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Kraken Week is here and the build I put together for it might be one of my best ever. Why am I surprised? Get $5 off your next order through my link sponsr.is/magicspoon_d4_0724 or
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@DnDDeepDive 14 дней назад

Get $5 off your next order through my link sponsr.is/magicspoon_d4_0724 or use code D4 at checkout. Or look for Magic Spoon in your nearest grocery store!

@michaelbalcom5233 13 дней назад

I honestly thought you were going to go Simic Hybrid

@andrewbaynard2914 13 дней назад

I'm DM'ing a campaign where one of my players is a fighter lvl 12, and the party found a black pearl containing the Fathomless imprisoned in it. The Fathomless offered to give him power in exchange for freeing him by sacrificing some of his own power (levels). The Fighter agreed and gave the Fathomless as much power as he could until he passed out. My question is: If this build was a Fighter/Warlock multiclass, which split would be best at lvl 20? Fighter 8/ Warlock 12? or F9/W11? Or maybe a different split? Thanks for any help!

@zolitakacs6306 13 дней назад

I really like your videos, but cloud of daggers doesn't damage enemies multiple times on re-entry in the same turn of theirs.

@DnDDeepDive 13 дней назад

@@zolitakacs6306 correct. Once on our turn, once on theirs.

@theresnoracelikegnome 13 дней назад

@@andrewbaynard2914 if you’re playing it this way, there’s not a ton of purpose in going more than 2 Fighter. If you build it as a melee weapon attacker, I’d go F11/W9, and use PAM and Sentinel to stop enemies from leaving your area spells.

@hericn 13 дней назад

"True polymorph is amazing. Turn yourself into a dragon".... Wait.... WHAT?! inconceivable!!! Turn yourself into a Kraken, for Cthulhu's sake! The Juvenile Kraken from Ghosts of Saltmarsh is CR 14 and, spreadsheet or not, is the best choice for this build.

@theresnoracelikegnome 13 дней назад

I played a version of this at level 11, awhile ago. But I used Plasmoid. It was inspired when I noticed that the Shape Self ability allows you to create pseudopods, but doesn’t remove them afterwards, or allow you to use the same one again. So technically, after a while, you just become a mass of pseudopods. I reflavoured them as tentacles, and thus was born Tentacles(pronounced Tentacleeze, like it was an ancient Greek name).

@estherclawson6876 13 дней назад

Awesome.

@SebasTian58323 13 дней назад

I have a question. Will you be looking back at older builds with new rules to see if they're stronger or weaker and redoing any of them?

@DnDDeepDive 13 дней назад

Eventually!

@SleeplessSycophant 13 дней назад

To a similar point, I'd love to see a straight subclass comparison for the new 5.24/5.5/onednd after August. Maybe not as detail oriented, but comparing GOOlock of old to the new one by damage/round and seeing where you lose dpr but gain utility. A straight classing, comparative analysis.

@roninhare9615 13 дней назад

I would imagine the 5e24 warlock with the undead warlock could be quite powerful, especially as a blade lock.

@iampineappleonpizza 13 дней назад

I love that kraken week literally comes right when im planning my new pirate campaign where the bbeg is trying to wake a kraken

@ryanscanlon2151 13 дней назад

Crawford let spill in the magic reveal stream that cloud of daggers is gonna be movable in the new PHB. I can't wait to see what you do with it then, and there was much rejoicing lol!

@Rodrifuuu 13 дней назад

Movable? As if the spell wasn't powerful enough already.

@mac_sour 13 дней назад

@@Rodrifuuu how many of your players are actually abusing cloud of daggers? i promise you it's not as powerful as some of these "builds" make you think they are.

@turtley8581 13 дней назад

@@mac_sour the last two of my parties have been using it and it's been very fun, and it feels pretty solid, but yeah it being movable wont exactly be insane. i assume itll be something you move with a bonus action, and you're already using your ba on telekinetic if you're building around spells like cloud of daggers

@DnDDeepDive 12 дней назад

He did, but there’s a big change coming to how the spell (and others like it) will work that I think will balance it out a bit. I was surprised they didn’t talk about it in that vid, actually.

