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Those few times he action surged with his sword. A veritable whirlwind of blood.

Yea that archtype with 5e fighter is horrifying at higher levels a maxed out Percy could unload 16 shots in 2 rounds with out haste

@@rundinj What makes that archetype so horrifying specifically? I haven't read its rules but any maxed out fighter could make 16 attacks in 2 rounds.

@@MrNoface0 guns have high damage and long range, and his grit spenders do a lot of extra things.

But also 16 attacks means more chance of misfires.

"I'm just gonna, hmmmm, no I won't do that, well, hmmmmmmmmm yeah I will, it'll be fun."

taliesin "that will do..." jaffe

Taliesin is the definition of chaotic neutral

Taliesin ''make me a brand new martial archetype'', and Taliesin ''gonna slit my wrists to hurt my enemies''

Best words out of this mans mouth: "I've got a kettle."

THE OUTFIT IS SO AWESOME THOUGH! (Love your memes btw).

@@yam3946 I AGREEEEEEE (thanks friendo :3)

What man? I only see a pyramid.

I love Taliesin so much! I've been waiting for his HH episode!

I wonder were he got that outfit. Its really cool!

You say that like he's not exactly that

How unusually specific lmao

@@kylestanley7843 you know how the mind works sometimes 😛

@@TheDiplomancer youre right he isnt, he is an eldritch being disguised as a human

The jacket is amazing

I just wanted to write the same thing :)

I want to have that jacket. Wonder where one can buy it.

Marc Shaw - I suspect in some middle eastern bazaar in the early 1000’s. Which woulda been around Tal’s mid adolescence, if the legends are true. So...good luck!

Critical Role should make a web series for Taliesin 's fashion. It's pretty amazing. What he has in his closet, where he shops or finds all this great stuff...

Good point

It's the overwhelming reason why so many multi-class builds end up with 2 levels in fighter. You can literally be any other class and gaining that action surge will boost the power of your turn significantly.

@@WeretigerX Except rogue because, you know, Sneak Attack. But on the other hand rogue is amazing with battlemaster in team because you can proc your Sneak Attack with his maneuver.

@@GrimmerPl Battlemaster is particularly good with Swashbuckler. But yeah Action Surge can still be incredibly useful for a Rogue, especially an Arcane Trickster. You can get your Sneak Attack and still be able to cast a spell. At higher levels when an Arcane Trickster can start casting 3rd and 4th level spells, that Action Surge suddenly becomes very useful.

I'm guessing it got passed up because it's not a choice, every fighter gets it. So instead they focus on the different subclasses and how that will impact your stat choices, etc. Now if it's a discussion about which class to choose then action surge should absolutely come up. But that's outside the scope of these videos, which are kept very short and simple to not overwhelm new players.

My party was trying to surrender in a fight, and I handed over my long bow and started to back away, things were going well until our warlock went fuck this, so I summoned my long bow back to my hand and went back to firing.

The eldritch knight seems cool but I just want to be thr tankiest I could be. I love taking damage for my friends, I love being the protective one.

Preston Garvey You’re in luck dude, the “shield” spell is a staple of eldritch knights and can easily boost their ac up to 25-28ish depending on what fighting style and items you have.

If thats your favourite part just play hexblade x/figther 2 :P megavore97 or play barabrian and dont give a fuck if enemy hits or not :)

Talisman? Haha

TALISMAN...

i mean, it’s on brand for him

@@shadycactus6146 it totally is!

Autocorrect get ya?

It's next to the other classes in the closet. :P

It actually IS just the groups you've played with: fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-your-dd-character-rare/ Human Fighter is the most common class these days.

Love the fighter class, gonna make a dwarven arcane archer that uses a heavy crossbow (if it still counts towards arcane archer) I feel alot of fun coming out of that one

Wally D.M. I dunno. It just seems boring to me...

Fighter is the most popular class according to many statistical reports (someone even linked one already). However, it is also the most BORING class in some circles. A substantial minority of people play D&D for the magic, and fighter offers little to satisfy that (You're good but not great, EK).

God I loved Willow. What a great movie.

I was like, what the Peck?

mic might be attached there..?

@@DjObit that is actually a very good point

Ellipses..?

Nah, they aren't using lapel mics. They're using a boom overhead.

Please?

Send it to critrolecloset!! (Twitter or IG)

He wore that to a Gather Your Party ep and he said he found it at a thrift store

SepherZmon - At the turn of the 14th century.

You have to remember that thrift shops near "Hollywood" have all kinds of cool stuff, old wardrobe pieces, and one-off fashion student projects, etc.

Same

Most people you'll find are gonna run Pathfinder lol, I'm pretty sure Matt only switched it to D&D for rights reasons or something

@@vishaansingh1019 He switched to 5e because combat in 5e is faster and simpler which works when you have (inicially) 8 players and are doing it for a live audience. I'm also pretty sure 5e is more widespread than Pathfinder but obviously this will vary from place to place. If Pathfinder was so big, you wouldn't see people asking in Roll20: "Is Pathfinder dying?" app.roll20.net/forum/post/2763530/is-pathfinder-dying/?pageforid=2763811#post-2763811

Vishaan Singh it was to simplify combat, or at least, that’s the reason he gave I think.

Same

If you want the full badass-itude with lighting/thunder magic, you could go for Storm Sorcerer. Just make sure to get Weapon Master so you can use a warhammer, for maximum Thor-y goodness.

Yes. You would. People's shit. You will wreck it.

