Five Missing Subclasses in D&D 5e 

❤ agreed!❤

Basically the chanter from Pillars of Eternity, my favorite class in that game.

@@Jasta85 its the same thing I was thinking about lmao! Nothing beats summoning a dragon out of its own balad. It can also take some inspirations from Mortimer from inkheart, Alan wake and even the whole lorehold school from stryxhaven!

I need someone to get on that please!😊

My bard of creation would make props and use major image yo tell the stories of his songs.

Right? Why didn't we get one in Fizban's?

first thought that popped into my head. lol

I had the idea a while ago to reflavor Sorcerer into Warlock and it feels pretty decent.

@@sheepishwarlord9931 because the game devs (ad msot homebr ,even the dungeon dudes) can't think in abilitis that are difrent enough from the sorcerer ones. Is th smae reason w dont receive fey and fiend soceres in 5e too (even that themres are a lot boarer than the draconic one)

I kinda cheated and did this by making my Hexblade pact with a Shadow Dragon.

Yeah. Had a ‘pro wrestler’ subclass on the backburner a while…

I think name "path of a python" could fit - you're not biting, slashing or piercing, you grapple the enemy and constrict them

Steinhardt has a really good one. It's the earthbreaker subclass. It's all about punching and gravity abilities.

THIS! I think this fits a lot better than a strength based monk. Same outcome just different base class

path of the cage fighter

Even if you add Glyph of Warding to the artificer spell list it doesn't get to play with it until level 9, so having like a mini version based off of a class resource giving certain spells the ability to be cast as glyphs would fit the bill, I think.

I think a trap class for ranger and rogue make a ton of sense, too. Ranger's one could apply some debuffs or Hunter's Mark, and Rogue's could be poison and apply Sneak Attack or something.

Yes! In Gloom or Frost haven has an answer, there is a guy that deploys traps (look like bear traps) and has 2 things to make it work. Able to move around the battlefield quickly (I would think teleport or run fast for 5e) and ways to push enemies into them (some sort of save or they get pushed OR via a spell).

There is a Trapmaster subclass for Rangers in Heliana’s guide to Monster Hunting that could be used for inspiration!

Pointy hat is top tier

so pumped for the witch book, my childhood witch obsession has never been more fed!

The human familiar is better :D @@melbifk

I was going to say that, i still can´t try any of his new subclasses since i still can´t find a group to play but i loved the dragon pact warlock and i would love to see his book with those spellcasters that get their spells from the monsters they defeat.

IMO his dragon warlock needed to be tweeked a bit, but it indeed had a lot of great ideas.

And throw seed that instantly Grow trees and push ennemy and do some damage!

I've thought about this before. I don't think there's a ton of plant monsters out there but it could work. I've thought the same about other subclasses too - a druid that can wildshape into other types aside from Beast. Having free reign would be too op I think, but being able to select up to 3 different types of monsters would be OK

I made an early draft of one that, instead of wild shaping into a specific plant creature, instead could choose to shapeshift parts of themselves to add plant-based benefits. Things like vine arms (reach), thorn-covered "armour" (damage return on being attacked), or being covered in fragrant flowers (close range attackers who inhale the spores must succeed on save, or be charmed).

Or just wooden armor that boosts ac & lets you use wisdom for weapon attacks

just give them a treant like wildshape. that might be stealing from wow but there you also have one form like this. have it scale from essentially transforming into a human sized groot to eventually turning into a huge ent. this would be something like the grappler druid who goes into melee combat with reach (growing arms) permanent barkskin and so on give them a double attack, where they can do two attacks and each attack can hit up to two enemies that are within 5 feet. on a hit they must make a grapple check against you and if you manage to grapple both targets of one attack you can bonk them together for extra damage and maybe a stun

this one is a bit tricky because as soon as you have another humanoid to control, you kinda tend to have to roleplay them, could be more difficult. But it would be really cool indeed!

@@sntcci Easy, require them to be played in tandem by two players.

@@scienceme9794Pretty lame to roleplay as a subclass feature instead of an actual character

They should make a class/subclass or feat that uses the sidekick rules but is more baked-in and less dependent on the DM to run another npc in the party.

