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glep he's my homebrew race that i've been working on for about 23+ years now and fine tuning it is pretty good i think let me know if you want to use it next video
I just wanna see a DnD party with a Small-sized Tiefling Wizard, a Small sized Aasimar Cleric and a big adorable Firbolg Paladin roleplaying like Kronk with his angel & devil on each shoulder.
Fourth/fifth race. Variant tieflings can get wings, and according to the Adventurer's League, the variant aasimar can also get wings if they forego their spellcasting feature.
When there's only three other players and they're all dwarves, choosing anything else doesn't work. If you have a party of THIRTEEN dwarves on the other hand, choosing the halfling is hilarious.
In our Dragonlance campaign, I played a Minotaur and my bestie was a Kender. My Minotaur called her "Little One" and very often carried her on his shoulder. It was so wholesome. So many dopamine.
I once envisioned a party composed entirely of Tabaxi Clerics. I entitled it "A-Men and Holy Cats." The "A-Men" part coming from a joke I heard many times about an all-Cleric party.
Plasmoids and any race that doesn't need to breath. Plasmoids can crawl into spaces up to 1 inch wide, so crawl your way down your party members throat and get full cover in whatever passes for lungs. Whenever you want to do something just pop out half way and pop back in when done. You can also pick up the mounted combatant feat since this could be considered mounting a party member giving them access to evasion and whatever buff spells you'd like among other things.
3:56 No, no, no.... Even better concept: The Aasimar is the chaotic one while the Tiefling is the more grounded one with a moral code. You can still play around with this being that the moral code the Tiefling has isn't necessarily a strictly /good/ aligned moral code, but still a moral code, something along the lines of Lawful Neutral, or if going off a 5x5 Alignment chart, anything within the range of Lawful or Social and Moral through to Impure.
Tiefling has a good grasp of morality, whether or not they always do the right thing, Aasimar uses their deep knowledge of law for highly immoral purposes. For bonus points, these two are only working together out of dire necessity, at least at first.
Dragonborn and Kobold. Kobold follows the dragonborn around because it's the closest they'll get to adventuring with dragon-senpai. How much the dragonborn appreciates it depends on the campaign setting, with Nentir Vale dragonborn being flattered while Forgotten Realms dragonborn will need to be restrained from choking the kobold to death over it.
I actually have this going on. My group of four has two dragonborn and a kobold. Only had one session with them all so far, but damn do I hope this is how it plays out.
@@rpghorrorstories oh, it's actually a homebrew setting! though a lot of it I do use Forgotten Realms as a sort of base for lore, so I'd say that. But at the same time unfortunately my players don't really tend to pay attention to those lore things, but it's fffiiiiiiiinnnneeee they will eventually. Right? Right?????
I came up with a duo that were a Zariel Tiefling Redemption Paladin and a Fallen Aasimar Fiend Warlock, the catch being that the mother of them both was Zariel! She had one before she fell, and the other after. The Tiefling seeks to redeem her mother after seeing how miserable she is as an archfiend. The Aasimar is desperate to curry favor with her after having been left behind by her once doting mother. I just love the twisted dynamic of it all.
i honestly had a not that different idea but more alone the lines of "Zeus got drunk and had a kid with a succubus so now there's this Tiefling running around with his half brother the Aasimar"
A party of all scaled races, a Dragonborn, a Kobold, a Tortle, a Lizard folk, and a Yuanti (pure-blood or not). Live up the dragon part of DND with the chaotic tribalism of these races share.
Oh neat! I had this concept for an artillerist artificer gnome riding a giant barb warforged like a mech, but alas: you generally don't play two characters at a time
Once played in a group where i was a tiefling warlock and another player was a aasimar paladin. You would think i'd be this evil mustache twirler and him a beacon of good, but I was a celestial warlock, and he was a fallen aasimar conquest paladin. It was pretty funny when I turned out to be the good cop to his bad cop.
It's super fun to fight with my small-sized Harengon Barbarian as he rides atop his best friend, who is a goliath fighter. My character also got the Mounted Combatant feat exclusively to use while riding on his friend's shoulder. The damage output is absolutely insane too.
One thing that amazed me playing was a halfling Assassin with a spear mounted on a goliath Zealot. Do not ask me why but my DM at the time allowed my spear attacks to always count as Sneak Attacks as long as I was riding my friend. Because any attempt to throw me down from him or to topple him down would be met by an attack of opportunity from the other... Nobody ever survived the attempt of separating us both outside of sheer surprise. To be fair, my friend and I had woven our characters together so well that the DM (and other players) considered us both as one. Blind Goliath and cripple Halfling, using each other to supplement what they miss
Not D&D, but one of the NPC encounters I made up for Ultraviolet Grasslands was a huge Steppelander barbarian raider who's the trusted and beloved pet and mount for an uncharacteristically tough and adventurous Horned Cat from the Violet City. In battle, Rumblethor will often have Stac throw him at the face of an enemy, it can be pretty devastating if it works.
My friends and I just got done watching the entirety of TMNT 2012, and I being the d&d nerd I am came up with this breakdown based off their fighting styles in the show: Master Splinter: Ratfolk Way of the Open Hand monk Donnie: Tortle Battle Smith artificer Leo: Tortle Battle Master fighter Mikey: Tortle College of Valor bard Raph: Tortle Path of the Berserker barbarian April: Human Aberrant Mind Sorcerer Casey Jones: Human Gloom Stalker or Hunter ranger
Also could have someone with Boots of Flying, or a high-level/DM's permission druid with a flying wildshape, allowing the all-flying party to have more diversity. Also, when some of the party can only fly magically, this can create interesting ways to split or wall off the party, either as a combat dynamic or a puzzle to solve.
