5 Tricks All Good Barbarians Know In D&D
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Five useful tricks and tips that all great barbarian players know and use in Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition!
0:00 - Maintaining Rage
1:25 - Abuse Your Consumables
2:55 - Let's Talk About AC
4:20 - Multiclass Is In Session
5:47 - All About Feats
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Barbarian with rogue dip = Jason Vorhees
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"Sure sex is great... I would imagine" That shit killed me fr 🤣🤣🤣
I laughed so hard
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Using Alchemists Fire to maintain rage is a stroke of genius.
1d4+Dex(per a Crawford tweet) for Rage and the added benefit of BEING ON FIRE as you CHARGE YOUR FOES is pretty badass
Throw on a grapple check and you get to light them on fire, too! Flaming hugs for everyone!
I did that once a couple years back, my barbarian/fighter was surrounded by 5-7 Spawn of Kyuss. (He was level 12 or 13 at that point.)
He doused himself with Alchemist's Fire to keep the grubs from burrowing into his skin.
I’ve recently started playing a pit fiend themed tiefling barbarian, and I’ve already been lugging those around for a thematically fitting ranged attack. Definitely gonna use this in the next big fight
The scurge asimar is also a great option to keep deal aoe damage and keep your rage up.
I would love to see a mini series on the role-playability of each class, their strengths and weaknesses as role playing characters and how best to play them, and some tips on how to get the most out of your abilities in a role playing scenario.
awesome idea I'll put it on my list of video plans!
@@DnDShorts Yes please! I still struggle to figure out my level 8 circle of the moon druid's role within our party of a paladin, sorcerer, rogue, and fighter. I feel like a jack of all trades but a master of none.
The best rp class is fighter, you can be anything
Others discourage players to branch out... Like monk, my monk is a thief who simply isn't the rogue class. He's a duelist and thief who's mechanics are monk, not the monk behavior.
@@elgatochurro yeah, flavor is free. I have a barbarian, but only mechanically. All the flavor is a very precise, focused gentleman. Rage is just a very focused state.
Web DM did a series like this, highly recommend!
I'm gonna multiclass my barbarian into alchemist artificer to make a meth dealer
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@@kermitenthusiast485 yis
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I now have the urge to make a barbarian. Very nice, as usual man.
Piggybacking on the ‘always use reckless attack’, it is important to use armor, but not for AC, but for adamantine properties. Adamantine negates critical hits on you, which will be more often when every attack on you is at advantage.
Another notable thing about reckless attack: great when you’re one on one, not so great in mob battles. Seventeen orca have advantage on you?
@@oscarbalfour6851 oh fuck not 17 killer whales
@@ribry8512 yeebaby, the famous roving orca bands of faerun, with their war chiefs Willie and tillikum
Same with Mizzium armor.
@@oscarbalfour6851 I hope you're happy.
Now I have to make this for my game
1:19 or attack an enemy with a javelin
Always the final option, but man it sucks when you're used to doing 30+ damage a turn to go down to 8! If you find yourself caught at range a lot, I recommend checking out the Javelin of Lightning as well as a few potions of flight!
@@DnDShorts You could also throw a handaxe, and use your bonus action to throw another(which might not do extra STR damage but will add extra rage damage anyway). Either way you'd be out of range on your next turn.
@@DnDShorts i mean, it's what you gotta do to keep rage up, why let an attack go to waste?
@@gabejones8112 extra rage only applies on melee.
I took Path of Beast on a simichybrid and a multiclass into rogue to get around this. Take acid spit attack as one of the mutations so you always have a ranged attack to continue proccing rage, and Path of the Beast gives you an extra 10 feet of movement speed per round plus half your total movement speed when you rage, and Cunning Action let's you dash as a bonus action so you don't waste a whole turn doing nothing when you could be smacking people around. Flying enemy? No problem just use your lvl 6 Beast barb ability to add an athletics check to your jump distance and make an insane jump to grapple the enemy, which you have advantage on thanks to Beast subclass. Enemy gets grappled 9 times our of ten and plummets to the ground. You both take damage but they always take more than you. Then proceed to slaughter. Rinse, repeat. Enjoy!
On the bear-barian, remember that you can spend your spells to heal your wild shape, so don’t feel like you need to cast first then charge in if it doesn’t suit your style or the scenario
And then only prepare healing and utility spells so you're not casting in combat.
I've seen bears ride unicycles, I'm sure they can cast spells or drink potions
I'm glad to see there is easier ways to keep rage. When I played my Barbarian, my friend who was a wizard would just set me on fire and watch me rage. That way if an enemy gets too close, I could set them on fire too.