That build is a crowd control beast my friend!

Emmote I HAVE A GLAIVE IN MY CAMPAIGN:)

Daniel Gordon Yuuuuuuuuuuuup

Yeah killing the enemy on their turn is always great

sounds both terrible and amazing, i hope you had a blast playing your character 😄 or perhaps you still have, some campaings last for years, especially when, you know... not everybody has time to play every week 😔

@@OwocowyMr It was pretty fun! My uncle was the DM and he decided to start us at LV5, so we got to jump straight to the specialities we wanted to play with. That being said though, the campaign attempt lasted 3 months... My poor Fighter lol

@@omnimon401 well, i hope he lived an exciting life :D also starting at lv5 sounds fun, i've always played from scratch but i have to try this one out someday, both as player and as DM (haven't done this one yet, but i'm planning to, slowly building my own homebrew world like Matt did, but probably way slower because of the experience gap on my side :D )

Oh he’s bi?

I just assumed that as an ancient eldrich god he has no time for trivial matters like love

BøB_Hi ¿? 😂

BøB_Hi ¿? yes he is

A couple of things 1. You can't multiclass into Rogue, you lack the Dex 13 Prereq. 2. There is quite literally zero point in having 18 Cha and 18 Str. Spread those points to something else, notably your Constitution. 3. Your progression for this class would be a nightmare if actually leveled. It would probably be best to go Fighter 1 - > Warlock 1 -> Fighter 8 -> Rogue 2 -> Hexblade 7 -> Fighter 11. 4. By multiclassing so much, you're going to lose feats / ASI overall 5. Valor Bard fits so much better in this than Fighter into this arrangement. Consider Valor Bard 14, Rogue 2, Warlock 4, as it will do many of the same things and have less dependence

@@Antholography 1. The Dexterity is supposed to be 13 and the Wisdom is supposed to be 9. I posted this when I was half asleep. lol 2. I want the character to be in the front lines, keeping enemies away from my allies. Eldritch Blast with Repelling Blast and Grasp of Hadar, and Booming Blade are three at-will abilities for them to keep people at bay. Without a high Charisma or Strength, those abilities are basically useless. They also have many spells, such as Hold Person, that can help control the enemies movement as well. I also gave them the option of dealing a decent amount of damage if they need to. 3. You made the assumption that I would be playing this in an overarching campaign, which I stated otherwise in the original post. On occasion, the people in my group will hold a Level 20 one-shot to test out creative character builds. It also allows those with min-maxing tendencies to use them outside of the main campaigns. Even if I were to use it in an overarching campaign, you also made the assumption that they would have gone 11 Fighter, then 2 Rogue, and then 7 Warlock and that they wouldn't have been spread out. I currently play a Ranger, Rogue, Fighter in an overarching campaign and they don't level up through one class at a time. 4. Doesn't matter to me if I like the character build and it works for the role I want the character to fill within the party. 5. Honestly, during this last point, all I hear is "Your fun is wrong."

@@wuzzy41123 2. You've got levels into a Hexblade Warlock. You will already make melee attacks with Charisma. Eldritch Blast, Repelling Blast, and Grasp of Hadar are *also* based on Charisma. Hold person would be based off your Intelligence (if from EK) or Charisma (if from Warlock). You literally don't need Strength unless you plan on making Athletics for Grappling Checks constantly. Take DEX to 14, STR to 12, wear medium armor - and you can allocate your points around a little more effectively, while gaining a small bonus to your Stealth + Initiative 3. My post literally addressees progression. I explicitly said that the best way to do it was to break it up. 4. /shrug. My suggestions literally let you do everything you've posited and more 5. I simply pointed out that Eldritch Knight gets *many* of the same things that Valor Bard does - but Valor Bard has more synergy with the other two sub-classes (because it is Charisma based, not Intelligence). Cast and Slash? Got it. You already get Weapon Bond from Hexblade. Spellcasting? Check. Your fun isn't wrong, it just needs refinement.

@@Antholography 2. I do plan on having them make Athletics/Grapple checks. Hence, the controlling aspect of the character. If they run out of spell slots, or are in an antimagic field, what are they going to do then? 3. That was literally my point. You explained it when it was unnecessary. 4. You haven't seen the entire character sheet nor do you know the playstyles of myself and those that I play with, so how could you possibly know what is best for the character build? 5. Again, that is a completely different build. If you want to make that build, go ahead. I'm not trying to make a broken character, I'm trying to make a fun character. Trust me, if I wanted to make a broken character, I would. I and one of my buddies within my D&D group intentionally break characters so we can put houserules in place to stop it from happening.

2. Enlarge Reduce or Enhance Ability are on the Bard Spell list - if grappling is that important. You also would be less likely to run out of spell slots, considering 14 levels of full caster progression + 4 Levels of Warlock, compared to 11 Levels of 1/3rd level Caster + 7 Levels of Warlock. Modifying the ability scores I've mentioned (lower STR, up con 4, dex 1, 1 point floating) would also have a pretty good chance of netting you ~40 more hit points at 20th level - an important resource if you want to be mixing it up in melee. 4. It's not ridiculous to know that you're getting (basically) the same feature multiple times and not able to use utilize it. 5. It's not a broken character. It's a character that's optimized better. If you went Barbarian 5, Fighter 5, Paladin 5, Ranger 5 - it's a valid build. Getting Extra Attack 3 additional times doesn't benefit you, and generally isn't optimized