Gods the Goliath + Small one brought me such adorable memories. I played that, but to a rather big extreme. One player played Giant (Forget what kind, it was a small one, but they were size large) and I played a Pixie (size tiny, 6 inches tall) Due to my very magical nature in a very anti-magic world, I couldn't exist in towns, so every time we visited one, I'd hang out in the Giant's breast pocket. It was fun.
4:15 one of my games I played a tiefling who shared a background with another player’s aasimar. Their aasimar was Sune’s grandson, my tiefling was Demogorgon’s granddaughter. Shenanigans ensued.
an all kobold party would be pretty fun too, both in roleplay and in mechanics. not only does pack tactics mean that everyone gets advantage as long as theres a melee player, but also the entire party can fully play into utter chaos. i suggested to my group of friends that we should play a party composed entirely of kobold rogues constantly wearing shades to negate sunlight sensitivity.
Kobolds in the forgotten realms lore are the best miners because they can literally smell ores,gems and other precious earthy materials,they work like a well oiled machine and they enjoy taking baths
Your description of the relationship between an Aasimar and a Tiefling sounds like Crowly and Aziraphale from the book Good Omens. They basically spend their eternity on earth together,'stopping' each other from doing good/evil, and regularly send reports to their respective bosses, telling them what good/evil deeds they prevented.
Along with the tabaxi + aaracorcra/kenku if one of the party wants to play as the old fashioned version of the kolbold, which is an anthropomorphic dog
Regarding tiefling/aasimar: there's also a lot of mileage in swapping their alignments. Maybe after the first cambion was born in the tielfing's ancestry their family had a come-to-divinity moment and became incredibly pious, with the PC being a cleric, while the aasimar wasn't recognised for what they were as a child and ended up making a fiendish warlock pact. Maybe they're even pawns in some kind of godly bet, on both nature versus nurture and the transformative power of infernal corruption versus divine redemption.
A party of all changelings who are all trying to keep the fact that they're changelings secret. That or the party of Human, Elf, Dwarf, and Changeling; Except the Changeling has DID and occasionally becomes other members of the party while thinking that they are the original
My most evil character was a Fallen Aasimar Eloquence Bard/Soulknife Rogue. Having a _minimum_ roll of 20 in Deception AND Persuasion was very useful, but not as useful as Hold Person and a "coup de gras" that left no visible wound. To quote one of my favourite books: "When angels go bad, they go worse than anyone. Lucifer was an angel, you know."
Had a decent into avernus combo I never got to use that was tiefling/assimar a Zariel blooded divine soul and a fallen with the oath of redemption the paladin fell when they fled during the charge of the hellriders and seeks redemption by saving Zariel from damnation and the tiefling is a sign of hope that thier is still divinity in the archdevil to be redeemed making them a kind of chosen one.
2:45 better yet, 4 dwarves, one elf. The elf is the Charlie Brown of the party, the misfit. Take the charm of the elf and dwarf coming together when stuff gets tough and multiply by a thousand.
Goat person (reflavour satyr or minotaur), leonin, and dragonborn. Play as a split chimera. Goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears. The full goblinoids party. All amphibian/non-breathing races for an underwater adventure.
ok people so i have never played dnd before but here is a cool character idea i think would work a fish(idk the race name) artificer who built themselves a basically autognome sized mech suit that has them in a fish bowl inside it
Even better than human, elf, and dwarf, is a human who dies after impressing both Moradin and Corellon while having no established claim on his soul before a druid of Garl Glittergold (who was playing referee in their debate over where the soul should go) goes to cast Reincarnate on them and they become a dwelf. (yes I want to create this somehow, whether as a fanfic or an actual character probably with a variation of half-elf stats or maybe even just using DC20 or PF2e hybrid heritage rules)
ah, should've mentioned kobold with centaur The kobold can mount the centaur, with all the benifits you brought up with golieth x smol race but with centaurs it makes more sense for them to be mountable and with kobolds they get advantage on attacks when an ally is within 5ft of their target
That was an earlier version of Kobolds who got pack tactics as a racial ability. In both Unearthed Arcana and Monsters of the Multiverse, Kobolds instead get a draconic roar. This is similar mechanically to pack tactics, but it grants advantage to both the Kobold and the allies -- with the trade off that it only works a few times per day.
5:07 I loved that one. I was playing a kobold wild magic sorcerer, and out goliath rune knight had a good friendship with him. At a point in the campaign, my character ended up developing agoraphobia, so he started to get into the goliath's backpack more and more, with only his eyes and snout being noticeable, but visibly comfortable even if he didn't want to admit it (my kobold has a lot of behaviours that are similar to cats, not gonna lie).
I love the Idea of a Goliath and small race combo because than if you and the player riding your character decide to pull a combo move, such as the Goliath throws the gnome at a flying monster and the gnome bats it right outta the air, letting others get up close and able to damage it, than that also means you could toss someone into a place where the goliath can't fit, but a small character can.
I've got both a goblin artificer and a warforged artificer in the game I run. And a Tiefling Cleric and Assimar sorlock. Then there's the Kalashtar Barb/Shapeshifter. It's a party alright.
I once played a tiefling and my friend played an aasimar in the same group. Our characters were brothers who started traveling together because my character was outcasted for a crime he didn't commit just because of his infernal heritage.
Once the new rule books drop, I'm really wanting to play a Fairy that just makes for themselves a home in an item/on each of the other party members, inside the wizard hat, component pouches, backpacks, inside the Dwarf's beard and grabbing the Tiefling's horns and trying to steer them, etc. Stuff like that.