Pawns from dragons dogma

Yeah, they kinda mentioned that when they covered the Tal'Dorei Runechild Sorcerer where when you take away the setting specific flavor text it's a sorcerer that allows you to do more magic with the magic you were already doing.

Yes.

I feel like Wild Magic is supposed to be the “flavorless” Sorcerer because I think in flavor most Sorcerers struggle with containing their magic

I feel like if you reflavor Lunar Sorcerer, that’s what you get. It’s like Sorcerer+ Reduced metamagic costs (more effective metamagic), massive additional spell list, multiple free castings of spells (more effective spell slots), and more utility + battlefield control

That's just asking for a stronger sorcerer? No flavourful abilities just double down and make them better? Please no.

Sounds like an idea to pair well with the fighter echoknight subclass.

You can flavor the phantom rogue to get the same vibe I guess.

I'm giving it my best shot to try to convert the Shadow dancer prestige glass to 5e as a subclass for rogue. An ability to use specific spells with a wisdom saving throw for half damage. Shadow magic was almost forgotten about it in 5e. There are a few phantasmal spells and Shadow blade.

Shadow Dancer was originally a prestige class from 3.5, right? It's one of my favorite Prestige Classes from that era of D&D.

Here’s my ideas so far. Apothecary Subclasses Hedge Doctor You know all the plants you need to craft medicine and poison. Medic A mobility specialist who can quickly deliver medicine. Phycologist Cure madness or inflict it. Weapon Builder You get a laser gun. Artificer Subclasses Kaboomist An artificer that likes to go out with a bang. Choose sticky, incendiary, frag, poison, and implosion bombs to make. Barbarian Subclasses Commander Your reckless charges inspire your comrades to fight harder. Level 3 Inspiring Charge: Once per combat members of your party can move with you when you move to attack an enemy. They can ignore all obstacles you can get around. If their movement causes an opportunity attack, that enemy attacks you instead. Level 7 Inspiring Confidence: Members of your party who are within 5 feet of you have +1 to their AC. Level 12 Inspiring Focus: Members of your party cannot have their concentration broken except by magical means. Members of your party add 1d6 to the die rolls of skill checks. Death Seeker The closer to death you become the stronger you become. Level 3 Near Death Experience: If you are at half your hp or less you get +2 to strength and take ½ damage from piercing and crushing damage. This stacks with your rage and other buffs. Level 5 You take ½ damage from necrotic damage while in a near death experience. Level 7 Strength from the Void: For each hp below half your max hp you gain +1 strength. Level 14 Unholy Strength: You gain +1 strength from each hp below max l. Add an additional d6 damage on your attacks for each hp below half your max. Instigator Goad enemies into fighting you instead of your comrades. Level 3 Goad: If you see an enemy, you can taunt it. Unless it passes a charisma saving throw, it must attack you. You take ½ of the damage it would deal to you. This stacks with other damage reduction effects. You can attack it back as a free bonus action. Level 5 Intimidating: Enemies have disadvantage on their charisma checks. Their charisma saving throws get reduced by an intimidation check you automatically make in response. Level 14 Vexing Aura: Enemies within a 30 foot radius must choose you when choosing a target to attack. The first time each enemy attacks you, take ½ damage from their attacks and attack them as a free bonus action. This stacks with other damage reduction effects. You have an additional attack for each enemy within 10 feet. Juggernaut Ram into walls and smash through any obstacles. Level 3 Growth: You grow 1 foot and gain 100 pounds. Wrecking Ball: You can move up to 30 feet and attack an enemy. This counts as a movement action. Add your weight/100 + your AC to your hit roll. If it crits, knock the enemy over. Level 6 Burst: You can smash through walls and doors on a successful strength check. Ignore all damage from the debris. Level 