None of this makes sense to me. You only have to attack an enemy to keep it going, not damage an enemy. Just keep throwing shit if they are out of melee range. Or are you guys talking about maintaining rage between combat? Like setting the barb on fire while exploring? Shutting a barbs rage down in combat is actually really difficult.
@@tonyyachuk8484 I know when I played we did it for dungeons so that way I was always enraged, so I didn't have to use any time to rage.
@@negandavidson9600 Rage only lasts a minute. You can't explore while raging for very long. 2 rooms without combat and the minute is up, rage is done. Now you're just a normal guy on fire.
I would justify a rogue-barian flavor wise as an executioner, who knows exactly where to land his axe to get a quick and painless death. It’s works good enough in my opinion
An executioner has the criminal already chained down by the time he arrives though
@@spencervance8484 well yeah it’s not perfect but it’s something
@@spencervance8484 You could argue that the clan you were from did a type of trial by combat as a form of execution. The condemned faces the village champion/executioner in a fight that's unfair but offers a warriors death and small chance to survive should they win. The executioner would need to be very good to do his job.
Reckless attack only works with strength based attacks sadly, so the multiclass actually doens't work
@@Smite_Sion You don't need to use dex for sneak attack. Finesse weapons don't _force_ you to use dex for attack and damage rolls, you know. It just gives you the option.
I know a roguebarian that's doing exactly this, in fact. He's using a rapier, activating reckless and swinging with strength and still getting sneak attack.
"Look I'm more into Feat than Quinten Terantino, why did I write that" I cannot stop laughing at this, it is known, but damn that one got me!
“Set yourself on fire!” That’s so metal!!! 🔥🤘
The Bugbear, polearm master and sentinel build is insane
For some really dumb reason, the bugbeat extra reach only counts on your own turn
Combine it with battlemaster fighter and you become a strategic god.
Barbarian with fighter multiclass? You outreach enemies while doing a load of damage, don't forget the extra speed from barbarian as well
2:44 Unless the beholder just, you know, looks at you with its giant antimagic eye. And potions are magical items, so they won`t work in the antimagic field. That`s literally the whole point of a beholder.
But why would the beholder look at the barbarian instead of like any of the casters
@@goldencalf13 Because Barbarian will kill it?
@@user-fd5nz5lo7m then look at it with an eye that does something that will detriment all barbarians not the anti-magic eye
@@goldencalf13 Of course beholder have a number of rays that would desimate barbarian, but they have two problems. 1) They are random. 2) They all allow saving throws and barbarians will be good at 7 of those (STR, DEX, CON). And a good thing about antimagic eye, this 150 ft CONE, most likely to touch most of the party anyways.
@@user-fd5nz5lo7m It's cone also affects its own eye rays, so a beholder will cripple himself by sheltering his most important targets. Learning how to place a beholder's cone is key.
Bearbarian is busted - Kalshtar Bearbarians have resistance to damage while raging. Not a type, not most types, just *damage resistance*.
Why say bearbarian when Barbearian is right there???
@@paulrudd1483 i guess this was amateur hour
Gem Dragonborn, too
I'm currently building a fighter, and the potions section here had some good stuff. I'm doing Polearm Master with variant human (and will get Sentinel asap), but I'm doing Battlemaster fighter for the superiority dice with tripping people when they enter the range and their speed drops to zero. So they stay on the ground for their turn. and then I get advantage.
One of my favorite feats for Barbarians is the fell handed feat. What the fell handed feat does is give you a +1 to hit with axes and hammers, and if you attack with advantage and the lower of the two damage dice hit you knock enemies prone. The feat also does other stuff, but those are the parts which really matter.
Reading what it gives you it’s no surprise that it stayed in UA, where is belongs
@@Clarity_Control Broken things are fun sometimes
@@tankeasy8180
True, but power creeping everything else isn't,
3:36 you can disable the downside of reckless attack by playing as a Wildhunt Shifter because their shifting feature makes it so within 30ft of you enemies can't benefit from advantage to hit you
Wildhunt shifters don't have that ability (none of the shfiters do). Also shifters in general suck
Or if you go roguebarian (or what I like to call the dervish) you could bonus action disengage to dance back out of melee if you're scared of taking it like a man.
@@Guille2033
*Wildhunt*
-Ability Scores: Dex +1 Wis +2
-Natural tracker: You have proficiency in the survival skill.