I once was an artificer kobold in an all dwarf party, we all were greedy (especially for gold), we all loved digging (it ended up being the party's main way of transportation between cities while picking up some ores in the way), we all loved crafting and tinkering stuffs that are either genius but unreliable under some hidden condition or totally useless in theory but might be useful in a very specific conditions. The dwarf customs started to influence the kobold that ended acting like a beardless dwarf with a weaker liver.
5:40 "Probably the most antagonistic combo we're going to pair" - yep, especially if the birb player will decide to bite back and weaponize one of the traits of IRL corvids: pulling tails as a distraction to swipe something from the nose of tail's owner, or as a trick to goad tail's owner to fight an unsuspecting person, or just for own trollish fun.
I have a game where we have a small monitor lizard (using lizardfolk stats but smol) and a firbolg. The monitor lizard is a nature cleric, the firbolg is a shepherd druid, and the lizard is a nature cleric. They absolutely despise each other because one time the monitor lizard chose to eat half the finches in the forest instead of eating the druid's goodberry. Even now, several sessions later, they still find a way to not eat the berries. We also have a Fire and Water Genasi who both grew up in the same town and joined the same poetry club, they basically share a single braincell.
One of my favorite things to do for people is to tell them that everything in the monster manuals are playable as characters and modify whatever they pick to be reasonable at whatever level we're playing. My daughter loved being able to play a unicorn, some people don't like Warforged and some settings don't have them but a modified Golem gets a similar flavor, one of my friends is an animal lover and has a lot of fun figuring out how various awakened animals can work, etc. FYI, my favorite rule is the one at the beginning of every book that says the rules are guidelines.
A pirate themed campaign with a party that all have the ability to breath underwater would be cool. Simic Hybrid, Sea Elf, Triton, Locathah, Water Genasi, etc
Funnily enough, I remember being in a D&D 5e campaign where they enabled some home-brew, and the main trio was composed of -, and I shit you not, Arbiter)- the following/ A Fire Genasi who had a hand-cannon that she got from a cowboy-mermaid duo that was FAR ahead of their time A Twilightkin (designed after Salem from RWBY) who was a puppetmaster that used various materials to completely break the damage numbers A Fairy that doubled as a mech-pilot of a robot that was completely inspired by a Zinogre... which was the same size as the party due to Fairies being small.
This is the sort of stuff I'd love to set up as a oneshot. As you gain more right to limit races in a oneshot than if you're running a longer game. I'd like to have a party with all underwater races. Though even with that you can cheat with several subclasses that will give a swim speed and underwater breating.
this makes me think of an all changeling party that is constantly changing looks and confusing everyone. each town they could be totally new personas, players could switch personas with eachother, going from being heroes in one town to villians in the next one, disguising themselves as the evil party and making them look good to ruin their villian reputation, or disguising as henchmen to get into the BBEG's lair. or play out the fun of any of the all same race parties in this video and all whole being an amazing traveling acting group as a cover
My current party actually has an Aasimar (my character) and a Tiefling. Given the current group dynamic the chances of them dating as you claim they inevitably will is pretty much nil. There’s a fair bit of tension between us (speaking as my character, not as a player) on account of the fact that I am a Fallen Aasimar who was abandoned by my guide for being too merciful (which is extremely ironic, as I am so ruthless when I decide that someone deserves to be punished that it actually scares the rest of the party) while the Tiefling has entered a pact with a demon and has been letting it influence her actions to a troubling degree. At one point I confronted her about it and her response was to draw a knife on me and dismiss my concerns as invalid, while I was literally carrying my mother’s dead body (a lot happened in the previous session) and in no position to fight. So, yeah, that relationship is rather strained. Has been excellent for inter-party drama as I am now effectively keeping her close out of fear that if I cannot leave her to her own devices.
My D&D party consists of a couple of Humans: a Necromantic Wizard and a commoner [homebrewed playable npc-type class], a Half-Elf Bard, an Elf Cleric, a Gnome Rogue, a Dwarf Artificer, and myself; a Warforged Fighter.
My favoite game was a short campaign i did with just two of my friends. I played as a tortle artificer with an echo knight warforged in a modern campaign, a lot of shenanigans ensued and there were multiple times we shoved eachother in my bag of holding to sneak around, including having the warforged walk across the bottom of a lake to sneak into an enemy town
the all chaos combo seems amazing. An all war- race combo could be fun: Hobgoblins, Orcs, Minotaurs and Githyanki are all culturally very close to structured military and war efforts. War is a good excuse for a fight heavy campaign and can create fun moral dilemmas
7:13 I’m pretty sure the DMG gives examples to reflavor existing weapons into these weapons like Daggers being changed into Sais, clubs into nunchucks and a Longsword into a katana.
A friend and I played a Tortle and Harengon. I was a nomadic Tortle wanderer that had traveled to the Feywild and beat my narcoleptic Harengon friend in a race. We were reunited by fate in session one and it made for some great banter 🐢🐰
Funny that you mention Tabaxi and Bird type races because My Tabaxi Monk was raised by a family of Aracockra nobles but she actually developed a wonderful kinship with the secondborn son and they were both inspired to become martial artists because of a Kenku named Revan Blacktalon.
Fun fact - I am currently playing a Tabaxi in a party with a Kenku. Nothing has come of this yet, but I am suddenly very curious if my fellow adventurer is at all concerned by traveling with the cat boy Rogue who could double dash with Feline Agility active after him if he ever decided that the bird man suddenly looked like a tasty snack.
