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+ not even two minutes before it was good to have many ability score increases, but standard humans with their whooping +6 in total are mysteriously forgotten…
@@ChiefderWahrheit Because that's all they get, +1 across the board and nothing else of note. For most classes, that means points into your dump stats. So they just become jack of all trades master of none. That's why they're low a tier.
Ya so many times I been called a basic B$%ch for playing normal human as I roll 13 15 16 13 11 15 then add +1 to all stats become 14 16 17 14 12 16 then take resilient Con at level 4 giving me a 16 INT and DEX with a CON of 18 playing a support Artficer I rarely drop Concentration at Level 10 Bonus +8 with a +4 from int from flash of genius when needed with mind sharper infuion
I remember we had thri-kreen monk in dark sun campaign and i gave him jump becouse we needed to catch a guy who was running (non combat chace) and had good head start. Our thri-kreen was able to jump over 200ft per jump 😂
Any Dark Sun generated race is monstrous right? From the OG AD&D they get more stats, more armor, survival skills, psionics... Imagine a Dark Sun Dwarf just waking up on say....Faerun....would be a (2023 parlance) Gigachad Dwarf....
The amazing thing about the Dhampir is you can use their Bite while wildshaped! This means you can make your bear attacks and then bite for extra damage/hp. Super cool, and mega appropriate if you're going for a vampire build (Dracula WOULD BE a Druid).
Funnily enough, if you go 5 levels in monk, 1 level in fighter and 8 levels in spores druid- you get every ability a vampire does. Very fun, and you can reflavor your symbiotic entity as a swarm of bats surrounding you
@@The_Crimson_Witch I never realised this! It would be a pretty big investment. I supposed 5 levels of Monk upgrades the damage die on the teeth to 1d6, but also gives you extra attack and FoB. That means if you went Moon Druid, you'd be using animal forms with an extra attack, BA attack, and the potentially to FoB five times per short rest. Not necessarily the worst? Moon Druid scaling is so wacky though that delaying its progression/strong start hurts.
Funny thing about the bugbear squeze ability it specifies small. If you were a rune knight using giants might that had enlarge cast on you would still be able to do it.
Same thing with raging giant barbarians Either way I just love how absolutely hilarious that is that a huge+ creature able to fit through cracks in medium sized doors or them playing like a slasher movie and ambushing others
Ok hear me out. A Champion Fighter bug bear (+5 reach) huge sized (+10 reach) with a polarm (+5 reach) primordial guardian dip (+5 reach) tunnel fighter and polarm mastery (free attack for getting too close) hiding in the roots under a mangrove like tree, or in an alcove guarding a hallway. A crit heavy self healing beast you can't get within 30 feet of. Ranger/Primordial 3 Fighter/Champion 17 Pretty sure the Rune Carver background/feat would allow self casting of enlarge. A 1 level Mystic dip could give another +5 reach all the time and +2AC for a couple hours a day.
Agreed playing a satyr druid circle of stars and have gotten saved by the magical resistance multiple times in only 2 encounters and many times by the other features in only about 5 sessions he probably didn't put it cause no darkvision
I feel that whenever the lineages come up, these type of videos tend to gloss over the "if you don't keep these elements *or you choose this lineage at character creation* you gain proficiency in two skills." Like, that's still really good! Perception, stealth, persuasion, what have you... but if you want to be a Dhampir Owlin with functional wings, you'd need to get turned IN GAME, which then is a whole process and very DM dependent
one thing i love about dwarf casters in general is that they'd be in actual armor and have actual hit points. Plus they have the best beards, so dwarfs naturally make the best wizards
It might not be especially OP, but a Changeling's face change ability is really good for shenanigans. I've seen Changelings pull off some incredible stunts by doing things like disguising themselves as the BBEG or passing as an old lady to get senior discounts at Fantasy Bath and Bodyworks
The wild thing that makes Changelings pretty crazy is that in MOTM they are classified as Fey, not Humanoid. So they are actually immune to spells that can only target Humanoids like Charm Person or Hold Person. In order to affect them the same way, you need to use the Monster-targeting versions of the spells, which generally require a spell slot of 3 levels higher. You can Charm most PCs with a 1st level spell slot, Hold them with a 2nd, or Dominate them with a 5th, but with a Changeling you need a 4th, 5th, or 8th level slot to do the same thing. Other lineages that get a benefit like this are Centaur, Fairy, and Satyr in MOTM (all Fey), and Autognome (Construct), Plasmoid (Ooze), and Thri-Kreen (Monstrosity) in Spelljammer.
7:47 Given that Warlock's Aspect of the Moon *does* specify that you can keep watch without sleeping, I doubt this would allow you to keep watch if it doesn't specify that. A 4-hour long rest is still dummy good though.
Elves meditates on how their surroundings are, how the leafs move with the wind, the movement and path of small animals,..., and so on. Adapt to the type of place you are meditating.
I liked the old kobolds better. Draconic cry is nice, but there's a limited amount of times you can use it. Pack tactics just gives you infinite advantage as long as your tank is doing his job.
Plus, there were ways around sunlight sensitivity (such as playing a caster and saving your attack spells for key moments, or using a Gnave's Eyepatch) Plus, the "cower, grovel and beg" feature was thematic. Kobolds aren't actually cowards who grovel at the feet of anyone even slightly intimidating, but that perception of them is known, and they can use it to their advantage
To be honest, both are good. Old Kobolds make for excellent mounted melee combatants, as you'll always have an ally in-range for Pack Tactics. New Kobolds, however, make excellent Druids, since Conjure Animals can make _you_ the Pack Tactic. XD
It's great for rogues tho, advantage whenever you want, wherever you want. On command. And if you're a rogue, you're the skill monkey, you are GOING to have a high proficiency bonus, meaning you probably won't run out of your draconic cry's if you play a half decently optimized rogue.
There is one thing almost everyone overlooks about the Van Richten's Lineages. In the "Ancestral Legacy" feature (the one that lets you keep a flying speed) it states "If you don’t keep any of those elements or you choose this lineage at character creation, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice." Note specifically "or you choose this lineage at character creation" meaning if you start the game as one of these races you CAN'T keep a fly speed (or anything else) from a previous race. You only get that if you become one through the course of play. Still strong options. But not as broken as everyone seems to think.
Yeah that’s the thing I thought about. Although imagine a Dhampir Winged Tiefling? That’s straight up like the most vampire you can get without getting killed by one
@@ellaberintodejuan0524 I always wanted to play a dhampir simic hybrid with manta wings for a combo of wallwalking and glide. Not quite as broken as flight (so more likely to be allowed by DMs) and it really struck me as very cinematic to silently glide down from the ceiling to snack on an enemy.
@@WyzKyd From my reading, if you become a Dhampir after being a Shadar Kai (either at character creation or in the course of play) you would lose the "Blessing of the Raven Queen" (what gives you teleportation) as it is not "any skill proficiencies you gained from it and any climbing, flying, or swimming speed you gained from it." You aren't augmenting your race, but replacing it.