-Shifting feature: While shifted, you have advantage on Wisdom checks, and *no creature within 30 feet of you can make an attack roll with advantage against you, unless you're incapacitated.*
@@francomoreira4222
Daym. that would TOTALLY bust rage.
@@Guille2033Yeah they do and this combo is actuallynot that bad.
Just because its not a powergamer race doesnt make it bad. It actually has great flavour.
A “DM” I have played with, gave my Barbarian boots of speed, and a cloak that casts blur, and a ring that allows him to regain hit points…. Now every encounter is either the Barbarian kills everything while the party watches, or a monster appears that just happens to undermine all the Barbarian’s strengths. I’ve actually started “forgetting” some of the strategies possible with this character, just to give the other players a chance to participate in a meaningful way.
The alchemists fire tip was super helpful. Gonna use that
We need one for paladins and every class
I have a high elf barbarian with mage hand to carry their maul, since it is within the 10lbs limit.
Also puts mage hand on throwing axes for a returning effect.
I'm stealing this. Thank you
@@jessep794
Welcome 😁
Genius. You are a genius.
yea but you should choose beetween attack or move the hand... so not so good.
@@kjarllan7097 By dm's discretion you could attack with the hand in one action. Or were you referring to throwing it and bringing it back?
A barbarian charging at you on fire sounds pretty scary.
I have been watching your vids for a while and I’m starting my first D&D campaign EVER and I’m playing a barbarian. Perfect timing my man lol thank you!!
Simic Hybrid/Path of the Beast Barbarian. It's so much fun. You get so many options. Ray-like fins and grappling appendages fit so well with beast barb it's insane.
It certainly feels very "mutant experiment," which is dope
There did used to be a mutant class in DnD or pathfinder, some fighter sub I think.
This is one of the best videos I've seen on barbarians. Thank you for the ideas sir!
Hats off for just starting the video and getting right into the topic of the video. No 2 min summary and explanation. No stupid in video ad. Just to the point. Love it.
Finally, a D&D channel to support my crippling addiction to making characters spontaneously!
.... and will never get to use.
I am the DM 😔
Hop in the discord! People are making a lot of one shots to let forever DMs play! If I ever get enough from this YT to leave my job I'll also start running regular ones for the community too!
I do the same but I sometimes use those characters and builds against my players to test them out
I like to throw groups of said characters together for boss fights
@@bastiondon How does this slow down combat significantly for you because i coud imagine that if you add multiple "DM Player Charekters" to the combat who are all quit complex.
PS: I'm ary that my englisch is not the best, I'm not a nativ speaker.
@@Velatus5978 That's okay!
The way I do it is, I don't use whole character sheets for NPCs I throw at the party.
I instead make monster stat blocks for them using the abilities from the classes I want them to have.
It's smaller, but you still get the details and power on one clean stat block!
Potion of Speed does have the round loss effect of haste, it just happens on round 11 by which point the combat is likely over.
I did not know about many of these feats and combos. Most excellent information, good sir! Cheers!
Thank you for some useful advice. Keep up the great work
Awesome video! Definitely learned a lot that I'll be using!
I multiclassed my barbarian with draconic sorcerer which so far has been fun! Got that extra free AC bonus, plus I'm able to now apply mage armor to myself with a couple range and speed spells.
I am using these now! Its awesome keep them coming .
I’d like to say that you should at least buy adamantine armor so your reckless attacks don’t cause you to get hit by a crit
Instant Sub/Like! The Tarantino joke made me spit coffee all over my desk!!
All I could think in this video is
"yo is that spider dance?"
One great combo is the polearm master/sentinel build with a 10ft reach weapon while being a bugbear. On your turn you can step 5ft back and still hit them, then if they get closer they enter your reach again. It's best if they need to get past or to you and they can't get more than 10ft to your sides.
Multiclass fighter and barb togheter. Now you have the barbs rage, extra speed, AND Avoid advantage on reckless attacks in a 1v1.
Barbarian/Alchemist is a good combo too. Make your own magic items, make your own potions (using spell slots that you can't use while raging), make your Alchemist fire... And the best part is using magic tinkering to play the DOOM OST when you rage.
This multiclass sounds perfect for my potion-addicted Berserker who’d rather drink a potion of speed than rest
i wanted to be a barbificer but i have 9 int unfortunately
Not sure if you meant it that way but you can actually use spell slots when you rage, you just cant cast spells.
Using a spellslot to make a quick potion during battle is totally viable but of course its better to make them beforehand.
Thats also why Barb/Paladin works as you can smite while raging.
The multiclass sounds like Doomguy and Witcher's Geralt mix.
