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6 levels in Primeval Druid, 5 levels in Light Cleric. Guilmon used Pyro Sphere! (AKA, Fireball.) I will have to say that you can't _normally_ be that effective when casting spells through your Guilmon, without being able to _see_ said Guilmon, but that's what Beast Sense is for. Let him go for a walk after casting, and if you see an enemy that's worth the XP, give it a Pyro Sphere to the face, from the safety of a city.
Raven Queen subclass is also good because the raven is set apart from the find familiar spell so you could have two, and maybe fulfill your Odin fantasy.
I actually played this combo! It was super fun. "Warforged" Raven Queen Warlock. His body was made out of a viking longboat that was retired due to damage, and the klabautermann-like spirit of the boat made a pact with the Raven Queen to give him a "human" form so he could still serve his clan in death. He ended up outliving the rest of the clan and now travels as their living record keeper. Uses pact of the chain for the other raven, and the GM ruled that both of them got both sets of ability effects as long as they both remained ravens rather than any of the better chain options. So the patron raven got the benefits of the invocations that boost chain familiars, and the chain familiar could do all the patron raven stuff. He was super fun.
Crazy how people in comments don't realize the script and recording of this video is probably a few months old and was meant for people playing the 2014 version. When he mentioned the stone sorcerer, he also talked about a level 1 dip into hexblade. Would like if he did a video on the mess of a subclass the school of invention.
Here's two fun tips for the Raven Queen sub. One being that the raven is not considered a familiar so you can take Find Familiar and have two familiars and be extremely hard to sneak up on with three perception checks or just boosting one check with an extra one. Plus all the insane scouting and invocations you can stack on your familiar. One of my favorite combos is to cast Magi Stone and have the two ravens just turn into living gun turrets on my character's shoulders. That's on top of all the things they do just as extra help batteries. Second tip, you can also get a free Finger of Death from your Mystic Arcanum so you can have two free Fingers of Death. Double blast someone you really hate with two 60-ish damage shots and just ruin their day. Make your character cast it by flipping the double bird(hah) if you're feeling really spicy.
I'd never heard of Critical roll when I started playing dnd, and in my first ever campaign after a few months of one shots I chose raven queen warlock because it's on 5e companion app and I love ravens. I definitely didn't play Wexler Fowl efficiently, but my god was he fun. Probably my favourite character in any of my campaigns, even a few years later, and my dm seemed to like him too, since he became the grim reaper after we beat Vecna, and showed up in later campaigns in the same world. My god that was a fun game, loved every moment
Raven Warlock and Brute are my favourite subclasses! They're so flavourful and Brute fuels that gritty fighting need monk and barbarian can't always satisfy
@@Zulk_RSNow imagine the un-killabe monster you would become if you mixed this subclass with the new 5.5e fighter. You can have a 1d10+1d6 to all saves if your crazy enough
I'm doing a Raven Queen Warlock as my second character for our CoS campaign. The idea of a servant of the Raven Queen investigating what's going on in Barovia feels so nice.
I looked at the 2nd feature, which is very similar to new druidic in 2024 but the rest doesn't seem bad or anything Unless they changed conjure beast spell
@@jackhilton4285 Most of the Conjure Spells are completely changed, many don't actually summon creatures and act more like Spirit Guardians where it's more of a flavor thing.
@@jackhilton4285 ALL the Conjure spells are completely different and operate more like the Cleric’s Spirit Guardians. Nope, you ain’t summoning NOTHING.
I played a Raven Queen Warlock for a dnd podcast at my old college, and it's still one of my favorite characters that I've played. Havin the lil raven buddy is super nice, and the subclass is just full of flavor
One of my current characters is a reborn eldritch knight raven queen warlock multiclass, I really like that subclass and thanks to you it can be more known
i do love the concept of the stone sorcerer, but it definitely felt like something was off between theme and mechanics. felt like more of a... metal sorcerer, which isn't bad but its a different thing. stone and rock magic feels more... damage resistances rather than weapons and armor, terrain advantages, tremorsense, tremors and earthquakes, and stability and immutability.
About that Raven Queen with Spiritual Weapon: with the 2024 rules, the spell does use concentration. I think all those subclasses need to be played with the 2014 rules to work as described.