7 Growth: You grow 1 foot and gain 100 pounds. Level 10 Trap Smasher: When you walk into a trap, destroy it. You take ½ damage from traps. Level 12 Growth: You grow 1 foot and gain 100 pounds. Level 14 Snap: You can enter a rage when breaking objects. Rage Instinct You become almost a different person when you rage. Your rage half remembers its battles, and what kind of damage it took. Level 3 Inner Rage: You automatically enter a rage whenever you enter combat. You can’t retreat and your rage doesn’t end until the end of combat. Big Rage: You grow 1 foot and gain 100 pounds when you rage. Revert back to normal size afterwards. Instinctive Attack: You get a free attack whenever you enter a rage. Split Mind: Your non-raging subconscious can still concentrate on spells so long as they have no verbal or physical components. Level 6 Memory Foam Skin: If you take 10 or more damage from a single attack, you gain resistance to whatever damage type it is. Level 12 Rubber Skin: If you take 10 or more damage from a single attack, and you already have resistance to its damage type, you gain immunity to whatever damage type it is. Redneck You have a shotgun axe. Wild Friend You get a companion. Bard Subclasses School of Animal Training You get an animal companion and can teach it to do different things. School of Comedy Raise morale with a good laugh. Vex enemies by making fun of them. Do impressions. School of Culinary Arts You learn to make food. Pick some recipes. Different foods have different properties. Some increase strength and some heal. Cure just about any negative status effect with the right recipe. School of Heroes Summon heroes from your tales. School of Painting Draw or paint heroic figures. You can learn abstract art for delivering coded messages. Portraits for boosting morale of the party. Still life that you can bring to life for supplies. School of Pottery Make statues that help others focus and grant bardic inspiration. School of Trapeze A dexterity mobility based class. School of Trickshots Inspire others, by shooting enemies dead in creative ways. School of Thespians You become a master of disguise. Druid of Companionship You get an animal companion that can wildshape with you. Druid of the Hive You wild shape into a queen bee, or ant, or other hive mind type creature. Druid of Poison You have immunity to poison damage and can turn into venomous animals. Verdant Druid You can wildshape into plants, and control vines. Fighter Subclasses Pet Owner You get a dog, falcon, or weasel companion. Mounted Combat Expert You can do some cool things with a trained warhorse Way of Elements Pick an element and get a spell list based on it. Casting spells won’t use Chi. Way of Fireworks You can shoot fireworks and shoot balls of metal through tubes. Way of Shogun You can wear armor. Use your strength more. You can climb and leap over buildings. Way of the Astral Plane You can split your mind from your body, creating a duplicate. Palladian Subclasses Oath of Steeds You get much more interesting options for mounts, and more things to do with them. Oathsworn Companion You get a dog or other pet that took the same oath and you can sick ‘em on your enemies. Ranger Subclasses Cowboy You have a herd and a gun Explorer You can cut through plants with your sword, and change favored foe/terrain after studying a map or book Martial You have a big iron. You get in lots of duels. Poacher Sort of the anti-ranger. You're a great horse thief, and great at stealth. Rogue Subclasses Poisoner You get a poison kit to dip your weapons in. Shadow Dancer Summon your imaginary friend to fight alongside you. Mob Boss You get a pistol with a silencer. Thieves Cant is actually interesting and useful. Sorcerer Subclasses Elemental Companion Choose an elemental to be your companion Fae Ancestry An illusion focused class with tricky fairy magic. You can manipulate others. Fiend Ancestry A summoning focused class where you can summon your half fiend ancestors. Dragon Pact You have different spells depending on the type of dragon. Wizard’s Familiar Conjure an animal companion to help you concentrate and prepare physical elements for spells.

