Top 20 Most Fun D&D Subclasses 

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Illusionist Wizard: it sounds like it shouldn’t be as fun/powerful as it is. The only weakness is the limits of your own imagination and what the DM will allow.

Too many D&D content creators reduce the game to what is numerically superior and how to "optimize" the mechanical functionality of the character. this approach really limits the game to a non-crpg crpg. i love your take on this, what's fun to play, what's cool, what gets your mental juices flowing? a table full of folks playing character concepts that they want to play for flavor reasons will always result in a more enjoyable campaign than a group of min/max'd spreadsheets with swords steamrolling prewritten adventure modules. i think the community needs more channels like you and "YMBADND", you are providing a much needed service reminding folks that this game is about having fun.

Honestly, the only subclasses you left out that I think are super fun are: - Conquest Paladin. Literally Darth Vader and LoL's Darius rolled into one glorious Dark Knight. - Hexblade. Yeah, I know, it's overused, but I feel that is a mark in its favor on the fun-to-play scale. - Bladesinger Wizard. The ultimate gish, and probably the closest you can get to playing as an anime character. - Chronurgy Wizard. It has so much potential for creative players. - Gloomstalker Ranger. Just 3 levels can make your character a deadly ninja, complete with disguises and absurd stealth tactics.

Swashbuckler needs to be on this list! Have you seen Zorro? Have you seen the princess Bride? The combination of riz and dueling nature of the subclass can't be beat.

Personally I think Swashbuckler Rogue is one of the best/most fun rogue subclasses. You get to use your sneak almost every attack, and add your charisma modifier to initiative rolls. Just all around feels like you get the most out of being a rogue.

My favorite subclasses from each class: Artificer - Armorer Barbarian - Ancestral Guardian Bard - Eloquence Cleric - Grave Druid - Wildfire Fighter - Rune Knight Monk - Astral Self Paladin - Ancients Ranger - Hunter Rogue - Phantom Sorcerer - Shadow Magic Warlock - Fathomless Wizard - Divination

The artillerist is a really fun character to play. You really feel like you can do a lot of damage on your turn. Even if you run out of spell slots.

I would like to throw college of creation bards into the ring for the sheer story telling potential. I love the little motes their inspiration gives you and the possibility to just have/conjure up items when you need them is so much fun for creative players. someone else also mentioned bladesinger wizards already, which are super fun too.

Oath of conquest is absolutely my favorite paladin, I heard someone describe it as becoming the final boss as you simply stroll onto the battlefield while everything around you flees or freezes in place with fear. Not to mention how they get some of the best extra spells like: command, spiritual weapon, hold person, dominate monster (and person at higher levels), bestow curse and even cloudkill. Not to mention how it can deal psychic damage through its class features which very few things are resistant to, and you have basically the final boss of a (j)rpg as your character.

Bro, the time stamps names are hilarious, and the classes you chose are great.

“I have played every subclass in 5e but two” artillerist, well sh*t

my personal favorite is the swarmkeeper ranger. it is such a flavourfulll subclass

Dude, your channel is criminally underrated. Love your takes. Even your dscribe insert is superior to other channels.

I can agree with you on the School of Divination Wizard being absolutely fun to play. As a matter of fact, with the spellbook not really having to be a book, you can have your metaphorical spellbook be a deck of tarot cards & make yourself some sort of Card Caster like in Yu-Gi-Oh or Cardcaptors. I have one named Solitaire whose a literal card shark (in that he's a Triton, race-wise.) He's my favorite, probably because I myself do Tarot Card Readings (I'm not a professional one though, still got ways to go, lol).

One of the most delightful combos of all time. Arcane trickster and order domain cleric. Not only do they synergize insanely well. But the group dynamic of their conflicting natures is glorious

I’m going to say here at 12:40 with the Echo Knight, PLEASE ask your DM’s permission. Having played one, I agreed with my table and DM that I was just breaking the campaign and its puzzles and it was no longer fun for any of us. We staged my character a heroic sacrifice and I came back as a quite powerful wizard, and it was a load of fun, but with the Echo Knight, BE CAREFUL. In the wrong sort of campaign it can ruin everything.

I love Wildfire Druids and Life Clerics. Combining is top tier.

This really was a great showcase for subclasses that I have not played or theory created before. You've sold me on a hand full!!

