi to move at the speed of sound for 6 seconds, but play centaur to move at half the speed of sound for 6 seconds and a quarter of the speed of sound for 1 minute. The final things you need to do is have a wizard caste haste on you, and have boots of speed. If you went down the tabaxi route use feline agility, then action surge, and use all 3 of your actions to dash. Your speed has been doubled already by the boots of speed, and haste, and now it's been doubled 3 more times, giving you a speed equal to 60x2^5, or a little bit quicker than the speed of sound. For centaur, you follow the same procedure, minus the feline agility, and you still move super quick, but you don't have feline agility so you're half the speed. And since you're capable of continuing afterwards and have a higher speed bonus, you do become quicker than a tabaxi. And if you're interested, the top 3 quickest races with this setup is in this order, Tabaxi at number one, centaur at number 2, and aarcaokra at number 3. Aaracokra would be higher if they could actually use boots of speed but alas, they are only fast cuz of flight.
I just imagine doing this setup, then using it to imitate bullets with your punches or catching bullets as a party trick.
Imagine doing all this setup and then using that insane speed to punch a god into the shadow realm
Now imagine doing all of this and getting fucked by some guy with sentinel.
Isn't that 320 fps, and target is 343 meters ps?
So it seems that's still only about 0.28 of the speed of sound.
You can rework boots of speed into wing straps to function on flight speed (it is part of the whole dragons as mounts section of the books), and Aaracokra can fly at max speed for half a day sooo...they are the fastest.
Also, any DM that allows such movement also tend to make it a sonic attack that hurts everyone...due to the sonic boom of breaking the sound barrier. I may have made my party's wizard deaf once...
I have actually came up with a couple of homebrew races and two of my players in an up coming campaign actually plan on using them so I am pretty excited to see how they are played
Kitsune: You found a completely broken homebrew and managed to just barely sell it as balanced to your DM... Your character then became iconic in your play group.
why not just play pathfinder that has kitsune already and lets it become huge flaming fox yeeting three fire cantrips a turn?
I was on the DM side of this and. Yes. Very yes.
which one?
I made a kitsune once by taking a tiefling, giving it flavor text, swapping Hellish Rebuke with Thaumaturgy and minor illusion, and called it a day.
I’m actually playing a kitsune, but our dm has ruled that obake are reskinned changelings.
Maybe if Kobold is your favorite race what that really means is that you saw "Monsters can be heroes too!" and decided it was the most adorable thing ever. Now every Kobold you make is some variation on Coal the Kobold and her adorable innocence.
i was discovered!
Why you gotta call me out like that?
Mine is a combination of that and that one little baby man kobold
STOP CALLING ME OUT! IT’S ALREADY HAPPENED FIVE TIMES!
I wanted to recreate the Dragonwrought from 3.5e, but to say I didn't like that comic would be false.
There are some interesting races that just came out in different sources. Wild Beyond the Witchlight brought in Fairy (covered in this video) and Harengon, Strixhaven introduced Owlin (a variation of aarakocra), and Unearthed Arcana is (re)introducing Spelljammer races: Giff (hippo folk), Auto-gnomes (gnome golems that have gained sentience), Astral Elves (as if standard elves don't live long enough), Hadoze (ape man crossed with flying squirrel), Plasmoid (basically as the Slime race was described), and Thri-kreen (giant intelligent preying mantises)
i'd love to see other bug races for other insects, like a race of giant rove beetles who can eat decomposing organic matter with no consequences and have a built in AOE chemical spray attack, a race of flightless moth people who use their wings shields and get bonuses for being near light sources, a race of blood-sucking mosquito people with thermal vision and a boost to dexterity, or a race of termite people who can eat wood, spit glue and are very good at digging.
Apeling Race:
*In the center of trouble on purpose or not
*HUGE Monkey King fan
*Diet Sun Wokung
*Absolutely no impulsive control, first thought only thought
I feel like "return to monke" also fits. Also, Sips is a bit of a role model
Yes, another Dingo Doodles fan!!!!!!!