"Screaming "Sneak Attack!" during your sneak attack to get your sneak attack is the kind of big brain thinking I would expect from a kobold" Underrated line
I think it's worth pointing out that number 4 only gets flying speed if you become one over the course of a campaign. If you choose one of them at level one it doesn't matter what race you were before, because you don't get those benifits. source is this quote "At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of one of the game’s fantastical races. Alternatively, you can choose one of the following lineages. If you choose a lineage, you might have once been a member of another race, but you aren’t any longer. You now possess only your lineage’s racial traits." right on page 15. Don't get me wrong they are still super powerful, but I think not mentioning this is very misleading
I gotta admit, my heart skipped a beat when I read "The 10 most powerful races" before "in DnD5e". This could've been a whole different video! Glad you didn't do it!
This always happens.... I love Kobolds. But apparently, people loved them so much that now they've made them powerful.... WHICH DEFEATS THE BIGGEST PURPOSE OF PLAYING A KOBOLD
I built a shadar kai light domain cleric because he was tired of the dark. And he's my favorite character I've ever made. He's so fun to play and is very broken on accident lol
Nice. I'm playing a Rogue/Battlemaster Shadar-kai and yes, I'm very OP as well. A crazy skill monkey when I can swap skills and the fighter giving me an extra tool prof. Teleportation sets up my sneak attack easily, or my battlemaster sets it up (maneuvering attack is so underrated, I just tell people to flank me and use my 2nd attack to trigger sneak attack. Or, if my teammate is prone from a trip attack I just tell them to stand up and boom, have them back in flanking position). The resistance to damage means I can teleport into dangerous positions and push people around.
The problem with using the Longtooth Shifter ability with Moon Druids or Barbarians, is that it takes a surprising amount of set up. Round 1: bonus action transform/rage. Round 2: Shift. Round 3: Bite. You can't even use the bite feature until the 3rd round, the fight might be over by then.
I agree, for any class with no armor proficiency Mountain Dwarf is good and with Tasha's 'amorphous blob' rules it makes them the best. Armor, weapons, Versatile casting, and the CON to back it up. You can be the true war wizard.
I loved being a Warforged Artificer. I bought dark vision goggles and was able to rework them into lenses for my eyes so I had dark vision. We did a lot of water based stuff so the water genasi was swimming around as I walked on the bottom allowing the goblin cleric that used water breathing to hold on my shoulder. Also taking gunslinger class was awesome.
I’m currently playing a shadar-kai cleric in a campaign with friends; can confirm it’s incredibly powerful and SUCH a good and fun race to play! 😁 Using that blessing of the raven queen teleportation bonus action has saved my ass a few times in combat
Another fun thing with the races that don't need to sleep or are immune to magical sleep, pick up the Alert feat; it not only makes you impossible to surprise unless dying, but also denies enemy sneak attacks even if you cannot perceive them. It's kind of like blindsight, which is almost impossible to get outside of a particular tasha warlock invocation, except this doesn't have a range limitation. Lineages are basically modern day Templates from older editions, and would've loved if they added more but doubt that'll happen now outside of homebrew.
My testament to Mountain Dwarves comes from Geran Hammerstroke, my Mountain Dwarf Barbarian I created for a campaign that unfortunately never took off. Through an unusual stroke of fortune, I rolled two 18s for stats, and a couple other really basic rolls (10s or 12s). Being a barbarian, I put both of those 18s into Strength and Constitution, giving Geran TWO TWENTIES AT LEVEL ONE! My DM allowed this for one reason...I rolled a 4 for my intelligence. That campaign never ended up happening, but I did get to use him for a higher level one shot, and I must say, it was really fun playing a dwarf who was as dumb as the mountain he was born in but could absolutely destroy everything he came in contact with. Which almost included our changeling rogue on a couple of occasions lol.
i for one like both, often we use both new & legacy versions of races at the same time & justify them as a distant group, tribe or colony. its possible to classify them as for ex:"Labyrinth"&"war"minotaurs "primal"&"Grumsh"Orc, "pack"&"cry" Kobold etc
@@partymantis3421oh that’s really cool! I saw a Hyrule homebrew that did this too! The Rito race (bird people in Zelda) have showed up twice, once as mostly human fellas who live on a dragon island and gain wings through a ritual, and once as straight-up bird people who love among frozen mountain peaks… so they made them two different subraces: coastal and mountain rito!
Nah, as much as I dislike MotM and love Volo's, the latter's kobold is the worst-designed part of the book, only second to the orc. ASD in 5E? An ability that makes them useless most of the time, and another one that makes them OP when the first one isn't active? "Cower, Grovel & Beg" as a special attack, the race whose individuals routinely sacrifice themselves for the sake of protecting their community? No thanks...
@@drakegrandx5914 firstly, kobolds ARE cowards, secondly it's more of a ruse anyway, thirdly that is the worst part about it. Kobolds are also a monstrous race, which meant ASD's which have since been removed even from volo's kobold, daylight sensitivity is fun to get around and pack tactics isn't OP unless you abuse it
Been playing a necromancer lich using reborn as his race in a campaign for a while, and reborn is underrated in my experience with talking about races outside of the flying exploit, I've never seen someone use it before. Advantage on death saves is great, and knowledge from a past life has been incredible since my modifers for the checks I usually make are so good even a bad roll isn't that bad and can be made passable by that d6, not to mention how every other aspect of it has come into play at some point, we've fought multiple enemies that dealt poison, the 4 hour long rest without sleep has been super handy, and just last session an enemy did an AoE that would've put me to sleep.
Welcome back you magnificent bastid! You have been missed and way to start the new year. I only changed my mind on what race to play about 12 times. Please keep up the great work and I hope your time off helped you relax and recharge!
13:25 dude, it's literally stated on the image you presented "OR IF YOU CHOOSE THIS LINEAGE AT CHARACTER CREATION, YOU GAIN PROFICIENCY IN TWO SKILLS OF YOUR CHOICE" You Can Not Start The Game As A Flying Dhampir
Agreed. This list is accurate. I've been playing and DM'ing for decades and been a 5e supporter for a long time. We've seen a LOT of power creep come into the game with different races, but the mountain dwarf has always been broken. They are incredibly versatile and have only gotten more powerful as Tasha's and additional power creep has made it into the game. Thank you, Tasha's.
Mountain dwarf was always strong, but it wasn't broken before Tasha's. The +2 str and the medium armor proficiency really aren't useful on the same character. Once they introduced the rule to swap out proficiencies or reassign attribute bonuses though, it just became a stupidly powerful subrace.
@@nathans9764 I would politely disagree. The fact you got a +4 starting with medium armor proficiency gave you a lot of ways to customize. Their poison resistance, Darkvision, proficiency in 4 weapons, and light & medium armor made them amazing for any class. It might not have been optimal, but it was still beastly strong. Of all the original races, when 5e came out, it was the strongest and when Tasha's hit, it made it even stronger. Even without Tasha's and a point buy system you could drop your Str to 8 and still have a 10 Str and use the points elsewhere. It was extremely strong for any caster or melee combatant. About the only class it didn't benefit was the monk in the early game.
