The Absurd: Making 1 Level in Every Class a Playable Build | D&D 5e 

It’s amazing how much of an impact that one Puffin Forest video had. Abserd is still spooking around in the D&D community years later. Truly the most deserved legacy of any character ever.

Very well done on a hard challenge. With regard to the cleric subclass, I think you could make the argument for forge ( + 1 to armor), order ( so when you do cast a leveled spell you rouge or paladin can take advantage) and the twilight (dark vision, a d4 to innovative and a great supply of temp hp to keep you and the back line of squishies safe)

I wanted to make a post and say thank you. I am old and tired, I get my math wrong half the time and then confuse my game mechanics with the other have. This channel has a good community. People in chat correct by errors without being patronizing and I thank you all for your kindness. That being said, I love this channel and will still be type out nonsensical gibbersh.

I'd go for a cheese grater build, Warlock 2 for repealling blast > Druid 3 for Spike Growth > Sorcerer 3 for Metamagic Adept > Fighter 2 for action surge (maybe 3 for subclass?). Then I'd quicken spike growth and eldritch blast twice turn 1, and just eldritch blast twice up until I run out of spell slots.

Missed opportunity to make an action surge raging moon Druid that’s smiting everyone, with bonuses to Ac from war wizard & temporary hit points from a high level armor of agathys.

I’ve seen a lot of absurd builds, but most stop at lv 14 and are thus 90% useless, it’s a neat concept to take the build to lv 20 and have it be a playable character, even a good character at some points (disregarding horrible stats). And that eldritch blast barrage is good for most of the game, it doesn’t matter if the attacks are weak 1d10+1d6+3 X4 the damage still adds up, and adding in action surge and quicken spell 12 beams is still nice damage.

My bg3 play through I'm going for the achievement where you multiclass into every class. I'm surprised how fun it is and how I have built a pretty useful character.

Literally was thinking about this the other day!, very timely, thanks

This is definitely a tough build to make work, but I think there’s a path that is very fun and only slightly not as fun. Use point buy, drop con and prioritize cha and dex after all used scores are thirteen. Start with Paladin1 to get armor/weapon proficiency as well as a self healing ability. Use a rapier and light armor. Two warlock levels to pick up and upgrade that eldritch blast, pick Hexblade. You are now a spellsword. Take one level of Druid and one level of Wizard for those fantastic cantrips, and take that second level of Paladin for smites. Take a second level of Wizard and pick bladesinging. It’s not a huge boost but it helps. From here, take three levels of fighter to pick up battlemaster maneuvers and a defensive fighting style, three levels of rogue to pick up swashbuckler and the rogues utility, and one level for each remaining class. Depending on certain choices, it’s not as bad as you might think.

🤯 WOW! Another awesome build. Eldritch Blast Machine Gun? BRILLIANT! Keep up the great work.

It went better then I thought, nice :)

Fighter gets 6 levels so you can get 2 ASIs. Warlock Hexblade & Sorcerer both get 2. 12+1 13+1 13+1 12+1 12+1 13+1+2(F4)+2(F6) Effectively you use all of your spell slots (since you'll be the equivalent of a level 8 spell caster as an Eldritch Knight & level 2 Pact Magic) on Sorcery Points for metamagic cantrips. Agonizing Blast can be quick casted a total of 14 times a day with each turn casting a total of 10 Eldritch Blasts on a target, each dealing 1D10+4 damage. That's a total of 53 damage per turn with a 70% chance to hit. By picking Hexblade Warlock & Eldritch Knight you have a magical weapon bound to you that you cannot be disarmed of, attack twice per turn & use your Charisma modifier instead of strength or dexterity. Alternatively, you could Quick Cast Green Flame Blade in a CQC crowd of enemies for a total of 12D8+16 fire damage. For Cleric, pick the Grave Domain to use Spare the Dying for a range of 30 feet & as a bonus action, then use what little bit of healing you posess to be used at max level on 0 HP allies OOOOORRRRR use Goodberry Druid + Life Domain Cleric for a chunk of HP between fights.

If your DM is free with magic Items and honors requests on them, you might be able to make a case for a Mizzium Apparatus. This isn't an optimal build for mizzium, but it would definitely benefit from one for sure.