I'd definitely check out Enchantment wizard. not only strong but very unique. Hypnotic gaze is kinda silly, completely unlimited uses of incapacitation with one save. Sure you have to use your action and be within 5 feet, but that's a small price to pay the ability to basically permanently stun someone as long as you're alive. Get some bonus action abilities and boom. You can take someone out of the fight for as long as you want. Not only that, but the general theme of Enchantment allows you to play a more sinister Wizard, a seducer, a manipulator, and other things that allow you to play a bardy/roguish wizard instead of the standard robed hatted book guy. Also, Abberant Mind is just super fun and flavorful. Permanent telepathy, free spells, and the super cool body horror "Revelation in Flesh" ability allows you to have a character than shines both in and out of combat. Need to have a secret conversation in a crowded area? Telepathy. Need to get through a keyhole? Describe in horrific detail how your body moves twists and contorts to move through said keyhole. Want to just be a black hole? You got it!

Recently finished a long term campaign (level 3 - 17) as an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer and had so much fun! I always wanted to play a psionic character so this was perfect. And the additional spells alone make it very powerful. Even at low levels I had fun with telepathy and Twin Spelling Suggestion but from level 6 onwards it's a completely different game. Getting automatic subtle spell on things like Suggestion and Modify Memory is amazing, even if they fail (which is rare thanks to Silvery Barbs) they don't know you were casting a spell. Plus I rarely ran out of spell slots as I could use my Sorcerery Points to more efficiently fuel my casting and get extra uses of Psychic Lance and Synaptic Static

Love that you focus on things like how good a feature feels to use, how often you get to use it, and so on. My group's starting a new game soon, so I'll keep this video in the back of my mind for session zero!

Thank you for giving the Kensei some shine; lots of fun to be had with a monk that can use darts or even a whip that scales it’s damage and can be used with any features that benefit or involve monk weapons, like Ki-fueled attack.

Hear me out, Artillerist Thri-kreen. You secondary arms can carry your cannon / cannons, since it's a tiny object, leaving your primary hands free for spellcasting or guns. The infusion that makes guns semiautomatic and requiring no ammo is a must in case of guns. Turn into four armed alien John Wick today

Oh man, this is the ONLY type of subclass ranking or tierlist that makes any kind of sense to me: How much fun ist it? And Twilight Cleric can be as OP as it wants, I would never play it, cause it limits your options to either play suboptimal or repeat the same actions over and over.

I love that this is a list of subclasses I already wanted to play

Thanks for showing me what College of Spirits Bard, it's given me so many ideas for roleplay, i had never heard of it before because people only ever talk about eloquence and lore

In defense of wild magic sorc, they should be rolling on table every other time they cast a spell.

The Chronurgy wizard is a fun alternative to divination wizard if you wanna flavor time instead of fate. Rune knight is full of fun surprises and wildfire druid is well being the pyro

I've said it already, but love your videos! Alright, my two favorite subclasses (and both need a conversation with the DM session 0) that you didn't cover are the Illusion wizard and the wild magic sorcerer. -The illusion wizard is my favorite character in the game period, its got insane versatility limited by your imagination and is pretty much a god of creation at level 14. You can turn your allies into mystique from the Xmen with seeming for exmaple. Imagine casting seeming in the middle of a brawl against soldiers and every turn changing the appearance of everybody for example. Use with the eldritch adept feat to grab the invocation that lets you cast silent image at will for pretty much unlimited possibilities and be ready to be able to solve every problem using creativity. -The wild magic sorcerer needs an even more serious conversation with the DM than the illusion wizard though. Tides of chaos means the DM gets to pick if your next spell triggers a wild magic surge regardless of dice rng and recovers its use if it does, so a compromise of "I promise not to use the ability too much but please when I do give me a surge" can make the class incredible to play. This also needs the consent of the other players though because although the game can be hilarious and the wild magic table is more positive than negative, going too ham into the surges can warp the game, so its better to keep it under control and have everyone on the same fantasy. By the way, I'm running a campaign with the star spawn as main villains and its going great, I got to use your encounter and my players are still in shock. Keep up the good content!

Beast Barbarian has been a pretty wild ride to, me and the DM made some tweaks and the subclass feels great on my Shifter

I know that Twilight Clerics are considered OP and people ban them because of it, but I really love them. They get 300ft of darkvision, right off the bat! And flight! And a wicked spell list! And tbh I find them just as full as flavour as they are good mechanically

The most fun subclass I've played was the college of whispers bard. I even took the sharpshooter and crossbow expert feats. The dm was utterly baffled as to how I was able to do so much damge as my bard wearing a silly little costume managed to utterly wreck several of his encounters.