Looking forward to a video on each of the other classes :)))
Love your videos... they work really well with BG3
I just sent this to both my barbarian teamates... Amazing job and hilarious
Hey! My Conan O’Brien comedic barbarian feels attacked
Great video! I'm still not sure what to make in the full game but barbarians sounds like a lot of fun!
The alchemists fire is also good for re-rolling saves against nasty charm/domination effects that try to shut you down.
Love these multiclass ideas. And those feats are amazing. 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you for the video.
Here's an alternative solution to dealing with flying enemies, jumping.
A path of the Beast barbarian with the Jumping option of their Bestial Soul feature, with advantage on strength checks you can get some huge athletics skill rolls and jump surprisingly high, you just need to get in close enough to make one of your attacks, but rather then attacking you use it to grapple. Again with advantage on your athletics checks and high strength there are very few things you won't be able to grapple. Grapple reduces a creature's movement speed to 0, a flying creature with 0 speed can't fly anymore and they begin to fall. Sure you might take some fall damage as well when you both hit the ground, but who cares, you're raging. Even if the creature can hover and doesn't fall, you're still grabbing on tight so you can stay in the grapple and keep hitting them with your claws.
I also did this with a Rabbitfolk from the fey creatures UA (though that should soon become an official option) for that extra hop of jump distance. If you wanna get REALLY nasty take a few levels of rogue, like suggested here, and take expertise in athletics. At that point you can wrestle dragons to the floor.
This is so helpful... But what got me more on this Video was the Spyro Theme song in the background hahaha
currently playing a level 18 barbarian, im so hyped for capstone. i do have a belt of storm giant strength, but a 24 strength to fall back on in antimagic situations is incredible
There's also subclasses like Path if the beast which is fun to use when raging with the tail, claws, and mandible which all have different abilities if you choose one of them during your rage. My favorite being tail since I could use my reaction to roll a 1d8 and add it to my a.c. which was always fun.
I actually just made a level 4 Leonin AG Barb with GWM, this is just making me more excited to use him
My new players have been learning well but the barbarian will love this one. Genius as always.
Okay, the information you give is good, but the real reason I listen is your voice and your sense of humor. Both are awesome.
I took my like away to add it back for the Feet joke. Fucking genius mate.
Having Snape as a friend is a boon for a barbarian. He gives great advice and makes great consumables.
man great video! you got the goods.
6:40 I loved how the barbarian was looking for any other target after dealing with a kobold and simply went for you.
5:19 love that dog sound : ) !!!
Thanks for the tips
About to play a barbarian/hex blade and never thought about portions.. dude ty
I cannot believe I’ve never thought about the alchemists fire thing before…. This changes *everything*
“Once the juice is loose... THAT’S ALL SHE WROTE!” Brennan Lee Mulligan on concentrating on Potion Spells
I played a tortle bear totem barb/ champion fighter/ moon druid with a cloak of displacement, and had the gwm,polearm master and sentinel feats(used charger as well to turtle slide into people) that man was disgustingly dangerous in an enclosed space
Another good tip is to take the readied action outside of combat specifically for the dash action because barbarians need to be up close and personal with whatever their fighting, and taking the dash action before anyone even rolls initiative means that the barbarian can run right up to whatever he wants to stick his axe in then still have their movement on their own turn making it great for gap closing.
Though this applies to all martial or melee characters I guess.
2 years later and this is still the guide for all barbarians, and I'm a Ranger sniping from way off in safety like a wimp.
Not sure if you mention it but if you can get your hands on an adamantine breast plate it is medium armor so you still get the benefits of rage and you can always reckless attack without worrying about getting critical hits on you.
Feets/feats joke was gold and alchemist fire was a beautiful 😍 👌
Sadly, Sneak attack only works with a finesse or ranged weapon, while Reckless attack only works on an attack that uses strength. Loved the rest of the video!
Finesse weapons don't REQUIRE you to use your DEX mod. They only give you the OPTION to use your DEX mod instead of your STR mod.
Fairly new to dnd but my first character was a dragonborn barbarian he was awesome great vid bud 👍
For dex barbarians, there is the scimitar of speed for even more attacks on top of a potion of speed.
I used that great weapon/polearm/sentinel combo with a tortle fighter..i was an iron wall nothing on foot or low flying made it past me to the party. plus if it was something big and scary i would use my attacks then my movement speed to move back 5 ft
One fun trick about Barbarians is that they're possibly the best class for grappling, thanks to their high HP, getting advantage on Strength checks while raging, and an extra attack to get multiple attempts or to make sure you can maintain your rage. You do have to build around it a bit - 2-handed weapons aren't great for grappling - but it can be real handy, especially against more mobile enemies. For extra spice, multiclass into rogue for expertise in Athletics, giving you a very difficult to contest grapple.