Whoa, it me! Super cool build, made it work super well (def wanna try it out)

The other day reddit suggested a post about "how to simulate a healing factor in D&D", i was interested, but not so much that i would keep reading through the replies until i got one i really liked. I chose the lazy and hopefully easier route: How would you go about making a character that passively self heals during combat? (Preferably while using few resources. Possibly a tanky gish type.)

I really want to try this one

Question: wouldn’t armorer artificer give you heavy armor proficiency with zero strength requirement? You can have a much higher AC

Can you make class build around fudging dice: - like divination wizards, lucky feat, war clerick, artificer that have clock amulet, silvery barbs, mind silver, everything that force rerolls

Use either barbarian or rogue along with monk earlier if you want to ditch armor altogether, since unarmored movement and rogues cunning action will give you decent opportunities to get away from attacks

YAY ABSURD FOREVER have not finished it! So hype though! That's what I am on Patreon for!

I feel like it’s worth looking at a 2 lvl wizard dip to grab war magic, arcane deflection grants free ac and save bonuses while not letting you cast leveled spells next turn, so you could still Erdrich blast.

If you take divination wizard, you could assuredly cast literally any scroll in the game

Not sure if you mentioned this synergy: monk weapons use MA die which scales up, monk weapons are any that you are proficient in but lacking heavy or special properties, thanks to tavern brawler you are proficient in improvised weapons. So your vase throw does martial arts die damage instead of the normal (1d4 I think for improvised weapons) love it. Note: I’m not sure if thrown weapon FS works with thrown improvised weapons because it specifies RAW that the weapon has the thrown property(which a vase wouldn’t have) as a DM I would absolutely rule against this RAW in favor of rule of cool and it makes sense that if you are throwing something with proficiency, it has the thrown property for you.

At Warlock 2, you should take Eldritch Mind instead of Repeling Blast. Otherwise you lose Concentration on your Hex far too easily.

would hexblade not be better? as soon as you quicken eldritch blast, you won't use tentacles anymore. but hexblades curse still ups your dmg significantly. also you could use high lvl slots for magic missle to deal with very high ac enemies

I would recommend Fighter, Artificer, or Sorcerer 1 for the Con Saving Throw proficiency. Then go Warlock for two levels. Fighter would also gives proficiency in Md armor.

This is the 2nd of your vids in which I've noticed your asscertion that with a staff and a shiled with a holy symbol you're good to go for all casting including spells like shield and absorb elements (which you list in the vids as castable) Both of these spells require Somatic components which can't be cast without either war caster or a free hand. So this would work if you were a Thri-kreen, but not as a human. Now maybe you're planning to drop the staff at the end of each turn and then pick it up at the star of the next, but this will at least impact opportunity attacks. PPlease take spells with sopmatic components and RAW into account.

I really do see the eloquence bards level 3 ability as broken….the majority of the time it’s a set DC for persuasion checks in modules, so rolling no less than a 10 really has no impact. It’s a feel good ribbon, that’s it.

I’m doing something similar in a game I am dming. I have an NPC character that I am using that I’m trying to go, not all classes in the game but all spellcasters. I’m also making them a pyromaniac so I’m going with subclasses that revolve around fire or light (wildfire druid, light cleric, phoenix sorcerer, etc.)

Hey how about the most Holy Divine multiclass possible. Any class/subclass that has divine influence must be included. Clerics, paladins, celestial warlocks, anything like that must be included, what do you think?

Been trying to figure out an interesting way to multiclass barbarian and rogue. Ideas? So far I've got 3 lvls of Assasin Rogue and the rest in Path of Giants Barbarian. Would love to make use of a thrown weapon, so maybe be an Astral Elf, grab a double-bladed scimitar, and Revenant Blade Feat? Also thought about a 1 lvl dip into Fighter to grab the Archery fighting style to have more consistent ranged attacks. Thoughts? Ways to improve the build? Completely different process or setup? Would love some feedback!

Cool concept, wich subclass goes with the sorcerer?