@@DnDShorts Ah, thanks! Got me a little confused at first. We still play by 2014 rules, but that might change when our group starts the next campaign. I'll check with the DM about homebrew an unearthed arcana at session 0 (or maybe earlier), most of those subclasses seem really interesting.
Brute might just be everything I want in a martial subclass. Just a simple buff to damage and saving throws that isn't just a slightly less rare occurance like improved critical or always a limited resource like superiority dice.
One of my favorite characters I've ever rune ever was a dwarf stone sorcerer. A sorcerer tanking for the party was just hilarious. AC through the roof, and when I needed to, I could fireball the room. Tons of fun, loved that character.
I played an Archivist Goblin in a Westmarch server. She was sooo fun to play. She used Modify Memory to trick people into thinking they had signed off their soul to her, and now had to comply to her ocsional demands
I had an idea for a Tattoo Artist Artificer. The idea is a little nebulous. You can give out spell tatts to your friends that last for a day. You gain access to the different tatts that are already created.
You can do that with with an infusion but it's limited to common magic items (even then the two tattoos available at common tier are cantrip and 1st level so do with that info as you would)
I actually have a tattoo artist artificer, he's a kobold and an artillerist. Most of his abilities are flavored as ink taking shape, any summons look like ink blot monsters. Take caligraphers tools as the artisan's tool for spell casting, and either use your infusions on spellwrought tattoos, or spend the 50g to make them (cantrip and 1st level spells at least)
@@lucasramey6427 That is true but I was thinking that the Tatts would be the preestablished Tattoos but they could also do a mix of offensive (like you could activate to do a cone of elemental damage), healing, and utility (burn a charge to gain advantage on some saves or some such).
I homebrewed the Primeval Druid subclass on dndbeyond so I could use it with the new rules. Ive paired it with an elven simic hybrid since wildshape is used for the companion. A fun combo!
Brute fighter would be crazy with the new feat that gives proficiency on death saving throws. You would be very hard to kill if you get to your turn, because the odds of you rolling a 20 to get up are super high.
Playing a primeval druid at my LGS, he's awesome. small character race, medium mount companion, optional spells enlarge... so at tenth level you're potentially riding a huge beast.
I grabbed the Raven Queen one from the start. So much flavour, didn't care about the power. So much fun! And then I saw the Raven Queen at work on Critical roll. Hey, more fun! :-D
I miss Stone Sorcerer, it was the only ever Sorcerer subclass that actually felt fun for me since I could be an incredibly tanky melee spellcaste without being limited like with old Arcane Trickster or Eldritch Knight's spell lists and lack of metamagic.
"You're a Gouf Flight Raven Queen Warlock, trust me it will be fun" What my friend said to be when he was helping me make my first character in DnD. Owlins are awesome Also, Why is primeval druid not popular? Its dinosaurs!!
I liked the Brute Fighter. It was clearly meant to be a replacement for the Champion, but it still felt a little too shallow. When I run my games, I always combine the features of the Brute and Champion together. It might seem a bit stacked, but it really just allows the Fighter to have a subclass that's all about doing more damage. No fancy maneuvers or spells. Just big numbers.
Yeah it's still so weird we haven't gotten a proper Gish Sorcerer subclass, like beside stone there was even Giant soul that went nowhere too. Like sure needing to get to level 14 before you could use "Rage of Fallen Ostoria" means it came online far too late for normal games and it still didn't have an extra attack, but it was UA, you're suppose to fix issues like that there.
Im currently playing a Raven Queen Warlock, and have used the Raven to Derail the DMs subplot plans 3 separate times, the first and most impressive one was a Cave in a forest, full of Goblins under the Leadership of a Mutant/Mutated Goblin and their Magical buddy, who had gotten their hands on Siege equipment, a bunch of high quality weapons, and 3 whole Crates of Dynamites. By which the Leader and several of the seige wepons were. I (out of character) know how Dynamite works, and luckily We have someone in the party (in character) who would know that, so upon relaying the find, The Raven (who's gotten that far into the cave because, it a bird, in a forest) gets told how to set of one of the sticks, which then sets off the crates. No more Goblin Seige subplot : ) We know now if were about to ruin a plotpoint if the Bird gets killed off while I'm using it creatively : P The Bird went through a dozen sessions before I gave it a name too, at first because i forgot, then it became a Meme that i refused to call it anything relating to Edger Alan Poe, so it remained nameless, then I decided to ve funny, the Birds name... Is Byrd
Same here, it's my favorite style of Druid since 2E. Play a small race, ride on a medium companion and 5E optional Druid spells allow for the Enlarge spell. So at tenth level you're potentially riding a huge beast. In 2E it was a Ranger: Beast master. Essentially a cavalier. In 3E it was a Druid/Wizard with a "companion familiar". Wizard levels were required for alteration spells to affect your companion.