Hehehe i did not know about this race. Now ive got the urge to make a Goku knock off... Or maybe Vegeta, since hes closer to my actual personality... Just to mess with my dm.
Arachnes: “other races can climb on wall while you can cling on the ceiling”
Then the dhampir comes along and gets the same ability
My favorite race is elves, especially Eladrin. The idea of your appearance and temperament changing depending on the season makes for great role-playing in my opinion
Also changeling: "You couldn't find any viable artwork for your character"
So you decided to draw a manaquin with a traced helmet
Feck you man I tried so hard :'))))
Or the other way around: "You found to much art for your character"
God you brought back memories of my undead character.
Mr. Daperington the bard...yes I made him off a meme, I never seen a DM more terrified of a tuxedo wearing skeleton with a trumpet.
*kicks down the bbeg's door*
"WE FOUND THE GUY, RATTLE 'EM BOYS"
*intense trumpeting*
My favorites are half-orcs with non-traditional classes/backgrounds (my current guy is a warlock noble) and gnolls. My gnoll wizard was raised by a half-elf necromancer who used the young fellow as a convenient cleaning crew for his mistakes. And subsequently taught him magic and Elven :D
my DM: your party is attacked by a group or marmeids
me playing as a kenku: Can I mimicry the mermaids to annoy them?
he: yeah sure, roll a d20
me: rolls a nat20. got a mermaid harem
"To annoy them" sounds like you failed if you didn't annoy them.
Mermaids eat people. Learning is fun.
@@nonenone4461 good thing they’re a Kenku
@@nonenone4461 No they keep people in suspended animation in an undersea locker.
two halflings (or really any small race) in a trenchcoat:
-you love messing with your dm making the character split apart and playing two at once
-that or you really just find it funny to be two dudes in a trenchcoat in a game
-you my good sir, are very cool and creative
cow (yes a straight up cow, nothing special):
-how did the dm let you do this i mean come on
-you have a very patient dm
(both are things my friend has played before)
goose:
-you are an agent of chaos with a very patient dm, more patient than the cow one
Man I wanted to play as both a Goose and 2 gnomes in a trench coat lmao
You’re Chaotic Neutral, aren’t you.
@@Aaa-bi8ly actually chaotic good
Tortle: You're allergic to damage, and if your character dies you'll end up in anaphylactic shock.
Tabaxi: HOLY MOTHER OF CTHULU, IS THAT CHIPFLAKE?!?
Blaine: "Ya cant live without the lucky feature"
Sam Riegel: Ummmmm well about that...
Halflings also have this hidden feature known as the halfing curse which replaces the 1 on your dice with a 2
Scanlan was a gnome, not a halfling. However, in the current campaign, Liam's character Orym of the Air Ashari is a halfling.
However, it is still possible to roll two nat-1s in succession. I've seen it happen, and not to Wil Wheaton.
@@isaacgleeth3609 they were referring to Veth, Sam's Campaign two character, who indeed was a Halfling
I actually like Loxodon rogue because using their trunk to pickpocket is legitimately the funniest thing to me for no reason. Like, imagine this big, passive elephant man who gives you a warm hug. You wouldn't suspect that nice boi of being the town pickpocket, would you? Also, it really plays into the "hiding in plain sight" gimmick I sometimes go for, although changeling is by far my favorite race. Something about shapeshifting, hiding in plain sight, and being able to get away with almost anything with minimal consequences makes me way happier than it needs to
Dhampir Lineage: You died a little inside whenever the benefits of a climbing speed, flying speed, or increased walking speed were mentioned in this video.
Dhampir can have a flight speed if his original race also has it, for example if I am an aaracokra dhampir you still can fly, and If you don't have a flying or swimming speed you gain proficiency in two skills, in fact all lineages have it.
Damphirs: The real name for this race is, "I'm playing a Dhampir, and no, I don't like Twilight."