@logancuster8035 12 дней назад

@@DnDDeepDiveI get the impression that double, or triple dipping, for damage every round is about to eliminated. Probably a “Once per round” caveat

@joshuahampton6141 13 дней назад

What better build for Kraken week than something that shows off the DPS (DEEPS). I mean, I had to, Colby. I hope you understand.

@DnDDeepDive 13 дней назад

I’ll allow it 😉

@JamesTaylor-oh1sd 13 дней назад

Kraken Week is honestly one of the most exciting things to happen in the TTRPG community in a while. I'm so happy you're involved.

@UndoubtedMist 13 дней назад

Me! I'm excited for Kraken week! But also a fathomless warlock fanatic so HERE WE GO!

@DevourerDragons 13 дней назад

Aren't all fathomless warlocks fanatics?

@sethd.michaels4048 13 дней назад

Fathomless rules, favorite character I’ve ever played is my Cool Sea Witch

@calvintabor5734 13 дней назад

Randall popped off this week, gorgeous art

@chrisg8989 13 дней назад

Release the Kraken! 🦑

@kitisahugenerd 11 дней назад

"What's the only lineage that looks like a kraken? Custom Lineage" Simic Hybrid: Am I a joke to you?

@overlordofmidgard5876 10 дней назад

Most folks forgets about the campaign-setting-specific races like Simic Hybrid, Veldalkin, Kalastar, and Verdan.

@Bachlaham 13 дней назад

I made a similar build a long time ago and I have to say this is by far my favorite warlock subclass! Also, another good race option would be Simic hybrid which has so many possibilities for watery/tentacly USABLE body modifications (not just cosmetic as with custom lineage), from crab claws and carapace (some kraken lores they are some crab/squid hybrid) to extra tentacles that can always be used with grappling appendages or nimble climber that can make your cosmetic squid legs let you easily climb things, which for squid/octopus type creatures just makes sense. It’s unfortunate that the grappling appendages are strength based, but fun nonetheless! That race was my choice at least 😁

@michaeln.9897 13 дней назад

Thats the very first race I thought about when I heard this concept. Fits Kraken to a Tee!

@evansmith2832 13 дней назад

My favorite warlock subclass. Personally, what I like to do with it as a more defensive minded player is go harengon and take the alert feat to combo with the sleet storm spell. Alert pushes you to +11 initiative at level 5 and gives ranged attacks against you from inside the sleet storm disadvantage, and the spell itself is the best defense in the game against concentration/sight based features and combos excellently with repelling blast and tentacle of the deep. Plus the juxtaposition of an eldritch tentacle bunny is really fun flavor imo. There's also some tech with the 14th level feature, dm allowing. If you take the mold earth cantrip from pact of the tome or have an ally with that cantrip, you can excavate 20 cubic feet of earth and blow all 3 of your level 5 slots on create water to create 150 gallons or approximately 20 cubic feet of water. You now have a pond you can teleport your entire party to before you enter that dungeon, and for completely free after a short rest.

@larspulena 13 дней назад

Wow! Randall’s art is amazing! This is my favorite since the Light Hammer/Artificer build, but this one is incredible.

@dianehoekstra6880 13 дней назад

I am loving Kraken week! I especially appreciate the chance to see so many new content creators that YT hasn't shown me and consider subscribing to their channels! I hat PH, GD, and D4 already, but there are so many others!

@PRINCEofNONE 7 дней назад

Super late to the party, but finally watching. Reminds me of your frost mage build. I ran that character, I forget the level, somewhere in the middle range, for a one shot. Three different giant enemies charged at us. Well, two charged at us. The other only had base twenty feet of movement and went no where. My allies kept me away from the other two and I kept that one way on the other side of the battlefield. Super satisfying.

@moraien3278 8 дней назад

It's my first time watching this guy and I must say: I love his T-shirt!

@DnDDeepDive 8 дней назад

@@moraien3278 it loves you too

@moraien3278 8 дней назад

@@DnDDeepDive 😄

@GreyGramarye 13 дней назад

Remember folks - the River Styx flows through all the Lower Planes and is a body of water. Just don’t drop your group into it, teleport 30 feet away from it.