I almost got to be involved in the "Gnome + Warforged" combo. In Pathfinder I was a Dwarf with high crafting, and we had a Warforged party member. Or maybe he was called something else, but he was a mechanical man. I was planning to have my Dwarf be very interested in how this character worked, but unfortunately the player left the campaign. We hardly knew ye.
the all flying race campains are great partaly on the simple fact that it makes the DM come up with a more creative enemy than bandits goblins or the other typical land dwelling encounters and then there is another classic 3 dwarfs and the 4th party member who isnt a dwarf but speaks dwarf
You could get a lot of mileage out of this by letting the players design their entire party together, either choosing one or more of these combos, or creating their own, then tweaking their characters' personalities for further synergy, chaos, or other fun. This would work great alongside procedurally-created or group-brainstormed party backstories, as in, starting session 1, the party canonically isn't meeting for the first time, but already know each other, or at least have already met. Also, I'd get a kick out of being the sole non-Dwarf in a Dwarf party, constantly being ignored or excluded, as long as it was just fun roleplay between the characters, and not the genuine player dynamic at the table. One could have a lot of fun milking the "hard done by" character for maximum pathos... or comedy!
What races do you all have in your D&D parties?
I dont have any friends who play D&D so none 😭
glep he's my homebrew race that i've been working on for about 23+ years now and fine tuning it is pretty good i think let me know if you want to use it next video
A half elf/vampire my character, A half orc, a halfling, and a dragonborn
Human, Dragonborn, Changling, and a Kenku. I'm the DM for my party.
A dragonborn, half-elf, Aarocokra, Shadar-kai, and my Thri-kreen chronurgy wizard who is the bane of my DM's existence.
“All Dwarf party.”
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
Rock and stone!
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE.
ROCK AND STONE EVERYONE!
My life for Rock and Stone!
ROCK AND STONE!
I just wanna see a DnD party with a Small-sized Tiefling Wizard, a Small sized Aasimar Cleric and a big adorable Firbolg Paladin roleplaying like Kronk with his angel & devil on each shoulder.
No no, he's got a point.
Oh yeah, it's all coming together.
If Kronk is a paladin, his Oath is surely that of the Ancients. After all, he knows Speak With Animals.
Genius
of course that the paladin firbolg would HAVE to have the "folk hero" background with the chosen tool being "cooking utensils"
POV Owlins don't get mentioned EVEN ONE TIME when they are the third race with a fly speed :
Fourth/fifth race. Variant tieflings can get wings, and according to the Adventurer's League, the variant aasimar can also get wings if they forego their spellcasting feature.
Who?
@@thewonderfullymadejaraid7015 they can already get a flying speed for 10 mins (per day? Cant remember) except for scourge
@@Emrirwastaken The protector aasimar can use its action to get a flying speed for 1 minute per day.
A completely silent flying speed.
"You can't be a non dwarf in an all dwarf party."
What if they need a wizard? And a burglar?
Edit: Guys please read The Hobbit.
Do a Dwarf wizard or a Dwarf Burglar
Hehehehe I understood that reference
"A wizard is never late nor is he ever early. He always arrives precisely when he intends to." - The Peak Wizard of Fiction
Sounds like you need some dwarves!
When there's only three other players and they're all dwarves, choosing anything else doesn't work. If you have a party of THIRTEEN dwarves on the other hand, choosing the halfling is hilarious.
An almost all dwarf party, with a gnome player who's desperately trying to convince the rest of the party that they're also a dwarf
There's a lot of mileage could be had out of the one non-dwarf character, as long as the players limit the exclusion to their characters
Or take a page from Terry Pratchett's book and call the human "the world's tallest dwarf"
@@calebbraun9505 Not a racial dwarf, just a midget who really wants to fit in
An all dwarf party digs a hole together until they dig so deep they fall into the astral plane
And/or awaken a Balrog/Pit Fiend...
Or they dig just a bit too far into a cotton candy spire and release the clowns from the circus.
If you know, you know.
That Tiefling and Aasimar combo cold get one step further if you let them play the shoulder voices of a giant.
What about the Tiefling being the LG Cleric and the Aasimar being a fallen CN Rogue or Barbarian?
No no, he has a point
The all genasi 4 elements monks only using their respective elements is such a fun idea
Or a wizard/sorcerer only using their elements to add a bit of variety
Except for the 1 genasi that is able to wield all four elements.
@@Battlesny when the world needed him the most he disappeared.
The green genasi
4 genasi Bard's calling themselves Earth wind & fire. Do you remember 🎵🎶
In our Dragonlance campaign, I played a Minotaur and my bestie was a Kender. My Minotaur called her "Little One" and very often carried her on his shoulder. It was so wholesome. So many dopamine.
Even managed to make Kender likable?
I once envisioned a party composed entirely of Tabaxi Clerics. I entitled it "A-Men and Holy Cats." The "A-Men" part coming from a joke I heard many times about an all-Cleric party.
Aka Divine Pussies. May run from large problems and/or dogs.
Fun Fact: Right now I'm DMing Tyranny of Dragons, and the party is full clerics! Yes, we brought to life the A-men bullying Tiamat!
The joke is from jocat's crap guide to DND series
Aha. Well then, it's a well-sourced joke.
@@patriciusthehumanfighter3642 And now you know of a Crap Guide to D&D, you're welcome (jaunty lute music plays)
Plasmoids and any race that doesn't need to breath. Plasmoids can crawl into spaces up to 1 inch wide, so crawl your way down your party members throat and get full cover in whatever passes for lungs. Whenever you want to do something just pop out half way and pop back in when done. You can also pick up the mounted combatant feat since this could be considered mounting a party member giving them access to evasion and whatever buff spells you'd like among other things.