The Wildmount Graviturge was so disappointing compared to the Chronurge. It's surreal how horribly they pushed the latter while being way too safe with the former

You COULD say a specifically build Battle Master Fighter or a Purple Dragon Knight Fighter could be flavored as a commander. Or even a College of Valor Bard. But yes I really think fighter doesn't really have a "simple" subclass to choose from that's just a guy who's really good at fighting or a battle commander who runs the team. Champion Fighter is the only simple, low on fluff subclass the fighter's got, and that subclass suuuucks all around.

Heavy weapon rogue, wildshape rogue that can sneak attack with natural weapons and unarmed strikes and a artefact magic casting barbarian that uses hp instead of spellslots would be nice.

You can make a great storm druid by going land druid (mountain) X/ Tempest Cleric 2.

Storm druid would be awesome.

Where can I find these?

@@user-hk7st5ok9s Their youtube channel.

​@@user-hk7st5ok9s look up Tulokthebarbrarian on RU-vid and he has a Playlist in his Playlist section about "the tales of Morie" or something like that and those are his subclasses

You can search up his name and find a video describing each subclass, including some of his homebrew content!

Now imagine these all together as a DnD party 😂

Dragonfire Adept was really cool.

It was pretty weaksauce, so... Perfect for this edition 😂

I fuckin love this. Here for it

Look up the Black Thorn Groove from Compendium of Forgotten Secrets, perfectly fits that vibe

Hell yeah, those sound awesome.

Yeah an aberration/Psionic themed Druid would be a lot of fun.

Vibes like Eldritch Knight / Bladesinger . A Ranger that does more spells, and Druid that does more martial stuff. Both would be cool.

I'm currently playing a wood elf bladesinger in a campaign with my brother, and I told him that I wish it felt more like a druid/ranger bladesinger. We might actually home-brew it a little so that I can take more nature spells.

Fully with you and I don't think what I'm about to say completely fills that niche but a shillelagh using beastmaster is probably the closest currently to that. You can primary stat wisdom, use medium armor and a shield, and maybe multiclass slightly (warlock for invocations imo), and focus on using spells and super buffed up beast to fight with yourself to use as a fallback fighter. Depending on the pacing your table plays at and the fight to rest ratio and length of a day, I think its good. I hope to play one someday

I know there are so many other popular giant robot inspirations, but my first thought for that Artificer Jockey is Robot Jox. That theme always gets me pumped up.

@@SilvrSavior My main inspiration was Titanfall, mainly the notion that you can fight alongside it, or power it up by getting inside it. Had to go watch a Robot Jox trailer since it's older than me. Perhaps you can confirm for me ... did that robot have a chainsaw shween?

@@_Crunchy Yup. It was hilarious as a kid.

I thought you were going for a Watson companion but I'll happily take the dog. xD

I could not endorse this idea more.

Could be part of a K9 unit of the town guard.

Great idea. I think more classes should have a subclass that has some sort of companion. Like the cavalier should have a mount, it's bizarre it doesn't.

I was rather thinking of something like a bird, maybe a giant hawk or something ? It fits the exploration, agility and scouting parts of the rogue class. Having a dog like a cop dog buddy would rather fit a paladin or fighter imo. Rogues have too much of an outlaw vibe to be cops

For whatever reason they lump the gods of the sea in with the storm and focus on the god-fearing chaos and destruction side, in opposition to the life giving natural side. One of my earlier character concepts was a storm cleric who believed that the church was lying about his god's true nature and had been branded a heretic when he went around preaching that the storm is life, and not to be feared. I may revisit that idea one day.

I homebrewed Tide Domain for this exact reason, too. Not having a cleric dedicated to water seems like a crazy oversight.

I had an idea for a Battle Smith who uses reanimated corpses as the basis of his ‘steel guardian’. Then I remembered he needs to use smiths tools somewhere in the construction, so I decided to just say “he holds the body parts together by encasing them in armour”. That’s when I realised I had basically created the Cybermen from Doctor Who 😂

I'm also playing a mad scientist type artificer, but the vibe of mine is this wicked smart engineering kid who is constantly experimenting with new lil contraptions, but occasionally has stuff blow up (often literally) in their face. Everything runs off my spells, so I have a version of Arcane Recovery (which I like to call Arcane Monster Energy), I can cast spells I haven't prepared, and I have a mishap mechanic that both of the previous 2 features trigger

more necromancy flavoured classes in general is good, imo.

@@averyodowd6448 Agreed, everyone should be able to raise a family

The grenadier. Fantastic idea

Path of the Giant, is sorta what you're looking for. Just not as varied.

There was a thrower prestige class in 3.5

The Thief Rogue, with a bonus action, can use an object. So they can throw acid or alchemist fire, etc, with a bonus action every turn.

You and lunar slingshot are onto something. Items are severely underutilized at the tables I've been to and I'd presume most tables. They're the intended mechanic for leveling the caster-martial divide, and we should rely on them more

100 points for Warlord!!!! (Alternatively make warlord its own class as a backline non-magic support) And honestly, fighters needed universal maneuvers. Then each subclass gets its own added maneuvers. Battlemaster and Warlord get the fastest scaling and more of them, one focuses on frontline play, the other uses team maneuvers (like reposition or commanding attacks) and paired with “stratagems” that work like AoE battlefield effects. And even give them healing by allowing characters to expend hit die either from themselves or the Warlord! (The latter could heal both characters as they both work to cover each other, or give up the warlord’s heal as extra temp hp)

Death bloodline would be something like necromancy centered sorcerer?