@LawrenceDomkowski 13 дней назад

Cool build. I'm "...going to need a bigger boat"

@crab3402 13 дней назад

super hyped for this massive collab! bring on the krakennn

@relaxedfantasyreview 13 дней назад

I got on the Kraken week playlist! Such a thrill 😁😁

@collinkelch7764 13 дней назад

1) Solid single class build. 2) A warlock without hex blade. 3) All the tentacles 🦑. 3/3. I would play it!

@chumaktv5386 11 дней назад

I genuinely laughed at the first seconds of the intro hahahaha, that was so good dude, genuine excitement

@gianenci 3 дня назад

I find funny that you pretty much described EXACTLY my third D&D character I made some years ago! Unfortunately i haven't play her more than 5 levels but I often think to play her again and this video hyped me up even more!

@BLynn 13 дней назад

The Kraken! D&D Build #173 Level 01: (see above) [warlock 1, patron, race & feat] Level 02: (see above) [warlock 2 & eldritch invocations] Level 03: (@13:15) [warlock 3 & subclass] Level 04: (@15:28) [warlock 4 & ASI] Level 05: (@15:42) [warlock 5 & eldritch invocation] Level 06: (@18:34) [warlock 6] Level 07: (see above) [warlock 7 & eldritch invocation] Level 08: (@25:10) [warlock 8 & ASI] Level 09: (@25:42) [warlock 9 & eldritch invocation] Level 10: (see above) [warlock 10 (talk about going sorcerer)] Level 11: (@33:04) [warlock 11 & Mystic Arcanum (6th)] Level 12: (@34:08) [warlock 12, eldritch invocation & ASI] Level 13: (@36:24) [warlock 13 & Mystic Arcanum (7th)] Level 14: (see above) [warlock 14] Level 15: (@38:47) [warlock 15, eldritch invocation & Mystic Arcanum (8th)] Level 16: (@39:59) [warlock 16 & ASI] Level 17: (@40:30) [warlock 17 & Mystic Arcanum (9th)]

@Nerdality_Florian 12 дней назад

08:35 - Small correction, there IS a single class, that can start with Studded Leather: The Artificer. You just had me double check that, I was worried I made a mistake when I last started with one ^^' Loving Kraken Week btw!

@theunknownmax6571 13 дней назад

"Why are they milky?" 😂 16:40

@MrGranten 13 дней назад

I'm actually running a Pact of Chain Fathomless warlock on and off who, by great coincidence, made a pact with a rather powerful kraken. She's a member of one of the many seafaring clans on the great island chain of her world and after years of exploring, looting, fishing, and fighting, managed to prove herself in an awful test when one of its warlocks died. She probably should have wondered more about that last detail there and exactly what happened. The build's actually fairly similar, though with a few differences I took for roleplay purposes

@Technodreamer 4 дня назад

A lot of this build feels like it'd be fun and pretty easy to redo as a warlock avatar of the Vast!

@dchejones8866 12 дней назад

That welcome in your opening gets me every time. You’re just too wholesome.

@RingXross 12 дней назад

If you've ever seen the Cloverfield movie and remember those little creatures that would shed off the monster, there, biology explained.

@mattdahm4289 13 дней назад

Thanks Colby! ❤

@spiderill7791 13 дней назад

Putting the deep in Deep Dive 🦑

@geoffshetler9553 12 дней назад

Great new look, Colby!

@williamtaylor6886 12 дней назад

Cool to see Custom Lineage used for flavor: Be the kraken!

@edwardkopp1116 11 дней назад

Hey Calvin! Wonderful build that is so thematic you would think you came up with the build before the Kraken Week was started. Almost as if some greater power was behind it all. You do great videos that are multipurpose. Sometimes I watch and learn new builds and sometimes your voice just puts me right to sleep. Win win either way!

@SortKaffe 12 дней назад

Aberrant Mind Sorcerer is a great multiclass if you only want two Warlock levels, since it also gives you Hunger of Hadar and Evard's Black Tentacles

@forceuser626 13 дней назад

Anybody else watch the WotC Spell update video and immediately think of Colby when they announced that you'll be able to move Cloud of Daggers in the new PHB?