Hmm venom goo creature riding anouther being and giving buffs and power
I would rule that they don't fit.
@@winnerwannabe9868but mouths can open to be more than two inches on most creatures
@@heavytf2849 but would a small creature fit in the ling cavitys/ect?
@@winnerwannabe9868 if the creature was mostly liquid or gelatinous, then probably would be able to fit the majority of itself in the lungs
3:56 No, no, no.... Even better concept: The Aasimar is the chaotic one while the Tiefling is the more grounded one with a moral code. You can still play around with this being that the moral code the Tiefling has isn't necessarily a strictly /good/ aligned moral code, but still a moral code, something along the lines of Lawful Neutral, or if going off a 5x5 Alignment chart, anything within the range of Lawful or Social and Moral through to Impure.
Tiefling has a good grasp of morality, whether or not they always do the right thing, Aasimar uses their deep knowledge of law for highly immoral purposes. For bonus points, these two are only working together out of dire necessity, at least at first.
Aasimar warlock and Tiefling cleric (both in service to the others parent, of course) is the version I’ve seen.
Dragonborn and Kobold.
Kobold follows the dragonborn around because it's the closest they'll get to adventuring with dragon-senpai. How much the dragonborn appreciates it depends on the campaign setting, with Nentir Vale dragonborn being flattered while Forgotten Realms dragonborn will need to be restrained from choking the kobold to death over it.
Underrated comment!
I actually have this going on. My group of four has two dragonborn and a kobold. Only had one session with them all so far, but damn do I hope this is how it plays out.
@@afluffymugcake3763 What campaign setting? I want to know if it leans towards the "flattered" angle or the "choke them to death" angle?
@@rpghorrorstories oh, it's actually a homebrew setting! though a lot of it I do use Forgotten Realms as a sort of base for lore, so I'd say that.
But at the same time unfortunately my players don't really tend to pay attention to those lore things, but it's fffiiiiiiiinnnneeee they will eventually. Right?
Right?????
I came up with a duo that were a Zariel Tiefling Redemption Paladin and a Fallen Aasimar Fiend Warlock, the catch being that the mother of them both was Zariel! She had one before she fell, and the other after. The Tiefling seeks to redeem her mother after seeing how miserable she is as an archfiend. The Aasimar is desperate to curry favor with her after having been left behind by her once doting mother. I just love the twisted dynamic of it all.
i honestly had a not that different idea but more alone the lines of "Zeus got drunk and had a kid with a succubus so now there's this Tiefling running around with his half brother the Aasimar"
@@wolfyblackknight8321 That is a very Zeus thing to do.
A party of all scaled races, a Dragonborn, a Kobold, a Tortle, a Lizard folk, and a Yuanti (pure-blood or not). Live up the dragon part of DND with the chaotic tribalism of these races share.
Our Gnome Wizard used to sit on My Warforged Barbs shoulder , id protect him while hed shoot from high ground as a shoulder turret
fun times
Oh neat! I had this concept for an artillerist artificer gnome riding a giant barb warforged like a mech, but alas: you generally don't play two characters at a time
@@chonflis3834 just get a mate to do it with
@@joshvonbosch ah thats the tricky part
Once played in a group where i was a tiefling warlock and another player was a aasimar paladin. You would think i'd be this evil mustache twirler and him a beacon of good, but I was a celestial warlock, and he was a fallen aasimar conquest paladin. It was pretty funny when I turned out to be the good cop to his bad cop.
It's super fun to fight with my small-sized Harengon Barbarian as he rides atop his best friend, who is a goliath fighter. My character also got the Mounted Combatant feat exclusively to use while riding on his friend's shoulder. The damage output is absolutely insane too.
One thing that amazed me playing was a halfling Assassin with a spear mounted on a goliath Zealot. Do not ask me why but my DM at the time allowed my spear attacks to always count as Sneak Attacks as long as I was riding my friend. Because any attempt to throw me down from him or to topple him down would be met by an attack of opportunity from the other... Nobody ever survived the attempt of separating us both outside of sheer surprise.
To be fair, my friend and I had woven our characters together so well that the DM (and other players) considered us both as one. Blind Goliath and cripple Halfling, using each other to supplement what they miss
Not D&D, but one of the NPC encounters I made up for Ultraviolet Grasslands was a huge Steppelander barbarian raider who's the trusted and beloved pet and mount for an uncharacteristically tough and adventurous Horned Cat from the Violet City. In battle, Rumblethor will often have Stac throw him at the face of an enemy, it can be pretty devastating if it works.
"All Dwarf party"
Me: DIGGY DIGGY HOLE DIGGY DIGGY HOLE DIGGY DIGGY HOLE DIGGY DIGGY HOLE
The all Dwarves one all I could think was
ROCK AND STONE
A warforged with a gnome gives off Fullmetal Alchemist vibes
My friends and I just got done watching the entirety of TMNT 2012, and I being the d&d nerd I am came up with this breakdown based off their fighting styles in the show:
Master Splinter: Ratfolk Way of the Open Hand monk
Donnie: Tortle Battle Smith artificer
Leo: Tortle Battle Master fighter
Mikey: Tortle College of Valor bard
Raph: Tortle Path of the Berserker barbarian
April: Human Aberrant Mind Sorcerer
Casey Jones: Human Gloom Stalker or Hunter ranger
I might end up using them as npcs in a setting with this build idea be interesting to have them pop up as a cameo or something
*All flying also includes Owlin, the winged variant Tiefling, as well as Sirens and Aven from the planeshift books.