Better make them an astral self monk to give them a different reference to lock on to
Im playing Blade dammit! Im a day walker, and dhampir was the closest i could find!
or, you're a Blade / Vampire Hunter D / Castlevania fan
I just like spider climb.
@@GothamKnight-hsw4vx526430 What about JoJo? 🥴
Shadar-Kai: You always ask for a long rest and feel naked without your resistance to E V E R Y T H I N G, (coming from a Shadar-Kai main)
Kenku: -You take "Nothing is truly original" as an earthshattering revelation
-You REALLY like YTPs
-You recognize that the Mimic/Copying Motif is Carte Blanche to play "[favorite fictional character], but as a crow person"
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@@imhungryletseat2303 MeeM
@@justafan9206 "Need a dispensah heah!" *Heals for 1d4+4*
@@imhungryletseat2303 pootis hahahaha!
Locathah: you hear its an aquatic campaign and the party thinks its meta for you to be fish man when all you want is to be an ambulating axolotl.
I usually try to have water breathing and an innate swim speed available for any wizard I ever make. This may have something to do with my love for utility spells.
That and I always want to minimize the risk of silly death anytime flowing water gets involved.
Warforged: From the moment you discovered the weakness of your flesh, it sickened you.
I’m a little surprised you didn’t discuss any of the new lineages (custom lineage, dhampir, reborn, etc). Some good fun and wicked builds to be had with those.
To be fair Custom could look like Anything (essentially being a modified version of Variant Human), and the Dhampir, Reborn, and Hexblood are like a month old (aside from the UA versions) and again could look like Anything.
Of course, I can't wait to do up Sir Daniel Fortesque, as it were.
Don't forget Custom Origins, which let you move the stat boosts around, and change up prior weapon/armor/tool proficiencies, as well as skills.
@@lockwoan01 Entirely fair.
@@johncollins7631 Yeah - just depends on if one wants an edgy flavor.
@Joseph Douek Custom Lineage, it was an option added in Tasha’s.
@Joseph Douek It's like Variant Human, without having to be a Human. Tuvok the Barbarian has used it in a few of his videos - Davey Jones (PotC) and Detective Pikachu come to my mind.
Aaracockra: you've made the "ara ara" joke at least once
Bardacokra
Skeleton Race:
Inside the DMG on modifying NPCs, there is a template for making yourself a bony boy.
Take the Human race, remove the Human's ability score increases, and then place the template on top. You now have a playable Skeleton race. (You can even do this for other races, but you should work with your DM as to what's logical in keeping on your new character or not, such as the Dragonborn's breath weapon. You could even have the breath damaged changed to Necrotic while keeping the attack's other properties.)
It's very interesting playing a character who is mute that has to pantomime their intentions, can survive environments that most races can't, and is extremely terrified of 10ft+ falls. (In the recent Guide that was released, you could take the Dark Gift that grants Message that's component free which could allow you to speak in utterances.)
Page number?
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Uh, I have D&D Beyond, so O don't have a page number.
But in the DMG, under the Dungeon Master's Workshop, Chapter 9. There is a 'Creating a Monster' and 'Creating a Spell' sections within that chapter.
Between those two sections is an area that allows you to create Monstrous NPCs and Monsters with Class Levels. There is a table that shows several monster stat templates that you can apply to CR 1 or less NPCs.
One of my favorite home brew races is the mousefolk. It’s literally just a mouse. Why be a fairy when you can be a rad mouse?
Fighter with a level in cleric and a +3 sword
You can give your enemies the plague
@@sethb3090 You don't get it. It's a fighter with a level in cleric with a +3 handcrossbow. Or a devotion paladin with a +3 greatsword.
One of these uses crossbow expert to rule all. The other uses great weapon fighting.
Or you can be a true chad and go polearm expert with sentinel. I once made a DM weep with that....ON MY WARLOCK. People underestimate darkness + devil sight.