How about any new subclasses for artificer? That class gets no love from wizards since it is isolated in its own source. Especially because when I saw the UA for Rune Wizard, I thought "that make for an awesome Artificer subclass."

@@SilvrSavior 100% the artificer should get its own AI-centric subclass! The artificer decides one day to make their own Cortana -(or Galdos)- that assists them and their allies. Could be a better support artificer compared to the lackluster alchemist (which should have been its own class!!!) and could incentivize (and help) give the party infused items more regularly, especially since it could be a prerequisite for some of the AI’s powers.

Sorcerer entered the chat and made that specific warlock subclass redundant years ago

@@justanotherdude3256 not at all. Roleplay purposes alone, it’s a crime there’s no dragon warlock patron.

@@justanotherdude3256 That's probably why there's no dragon warlock (and no fey or devil-blood sorcerer), because of the thematic overlap. Of course, there's both a sorcerer and warlock for divine/celestial, so that's not really a good excuse.

@@Wyvernil if anything, the fact that we’re MISSING them is more of an oversight! Sorcerers and Warlocks get little in the way of translatable and synchronistic subclasses that feel good to roleplay without a million justifications! Best we got is shadow + hexblade/undead, divine soul + celestial, storm + genie, and Eldritch + aberrant. That sounds like a lot now but this was only after YEARS of no overlap whatsoever, and two of those combos cane in the same book! So they knew that thematically synergistic subclasses are a boon by then! (Also not getting Phoenix sorcerers really hurt!) A fiendish sorcerer getting a patronage from a devil makes perfect sense! Doubly so if they’re a Tiefling! Same with an elven fae sorcerer swearing allegiance to an Archfey! And a dragon blood sorcerer receiving a gift from an ancient dragon they helped, or even stealing power from an artifact from a dragon’s hoard! Now we just need a sun or planet/space themed warlock to pair with the lunar sorcerers lololol

At one point warlocks were INT based or could choose between INT or CHA

totally agree! sorcerers are kind of like the mutants of dnd right? some of them would surely get powers like super strength or metal skin or tentacles or something imo. i also don't get why charisma is their main stat? like if their power comes from their blood, then why not con or even strength?

@@LukePasqualeCalarco my guess would be it is just a mechanical reason so they actually have to worry about two attributes because I could see a strong argument for sorcerer being a constitution based caster. Charisma is kinda like wotc's caster dump stat. Like warlocks. Any character with a main stat of intelligence or wisdom would know better than to take the deal but, the charismatic one will think they can talk their way out of it later.

Agreed but I would take it further. Replace all the normal bloodline traits you get with martial attributes like armor and weapon proficiency at lvl 1. At lvl 3 you can get bonded weapon like the eldritch knight. Later you get a an extra attack and/or an Arcane Smite similar to a Paladin's smite or the Warlock's eldritch smite. Stuff like that.

@@Marcus21HI like that though I'd honestly go a step further if I was designing it myself and take the class out all together. Instead have it redesigned as additional heritages that scale off of your proficiency bonus.

@@corpse9144 It's entirely for game balance reasons, Con is one of the main survival stats, as it affects your hp (the other being Dex, cause it affects your AC and Initiative, and Wis being a distant third for Perception) And it's **really** not fair to be able to cast **and** tank a maximized fireball

To be fair, the only warlock subclass with a patron that isn't "spooky" is the Celestial Warlock.

Sumo Monk actually sounds really cool and creative! Love it haha

VERY MUCH YES, A SUMO MONK

Yes! Sumo-Monk!!!

Have Gun Will Travel!

Counterpoint: - jujitsu monk. or pro wrestling subclass that functions like battlemaster - demolitionist artificer focused on explosives - UESTRPG already has the War Crier subclass that lets barbarians use dragon shouts - paladin pirate

I think the funniest thing to me about that subclass is you don't need to de-summon pet. You just need to put it in a box since it cannot pass through objects and has no rules about forced movement.

So basically Danny Phantom.