A Raven Queen warlock is The Crow. Add a revenant or reborn lineage and its even moreso. It was left in the dust because they just didn't want to get sued for being too edgy. Speaking of being edgy, anyone getting into Grim Hollow should also swing by the 'Mists of Akuma' kickstarter. Mists is a dark Eastern-inspired steampunk setting that is post-war and beset by horrendous mists that transforms people into monsters. Its made by Mike Myler of EN World, Hypercorps 2099, and several indie ttrpg companies.
Happy to see the Archivist here. I love Artificer, and was always kinda sad that the only subclass that doesn't focus on combat is the Alchemist, which is not that good and a pretty specific concept. When i read the Archivist i found what would be the ideal Artificer subclass for me. Aside from being also good in combat, its feats are pretty cool concept-wise and have cool uses for support in a different way that the other subclasses can have. Unfortunately, i need a group that would accept UA subclasses... In the game i am playing right now i wanted an inteligence-focused character for some investigating, and was looking the Wizards and found out about the Scribe one. Then i understood why the Archivist never left the UA: they preferred to give it to the Wizard :( I ended up creating a Scribe Wizard for the game, which makes me pretty happy, but i am still hoping to one day be able to play an Archivist. Or that WoTC decides to make new subclasses for the poor Artificer already....
I would like to mention that the raven queen warlock was adapted into hex blade and some of the raven families features were brought into later additional pact of the chain invocations Not that the raven warlock isn’t still great. I would totally love to play one
I’m currently playing a Dhampir Paladin of the Raven Queen and I feel that the Raven Queen Warlock would be thematically great to add to it. Most of me wishes that they went through with the subclass and published it but other parts of me knows why they didn’t.
I've been checking out some of the UA classes and they are pretty neat. One of the sites I go to have a section for all the UA released including the Mystic class. A lot of them have been eventually printed in official things but its a shame that a few of the more interesting ones didn't make it. Nobel Genie Warlock, Favored Soul Sorcerer, College of Satire Bard, and Unity Domain Cleric are all interesting and different enough to make it in the game. Also that site has a lot of neat Homebrew sub-classes. Some are OP, most are strong but balanced.
My last campaign i played a brute fighter warforged with a weapon of warning and the alert feat. Literally always on guard even during rests, cant be surprised and +10 and advantage to initiative. Always go first, always doing extra damage, it was unintentionally pretty damn broken lol.
Hey bro. Good video! My only advice is that (with the release of the new books) the more you cling to only using the decade old rules... the more you risk your videos being obsolete at many tables. Telling us Spiritual Weapon doesn't use concentration is fine... until newbies get to their table and find out you're wrong at their table. Know what I mean? You just might want to reference the current rules/spells when you talk about the old stuff that's been changed.
In a game I'm playing, my dm is allowing me to play a brute fighter and it has been a ton of fun adding that extra damage die, and next level is 7. He also lets us use guns and it was fun using that extra die on a crit with a musket (although I mostly use a war hammer).
Im a fighter player, and i honestly have played more Brutes & PDK’s than all the other subclasses together. Especially with tasha’s & dragonlance fighters have become incredibly dynamic in 2014.
I really love concept and flavor of the Raven Queen Warlock, cos it made a few of my BardLocking be what i dreamt of wanting. I found a homebrew of a Bard Subclass that fits really well, that after play testing the combo, it is too horribly OP and deliciously epic.😂😂
in my present fisrt campaign that i am a dm for the first time, my brother is using a dwarf stone sorcerer, and his basically a walking boulder holding a hammer, tanking a bunch of things with his high AC( he has shield spell too) and casting smites.
Champion & Brute are also fun if you want a simple character for chill games or to save your energy to RP & wrangle cats- I mean, your fellow party members.