Halo 3 rat goals
"You are...a mouse"
"You people have No imagination"
-Narnia
I have a friend in our DnD group who either plays a Paladin, Warforge, or both, so my mental stereotype of Warforge is:
"You are the immortal titan of the God-Emperor"
Cogs and bolts, and Ancient Lore
Fashioned fearsome engines of war
Those it defends, in fear, shall adore
as its Halberd leave nothing but gore....
An interesting and somewhat generalized version of the last line could be: As its blade leaves naught but gore
FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR HUMANITY!
The strength of the Emperor is Humanity, and the strength of Humanity is the Emperor. If one turns from the other we shall all become the Lost and the Damned.
I know that song...
I play just about anything small because I get to do dumb voices and do dumb shit like make a lightsaber entirely out of tin cans, that was actually something my last character did, he was a kobold and the dm ended up making it cannon in that campaign that all kobolds have an unhealthy obsession with tin cans
Wererat: you what to play as Master Splinter
Gnoll: you Really like one character from Inter-Species Reviewers
Bruh.
... which character?
@@GrassPokeKing Elza
@@jrrollins84 After looking it up, I've found my problem: I was thinking of the interspecies monster girl anime, not the "I Can't Believe It's Not" hentai lmfao
"I'm in this photo and I don't like it" lol
As someone who's currently playing a kobold and what's essentially that setting's version of the tabaxi, you got that right!
Why are you playing a kobold!?
Me not even paying attention:
S M A L L
@@swampertmogo7222 I love small races too! Halfling, Grungs, Gnomes, Kobolds...I have created at least a character with each one of this races
golem - you kinda smeck people to death with 20 strength
changeling - sneak attack at all costs if possible
A Bugbear Fighter wielding a halberd for 15’ melee reach when you have sentinel, is all about being that wrench in your DM’s dungeon encounter plans.
What about a monk for the stretchy arms
I just like having a flight as a tiefling warlock being the eldritch air support and the invocation that pulls people to you with your EB does not say it cannot go up the Y axis and weaponizing gravity
Thanks for the idea
The gnome one was too accurate
My friend who has a gnome character won’t stop using fireball (even when we’re in wood buildings) and constantly gets called short
I really appreciate the "spider entry on the next slide". Thank you for being considerate to those of us with irrational fears that we can't explain but still somehow stick with us throughout our entire lives.
Me, currently playing a lesbian tiefling sorcerer:............
you gotta also add that you want to be every color besides the ones that are in the book.
fr tiefling is so accurate
Too accurate
Lol and here's me with a bi (leaning gay) feminine male tiefling barbarian with a napolean complex. XD
Damn I expected Thor to play a barbarian
For the homebrew classes that involves being half human-half animal you can just call it 'demi-human' and mix a lot of monsterfolk
Jokes on you, my Kenku is is the most anoying thing that have ever existed and confuses the party with his twisted logic
Kenku: "
We get it, you have a soundboard."
@Joseph Douek he is super racist but he keeps being right about suspicious people,so he stays racist
If I had friends to play DnD, I would totally play a Locotha Artifice that pilots a mech, allowing it to move on land. I want it to be like a pet to the party, but have it be an evil genius that is plotting world domination. I love the idea of a dumb looking fish, be an evil genius. Not sure how I would follow through with the world domination, and genocide of most races, but if I could I think it would be fun.
I played a Locotha paladin for a one shot named fishsticks. The party just lugged him around in a cart filled with water the whole time. He ended up getting eaten by goblins. Good times.
Look Klaus, we've told you before that you can't just keep plotting world domination. It never works out well for you.
Do I sense a Megamind reference?
@@mistressofdreams6031 American Dad reference, Klaus is their fish. Always plotting things, sometimes even world domination.
Call yourself God and flood the world.
the oni picture with a nezuko head made me think of making it an actual character and now I want to make a demon slayer campaign where we fight mulan Jackson or mulan kibutsuji if you're boring.