14:12 Just a footnote, instead of "Que siempre es útil" (the last word has emphasis on the U, btw) in order to keep the hand theme going you could have used "Que es bueno tener a mano", because otherwise you are saying "Which is always useful" while raising your hand, so that doesn't make much sense 😅 Anyways, that was just a tiny detail I wanted to mention. Your video is awesome and I loved learning how powerful many of the races I've used are (whereas I chose them for completely unrelated reasons like just wanting to be an adorable little owl person 😂)
My #1 all-time favorite character I've ever made is a Warforged Forge Cleric named Heisenberg (which can LOOSELY be translated as the fire/heat of the mountain). At first it was a gimmick because I'd have 20AC at level 1 & 23 with Plate Mail at level 6. MORE with magical items. When I actually started to build the CHARACTER I had so many fun(ny) ideas to make his personality to the point where when we were done with the campaign... I was sad that I used it for a one-shot with no future campaigns in sight to use him again... My solution? I used him as a merchant & craftsman NPC for a new party in a campaign that took place 30 years after all of the others we had done. He was pretty much a writer/DM's convenience tool to help guide the party in any direction they needed to go if they haven't spotted or used clues & intel they were given on what task(s) to do next. Did a Reborn Tortle Spore Druid whose entire body was practically a black-as-night, gooey, walking talking fungal colony. He has no idea who he was before he woke up in the Underdark next to an enormous, black fungal mass about a mile away from a Mychonid colony. He spent time around before heading to the surface (almost immediately being chased away by nearby villagers with torches & pichforks) then met his current party at some point before level 5 (where we started the campaign). Funny thing is, we run point-buy, so the lowest stat we get is an 8. The DM let me break this little rule & made my Intelligence a 6 for RP purposes (in exchange for a +1 to Charisma to balance it out). He has a perpetually high AF demeanor, a thick Canadian accent (like, cartoon level thick) & an extremely happy & supportive attitude with almost anyone in spite of the fact that people are usually freaked TF out at first glance. The DM let me rules lawyer keeping his shell defense feature, as a turtle's shell is literally fused to their spine. Sadly, 2 of the 6 players had a change in schedule the same time the DM made a few bad decisions & the entire campaign pretty much died. Sad.
My personal list of most powerful D&D Races. 1. Eladrin(especially Summer) 2. Shadar-Kai 3. High Elf 4. Mountain Dwarf 5. Duergar 6. Drow 7. Dhampir 8. Tortle 9. Deep Gnome 10. Tiefling But each their own thoughts/opinions/preferences.
As a DM, IMHO flight is overrated. Sure it's good, and it negates many "puzzle-y" elements a DM could use to craft a fun scene/session with, but it's not like a flying creature is impossible to challenge. Plus, going airborne will probably mean losing AC bonuses of cover. There are benefits to not using it. That said, I make my own adventures based on my players' characters and wishes - maybe it's different at tables who play more pre-made modules. To me, flight is more like the players going "yeah, we'll just skip this puzzle". It doesn't really break anything.
@@TheRawrnstuffYup. In addition, not every situation will be in outside or in a room with vaulted ceilings. “The ten foot monster looms in front of you.” “I fly over him.” “Cool. With the twelve foot ceilings, he lifts his hand and pancakes you to it.”
@@TheRawrnstuff my DM is great I’ve gotten the benefit of flying so staying out of range but it’s broad daylight. Our last fight had us in a cramped dark cave so no flying but I got the benefit of being in darkness tho I still almost got turned to stone. I’m not trying to power game I’m just having fun with the build I got and my DM is cool with it and makes sure to keep us all moderately challenged. Also I have already been saved by having advantage on saving throws
And a side note doing the whole “well I can shoot at a 600ft range and they can’t.” Just staying completely out of range and just shooting into combat is actually kinda boring for me. Ya it would keep me safe but sometimes I’m not even moving. Compare that to a different combat where we are in a town and we were using the vaulted roofs as cover and going prone behind them. Super flavorful and it felt super dynamic and fun
@@omegadragonRandom Yeah, avoiding "boring" is a big reason why I love playing a monk. It's way more fun for me to zip around the battlefield, take out enemy ranged fire and adds, and interact with the environment causing havoc and completing "side objectives" while the rest of the party is locked in combat. People who think Monk is a martial class (and complain about how bad he is at it) have it all figured wrong. They want to play a totem barbarian but have forgotten they don't have to choose Bear. Whoops, pardon the side-rant. Off-topic.
I really am starting to like changelings. They don’t have a game-breaking ability, but the sheer versatility of being able to shapeshift is so useful. Warlocks get mask of many faces, but that requires verbal+somatic components and has to be redone every hour. Changelings are just cool and great bards or rogues if u wanna do stealth-intruige stuff
We had a warforged in a game I run who for long rests, would like describe how he folds up like a box into a basically an oversized security camera. And the Harengon who while very intelligent had low wisdom, and the one time the warforged stacked of up his armor in a way where it looked like he rests as, and the Harengon knocked it over, she thought she killed the warforged.
Swifthide Shifter + Swarmkeeper Ranger. Is actually a Queen bee and her spawn. Gets distracted by flowers, wanting to touch them. Always seems to have honey on them.
I made a Dhampir out of a Kingfisher flavoured Arakokra. Gave him a custome background Pearldiver with these abilities, swimming movement, water vehicles, comfortable lifestyle when on the coasts or islands, and a few times a day adding a die to Constitution checks(to represent the extreme times spent underwater seeking pearls, and attacks are Stat Checks after all). Of course went Lycan Bloodhunter... with the wolfy aesthetic changed to a Skyrimesque Vampire Lord aesthetic for transformations.
At one point I used a kobold with the craftiness, rogue/scout, skill expert, and skilled feats in order to make my character proficient in nearly every skill in the game...... then boom, reliable talent
Hexblood is my favorite race just because saying "my mom was a hag, but decided to change her ways and just open a tavern" is always great, plus ancestral legacy is BUSTED
You don't get the traits of your prior race if you start as a Hexblood, only if you become one during the campaign. People often overlook this important balancing part of the race.
Hexbloods also make pretty great warlocks too, a free hex spell that doesn't cost you a warlock spell slot is massive for any warlock spamming Eldritch blast. Plus preparing hex and disguise self from your race frees you up to pick up other spells from warlock and your subclass list since currently those aren't automatic preps like for I think every other class. Also you can do some fun things with spells using the ribbon feature, while you don't cast from that space you do see from it which opens up more options in the cases where spells only require you to see the target like casting spells from armor and corners or behind cover
I'm playing a warforge barbarian in my new campaign, they best part is that Warforges (depending on which one you are) deal more damage with just fists, and barbarians can deal bonus damage with no weapons too
I’m playing a thri-kreen abjuration wizard who subclassed into cleric. With war caster feat as well. He wields 4 shields and casts spells. Although, some DM’s might not let you hold a shield in your secondary arms.