The Raven Queen technically isn't confined to only the Shadowfell she does have a place at the edge of the Feywilds. But her Warlock does sound interesting. Anyhow I unfortunately don't have a group to play with:( But I have created 12 different lvl 1 characters in case I found a group:) 1 of which is: A Chaotic Neutral Feylost background Female Drow Death Domain Cleric sworn to the Raven Queen!
2024 Dwarf Stone Sorcerer. Not only do you get an additional HP per level on top of the class HP buff, meaning if you buff Con as is encouraged by the AC equation and grab the Tough feat, you can basically be a sorcerer with the HP of a barbarian, but you also have Tremorsense. What more could you want for an Earthbender?
The reason is because they don't want a Warlock subclass that can only have a single patron. It would be like if you could only choose Asmodeus for the Fiend or Titania for Feylock.
Sounds like with that one spell from the stone sorcerer they’re bringing the good old days of the Calculator and slide rule back from advanced dungeons and dragons and yes, I’ve played in advance, dungeons and dragons and had to use a calculator to calculate things
I played a Warforged Fighter/ Raven Queen Warlock. After the campaign I ended up retiring and only doing side jobs for the Raven Queen when I felt like it.
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I would love a Top 5 Worst Lost Subclasses
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My beloved Knowledge Cleric did not make into the new Players Handbook. Care to give them some love?
6 levels in Primeval Druid, 5 levels in Light Cleric.
Guilmon used Pyro Sphere! (AKA, Fireball.)
I will have to say that you can't _normally_ be that effective when casting spells through your Guilmon, without being able to _see_ said Guilmon, but that's what Beast Sense is for. Let him go for a walk after casting, and if you see an enemy that's worth the XP, give it a Pyro Sphere to the face, from the safety of a city.
Raven Queen subclass is also good because the raven is set apart from the find familiar spell so you could have two, and maybe fulfill your Odin fantasy.
Neat! Or get a wolf or goat for alt Nordic vibes xD
Or a brawler kodiak bear or a black goat
I actually played this combo! It was super fun. "Warforged" Raven Queen Warlock. His body was made out of a viking longboat that was retired due to damage, and the klabautermann-like spirit of the boat made a pact with the Raven Queen to give him a "human" form so he could still serve his clan in death. He ended up outliving the rest of the clan and now travels as their living record keeper.
Uses pact of the chain for the other raven, and the GM ruled that both of them got both sets of ability effects as long as they both remained ravens rather than any of the better chain options. So the patron raven got the benefits of the invocations that boost chain familiars, and the chain familiar could do all the patron raven stuff. He was super fun.
Holy crap that sounds like such a fun character, i hope you and your party had a blast with him around man.@@DraycoVideo
WotC missed an opportunity to call the Stone Sorcerer's 6th level feature 'Rock of Aegis.'
Did I hear a rock and stone!
Gimme a rock and stone!
WotC is fantastic at missing opportunities.
Crazy how people in comments don't realize the script and recording of this video is probably a few months old and was meant for people playing the 2014 version. When he mentioned the stone sorcerer, he also talked about a level 1 dip into hexblade. Would like if he did a video on the mess of a subclass the school of invention.
I mean, school of invention is definitely fun! It's not good, but it is fun and flavorful.
F*** the new 2024 5.5e system!
Here's two fun tips for the Raven Queen sub. One being that the raven is not considered a familiar so you can take Find Familiar and have two familiars and be extremely hard to sneak up on with three perception checks or just boosting one check with an extra one. Plus all the insane scouting and invocations you can stack on your familiar. One of my favorite combos is to cast Magi Stone and have the two ravens just turn into living gun turrets on my character's shoulders. That's on top of all the things they do just as extra help batteries.
Second tip, you can also get a free Finger of Death from your Mystic Arcanum so you can have two free Fingers of Death. Double blast someone you really hate with two 60-ish damage shots and just ruin their day. Make your character cast it by flipping the double bird(hah) if you're feeling really spicy.
2 ravens and godly perception, basically Odin
I'd never heard of Critical roll when I started playing dnd, and in my first ever campaign after a few months of one shots I chose raven queen warlock because it's on 5e companion app and I love ravens. I definitely didn't play Wexler Fowl efficiently, but my god was he fun. Probably my favourite character in any of my campaigns, even a few years later, and my dm seemed to like him too, since he became the grim reaper after we beat Vecna, and showed up in later campaigns in the same world. My god that was a fun game, loved every moment
Raven Warlock and Brute are my favourite subclasses! They're so flavourful and Brute fuels that gritty fighting need monk and barbarian can't always satisfy
To me Brute feels like what Champion should have been. Apex Fighter.