@@Mordalonbro I came here just to say this

Dervish Bard, hell yeah

I have a bad feeling the Circle of Sea Druid won't make it into the new DND books. It had one playtest then went silent, eventhough a lot of folks thought it needed tweaking. I'd love for it to happen but I'm not keeping my hopes up so I'll be pleasantly surprised if it does.

Mechanus doesn't traditionally have deal-making individuals on it, plus it runs into the same issue with Dragon Warlock where thematically it steps very close to Sorcerer. It is the same reason Fiend /Fey sorcerer isn't a thing

@@kitnal4143 Warlocks don't step on the toes of Clerics and Sorcerers. They hump their leg and rummage through their pockets. They already barely have a real in-universe identity past memes and smeldong brass. Just let them be whatever.

@veraducks we are not talking about in universe lmao and in the forgotten realms they are pretty clearly defined

@@kitnal4143 If you're bringing up Mechanus and Faerun, then you're talking about in-universe. In Faerun, they have a definition but it's still pretty heavy on the overlap with the divine classes.

@veraducks it isn't though? Warlocks are about pacts and dealmaking, they also have a large emphasis on studying (at least originally before they decided to make them charisma, not intelligence, casters). Clerics are in service to a deity, sorcerers are simply born with the magic in their veins. Warlocks take what they want in power plays. My "stepping on toes" comment was about the subclasses mechanics/thematics being too close to what already exists lol

Look at 3.5 prestige classes

or what they did with the Strixhaven subclasses

If you see this, please let me know what you think. It is still a work in progress

I've been trying to figure out how to homebrew this exact subclass for ages. It just fits the artificer so perfectly.

@@agent00puffball In the Edge of The Empire Star Wars TTRPG there is a certain class with a sort of ultimate ability that allows you to spend Light points in order to pitch a crazy ass idea to the DM and allows you to try and make it. It's pretty awesome, though it works basically like the Wish spell where it's all up to the Dm to allow or not allow the thing, or to have it have unintended consequences. I think it can be done, and I loved that class since making big ass improvised bombs and jetpacks is fucking awesome

Wild Magic Artificer is so good, i didn a multiclass build of forgecleric/wild magic sorc around the same concept. Would have definitely loved to have a prebuilt class for it and Artificer needs a lot more subclass love anyway.

I have this idea where you can swap out materials for duck tape like Magiver and at higher levels you learn transmutation like in full Metal Alchemist

Just remember to give the subclass scaling. Poor Wild Magic Barbarian.

Agree, there’s a book idea there.

@@marssmit84 100%

Tiamat

@Battleguild -would count as a Fiend Patron, since that's how she's listed in her stat block, and because the Fiend Patron subclass mentions her as a possibility.

That is true, though they have already created warlock subclasses whose patrons are of the material plane, namely the Undying and Undead Warlocks.

@@matthewmuir8884 Unless you count that as another aspect of the Shadowfell.

@@tabletopnephilim4633 I suppose; I admittedly don't know much about the lore.

Thank you!

I built a class for a Halloween campaign that was exactly this. I wasn't sure how many people would be familiar with Swamp Thing or think it was cool to play, but wanted to include a druid reskin of sorts, and that's what came to mind. One of my players picked it up and had a lot of fun with it though. He came to all our sessions for that campaign in full costume too. The Swamp Thing class had lots of ways to control the shape of the battlefield--making vine walls, muck-filled pits, and mossy little minions--which is how I'd love to play a druid in general. Battlefield control and plant-theme seem a natural pairing. But Moon seems to be the most popular 5e druid, druids who want to be full-time control casters are kinda limited by the concentration-heavy spell list.

The wild thing about monk is you could add 1/3 casting to the base class as it is and it wouldnt really change the game much. Like, wowww they got detect magic at level 3? Cool, make it at will or permanent, its still just good ish. I think about that a lot and tbh want it so much i consider warlock multiclassing for it in every hypothetical monk

I'm interested this sounds like a more flavourful and more fun form of the assassin