Also could have someone with Boots of Flying, or a high-level/DM's permission druid with a flying wildshape, allowing the all-flying party to have more diversity. Also, when some of the party can only fly magically, this can create interesting ways to split or wall off the party, either as a combat dynamic or a puzzle to solve.
“It’s a tale as old as time.”
If by time you mean Lord of the Rings then… yes.
D&D had a lot of Tolkien inspirations in its first edition, so you could make the case that it's as old as D&D's time lol
Honestly, Now I really want to DM a Oneshot/MiniCampaign for an all flying party it sounds cool.
Gods the Goliath + Small one brought me such adorable memories.
I played that, but to a rather big extreme.
One player played Giant (Forget what kind, it was a small one, but they were size large) and I played a Pixie (size tiny, 6 inches tall)
Due to my very magical nature in a very anti-magic world, I couldn't exist in towns, so every time we visited one, I'd hang out in the Giant's breast pocket. It was fun.
Now i'm a expert in racism.
4:15 one of my games I played a tiefling who shared a background with another player’s aasimar. Their aasimar was Sune’s grandson, my tiefling was Demogorgon’s granddaughter. Shenanigans ensued.
an all kobold party would be pretty fun too, both in roleplay and in mechanics. not only does pack tactics mean that everyone gets advantage as long as theres a melee player, but also the entire party can fully play into utter chaos.
i suggested to my group of friends that we should play a party composed entirely of kobold rogues constantly wearing shades to negate sunlight sensitivity.
All Dwarves
Wait!
What?
There here, be quiet
Who's.. here?
...
FOR ROCK AND STONE BROTHA
ROCK AND STONE!
TO THE BONE!
FOR CARL!
All dwarfs party = Rock and Stone!
A human, an elf and a dwarf...walk into a bar. The human and elf say 'Ouch!'
kobolds actually synergize quite well with dwarves because they dig better.
Kobolds in the forgotten realms lore are the best miners because they can literally smell ores,gems and other precious earthy materials,they work like a well oiled machine and they enjoy taking baths
I just thought of something a dwarf using a kobold as a bloodhound to hunt creatures of rare gems and stone
Your description of the relationship between an Aasimar and a Tiefling sounds like Crowly and Aziraphale from the book Good Omens. They basically spend their eternity on earth together,'stopping' each other from doing good/evil, and regularly send reports to their respective bosses, telling them what good/evil deeds they prevented.
Along with the tabaxi + aaracorcra/kenku if one of the party wants to play as the old fashioned version of the kolbold, which is an anthropomorphic dog
NOW I WANT TO PLAY A HALFLING WITH A LANCE! PIGGYBACK RIDE OF DEATH
My girlfriend and I once played an aasimar rogue/tiefling cleric combo, it was very fun
Regarding tiefling/aasimar: there's also a lot of mileage in swapping their alignments. Maybe after the first cambion was born in the tielfing's ancestry their family had a come-to-divinity moment and became incredibly pious, with the PC being a cleric, while the aasimar wasn't recognised for what they were as a child and ended up making a fiendish warlock pact. Maybe they're even pawns in some kind of godly bet, on both nature versus nurture and the transformative power of infernal corruption versus divine redemption.
I love the godly-bet aspect. That would be a compelling bit of divine sick fun.
Don’t forget grung anf Locathath for an all Water dependent party
A party of all changelings who are all trying to keep the fact that they're changelings secret. That or the party of Human, Elf, Dwarf, and Changeling; Except the Changeling has DID and occasionally becomes other members of the party while thinking that they are the original
Changelings sound so fun to play but I can never come up with a decent backstory for them.
Goblin + Fairy + Kobold: When your alignment is Gremlin
4:13
or an Tiefling that act thuggish but have an heart of gold. and the Aasimar act like an saint but secretly evil/or in it for the money
My most evil character was a Fallen Aasimar Eloquence Bard/Soulknife Rogue. Having a _minimum_ roll of 20 in Deception AND Persuasion was very useful, but not as useful as Hold Person and a "coup de gras" that left no visible wound.
To quote one of my favourite books: "When angels go bad, they go worse than anyone. Lucifer was an angel, you know."
Shout out for Drow + Other Elves or Eilistraee/Surface Drow + Lolth/Underdark Drow.
expected hybrids, found team ups.
"all dwarf party" is how you get DRG.
Had a decent into avernus combo I never got to use that was tiefling/assimar a Zariel blooded divine soul and a fallen with the oath of redemption the paladin fell when they fled during the charge of the hellriders and seeks redemption by saving Zariel from damnation and the tiefling is a sign of hope that thier is still divinity in the archdevil to be redeemed making them a kind of chosen one.
2:45 better yet, 4 dwarves, one elf. The elf is the Charlie Brown of the party, the misfit. Take the charm of the elf and dwarf coming together when stuff gets tough and multiply by a thousand.
Goat person (reflavour satyr or minotaur), leonin, and dragonborn. Play as a split chimera.
Goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears. The full goblinoids party.
All amphibian/non-breathing races for an underwater adventure.
ok people so i have never played dnd before but here is a cool character idea i think would work
a fish(idk the race name) artificer who built themselves a basically autognome sized mech suit that has them in a fish bowl inside it
My favorite party dynamic is
"Mom said it's my turn with the brain cell"
But it always turns into
"I am the only one with a brain cell, ever"
Even better than human, elf, and dwarf, is a human who dies after impressing both Moradin and Corellon while having no established claim on his soul before a druid of Garl Glittergold (who was playing referee in their debate over where the soul should go) goes to cast Reincarnate on them and they become a dwelf. (yes I want to create this somehow, whether as a fanfic or an actual character probably with a variation of half-elf stats or maybe even just using DC20 or PF2e hybrid heritage rules)
Imagine a all dwarfs all artificers spelljamer champagne.