@@Zulk_RSNow imagine the un-killabe monster you would become if you mixed this subclass with the new 5.5e fighter. You can have a 1d10+1d6 to all saves if your crazy enough
@@gestaltshakerexplosion7230 Yeah. 5.5E fighter is quite good. Though it would be really OP if you mixed in 5E feats in with the mix. 5.5 E classes .
mr dnd shorts. i am here from 15 seconds after this video came out. i am here to tell you that u coool
i'm also here apparently 2 minutes and 57 seconds after this video came out. i am here to tell you that LET'S GO XENOBLADE MUSIC
AGAIN LET'S GO
That DND animation is from vox maquina?
Major ups for using the Skull Girls soundtrack during the segment on the Raven Queen warlock. I love that music. ❤
I really loved that moment too, using Bloody Marie's theme was wonderful and on point to how the Raven Queen feels like
I'm doing a Raven Queen Warlock as my second character for our CoS campaign. The idea of a servant of the Raven Queen investigating what's going on in Barovia feels so nice.
Don’t look now, the Shepherd Druid is effectively destroyed with the new rules.
GOOD
@@logancuster8035 Sadly.
I looked at the 2nd feature, which is very similar to new druidic in 2024 but the rest doesn't seem bad or anything
Unless they changed conjure beast spell
@@jackhilton4285 Most of the Conjure Spells are completely changed, many don't actually summon creatures and act more like Spirit Guardians where it's more of a flavor thing.
@@jackhilton4285 ALL the Conjure spells are completely different and operate more like the Cleric’s Spirit Guardians.
Nope, you ain’t summoning NOTHING.
Brute Fighter was always my favorite multiclass with my Ascendant Dragon Monk. 2d4 per punch is just nasty at low level.
I played a Raven Queen Warlock for a dnd podcast at my old college, and it's still one of my favorite characters that I've played. Havin the lil raven buddy is super nice, and the subclass is just full of flavor
One of my current characters is a reborn eldritch knight raven queen warlock multiclass, I really like that subclass and thanks to you it can be more known
Really glad the Brute Fighter made it in, I've been wanting to play one for a while
I love that I hear Xenoblade music for the Primeval Druid, that brings back memories...
Such as, "Yeah, NOW it's Reyn Time!"
Archivist...Artificer...The Rusty Quill would be so proud lol
0:57 oh it's concentration now...as it probably should have always been, but the exception to the war cleric is cool
So much potential here. Someone mod these for BG3, I beg you!!
The shepard has was one of the first BG3 subclass mods
Finally, I found a youtuber with info on the Raven Queen, and it's good ol' dndshorts
i do love the concept of the stone sorcerer, but it definitely felt like something was off between theme and mechanics. felt like more of a... metal sorcerer, which isn't bad but its a different thing. stone and rock magic feels more... damage resistances rather than weapons and armor, terrain advantages, tremorsense, tremors and earthquakes, and stability and immutability.
About that Raven Queen with Spiritual Weapon: with the 2024 rules, the spell does use concentration. I think all those subclasses need to be played with the 2014 rules to work as described.
100% yes they would! I made this video with the 2014 rules in mind! (because they hadn't come out yet lol)
@@DnDShorts Ah, thanks! Got me a little confused at first. We still play by 2014 rules, but that might change when our group starts the next campaign. I'll check with the DM about homebrew an unearthed arcana at session 0 (or maybe earlier), most of those subclasses seem really interesting.
And that's why I'm sticking to 2014 edition.
Brute might just be everything I want in a martial subclass. Just a simple buff to damage and saving throws that isn't just a slightly less rare occurance like improved critical or always a limited resource like superiority dice.
One of my favorite characters I've ever rune ever was a dwarf stone sorcerer. A sorcerer tanking for the party was just hilarious. AC through the roof, and when I needed to, I could fireball the room. Tons of fun, loved that character.
Your ad actually hooked me ngl i was gonna skip but kept holding my finger away cuz you interested me lmao well done
I just played a Raven warlock, loved it. Monster outside of combat, monster in combat.