Halflings are underrated. They basically get a lite version of lucky as a racial ability and are small enough to occupy the same square as another being without causing issue
This man needs a t-shirt to buy that says "Darkvision, which is always handy" and below it is just a cut out of him making the most dead inside face imaginable with his hand up
The bugbear man... that reach...+5 Reach. So Tunnel Fighter, Great Weapon Fighting, Great Weapon Master, Polearm Master and Sentinel. +5 Reach Primeval Guardian 3, +5 Reach, +1 attack via Horde Breaker, +1 Fighting Style. Mystic's Giant's Growth passive +5 reach, active power for addition +5 for two minutes or two hours of +2 AC from beast hide. Take it all onto a Champion Fighter primary for those lovely crits on 18-20. Free opportunity attacks that end movement, and opportunity attacks when they move 5 feet, and opportunity attacks when they get within 20' of you. Upto 16 levels and a fourth feat and third fighting style to pick as a fighter.
Shades-Kai are heavily underrated, I’ve yet to come across anyone else who plays them. They’re blessing of the Raven Queen feature is beyond broken, especially with melee-focused class, like Paladin
Warforged I'm p.sure are on here only because they're more well known than their smaller, cooler, stronger cousins, the Autognome. they get everything warforged does, but are also immune to charm/hold person, other spells/effects that target humanoids, can use their hit die just from the mending cantrip, and extra proficiencies. Autognome literally goes up to Warforged and says "anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you!"
I’m playing a warforged zealot barb in one of my games and he’s very quickly become one of my favorite characters. He’s reflavored as an animated suit of armor who got put there through some Fullmetal Alchemist type magic and all of my zealot abilities have been reflavored as arcane potency that just explodes out of him when he rages.
Shadar-Kai Trance. You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain consciousness. Whenever you finish this trance, you can gain two proficiencies that you don’t have, each one with a weapon or a tool of your choice selected from the Player’s Handbook. You mystically acquire these proficiencies by drawing them from shared elven memory, and you retain them until you finish your next long rest.
I would love a new playable race from the shadowfell that is basically a humanoid shadow with wings and that all stats are halved during daylight hours, quartered on moonlit nights that used to rule the shadowfell but are in the middle of a cultural recession and simply decided the best course of action was to walk the mortal planes for answers every few thousand years or so.
A formerly stron option was the old Changeling which allowed you to take a +3 in Charisma. This allowed you to get Charisma Score of 18 with point buy or 20 by rolling. Combined with the Changelings Shapechanger feature at level 1 you were already one of the best infiltrators. This however got changed I believe with Monsters of The Multiverse to the new standard +2/+1 rule
I'm currently playing a Winged Tiefling Grave Cleric. Previously played a Warforged Forge Cleric, I really liked that character. And before him, I was a Githzerai Tempest Cleric, also very fun.
I'm surprised I don't hear more people talking about how great hill dwarves are. Yeah, they don't get medium and light armor proficiency that their mountain cousins get, but they do get an extra point of HP per level. That's basically a +2 boost to CON, albeit a +2 that doesn't help with constitution saving throws. And hill dwarves still get the +2 and +1 stat boost. All totaled, that's essentially +5 to starting stats, more than any race except non-variant humans. Throw on the other dwarf abilities, like resistance to poison, advantage against being poisoned, and the oft-mentioned dark vision, which is always handy, and the fact that they are in the PHB so they are difficult to ban, and they make my personal favorite race in the game.
I am a fan of reborn winged tiefling. They make good decaf coffee locks (just using the additional 4 hours while others sleep to take shorts rests and convert your warlock spells to sorcery points). Add that to flying in medium armor, and it is a recipe for fun!
Really good video but, there is one thing I would like to correct about the races that only needs 4 hours of long rest. Anyone can actually cast spells right before a long rest finishes and still get the benefits of the long rest at the end. Phb 186. states that you can spend 1 hour casting spells during it, so the 4 spells mentioned above can be done by anyone, however there are certain spells that take 1 hour which would only allow 1 spell cast by any other character which these characters can cast up 5 of in the same time.
Justice for Autognomes! 1D4 to any roll without using your reaction, base AC of 13 without wearing armor, a non-humanoid creature type (so hold person doesn't work on you), and you can heal yourself with a cantrip.
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changeling makes a 9th level assasin rogue feature useless at level 1 as well as the disguise kit and disguise self spell, where is it?
i will point out hill dwarf with the extra +1 to hp every level is pretty solid.
@@saqwana25 that is relevant until about level 3 because your hit die is at least six times bigger
Why is half elf not on here ? A plus 4 to stats , advantage against charmed , no magic naps and 2 skills / lots if versatility
Eh depends on the class.
20:41 everybody dunks on standard human until they roll 6 odd-numbered ability scores when making their character.
+ not even two minutes before it was good to have many ability score increases, but standard humans with their whooping +6 in total are mysteriously forgotten…
@@ChiefderWahrheit Because that's all they get, +1 across the board and nothing else of note. For most classes, that means points into your dump stats. So they just become jack of all trades master of none. That's why they're low a tier.
@@MrSpannners but its the easyest choice for multiclass builds. even if its an abomination of 5 classes and more
and they all 9 9 9 9 9 9
Ya so many times I been called a basic B$%ch for playing normal human as I roll 13 15 16 13 11 15 then add +1 to all stats become 14 16 17 14 12 16 then take resilient Con at level 4 giving me a 16 INT and DEX with a CON of 18 playing a support Artficer I rarely drop Concentration at Level 10 Bonus +8 with a +4 from int from flash of genius when needed with mind sharper infuion
WHAT?! No thri-kreen?!?! Unsubbed, disliked, banned, + reported.
they 4 arm and free mage armor... why he not great?
HE IS RACIST AGAINST INSECTS!
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@@WackassBirrB he great, but I think he number 11.
I remember we had thri-kreen monk in dark sun campaign and i gave him jump becouse we needed to catch a guy who was running (non combat chace) and had good head start. Our thri-kreen was able to jump over 200ft per jump 😂
Any Dark Sun generated race is monstrous right? From the OG AD&D they get more stats, more armor, survival skills, psionics...
Imagine a Dark Sun Dwarf just waking up on say....Faerun....would be a (2023 parlance) Gigachad Dwarf....
“Which is always handy” man’s was unhinged this video
The amazing thing about the Dhampir is you can use their Bite while wildshaped! This means you can make your bear attacks and then bite for extra damage/hp. Super cool, and mega appropriate if you're going for a vampire build (Dracula WOULD BE a Druid).
Funnily enough, if you go 5 levels in monk, 1 level in fighter and 8 levels in spores druid- you get every ability a vampire does. Very fun, and you can reflavor your symbiotic entity as a swarm of bats surrounding you
If you take Kansai monk you can choose your teeth as a weapon and increase the damage die as you level too!
@@Reaper_of_Mars You don't need to do that. They're simple melee weapons, they're already monk weapons.
@@The_Crimson_Witch I never realised this! It would be a pretty big investment. I supposed 5 levels of Monk upgrades the damage die on the teeth to 1d6, but also gives you extra attack and FoB. That means if you went Moon Druid, you'd be using animal forms with an extra attack, BA attack, and the potentially to FoB five times per short rest. Not necessarily the worst? Moon Druid scaling is so wacky though that delaying its progression/strong start hurts.