Tiefling Bear Totems can theoretically use that double half damage to take one tick of fire damage each turn to maintain their rage.
Damage resistance doesn't stack. Tieflings resist fire and bear totem rage resists fire, you will still only receive 1/2 damage, not a 1/4.
The Tarantino gag had me creased
Fave barb multiclass I've tried was a BarbLock with armour of agathys, because after casting it and raging for resistances, it took the enemy a lot of hits (and a fair bit of cold damage) to actually break through the temporary hit points
ooo this is great news. my current character is a rune knight fighter/barbarian. definitely going to put more levels into barbarian now that my fighter side is decent after seeing this. 👍🏼
Imagining a raging war hammer wielding barbarian charging you WHILE ON FIRE is terrifying
Shop merchant gag had me rolling
The tarentino line was great
very good tips here! I'm playing a barb myself right now, who's whole stick is that he's a disgruntled town guard who really just wants to fing die but won't (he's a zelot because Ilmater thinks he'll find his way) and he's got a combination of polearm master (his trusty halberd is his main weapon) and tavern brawler (he's all about fighting dirty and going for nutshots and just smacking people with barstools, just last session i beat a wizard to death with his own spellbook) so what i like to do is rage, use great weapon master to be a threat to protect my squishies and then i smack with the halbard, move in, punch and do a bonus action grapple with advantage. alot of the time I have trouble keeping rage after that so fing lighting myself on fire is the perfect tip, depending on how the DM rules it it might even hurt whoever I'm grappling XD
I am mostly sure Halberds are applicable to each of the feats mentioned. There is also the tough feat which is +2 hp per level. If you rolled solid stats taking all of these could give your DM a healthy challenge for balancing future encounters, keep in mind it wouldn't be possible until 12 at the earliest and an average of 16
Speaking as someone currently playing a centaur barbarian, that Potion of Speed idea would be downright INSANE if I tried it. XD
Dude, please keep doing these for the other classes
Loved it!
Every barbarian rages supreme as long as the DM controlled npc doesn't cast calm emotions.
love this video info & fun
I'm about to get into playing d&d for the first time and I chose barbarian class, so this is going to be very helpful :>
Great sword with slasher feat is one of my favourite combos,if you crit an opponent has disadvantage which counters advantage from reckless attack.
YES THE SILVER HOARDE, love cohen, great character.
Annnd subscribed. All it took was the Stepbrothers reference.
(1:36) "Winners don't use drugs, except steroids, in which case use lots of drugs"
- NPC
I multiple classed into monk as a barbarian and its been a blast punching, biting, kicking and having 45 movement and massive jump distance that its crazy
The comment the Office Space was perfect!
In our previous session last week, we got a new party member who’s playing an Ancestral Guardian Barbarian. After learning how her Ancestral Protectors trait worked, my Armorer Artificer immediately cheesed the enemy by making use of my thunder gauntlets in combo with her ghosts. My ability gave it disadvantage if it attacked anyone but me, and her ghosts did the same for her. So no matter who it attacked in the party, it had disadvantage. (Enemy’s best bet would still be to go for her since the protectors trait also gives any ally attacked aside from the barbarian resistance to the damage if the disadvantage attack manages to land)
"Rogue-barian", you say? Well, you just earned a sub.
Now, if I can only find a game to wreck...
Awesome video. Got any tips for Paladins?
The Barbarian/Rogue multiclass showing up in this video really reaffirms the idea i came up with.
Currently building a Little Red Riding Hood Axe weilding murderer character for a oneshot. Roleplaying her rage as bloodthirst manic. Thinking laughing psychotically while drunk on violence. Plus unarmored defense means i get to wear what ever "pretty dresses" I want.
Was specking into barbarian but recognized that being level 9 only gets me an advantage on saving throws and initiative. Which is nice but its a one shot and Im not used to typically having that so why not search for something better. Then it occured to me that barbarians dont have a lot to do with their bonus action and that the reckless attack procs sneak attack. So for only 2 levels into rogue i can get extra damage, proficiencies, things to do with my bonus action, keep my advantage on saving throws/initiative, AND it feels thematic for a psychotic little girl in a cloak to be stealthier than most.
the feats superimposed on the feet nearly fucking killed me
boy I do love polearm master + sentinel in literally everything melee.