Stone sorcerer is unbelievably cool! I'm rolling one for my next character!
I played an Archivist Goblin in a Westmarch server. She was sooo fun to play. She used Modify Memory to trick people into thinking they had signed off their soul to her, and now had to comply to her ocsional demands
Raven Queen warlock holds a special place in my heart. Add rogue to it and become an assassinlike inquisitor
I had an idea for a Tattoo Artist Artificer. The idea is a little nebulous. You can give out spell tatts to your friends that last for a day. You gain access to the different tatts that are already created.
You can do that with with an infusion but it's limited to common magic items (even then the two tattoos available at common tier are cantrip and 1st level so do with that info as you would)
I actually have a tattoo artist artificer, he's a kobold and an artillerist. Most of his abilities are flavored as ink taking shape, any summons look like ink blot monsters. Take caligraphers tools as the artisan's tool for spell casting, and either use your infusions on spellwrought tattoos, or spend the 50g to make them (cantrip and 1st level spells at least)
@@lucasramey6427 That is true but I was thinking that the Tatts would be the preestablished Tattoos but they could also do a mix of offensive (like you could activate to do a cone of elemental damage), healing, and utility (burn a charge to gain advantage on some saves or some such).
I homebrewed the Primeval Druid subclass on dndbeyond so I could use it with the new rules. Ive paired it with an elven simic hybrid since wildshape is used for the companion. A fun combo!
Bonus action wildshape definitely improves the subclass
Skullheart Arhythmia, solid bgm choice
This is awesome! I liked the primeval druid and the brute fighter. Thanks for the subby video!! 🛡👍
Good stuff. Thanks for the info.
Brute fighter would be crazy with the new feat that gives proficiency on death saving throws. You would be very hard to kill if you get to your turn, because the odds of you rolling a 20 to get up are super high.
Now heres the question, if i make a warforged archivist artificer, would he be worthy?
I mean, does it need to be? If you put the hammer in an elevator-
@@zap4th368 don't bother the same actor plays them now lmao clearly they are both worthy
Surprisingly, I’ve heard about the brute fighter and primeval druid
Playing a primeval druid at my LGS, he's awesome. small character race, medium mount companion, optional spells enlarge... so at tenth level you're potentially riding a huge beast.
@@Gunsmoke1084 cool
I’ve always liked the raven Queen warlock and the brute. There was such interesting potential with the stone soul.
I was JUST looking at these subclasses yesterday to see what I wanted to modernize them for 5.5. I converted them all!
Raven Queen was one of the first subclasses I ever saw, and damn, I am still sad that it never became officially published.
I grabbed the Raven Queen one from the start. So much flavour, didn't care about the power. So much fun! And then I saw the Raven Queen at work on Critical roll. Hey, more fun! :-D
I miss Stone Sorcerer, it was the only ever Sorcerer subclass that actually felt fun for me since I could be an incredibly tanky melee spellcaste without being limited like with old Arcane Trickster or Eldritch Knight's spell lists and lack of metamagic.
I'm glad those aren't restricted anymore
"You're a Gouf Flight Raven Queen Warlock, trust me it will be fun" What my friend said to be when he was helping me make my first character in DnD. Owlins are awesome
Also, Why is primeval druid not popular? Its dinosaurs!!
Currently running a Drow Echno Knight fighter/Raven Queen warlock and he's gotta be one of the funnest combat builds I've played.
Especially with a Rage coming back on a short rest .... a couple level dip into Barbarian is looking real nice!
1:15 oh dear god… should we tell him…?
I liked the Brute Fighter. It was clearly meant to be a replacement for the Champion, but it still felt a little too shallow. When I run my games, I always combine the features of the Brute and Champion together. It might seem a bit stacked, but it really just allows the Fighter to have a subclass that's all about doing more damage. No fancy maneuvers or spells. Just big numbers.
Yeah it's still so weird we haven't gotten a proper Gish Sorcerer subclass, like beside stone there was even Giant soul that went nowhere too.
Like sure needing to get to level 14 before you could use "Rage of Fallen Ostoria" means it came online far too late for normal games and it still didn't have an extra attack, but it was UA, you're suppose to fix issues like that there.