I’d actually argue for Dracula being a Swarmkeeper Ranger, but Druid could work too.
Funny thing about the bugbear squeze ability it specifies small. If you were a rune knight using giants might that had enlarge cast on you would still be able to do it.
Same thing with raging giant barbarians
Either way I just love how absolutely hilarious that is that a huge+ creature able to fit through cracks in medium sized doors or them playing like a slasher movie and ambushing others
@@mohammadmurie The absolute horror that would be a huge Bugbear squeezing through a small space. Pure nightmare fuel right there.
@adambielen8996 exactly it would be prefect for a Halloween slasher based campaign as the killer
Ok hear me out. A Champion Fighter bug bear (+5 reach) huge sized (+10 reach) with a polarm (+5 reach) primordial guardian dip (+5 reach) tunnel fighter and polarm mastery (free attack for getting too close) hiding in the roots under a mangrove like tree, or in an alcove guarding a hallway. A crit heavy self healing beast you can't get within 30 feet of.
Ranger/Primordial 3
Fighter/Champion 17
Pretty sure the Rune Carver background/feat would allow self casting of enlarge.
A 1 level Mystic dip could give another +5 reach all the time and +2AC for a couple hours a day.
No Satyr? 35 walking speed? Jumpies? Persuasion & Performance? Instruments? MAGIC RESISTANCE?!?!? No? Ok :(
It should be
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Agreed playing a satyr druid circle of stars and have gotten saved by the magical resistance multiple times in only 2 encounters and many times by the other features in only about 5 sessions he probably didn't put it cause no darkvision
I love how his Owlin picture is wearing medium armor
I think it's studded leather.
That is leather.
I feel that whenever the lineages come up, these type of videos tend to gloss over the "if you don't keep these elements *or you choose this lineage at character creation* you gain proficiency in two skills."
Like, that's still really good! Perception, stealth, persuasion, what have you... but if you want to be a Dhampir Owlin with functional wings, you'd need to get turned IN GAME, which then is a whole process and very DM dependent
Table!
I was not expecting a System of a Down meme.
I would've also accepted a Metallica meme
That's the first ad I haven't regretted watching in a while. That thing looks sick. But you better have a cave for it.
one thing i love about dwarf casters in general is that they'd be in actual armor and have actual hit points. Plus they have the best beards, so dwarfs naturally make the best wizards
It might not be especially OP, but a Changeling's face change ability is really good for shenanigans. I've seen Changelings pull off some incredible stunts by doing things like disguising themselves as the BBEG or passing as an old lady to get senior discounts at Fantasy Bath and Bodyworks
The wild thing that makes Changelings pretty crazy is that in MOTM they are classified as Fey, not Humanoid. So they are actually immune to spells that can only target Humanoids like Charm Person or Hold Person. In order to affect them the same way, you need to use the Monster-targeting versions of the spells, which generally require a spell slot of 3 levels higher. You can Charm most PCs with a 1st level spell slot, Hold them with a 2nd, or Dominate them with a 5th, but with a Changeling you need a 4th, 5th, or 8th level slot to do the same thing.
Other lineages that get a benefit like this are Centaur, Fairy, and Satyr in MOTM (all Fey), and Autognome (Construct), Plasmoid (Ooze), and Thri-Kreen (Monstrosity) in Spelljammer.
7:47 Given that Warlock's Aspect of the Moon *does* specify that you can keep watch without sleeping, I doubt this would allow you to keep watch if it doesn't specify that.
A 4-hour long rest is still dummy good though.
Elves have always been watch bots. Yes, you can make perception checks normally while in meditation.
It doesn't say you can't, or that you cannot use your eyes for any purpose, so I'd assume you could.
Elves meditates on how their surroundings are, how the leafs move with the wind, the movement and path of small animals,..., and so on.
Adapt to the type of place you are meditating.
I liked the old kobolds better. Draconic cry is nice, but there's a limited amount of times you can use it. Pack tactics just gives you infinite advantage as long as your tank is doing his job.
and most importantly the flavor is great
Plus, there were ways around sunlight sensitivity (such as playing a caster and saving your attack spells for key moments, or using a Gnave's Eyepatch)
Plus, the "cower, grovel and beg" feature was thematic. Kobolds aren't actually cowards who grovel at the feet of anyone even slightly intimidating, but that perception of them is known, and they can use it to their advantage
@@sev1120 or just wear a hat or sunglasses. That's what i always do.
To be honest, both are good. Old Kobolds make for excellent mounted melee combatants, as you'll always have an ally in-range for Pack Tactics.
New Kobolds, however, make excellent Druids, since Conjure Animals can make _you_ the Pack Tactic. XD
It's great for rogues tho, advantage whenever you want, wherever you want. On command. And if you're a rogue, you're the skill monkey, you are GOING to have a high proficiency bonus, meaning you probably won't run out of your draconic cry's if you play a half decently optimized rogue.
I love the kobalt screaming sneak attack I've never wanted to make a dnd character more :D
There is one thing almost everyone overlooks about the Van Richten's Lineages. In the "Ancestral Legacy" feature (the one that lets you keep a flying speed) it states "If you don’t keep any of those elements or you choose this lineage at character creation, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice."
Note specifically "or you choose this lineage at character creation" meaning if you start the game as one of these races you CAN'T keep a fly speed (or anything else) from a previous race. You only get that if you become one through the course of play.
Still strong options. But not as broken as everyone seems to think.
Yeah that’s the thing I thought about. Although imagine a Dhampir Winged Tiefling? That’s straight up like the most vampire you can get without getting killed by one
@@ellaberintodejuan0524 I always wanted to play a dhampir simic hybrid with manta wings for a combo of wallwalking and glide. Not quite as broken as flight (so more likely to be allowed by DMs) and it really struck me as very cinematic to silently glide down from the ceiling to snack on an enemy.
Exactly. The only thing you get to keep when you replace a race at character creation is a bit of the original flavour.
@loron20 wait so if you chose a dhampir shadar kai at character creation would you still keep teleportation?
@@WyzKyd From my reading, if you become a Dhampir after being a Shadar Kai (either at character creation or in the course of play) you would lose the "Blessing of the Raven Queen" (what gives you teleportation) as it is not "any skill proficiencies you gained from it and any climbing, flying, or swimming speed you gained from it." You aren't augmenting your race, but replacing it.
"Screaming "Sneak Attack!" during your sneak attack to get your sneak attack is the kind of big brain thinking I would expect from a kobold"
Underrated line
I think it's worth pointing out that number 4 only gets flying speed if you become one over the course of a campaign. If you choose one of them at level one it doesn't matter what race you were before, because you don't get those benifits. source is this quote "At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of one of the game’s fantastical races. Alternatively, you can choose one of the following lineages. If you choose a lineage, you might have once been a member of another race, but you aren’t any longer. You now possess only your lineage’s racial traits." right on page 15. Don't get me wrong they are still super powerful, but I think not mentioning this is very misleading
I gotta admit, my heart skipped a beat when I read "The 10 most powerful races" before "in DnD5e". This could've been a whole different video! Glad you didn't do it!