So glad to see my Monk boys in the list. Honestly took me off guard with the Kensei. Since Tasha's everyone seemed to forgot about them. I would've also love to see the Eldritch Knight. I know it's not the most magical of the magic subclases but I still love to jump into battle and tank like a mad man with the shield spell or to return damage with Absorb Element.

I have had a lot of fun playing the Horizon Walker Ranger. I made the character a Tabaxi and gave him an old west bounty hunter motif. The party is playing a Multiverse mini campaign. So the timing ended up perfect

first timer and this video gave me new insight

I'm at my first long running campaign as an arcane trickster rogue, and the versatility is superb, that and the sweet sweet mage hand into sneak attack

Light domain made me fall in love with clerics. So much fun!

i played a light do. and loved it

My favorite subclasses from each class: Artificer: Battlesmith Barbarian: Ancestral Guardian Bard: College of Spirits Cleric: Peace Domain Druid: Circle of the Shepherd Fighter: Psi Warrior Monk: Way of Shadow Paladin: Oath of the Ancients or Oath of the Crown (a paladin with Spirit Guardians is insane) Ranger: Drakewarden Rogue: Soul Knife Sorcerer: Aberrant mind Warlock: Genie Wizard: Order of Scribes

I love the Bladesinger!!

For the shadow monk, just do a minor illusion to do a basket… then you can teleport

My current personal favorite subclass is Eldritch Knight fighter. Add in my character being a drow and taking the Drow High Magic feat, and she can spell and flail.

I've been loving the Rune Knight. Using the Cloud Rune to redirect an enemy's most powerful attack never gets old. And the Storm Rune is great both in and out of combat, as it lets you give out advantage or disadvantage on clutch d20 rolls.

I love the list, I would love to add the fey wanderer ranger, it's my favorite class

When you become an undead patron warlock you become the Bbeg lich at the end of the campaign at first level with form of dread and spread terror on your foes its really fun especially if you take the pact of the tome and spell initiate feats so you can be the most spell cast-y warlock possible, and lean this half caster into a full caster archetype

Good list. I think would add the Mercy Monk. Its just such a well made monk subclass.

I’ve currently just started a play through of Curse of Strahd and I’m planning on multiclassing a Gloomstalker Battle Master and Assassin Rogue, which I hope will end up super fun and overpowered

twilight cleric is a lot of fun. 300 feet darkvison, imp initiativ, 30 foot sphere of hp/counter charm and fright. Awesome spells, sleep, tiny hut, greater invis. Pluss you can fly in lvl 6. Dm's nightmare, very op.

Oath of Redemption paladin is also great fun for the other channel divinity option because it's basically an I Win button for persuasion. I used it once when we had a bunch of goblin bandits try to rob us. "Why would you try to rob us?" I asked, and they laughed. Then I activated the feature, "No, why would you try to rob _us_? We are heavily armed! Do you seek your own destruction? Has life brought you low? There is a better way, you don't need to do this." Actively reduced a goblin bandit to confused tears before they ran away. And my paladin was sad. He wanted to rehabilitate a goblin horde.

Play an Enchanter, it's awesome! You are the mind mage. Additional targetting gives save/suck spells new life and endless shennanigan possibilities!

Honorable mention: Inquisitive Rogue. While Tasha's degraded its power a bit, this subclass allows for a great RP opportunity to really embrace your inner Sherlock

Kensei Monk with Samurai Fighter is TRULY one of the most fun martial builds in DND. If you've always wanted to play a tactical and wise warrior on the battlefield TRY THIS. Features include: Giving yourself advantage on attacks for a turn, using your Wisdom stats for social interactions, making a flurry of blows with your weapon, and tirelessly dodging enemy attacks!

i recently played a path of the giants barbarian and it was the most fun i have had playing in years

Illusionist Wizard is great if you have a good DM. It allows for the most creative freedom in combat and RP. They aren't short on power either.

6:54 ha, jokes on you bards, we battle masters can get calligraphy proficiency as well

Personally I like the protection domain cleric and the open palm monk. Nothing puts a smile on a party members face then hearing their healer say roll again. Also I can't tell you how often simply being able to throw someone disadvantage at will helps out.