Rock and Stone!
ah, should've mentioned kobold with centaur
The kobold can mount the centaur, with all the benifits you brought up with golieth x smol race
but with centaurs it makes more sense for them to be mountable
and with kobolds they get advantage on attacks when an ally is within 5ft of their target
That was an earlier version of Kobolds who got pack tactics as a racial ability. In both Unearthed Arcana and Monsters of the Multiverse, Kobolds instead get a draconic roar. This is similar mechanically to pack tactics, but it grants advantage to both the Kobold and the allies -- with the trade off that it only works a few times per day.
@@lordzaboem Volo's guide to monsters as still officially released though
Fun fact: 8:00 there are others like variant teifling and owlin but yeah. Pretty much the airway squad
5:24 I am currently playing exactly this combo. It's not a super big part of the dynamic, but when it comes up it's always fun.
5:07 I loved that one. I was playing a kobold wild magic sorcerer, and out goliath rune knight had a good friendship with him. At a point in the campaign, my character ended up developing agoraphobia, so he started to get into the goliath's backpack more and more, with only his eyes and snout being noticeable, but visibly comfortable even if he didn't want to admit it (my kobold has a lot of behaviours that are similar to cats, not gonna lie).
I love the Idea of a Goliath and small race combo because than if you and the player riding your character decide to pull a combo move, such as the Goliath throws the gnome at a flying monster and the gnome bats it right outta the air, letting others get up close and able to damage it, than that also means you could toss someone into a place where the goliath can't fit, but a small character can.
Black funny cop with gun + asian karate guy who's calm
About the all flying, you forgot to say that winged tieflings could also be part of the team
Yep, there are several other flying races, and that could have been one of them.
Alternate teifling/aasimar dynamic; Teifling is the mischievous yet good hearted ray of sunshine while Aasimar is the edgy and dower one.
I've got both a goblin artificer and a warforged artificer in the game I run. And a Tiefling Cleric and Assimar sorlock.
Then there's the Kalashtar Barb/Shapeshifter.
It's a party alright.
Now I want to see a dungeons and dragons love story between a dwarf and an elf.
A party with only cobalts, dwarfs, and goblins. GOLD
I once played a tiefling and my friend played an aasimar in the same group. Our characters were brothers who started traveling together because my character was outcasted for a crime he didn't commit just because of his infernal heritage.
In the all dwarf party, play as a warforged reflavoured as a forge machine who essentially just acts like a dwarf but taller and made of metal.
3:42 Tiefling/Aasimar was a cool concept as I had an entire town with this combo as a prosperous community with a tavern called Heaven and Hell.
Once the new rule books drop, I'm really wanting to play a Fairy that just makes for themselves a home in an item/on each of the other party members, inside the wizard hat, component pouches, backpacks, inside the Dwarf's beard and grabbing the Tiefling's horns and trying to steer them, etc. Stuff like that.
I once was an artificer kobold in an all dwarf party, we all were greedy (especially for gold), we all loved digging (it ended up being the party's main way of transportation between cities while picking up some ores in the way), we all loved crafting and tinkering stuffs that are either genius but unreliable under some hidden condition or totally useless in theory but might be useful in a very specific conditions. The dwarf customs started to influence the kobold that ended acting like a beardless dwarf with a weaker liver.
my favorite part of my players running fey creatures is their terror of and aversion to anything fey related, which I find fun and fitting
5:40 "Probably the most antagonistic combo we're going to pair" - yep, especially if the birb player will decide to bite back and weaponize one of the traits of IRL corvids: pulling tails as a distraction to swipe something from the nose of tail's owner, or as a trick to goad tail's owner to fight an unsuspecting person, or just for own trollish fun.
I have a game where we have a small monitor lizard (using lizardfolk stats but smol) and a firbolg. The monitor lizard is a nature cleric, the firbolg is a shepherd druid, and the lizard is a nature cleric. They absolutely despise each other because one time the monitor lizard chose to eat half the finches in the forest instead of eating the druid's goodberry. Even now, several sessions later, they still find a way to not eat the berries.
We also have a Fire and Water Genasi who both grew up in the same town and joined the same poetry club, they basically share a single braincell.
F***, now I want to run a campaign of Flyers in a Sky Island Setting.
One of my favorite things to do for people is to tell them that everything in the monster manuals are playable as characters and modify whatever they pick to be reasonable at whatever level we're playing. My daughter loved being able to play a unicorn, some people don't like Warforged and some settings don't have them but a modified Golem gets a similar flavor, one of my friends is an animal lover and has a lot of fun figuring out how various awakened animals can work, etc.
FYI, my favorite rule is the one at the beginning of every book that says the rules are guidelines.
A firbolg with a kenku in their backpack to go for a banjo and kazooie type adventure
A pirate themed campaign with a party that all have the ability to breath underwater would be cool. Simic Hybrid, Sea Elf, Triton, Locathah, Water Genasi, etc
Let's not forget Dragonborn and Kobold. If you play the Kobold as "super-excited about Dragons!", then there's a lot of fun to be had there.