Im currently playing a Raven Queen Warlock, and have used the Raven to Derail the DMs subplot plans 3 separate times, the first and most impressive one was a Cave in a forest, full of Goblins under the Leadership of a Mutant/Mutated Goblin and their Magical buddy, who had gotten their hands on Siege equipment, a bunch of high quality weapons, and 3 whole Crates of Dynamites.
By which the Leader and several of the seige wepons were.
I (out of character) know how Dynamite works, and luckily We have someone in the party (in character) who would know that, so upon relaying the find, The Raven (who's gotten that far into the cave because, it a bird, in a forest) gets told how to set of one of the sticks, which then sets off the crates.
No more Goblin Seige subplot : )
We know now if were about to ruin a plotpoint if the Bird gets killed off while I'm using it creatively : P
The Bird went through a dozen sessions before I gave it a name too, at first because i forgot, then it became a Meme that i refused to call it anything relating to Edger Alan Poe, so it remained nameless, then I decided to ve funny, the Birds name... Is Byrd
I play this druid subclass, and I gotta tell you, it's awesome.
Same here, it's my favorite style of Druid since 2E. Play a small race, ride on a medium companion and 5E optional Druid spells allow for the Enlarge spell. So at tenth level you're potentially riding a huge beast.
In 2E it was a Ranger: Beast master. Essentially a cavalier.
In 3E it was a Druid/Wizard with a "companion familiar". Wizard levels were required for alteration spells to affect your companion.
God I love your lost subclass videos so much
Really enjoyed all the Castlevania cinematics! Feels good man.
A Raven Queen warlock is The Crow. Add a revenant or reborn lineage and its even moreso. It was left in the dust because they just didn't want to get sued for being too edgy.
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Happy to see the Archivist here. I love Artificer, and was always kinda sad that the only subclass that doesn't focus on combat is the Alchemist, which is not that good and a pretty specific concept.
When i read the Archivist i found what would be the ideal Artificer subclass for me. Aside from being also good in combat, its feats are pretty cool concept-wise and have cool uses for support in a different way that the other subclasses can have.
Unfortunately, i need a group that would accept UA subclasses...
In the game i am playing right now i wanted an inteligence-focused character for some investigating, and was looking the Wizards and found out about the Scribe one. Then i understood why the Archivist never left the UA: they preferred to give it to the Wizard :(
I ended up creating a Scribe Wizard for the game, which makes me pretty happy, but i am still hoping to one day be able to play an Archivist. Or that WoTC decides to make new subclasses for the poor Artificer already....
I was hoping you would mention the Giant soul Sorcerer. I got to play that and boy was it fun!
I've actually played Raven Queen warlock before. Quite a good deal of fun.
I would like to mention that the raven queen warlock was adapted into hex blade and some of the raven families features were brought into later additional pact of the chain invocations
Not that the raven warlock isn’t still great. I would totally love to play one
I’m currently playing a Dhampir Paladin of the Raven Queen and I feel that the Raven Queen Warlock would be thematically great to add to it. Most of me wishes that they went through with the subclass and published it but other parts of me knows why they didn’t.
Man, I always wanted the sorcerer to have a blade centered class - and there you go describing it that very way. Lol 🎉
I've been checking out some of the UA classes and they are pretty neat. One of the sites I go to have a section for all the UA released including the Mystic class. A lot of them have been eventually printed in official things but its a shame that a few of the more interesting ones didn't make it. Nobel Genie Warlock, Favored Soul Sorcerer, College of Satire Bard, and Unity Domain Cleric are all interesting and different enough to make it in the game. Also that site has a lot of neat Homebrew sub-classes. Some are OP, most are strong but balanced.
My last campaign i played a brute fighter warforged with a weapon of warning and the alert feat. Literally always on guard even during rests, cant be surprised and +10 and advantage to initiative. Always go first, always doing extra damage, it was unintentionally pretty damn broken lol.
Never heard of the last one. Thanks 😊
Hey bro. Good video! My only advice is that (with the release of the new books) the more you cling to only using the decade old rules... the more you risk your videos being obsolete at many tables. Telling us Spiritual Weapon doesn't use concentration is fine... until newbies get to their table and find out you're wrong at their table. Know what I mean? You just might want to reference the current rules/spells when you talk about the old stuff that's been changed.
In a game I'm playing, my dm is allowing me to play a brute fighter and it has been a ton of fun adding that extra damage die, and next level is 7. He also lets us use guns and it was fun using that extra die on a crit with a musket (although I mostly use a war hammer).