This is awesome

Starting at 9th level, you have obtained and learned to use specialized tools to assist you in your subterfuge and combat. You gain proficiency with blowguns. Additionally, attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage with thrown weapon attacks using daggers, nor ranged weapon attacks using darts. You have learned 3 tricks of the trade, each of which you can use once per short rest. (You gain an additional use of each at 17th level) Smoke Bomb: As an action, you can throw a smoke bomb up to 60ft at a target location you can see. A cloud of thick smoke pours out in a 30-foot radius from target location. The smoke's area is heavily obscured, but you can see normally through the smoke. Allies that start their turn within the smokes area of effect can take the Hide, Disengage and Dash action as a bonus action. The smoke dissipates after 1 minutes. Sleeping Dart: As an action, you produce a magical blowgun and make a ranged weapon attack against a target you can see. A creature hit with this attack takes no damage, but is instead affected by the [spell]sleep[/spell] spell. The level at which you cast this spell is equal to half your total levels in this class rounded down. This attack makes no sound, and if you use this ability while you are hidden you remain hidden. Fire Cracker: As an action, you can throw a small pouch of blasting power up to 60ft at a targeted location you can see. The pouch ignites on impact, producing light and an audible noise that can be heard from up to 60ft away. Immediately after using this ability, you and any allies within 15ft of you gain advantage on the next Stealth check you or they make to hide or move silently. Additionally, creatures who can hear or see the fire cracker have disadvantage on their next Perception check to detect you and your allies, as their attention is drawn towards the small explosive device.

By 13th level, you have learned new ways to utilize your quick reflexes to chain multiple attacks together and produce deadly results. When a creature moves outside the normal range of your dart's attack range, you can use your reaction to make a ranged weapon attack against that creature with a dart. When you hit a target with a sneak attack, you can use your reaction to immediately make another weapon attack. If this reaction attack hits, you can apply sneak attack again. When you land a critical hit or you kill a target with your sneak attack, you can use a bonus action to immediately make another weapon attack. If this bonus action attack hits, you can apply sneak attack again.

When you reach 17th level, you have become a master of the Cloak and Dagger. You gain an additional use of each of your Tricks of the Trade abilities and they gain additional functionality. Smoke Bomb. Your allies can see normally through your Smoke Cloud's area of effect, and enemies gain the blinded contion when they start their turn inside the smoke clouds area of effect. The blinded condition ends at the start of their next turn. Sleep Dart. If you successful hit a target with the sleep dart, but it fails to put the target to sleep, it inflicts piercing damage equal to your sneak attack damage to the target. Fire Cracker. When you use your Fire Cracker ability, you can choose to instead throw a Blast Bomb. Blast Bomb. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within 60ft must make a Dexterity saving throw against a DC of 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier. A target takes fire damage equal to your sneak attack damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

"Wrapping Willow"!

Having played a Pugilist I can confirm they are great fun and definitely fill in the vibe of a Strength based brawler. IT feelsw exactly like a Brawler should and all of their subclasses are very interesting.

I think if I were to address this, it would be to make a Hex variant that does the respective elemental damage rather than necrotic damage - maybe have it work similar to a hexblade's curse, so limit the duration, remove the spell slot requirement?

+1. Though you can absolutely build a viable Dex/Cha paladin. Or at least I keep trying to. I'm always petitioning DMs to allow multiclassing out of Paladin with 13 DEX instead of STR so I can add a few levels of Rogue, go Swashbuckler, and play a duelist pally. Or start most combats sitting back with a longbow, keep the backliners in Aura of Protection, and jump in to smite as needed.

Can the Barbarian get advantage on Charisma rolls when shirtless and wearing a bright and wildly colored mask?

The difference between the two in my opinion is the barbarian type focusing on being tough and strong but the monk types focusing on pushing past their limits with willpower. To that end I would add a feature that gave bonuses to that playstyle based on wisdom. So you could put points into wisdom and up your damage and athletics checks. Not sure about balance but the idea would be around using will to overcome the damage and strike beyond your strength.

Baki stuff lol

The Rolling with Difficulty podcast has a patreon with that very thing

I had a Barbarian chef who was the cook on a pirate ship, he got very angry when you criticise his cooking

I think I saw that the Community Cleric kinda has this vibe.

Prismatic? Is that supposed to be for gem dragons?

... The fact that you planned for dracoliches in it is *terrifying.*

Doesn't the Undead Warlock already have dracoliches as a potential patron?

There is a UA for Sorcerers about that called the Giant Soul Sorcerer. Your bloodline is from Giants and they allow you to take traits and features from different types of giants.