Hey friend! You ever considered a Black Panther style build? I'm trying to go for something good at hand to hand combat, maybe with natural weapons like claws, but who can also make good use of gadgets or other abilities that could be flavoured as tech. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Impressive you took a really useless Multiclass and Made IT kinda usable and fun

Would aim to pick up druid earlier to get stars druid for concentration protection.

Arcane foci and holy symbols are specific to the class using them. If you are a Sorcerer/Warlock build, you cannot use your Sorcerer wand for your Warlock spells. This build is unviable; unless you grab a component pouch; that's the whole point of the component pouch, to be inter-class.

I want to ask for help with a build idea. The idea is a meat eating Dhampir with Warforged (unless you can think of something better) as the ancestral legacy. I wanted it to seem like a tentacled creature from another plain inhabiting a Warforged husk, or suit of armor as a hermit crab shell to pass as a regular person. Also want to incorporate ways to pull in things like a chameleon as the "shell" opens up to chomp on heads. Any help you can give on this would be apricated.

Just a tiny thing with War magic arcane deflection. Cantrips are spells, so no eldritch blast the next turn. Sorry....

Make a ashardalons stride build pls. Fiery Speedster.

I've actually thought about this build alot when I've had nothing to do but theory craft but I came up with something a bit different: Race is basically the same however I chose to focus on intelligence instead. Starting off I would go 5 levels into artificer going the armourer subclass, this gives you heavy armour proficiency which you can use without needing a high strength and lets you use intelligence for attacks. Going 5 levels into a class initially gives 3 extra levels to play around after taking 1 level in each class as well as 1 ASI or feat. In my mind this was more or a front line fighter character so I would use the ASI to take the tough feat giving you a +2 to every role, equivalent to having a 14 con I believe. From there I would go 2 levels paladin for smite, then go 1 level in every caster class to get spell slots as high as possible. For the remaining levels I would probably go 2 levels fighter for action surge and 1 level wizard for the subclass going war magic same as in the video. Then go the rest of the classes that give nothing such as monk, barbarian, ranger etc.... Something that should be noted that is often overlooked in build videos is magic items (rightly so since you can't guarantee anything) but there are items in the game that raise your stats such as the amulet of health, gauntlets of ogre power and headband of intellect which raise this build to even better.

Should have gone Genie Warlock because the damage boost is not in contention with your battle Hex.

I would do this build a bit different. I would go primary into Barbarian Druid. That way your build kicks off at level 5. You don't have to worry abt AC or HP. Then take dips into other classes as needed and use all your spell slots to heal yourself in your transformed state

I feel like the spirit of the build would have benefitted from the first 13 levels being a new class each time. Three whole classes go completely unused.

What would the backstory of this character be?

Why wouldnt you start in artificer or fighter for Con proficiency?

Ich mache garage in bg3 ein build mit 1 Level von jeder Klasse in Ahnormod

One thing to mention about the fathomless warlock regarding multiclassing is that the tentacle of the deep only specifies that it makes a melee spell attack so in theory rules as written if you had a multiclass into something like wizard you could use your wizard spell casting modifier. Now I don't know if your DM would ever allow that, but it sure doesn't seem like that bad of an idea.

I'm disappointed that you used the name but didn't credit PuffinForest for his Abserd character.

The bit about not needing to juggle focuses with an arcane focus in one hand and a shield emblazoned with a holy symbol in the other is false. Artificer uses either thieves' tools or artisan's tools for their spellcasting not an arcane focus. That only changes further into the artificer subclasses and you aren't going that deep. Also druidic focus for druid.

how does druid hurt your ac? i dont get it? is it the metal armor thing which is a taboo not a set hard rule, ts aa taboo cause all druids have access to heatmetal and being trapped in metal armor is death and they know it haha. druids just refuse to wear it not that you cant " (druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal)" its the "will not" that makes it a choice and one i always ignore and if the DM is against it then i replace the ,etal with hardened wood or bone or coral or chitin or anything else in the world that i can, if the DM still has an issue with it then thats not a good dm and ill simply not play in their game, till they get more exp as a DM. im not sure how it would hinder the ac, am i missing something? i find the druid to aid all rogues with itss wild shape, a rat, or spider or something for easy infill, and even escaping guards and angry merchants

This is by far the worst multiclass i have ever seen😂