Lizardfolk:
-You enjoy learning about other cultures both in and out of fiction.
-You dislike stereotypes against people based on their appearance.
-You probably enjoy camping.
Killing people is fine. Stealing is not.
I'm playing Lizardfolk for the first time & the biggest challenge I have so far is being a person with more primal emotions, & not defaulting to acting like an animal. Also their speech.
I come off, to the party, as very distant & unsympathetic but still very cooperative if the situation is explained to me.
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I probably shouldn’t resonate so well to this
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Lmao I can’t wait to be this. Super easy. Animal with words. Like people are animals but with fluff and lies.
so when i started DnD i got hooked in by DrAAgon so yes its my fave.
Edit: i totally forgot but uh myconids are very cool
Appreciate the disclaimer for the incoming spider race. I don’t have arachnophobia myself, but I‘m always happy to see creators considering what might pose an issue to their audience.
4:03 i didnt know chipflake played dnd
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I came to the comments section to see who else recognized Chip, and I am not disappointed. 😺
Same
Tiefling: Did he just call me gay?
I mean he’s not wrong but..
I mean, he wasn't wrong with me either, that is definitely my favorite flag
Doppelganger:
I'm just hoping my next DM will actually let me play her.
"JUST FIREBALL"
*Approves in JoCat*
Well, it's kind of dad magic innit?
As a Locathah player, I'm just here to say that thanks to the Armorer subclass for Artificer, you should theoretically be able to permanently be in a suit of water
SO HA! WE'VE DONE IT!!
Have you posted this on a forum yet? You will make the day of several people.
One of my favorite campaigns was modern high school themed; in which i played an unaware lycanthrope and another party member played a monster tracker (undercover as my teacher) who came to hunt her (neither of us knew until later in the campaign)
Why is no one talking about chipflake at 4:10? They’re so cute and it’s so perfect!
I once played a Yuan-Ti (abomination) Rouge in a very hombrew heavy campaign. For some reason, our DM made the horrible decision of deciding that draconic was this worlds equivalent of Italian, and all of the lizardfolk/dragonborn/yuan-ti etc had Italian sounding names. Thus spawned Giovanni Slithers, who spoke in a bad southern accent and pretended to be a bounty hunter from a spaghetti western the entire campaign. It was a good time.
Addition to Goliath: chances are you play barbarian and only barbarian because you can’t live without maximum raw power at the tips of your fingers.
Party: "Why did you let the BBEG get away!?"
Tortle: "He has shown me Monke"
"You heard dragon in the name and were immediately hooked"
That's me man. How did you guess?
my first dnd 5e character was a dragon (on request of the dm)
Me (A dragonborn main): That's-I don't-Yeah you got me.
I greatly appreciate the arachnophobia warning. Thank you. Also, now I want to play an orc reskinned into an oni. Because I love orc's "GET BACK HERE I WASN'T DONE HITTING YOU" a little too much now.
Not so close with my Kenku, thank you. Having a Kenku who is capable of incredible ventriloquism while magnifying his voice to epic proportions is satisfying. Not for the mere trickery of being able to do so, but for the look on a DM's face when used in interesting ways.
A skill challenge being chased by innumerable baddies through a mine? Kenku grins cockily and uses intimidation at advantage as he thaumaturgies up the sound of a behir.
Have to say that pairing of Kenku and cantrip never gets old 😁😁😁
I had a kenku bard who went the opposite extreme. Full support to where their only viable means of self-defense was repeating rude things he heard at the local tavern for vicious mockery.
My Kenku was raised by elves in a monastery, and over the course of his life, picked up not just words, but entire speech patterns. He is more or less able to speak normally, which he considers a gift from Corellon.
I made a Lizardfolk druid as the party healer once. Ended up an unholy mix of bear Grylls and House that either healed you, or ate you.
The fact that Drow weren’t on the list feels like a personal attack against me.
They are under elf.