@DnDDeepDive 13 дней назад

There’s another massive change they didn’t mention that will make me a lot more hesitant :)

@forceuser626 13 дней назад

@@DnDDeepDive ooh, interesting! I look forward to y'all's embargo lifting at the beginning of August so we can hear about all the other stuff they haven't talked about yet!

@jpperron1835 12 дней назад

I freakin love the idea of the patron deal happening while the warlock’s character was drowning

@ericanderson3164 9 дней назад

This is.a fun subclass. I used it in an Eberron build for a House Lyrandar Lore Bard/Fathomless Warlock. The House lore is all about krakens and the Fathomless was absolutely on point for it.

@sebastianosionnides 10 дней назад

Three of my favorite table top creators working a theme together. So much fun

@CitanulsPumpkin 12 дней назад

Go simic hybrid and choose nimble climber and grappling appendages. There's your kraken race. Also, the decanter of endless water and mold earth trick to just make a bunch of ponds for Fathomless Plunge should be a thing your patron has been ordering you to do since level 3.

@syrupchugger421 12 дней назад

This is a surprisingly strong build, I also just figured it would be a gimmicky build for kraken week. Great video as always, this Kraken week thing is so cool!

@thegamemaker2000 6 дней назад

For 15th level invocations I like Chains of Carceri (it's exclusive to chain-locks) which lets you cast Hold Monster as long as you are targeting celestial, fiends, or elemental without expending spell slots or using material components. Pretty nice. Gift of the Everliving Ones giving you max heals when within 100ft of you familiar is pretty nice too.

@FranciscoRodrigues09 11 дней назад

I played a drow version of this chatacter all the way up to level 14 and the feeling of moving enemies around and just controlling the battlefield is amazing

@FlatCapgaming1 10 дней назад

I love the idea of a mermaid artificer who uses their contraptions to move on land. Like imagine a steampunk bathtub that has crab legs propelling it

@MrAjerguy 13 дней назад

Colby: What is the only humanoid race that can get us a Kraken? Me, having seen Randall's artwork: Ah, of course. A Simic Hybrid. Colby: That's right, it's the Custom Lineage! Should have seen that coming by now

@bakuiel1901 13 дней назад

Love Kraken Week ❤

@TheMikeLyons 13 дней назад

Dimension Door is an action, so you can't do it and also EB in same turn. And I'm glad you commented on the problem with Hunger of Hadar; you can't see into the area. Unless you can find a source of Darkvision or the spell you brought up.

@ryansullivan5854 13 дней назад

Love Kraken Week!

@paulcann17 12 дней назад

Wait, so Moana was a fathomless warlock all along? Even has a water tentacle! Thank you for giving cred for the Kraken week concept. I've seen a bunch but it was killing me not knowing where it came from lol

@simonmoody8400 8 дней назад

An additional bonus to Evard's over Hungar is that your allies will no longer have issues targeting enemies in the AoE (or hate you for leaving them no targets if the turn rotation falls badly for them).

@clarkkent163000 13 дней назад

Your ice msge build inspired me to make my own cryomancer subclass and eventually full class. Thanks!

@mcullennz 12 дней назад

I love hexblood for my fathomless. Created by sea hags and you get you power from them.

@twi1ightknight 12 дней назад

Hunger of hadar is how you can tell Colby loves wyll

@midwesternpickle 13 дней назад

I LOVE both psychic lance and synaptic static. Great spells. Fun to see them get a shout out.

@daytonbenson1203 10 дней назад

I love the flavor of this one. I appreciate the thought of starting with flavor, and accidentally creating an absolute unit

@iskandarthegreat0487 13 дней назад

Simic hybrid has extra appendages (tentacles) that can be used to grapple as a bonus action

@colbyrackler3915 13 дней назад

One of the Subclasses, or really sub-subclasses I've always wanted to do, is have a Land Druid, but instead of having any dry land, having a Coral Reef, Open Ocean, or Deep Ocean Land Druid that is probably an aquatic race like Locatha, Sea-Elf, or Triton or even that one Mermaid Race from Ginnydi's Video. The Character would get all the Land Druid Stuff, but get a different spell list related to Ocean stuff, all should probably have the "Control Water" spell.