The thumbnail saying “best race” was just really funny.
im in a campaign now as a shadar kai, and with the teleport ability, its basically just a free misty step and has saved my ass so many times
that final darkvision is handy fkn jumpscared me out of my chair
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This always happens....
I love Kobolds. But apparently, people loved them so much that now they've made them powerful.... WHICH DEFEATS THE BIGGEST PURPOSE OF PLAYING A KOBOLD
I built a shadar kai light domain cleric because he was tired of the dark. And he's my favorite character I've ever made. He's so fun to play and is very broken on accident lol
Nice. I'm playing a Rogue/Battlemaster Shadar-kai and yes, I'm very OP as well. A crazy skill monkey when I can swap skills and the fighter giving me an extra tool prof. Teleportation sets up my sneak attack easily, or my battlemaster sets it up (maneuvering attack is so underrated, I just tell people to flank me and use my 2nd attack to trigger sneak attack. Or, if my teammate is prone from a trip attack I just tell them to stand up and boom, have them back in flanking position). The resistance to damage means I can teleport into dangerous positions and push people around.
"que siempre es útil"... That's a very accurate translation! :D
that "que siempre es util" made me laugh as someone who has Spanish as his mother language, great vid
"Darkvision... It's always Handy"
The problem with using the Longtooth Shifter ability with Moon Druids or Barbarians, is that it takes a surprising amount of set up. Round 1: bonus action transform/rage. Round 2: Shift. Round 3: Bite. You can't even use the bite feature until the 3rd round, the fight might be over by then.
My brother you can bite in the turn you shift.
@@Orpheu5S You are correct. I was looking at the old Eberron Shifter.
@@RingXross Its alright pal, now go bite some monsters😎
I still think "Draconic Cry" should have been "Raucous Yipping". Perfect description of a distraction, giving advantage. Also fits Kobolds better.
I agree, for any class with no armor proficiency Mountain Dwarf is good and with Tasha's 'amorphous blob' rules it makes them the best. Armor, weapons, Versatile casting, and the CON to back it up. You can be the true war wizard.
I enjoyed the "always handy" bit throughout this. Not sure what this says about me tbh but hey, I'm happy :p
I loved being a Warforged Artificer. I bought dark vision goggles and was able to rework them into lenses for my eyes so I had dark vision. We did a lot of water based stuff so the water genasi was swimming around as I walked on the bottom allowing the goblin cleric that used water breathing to hold on my shoulder. Also taking gunslinger class was awesome.
I’m currently playing a shadar-kai cleric in a campaign with friends; can confirm it’s incredibly powerful and SUCH a good and fun race to play! 😁 Using that blessing of the raven queen teleportation bonus action has saved my ass a few times in combat
Another fun thing with the races that don't need to sleep or are immune to magical sleep, pick up the Alert feat; it not only makes you impossible to surprise unless dying, but also denies enemy sneak attacks even if you cannot perceive them. It's kind of like blindsight, which is almost impossible to get outside of a particular tasha warlock invocation, except this doesn't have a range limitation.
Lineages are basically modern day Templates from older editions, and would've loved if they added more but doubt that'll happen now outside of homebrew.
My testament to Mountain Dwarves comes from Geran Hammerstroke, my Mountain Dwarf Barbarian I created for a campaign that unfortunately never took off. Through an unusual stroke of fortune, I rolled two 18s for stats, and a couple other really basic rolls (10s or 12s). Being a barbarian, I put both of those 18s into Strength and Constitution, giving Geran TWO TWENTIES AT LEVEL ONE! My DM allowed this for one reason...I rolled a 4 for my intelligence. That campaign never ended up happening, but I did get to use him for a higher level one shot, and I must say, it was really fun playing a dwarf who was as dumb as the mountain he was born in but could absolutely destroy everything he came in contact with. Which almost included our changeling rogue on a couple of occasions lol.
17:00 I wondered when Lucky would be mentioned and chuckeled at "If you want to break the game..."
I refuse to accept the new kobold, VOLO'S GUIDE FOR LIFE
FOR LIFE!!!
i for one like both,
often we use both new & legacy versions of races at the same time & justify them as a distant group, tribe or colony.
its possible to classify them as for ex:"Labyrinth"&"war"minotaurs "primal"&"Grumsh"Orc, "pack"&"cry" Kobold etc
@@partymantis3421oh that’s really cool! I saw a Hyrule homebrew that did this too! The Rito race (bird people in Zelda) have showed up twice, once as mostly human fellas who live on a dragon island and gain wings through a ritual, and once as straight-up bird people who love among frozen mountain peaks… so they made them two different subraces: coastal and mountain rito!
Nah, as much as I dislike MotM and love Volo's, the latter's kobold is the worst-designed part of the book, only second to the orc. ASD in 5E? An ability that makes them useless most of the time, and another one that makes them OP when the first one isn't active? "Cower, Grovel & Beg" as a special attack, the race whose individuals routinely sacrifice themselves for the sake of protecting their community? No thanks...
@@drakegrandx5914 firstly, kobolds ARE cowards, secondly it's more of a ruse anyway, thirdly that is the worst part about it. Kobolds are also a monstrous race, which meant ASD's which have since been removed even from volo's kobold, daylight sensitivity is fun to get around and pack tactics isn't OP unless you abuse it
Been playing a necromancer lich using reborn as his race in a campaign for a while, and reborn is underrated in my experience with talking about races outside of the flying exploit, I've never seen someone use it before. Advantage on death saves is great, and knowledge from a past life has been incredible since my modifers for the checks I usually make are so good even a bad roll isn't that bad and can be made passable by that d6, not to mention how every other aspect of it has come into play at some point, we've fought multiple enemies that dealt poison, the 4 hour long rest without sleep has been super handy, and just last session an enemy did an AoE that would've put me to sleep.
Glad to see you're back!
Welcome back you magnificent bastid! You have been missed and way to start the new year. I only changed my mind on what race to play about 12 times. Please keep up the great work and I hope your time off helped you relax and recharge!
13:25 dude, it's literally stated on the image you presented "OR IF YOU CHOOSE THIS LINEAGE AT CHARACTER CREATION, YOU GAIN PROFICIENCY IN TWO SKILLS OF YOUR CHOICE"
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Agreed. This list is accurate. I've been playing and DM'ing for decades and been a 5e supporter for a long time. We've seen a LOT of power creep come into the game with different races, but the mountain dwarf has always been broken. They are incredibly versatile and have only gotten more powerful as Tasha's and additional power creep has made it into the game. Thank you, Tasha's.
Mountain dwarf was always strong, but it wasn't broken before Tasha's. The +2 str and the medium armor proficiency really aren't useful on the same character. Once they introduced the rule to swap out proficiencies or reassign attribute bonuses though, it just became a stupidly powerful subrace.