Im a fighter player, and i honestly have played more Brutes & PDK’s than all the other subclasses together. Especially with tasha’s & dragonlance fighters have become incredibly dynamic in 2014.
I really love concept and flavor of the Raven Queen Warlock, cos it made a few of my BardLocking be what i dreamt of wanting. I found a homebrew of a Bard Subclass that fits really well, that after play testing the combo, it is too horribly OP and deliciously epic.😂😂
in my present fisrt campaign that i am a dm for the first time, my brother is using a dwarf stone sorcerer, and his basically a walking boulder holding a hammer, tanking a bunch of things with his high AC( he has shield spell too) and casting smites.
Lol love how for raven queen u keep shoiwng morigans original design (the hooded girl) as s(e is also a dhapshifter and a called a witch
Archivist sounds fun. Have a sassy little robot companion. And we missed out on DINOSAUR RIDERS?!?!
Yeah imagine playing a game of tomb of annihilation and befriending a dinosaur for your adventure
Brute is a ton of fun to play. Makes dart builds go brrr
I’m playing a primeval druid right now! It’s my favorite Druid class that I’ve played
Archivist and scribes multiclass sounds sick. Having 2 manifest minds to fight eachother sounds great
Champion & Brute are also fun if you want a simple character for chill games or to save your energy to RP & wrangle cats- I mean, your fellow party members.
Oh joy, I can't wait for these to join bg3 mods
I hope the 2024 DMG has something new. It’d be cool
The Raven Queen technically isn't confined to only the Shadowfell she does have a place at the edge of the Feywilds. But her Warlock does sound interesting.
Anyhow I unfortunately don't have a group to play with:(
But I have created 12 different lvl 1 characters in case I found a group:)
1 of which is: A Chaotic Neutral Feylost background Female Drow Death Domain Cleric sworn to the Raven Queen!
I really think your ads are funny. You're the only UA-camr I say this to you.
I was always partial to the Mystic and Avenger from years upon years upon years ago.
2024 Dwarf Stone Sorcerer. Not only do you get an additional HP per level on top of the class HP buff, meaning if you buff Con as is encouraged by the AC equation and grab the Tough feat, you can basically be a sorcerer with the HP of a barbarian, but you also have Tremorsense. What more could you want for an Earthbender?
thanks, you got skullgirls music stuck in my head again.
I have a Raven Queen Warlock in my party! I didn't know it was considered a lost subclass
The Raven Queen sound so much cooler and flavorfull than the Hexblade we got
The reason is because they don't want a Warlock subclass that can only have a single patron. It would be like if you could only choose Asmodeus for the Fiend or Titania for Feylock.
Stone sorcerer would be nicer if they had the old spell stone fist.
Shoutout to my boy Primeval Druid
Damn all of these were decent subclasses and the shadow queen warlock is the bomb!
I’d love to see a video about fixing bad UAs like the School of Onomancy Wizard
I've been wanting to make a character that uses weapons like a boomerang and atl-atl, and the dino druid is perfect.
Raven Queen Warlock has been my favorite class for years. Love my goth mommy.
In pathfinder we have archetypes which are our version of sub classes and prestige classes
So Brute Fighter lets me play my Warrior Main from FFXIV. Dope!
I saw the thumbnail and I thought Vsauce is into DND all of a sudden
Oddly enough, my first warlock build was actually a Raven Queen pact. I had an entire Edgar Allen Poe gimmick going on with her.
Raven Queen Warlock! I see you are also a being of culture
11:38 Hello Jon. Apologies for the deception.
I just listened to the whole series a little bit ago.
Brute Fighter was a beast.
RIP
With the new rules Spiritual Weapon is concentration now
I play a lv 19 Brute Fighter and it's just so great, feels like the absolute fightyest figher
I heard grim dark, I immediately thought "iron within, iron without"
Sounds like with that one spell from the stone sorcerer they’re bringing the good old days of the Calculator and slide rule back from advanced dungeons and dragons and yes, I’ve played in advance, dungeons and dragons and had to use a calculator to calculate things
I played a Warforged Fighter/ Raven Queen Warlock. After the campaign I ended up retiring and only doing side jobs for the Raven Queen when I felt like it.