@trevorhannan5113 12 дней назад

I love the idea of this character maybe having been a seafarer that was swallowed by the Kraken some time past and like melded with its flesh like the Sarlac in Star Wars. Then the Kraken set them free onto dry land to sink the continents one by one into its domain.

@KnicKnac 9 дней назад

Simic Hybrid would also work too for more aquatic looking lineage, but of course only if you are in Ravinca.

@matthewhelmers1426 13 дней назад

I saw the short yesterday, and the wait has been excruciating! Welcome back from vacation!

@garyboyles5762 12 дней назад

I love Pact of the Chain. The ability to cast through the familiar, is almost like having a "Free" Distant metamagic.

@jonathonosgood4405 13 дней назад

Pirates of the Caribbean music popped into my head too many times during this video😂

@DungeonDad 12 дней назад

Let's gooooo!

@slingshot009 13 дней назад

Kraken week is an awesome idea!

@seerozymandias7616 12 дней назад

Oh wow. It's a particularly amazing piece of art from Randall Hampton this week!

@the1niddo 12 дней назад

I always felt that the Fathomless was underrated and flew under the radar when it released. It just had amazing built in control potential and additional damage all tied into its BA which Warlocks rarely had a use for in the first place. I think an argument can be made that if you want to take a Warlock from 1 to 20, Fathomless is the strongest option. Its really between it, Genie, and Celestial. And Celestial "cheats" by having all of those Cleric spells.

@Llama2237 13 дней назад

One of the Coolest things about Evard's black tentacles is that it's a Strength or Dexterity *CHECK* not a save, and not Athletics or Acrobatics. So it can get around the crazy high proficiency bonus' from high level monsters. even creatures with +7 to strength, that's around 55% chance to succeed and that's in a vacuum not considering magic items boosting save DC or Allies who can give disadvantage or cut their saves.

@BovineTerror 13 дней назад

Artificers get to start with Studded Leather!

@danwizzle91 13 дней назад

I love that all golf you dnd youtubers got together to do this happy to see it

@Chrosteellium 13 дней назад

This video is a testament to the fact that you do not need to multiclass to make a potent character

@mentalDichotomy 13 дней назад

I have a Simic Hybrid Grapple Barbarian I play that I originally thought you were going with! Nice build!

@sammayes948 13 дней назад

This is such a cool idea for a “ttrpg week”

@bfree8563 13 дней назад

Great stuff!

@LokiSilverFlame 13 дней назад

I can't wait to do a kraken build! Very inspiring!

@watts1012 13 дней назад

Custom lineage kraken creature: Krakataur! Legs of 4 tentacles and a squid head with 4 tentacles

@Penjulum 7 дней назад

@24:35 - _Grasp of Hadar_ _Hunger of Hadar_ blocks vision THROUGH it as well, not just IN it.

@SethTiede 12 дней назад

Hey Colby, love the build. Just a heads up, the Artificer can start with either Studded Leather or Scale Mail armor. ✌️

@WilliamTaylorII 10 дней назад

I made a character using the Malenti background from one of the technically unofficial Eberron books. Basically, you're a sahuagin in the skin of another species. Fathomless warlock and tempest cleric. I'm not an optimizer but it seems fun.

@alex5286 7 дней назад

This is my build I have been waiting for!

@Zamun 10 дней назад

Thanks for the content.

@DangerDurians 13 дней назад

I’ve got a player in my campaign currently playing a cecaelia, some home brew I approved that is octopus people The character is also a fathomless warlock

@shanelilly9673 12 дней назад

Warlock is my FAVORITE class!! GOO-Lock, thematically speaking, is not my cup of ale… BUT this build is like a five star flagon of honey mead!! AND full warlock! Phenomenal build and episode, Colby! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

@dyingontheinside5795 13 дней назад

What about the simic hybrid for race if we are talking thematically?

@countadvocate 12 дней назад

Deep dive coming in with a whole pun today. Great video as always. I really love watching all the things you come up with

@KevinVideo 13 дней назад

Pact of the Chain is nice, but for me I'd go with Pact of the Tome. Have a book made out of seaweed. I'd pick up cantrips like thorn whip, which I'd reflavour to look like a tentacle. Even Bigby's hands says it appears as a tentacle. Too bad you can't get grasping vine. That could be fun.