@@nathans9764 I would politely disagree. The fact you got a +4 starting with medium armor proficiency gave you a lot of ways to customize. Their poison resistance, Darkvision, proficiency in 4 weapons, and light & medium armor made them amazing for any class. It might not have been optimal, but it was still beastly strong. Of all the original races, when 5e came out, it was the strongest and when Tasha's hit, it made it even stronger. Even without Tasha's and a point buy system you could drop your Str to 8 and still have a 10 Str and use the points elsewhere. It was extremely strong for any caster or melee combatant. About the only class it didn't benefit was the monk in the early game.
loved the darkvision "siempre es útil" line😂. great video as usual
14:12 Just a footnote, instead of "Que siempre es útil" (the last word has emphasis on the U, btw) in order to keep the hand theme going you could have used "Que es bueno tener a mano", because otherwise you are saying "Which is always useful" while raising your hand, so that doesn't make much sense 😅
Anyways, that was just a tiny detail I wanted to mention. Your video is awesome and I loved learning how powerful many of the races I've used are (whereas I chose them for completely unrelated reasons like just wanting to be an adorable little owl person 😂)
My #1 all-time favorite character I've ever made is a Warforged Forge Cleric named Heisenberg (which can LOOSELY be translated as the fire/heat of the mountain). At first it was a gimmick because I'd have 20AC at level 1 & 23 with Plate Mail at level 6. MORE with magical items. When I actually started to build the CHARACTER I had so many fun(ny) ideas to make his personality to the point where when we were done with the campaign... I was sad that I used it for a one-shot with no future campaigns in sight to use him again...
My solution? I used him as a merchant & craftsman NPC for a new party in a campaign that took place 30 years after all of the others we had done. He was pretty much a writer/DM's convenience tool to help guide the party in any direction they needed to go if they haven't spotted or used clues & intel they were given on what task(s) to do next.
Did a Reborn Tortle Spore Druid whose entire body was practically a black-as-night, gooey, walking talking fungal colony. He has no idea who he was before he woke up in the Underdark next to an enormous, black fungal mass about a mile away from a Mychonid colony. He spent time around before heading to the surface (almost immediately being chased away by nearby villagers with torches & pichforks) then met his current party at some point before level 5 (where we started the campaign). Funny thing is, we run point-buy, so the lowest stat we get is an 8. The DM let me break this little rule & made my Intelligence a 6 for RP purposes (in exchange for a +1 to Charisma to balance it out). He has a perpetually high AF demeanor, a thick Canadian accent (like, cartoon level thick) & an extremely happy & supportive attitude with almost anyone in spite of the fact that people are usually freaked TF out at first glance. The DM let me rules lawyer keeping his shell defense feature, as a turtle's shell is literally fused to their spine. Sadly, 2 of the 6 players had a change in schedule the same time the DM made a few bad decisions & the entire campaign pretty much died. Sad.
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My personal list of most powerful D&D Races.
1. Eladrin(especially Summer)
2. Shadar-Kai
3. High Elf
4. Mountain Dwarf
5. Duergar
6. Drow
7. Dhampir
8. Tortle
9. Deep Gnome
10. Tiefling
But each their own thoughts/opinions/preferences.
I always love the aasimar, the level 3 features all slap, the flavor is super customizable, they have 2 damage resistances and free healing
Owlin Reborn Gloomstalker Ranger here. Im pretty sure most DM's hate me, however mine is cool with it
As a DM, IMHO flight is overrated. Sure it's good, and it negates many "puzzle-y" elements a DM could use to craft a fun scene/session with, but it's not like a flying creature is impossible to challenge. Plus, going airborne will probably mean losing AC bonuses of cover. There are benefits to not using it.
That said, I make my own adventures based on my players' characters and wishes - maybe it's different at tables who play more pre-made modules. To me, flight is more like the players going "yeah, we'll just skip this puzzle". It doesn't really break anything.
@@TheRawrnstuffYup. In addition, not every situation will be in outside or in a room with vaulted ceilings.
“The ten foot monster looms in front of you.”
“I fly over him.”
“Cool. With the twelve foot ceilings, he lifts his hand and pancakes you to it.”
@@TheRawrnstuff my DM is great I’ve gotten the benefit of flying so staying out of range but it’s broad daylight. Our last fight had us in a cramped dark cave so no flying but I got the benefit of being in darkness tho I still almost got turned to stone. I’m not trying to power game I’m just having fun with the build I got and my DM is cool with it and makes sure to keep us all moderately challenged. Also I have already been saved by having advantage on saving throws
And a side note doing the whole “well I can shoot at a 600ft range and they can’t.” Just staying completely out of range and just shooting into combat is actually kinda boring for me. Ya it would keep me safe but sometimes I’m not even moving. Compare that to a different combat where we are in a town and we were using the vaulted roofs as cover and going prone behind them. Super flavorful and it felt super dynamic and fun
@@omegadragonRandom Yeah, avoiding "boring" is a big reason why I love playing a monk. It's way more fun for me to zip around the battlefield, take out enemy ranged fire and adds, and interact with the environment causing havoc and completing "side objectives" while the rest of the party is locked in combat.
People who think Monk is a martial class (and complain about how bad he is at it) have it all figured wrong. They want to play a totem barbarian but have forgotten they don't have to choose Bear.
Whoops, pardon the side-rant. Off-topic.
Using Malekith the witch king to represent the Shadari Kai.
BASED!
I almost always skip ads in videos, but I watched through this one just because you made it so hilarious. Great work.
Swashbuckler mountain dwarf with Medium Armor master. Never be hit again
I really am starting to like changelings. They don’t have a game-breaking ability, but the sheer versatility of being able to shapeshift is so useful. Warlocks get mask of many faces, but that requires verbal+somatic components and has to be redone every hour. Changelings are just cool and great bards or rogues if u wanna do stealth-intruige stuff
We had a warforged in a game I run who for long rests, would like describe how he folds up like a box into a basically an oversized security camera. And the Harengon who while very intelligent had low wisdom, and the one time the warforged stacked of up his armor in a way where it looked like he rests as, and the Harengon knocked it over, she thought she killed the warforged.
I’m currently playing a reborn tiefling barbarian path of the kaiju and it is so much fun.
So we counting out gem dragonborns for busted flyers? Heavy armor flight at level 5 😂
Swifthide Shifter + Swarmkeeper Ranger. Is actually a Queen bee and her spawn. Gets distracted by flowers, wanting to touch them. Always seems to have honey on them.
The "zinc!" In the ad tickled me
I made a Dhampir out of a Kingfisher flavoured Arakokra. Gave him a custome background Pearldiver with these abilities, swimming movement, water vehicles, comfortable lifestyle when on the coasts or islands, and a few times a day adding a die to Constitution checks(to represent the extreme times spent underwater seeking pearls, and attacks are Stat Checks after all). Of course went Lycan Bloodhunter... with the wolfy aesthetic changed to a Skyrimesque Vampire Lord aesthetic for transformations.
At one point I used a kobold with the craftiness, rogue/scout, skill expert, and skilled feats in order to make my character proficient in nearly every skill in the game...... then boom, reliable talent
So just to be clear... Darkvision is indeed handy???
Great video.
I have a barbarian wildhunt shifter and my DM considered nerfing my wildhunt form because of that advantage thing 😂
I'm honestly surprised that Hobgoblin wasn't on this list. Their teamplayer synergy is crazy good, I slept on them for so long.