Funnily enough, I remember being in a D&D 5e campaign where they enabled some home-brew, and the main trio was composed of -, and I shit you not, Arbiter)- the following/
A Fire Genasi who had a hand-cannon that she got from a cowboy-mermaid duo that was FAR ahead of their time
A Twilightkin (designed after Salem from RWBY) who was a puppetmaster that used various materials to completely break the damage numbers
A Fairy that doubled as a mech-pilot of a robot that was completely inspired by a Zinogre... which was the same size as the party due to Fairies being small.
I like the Fairy, Goblin, Kobold grouping.
Just started a new campaign as a kobold fighter, we have a loxodon cleric joining the party soon.
This is the sort of stuff I'd love to set up as a oneshot.
As you gain more right to limit races in a oneshot than if you're running a longer game.
I'd like to have a party with all underwater races. Though even with that you can cheat with several subclasses that will give a swim speed and underwater breating.
Bugbear, Goblin and Hobgoblin is a fun combination.
Also Kobold, Goblin and Gnome is a comedy match worth the time.
I was expecting more of a meta analysis on what combos are great, but honestly this is better.
four turtles party also needs human druid permanently stuck in giant rat form
this makes me think of an all changeling party that is constantly changing looks and confusing everyone.
each town they could be totally new personas, players could switch personas with eachother, going from being heroes in one town to villians in the next one, disguising themselves as the evil party and making them look good to ruin their villian reputation, or disguising as henchmen to get into the BBEG's lair.
or play out the fun of any of the all same race parties in this video
and all whole being an amazing traveling acting group as a cover
My current party actually has an Aasimar (my character) and a Tiefling. Given the current group dynamic the chances of them dating as you claim they inevitably will is pretty much nil.
There’s a fair bit of tension between us (speaking as my character, not as a player) on account of the fact that I am a Fallen Aasimar who was abandoned by my guide for being too merciful (which is extremely ironic, as I am so ruthless when I decide that someone deserves to be punished that it actually scares the rest of the party) while the Tiefling has entered a pact with a demon and has been letting it influence her actions to a troubling degree. At one point I confronted her about it and her response was to draw a knife on me and dismiss my concerns as invalid, while I was literally carrying my mother’s dead body (a lot happened in the previous session) and in no position to fight.
So, yeah, that relationship is rather strained. Has been excellent for inter-party drama as I am now effectively keeping her close out of fear that if I cannot leave her to her own devices.
My D&D party consists of a couple of Humans: a Necromantic Wizard and a commoner [homebrewed playable npc-type class], a Half-Elf Bard, an Elf Cleric, a Gnome Rogue, a Dwarf Artificer, and myself; a Warforged Fighter.
My favoite game was a short campaign i did with just two of my friends. I played as a tortle artificer with an echo knight warforged in a modern campaign, a lot of shenanigans ensued and there were multiple times we shoved eachother in my bag of holding to sneak around, including having the warforged walk across the bottom of a lake to sneak into an enemy town
the all chaos combo seems amazing. An all war- race combo could be fun: Hobgoblins, Orcs, Minotaurs and Githyanki are all culturally very close to structured military and war efforts. War is a good excuse for a fight heavy campaign and can create fun moral dilemmas
7:13 I’m pretty sure the DMG gives examples to reflavor existing weapons into these weapons like Daggers being changed into Sais, clubs into nunchucks and a Longsword into a katana.
A friend and I played a Tortle and Harengon. I was a nomadic Tortle wanderer that had traveled to the Feywild and beat my narcoleptic Harengon friend in a race.
We were reunited by fate in session one and it made for some great banter 🐢🐰
You are also obliged to cheer out “ROCK AND STONE” as you mimic DRG.
We should try to bring back dragonrought kobolds
Elaborate?
@@LassBisharp Basically they were just more draconic kobolds.
Funny that you mention Tabaxi and Bird type races because My Tabaxi Monk was raised by a family of Aracockra nobles but she actually developed a wonderful kinship with the secondborn son and they were both inspired to become martial artists because of a Kenku named Revan Blacktalon.
I am taking theses parties and using them as rival teams for whenever my party try and enter a tournament arc
7:16 A group of Tortle Monks following the Way of the Shadow is, quite literally, TMNT
Four tortles, a human, and a were-rat would be perfect.
Fun fact - I am currently playing a Tabaxi in a party with a Kenku. Nothing has come of this yet, but I am suddenly very curious if my fellow adventurer is at all concerned by traveling with the cat boy Rogue who could double dash with Feline Agility active after him if he ever decided that the bird man suddenly looked like a tasty snack.
I almost got to be involved in the "Gnome + Warforged" combo. In Pathfinder I was a Dwarf with high crafting, and we had a Warforged party member. Or maybe he was called something else, but he was a mechanical man. I was planning to have my Dwarf be very interested in how this character worked, but unfortunately the player left the campaign. We hardly knew ye.
the all flying race campains are great
partaly on the simple fact that it makes the DM come up with a more creative enemy than bandits goblins or the other typical land dwelling encounters
and then there is another classic 3 dwarfs and the 4th party member who isnt a dwarf but speaks dwarf
You could get a lot of mileage out of this by letting the players design their entire party together, either choosing one or more of these combos, or creating their own, then tweaking their characters' personalities for further synergy, chaos, or other fun. This would work great alongside procedurally-created or group-brainstormed party backstories, as in, starting session 1, the party canonically isn't meeting for the first time, but already know each other, or at least have already met.
Also, I'd get a kick out of being the sole non-Dwarf in a Dwarf party, constantly being ignored or excluded, as long as it was just fun roleplay between the characters, and not the genuine player dynamic at the table. One could have a lot of fun milking the "hard done by" character for maximum pathos... or comedy!