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Hexblood is my favorite race just because saying "my mom was a hag, but decided to change her ways and just open a tavern" is always great, plus ancestral legacy is BUSTED
You don't get the traits of your prior race if you start as a Hexblood, only if you become one during the campaign. People often overlook this important balancing part of the race.
Hexbloods also make pretty great warlocks too, a free hex spell that doesn't cost you a warlock spell slot is massive for any warlock spamming Eldritch blast. Plus preparing hex and disguise self from your race frees you up to pick up other spells from warlock and your subclass list since currently those aren't automatic preps like for I think every other class. Also you can do some fun things with spells using the ribbon feature, while you don't cast from that space you do see from it which opens up more options in the cases where spells only require you to see the target like casting spells from armor and corners or behind cover
Remember that the rules introduced in Tasha's let you replace any skill proficiencies you get from your race to any other skill proficiency.
I'm playing a warforge barbarian in my new campaign, they best part is that Warforges (depending on which one you are) deal more damage with just fists, and barbarians can deal bonus damage with no weapons too
I’m playing a thri-kreen abjuration wizard who subclassed into cleric. With war caster feat as well. He wields 4 shields and casts spells. Although, some DM’s might not let you hold a shield in your secondary arms.
Halflings are underrated. They basically get a lite version of lucky as a racial ability and are small enough to occupy the same square as another being without causing issue
This man needs a t-shirt to buy that says "Darkvision, which is always handy" and below it is just a cut out of him making the most dead inside face imaginable with his hand up
Bro really made a top 10 race list
as a bugbear level 11 rouge you have double advantage on stealth checks plus 1-9 count as 10 on ablity checks
The bugbear man... that reach...+5 Reach.
So Tunnel Fighter, Great Weapon Fighting, Great Weapon Master, Polearm Master and Sentinel. +5 Reach
Primeval Guardian 3, +5 Reach, +1 attack via Horde Breaker, +1 Fighting Style.
Mystic's Giant's Growth passive +5 reach, active power for addition +5 for two minutes or two hours of +2 AC from beast hide.
Take it all onto a Champion Fighter primary for those lovely crits on 18-20. Free opportunity attacks that end movement, and opportunity attacks when they move 5 feet, and opportunity attacks when they get within 20' of you. Upto 16 levels and a fourth feat and third fighting style to pick as a fighter.
Shades-Kai are heavily underrated, I’ve yet to come across anyone else who plays them. They’re blessing of the Raven Queen feature is beyond broken, especially with melee-focused class, like Paladin
Haha, literally describing my current character 😂😂
Thank you. I love a break down of the races. I can show this to new players and this can help them, if they so choose.
There's probably at least a dozen other REALLY strong races too, like Aasimar, Vedalkin, YuanTi, Githzerai, Satyr, etc.
Warforged I'm p.sure are on here only because they're more well known than their smaller, cooler, stronger cousins, the Autognome.
they get everything warforged does, but are also immune to charm/hold person, other spells/effects that target humanoids, can use their hit die just from the mending cantrip, and extra proficiencies.
Autognome literally goes up to Warforged and says "anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you!"
Anything? Including stacking AC?
According to official forgotten realms lore, humans make the most powerful wizards.
My bugbear gloomstalker ranger/fighter/rogue dual wielding hamd crossbows was absolutely so much fun. Almost guaranteed to kill something on turn 1.
Drink-kun been lookin for table-san for awhile now.. Drink-Kun will not be denied..
"Is it wrong to like some races more than others?"
"Dude!"
"I meant for DND!"
Goblin boss PC as necromancer. Raised his lost friends and family from the village that was wiped out seeking vengeance.
Gem Flight allows heavy armor and it has hover. Just for 1 minute a day but many partys don't fight more than that.
I’m playing a warforged zealot barb in one of my games and he’s very quickly become one of my favorite characters. He’s reflavored as an animated suit of armor who got put there through some Fullmetal Alchemist type magic and all of my zealot abilities have been reflavored as arcane potency that just explodes out of him when he rages.
Hey man! The mountain dwarf profiency in stone work has definitely come in handy a single time during a long campaign i was a part of!
Shadar-Kai
Trance. You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain consciousness.
Whenever you finish this trance, you can gain two proficiencies that you don’t have, each one with a weapon or a tool of your choice selected from the Player’s Handbook. You mystically acquire these proficiencies by drawing them from shared elven memory, and you retain them until you finish your next long rest.
And it's only in the Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse version
During black history month too, that’s crazy
I would love a new playable race from the shadowfell that is basically a humanoid shadow with wings and that all stats are halved during daylight hours, quartered on moonlit nights that used to rule the shadowfell but are in the middle of a cultural recession and simply decided the best course of action was to walk the mortal planes for answers every few thousand years or so.
I really think Aasimar deserves a slot on that list over some others. That race is bonkers good
Stonecunning has been pretty useful in our CoS game, my dwarf has been able to get extra info about what’s happening with it
My halfling build is really similar to your mountain dwarf, except I also have the lucky feat for free 😂
A formerly stron option was the old Changeling which allowed you to take a +3 in Charisma. This allowed you to get Charisma Score of 18 with point buy or 20 by rolling. Combined with the Changelings Shapechanger feature at level 1 you were already one of the best infiltrators. This however got changed I believe with Monsters of The Multiverse to the new standard +2/+1 rule
I'm currently playing a Winged Tiefling Grave Cleric. Previously played a Warforged Forge Cleric, I really liked that character. And before him, I was a Githzerai Tempest Cleric, also very fun.
I'm surprised I don't hear more people talking about how great hill dwarves are. Yeah, they don't get medium and light armor proficiency that their mountain cousins get, but they do get an extra point of HP per level. That's basically a +2 boost to CON, albeit a +2 that doesn't help with constitution saving throws. And hill dwarves still get the +2 and +1 stat boost. All totaled, that's essentially +5 to starting stats, more than any race except non-variant humans. Throw on the other dwarf abilities, like resistance to poison, advantage against being poisoned, and the oft-mentioned dark vision, which is always handy, and the fact that they are in the PHB so they are difficult to ban, and they make my personal favorite race in the game.
I think one of my favorite tool proficiencies is Mason's Tools. Double Damage to all brick-and-mortar structures.
I am a fan of reborn winged tiefling. They make good decaf coffee locks (just using the additional 4 hours while others sleep to take shorts rests and convert your warlock spells to sorcery points). Add that to flying in medium armor, and it is a recipe for fun!
Really good video but, there is one thing I would like to correct about the races that only needs 4 hours of long rest. Anyone can actually cast spells right before a long rest finishes and still get the benefits of the long rest at the end. Phb 186. states that you can spend 1 hour casting spells during it, so the 4 spells mentioned above can be done by anyone, however there are certain spells that take 1 hour which would only allow 1 spell cast by any other character which these characters can cast up 5 of in the same time.
Justice for Autognomes! 1D4 to any roll without using your reaction, base AC of 13 without wearing armor, a non-humanoid creature type (so hold person doesn't work on you), and you can heal yourself with a cantrip.