I personally love the choices and combos of the hunter. and now I see the redemption paladin, hunter 12/oath of redemption x sounds like a fun multiclass focused on retaliation

Man I’m so glad my Light Cleric made the list!

Gotta shout out the Astral Self Monk. Call me a weeb if you want, summoning giant ghost arms to punch people from ten feet away is fucking *awesome*. Then at 6th level you get magical darkvision and advantage on Intimidation and Insight. And at high levels you get more damage, higher AC, and more blows per flurry. And staying on the star theme: Stars Druid. Starry Form just makes you better at whatever playstyle you want to go for. Want to be a buffer/debuffer? Dragon. Want to be a healer? Chalice. Want to deal damage? Archer. And at higher levels they get to raise or lower people's rolls, gain a fly speed, and as a capstone they get the Barbarian's damage resistances.

I'd have to add the Enchantment Wizard - so much good stuff. > At 2nd level, you get the ability to lock down one enemy in combat. You have to maintain eye contact, so that stops a lot of bonus actions, but the enemy can't do anything during that time. If they fail the Wis save, they BBEG is out of the fight. If they succeed, you use it on someone else. You can use this ability on an unlimited amount of enemies. > At 6th level, you can make one enemy hit another. Admittedly, this is kinda meh, but if that crit would take out your friend, then they can crit the enemy next to them instead. > At 10th level, you get the best ability, Twin Enchantment. Use Suggestion on two enemies, or Enemies Abound, or so many other nice Enchantment effects. > At 14th level, you can alter the target's mind! They don't know they've been manipulated, and you can erase the memories of that time after the spell ends. Hijinks galore.

Really looking forward to playing the kensei monk in next game.

Another thing to point out about Spore Druid is the Temp HP equal to Druid level x4. So you are a full caster with 40 temp HP at level 10

I have to admit, Light Cleric is very fun to play!

Undead Warlock wasnt mentioned here but its my personal favorite of any non-homebrew. You undergo a sick transformation and can frighten creatures at will. Eldritch Blasting is objectively fun, and undead just makes it more so.

Order of Scribes Wizard is also a super fun subclass for me personally

Imagine rogues with familiars and fear spells, its a complete powerbuild

Your segues are masterful 😂😂

I'm currently in a campaign as a Wild Magic Barbarain, and yea, it's a lot of fun. I have to constantly adjust each combat encounter for whatever magical effect. And I mean that in the best way possible, making each combat encounter unique. The only thing I don't like is the the wild effects don't change, making a level 3 vs level 15 using the same table. Since some of the descriptions for when the Barbarain levels up is, you gain more control, it be nice if the table upgraded with it.

my favourite subclass has to be the pact of the undead warlock. warlocks are fun, but pact of the undead just gives so many narrative opportunities, as well as form of dread allowing you to not only cause fear potentially every turn, but to provide a horror flare to your roleplaying and freak out the other players from time to time.

My favorite subclasses from each class (Inclusding classes and subclasses from Steinhardt and Ryokos): Artificer - Armorer Barbarian - Earthbreaker (Steinhardt's Guide ) Bard - Eloquence Bender - Ferocity (Ryoko's Guide) Blood Hunter - Lycan Cleric - Light Druid - Symbioses (Steinhardt's Guide ) Fighter - Battle Master Jaeger - Marauder Monk - Shadow (One D&D) Paladin - Ancients Ranger - Swarmkeeper Rogue - Swashbuckler Sorcerer - Aberrant Mind Warlock - Great Old One (One D&D) Wizard - Enchantment

I love my Circle of Stars Druid

Having played a divine soul it will always be my favorite sorcerer subclass, favored by the gods saved my ass so many times

I haven’t tried a Soul Knife yet (it’s on my list). My favorite subclass has always been the swashbuckler rogue.

As someone who played a one shot as an 18th level Clockwork Soul/ 2nd level Celestial Warlock, Trance of Order can turn you into the world's most accurate gatling gun. Having a garunteed 21 minimum to hit means that you can afford to just throw out quicken spells on Eldritch Blast for insane GARUNTEED hits. Its so fun to just sit behind a bunch of tanks and basically just be an artillery cannon. Bunch of enemies in a group? Fireball, and then quicken an EB on the poor fools who are still standing. Really recommend if you just want to turn enemies into swiss cheese.

I didn't have fun as a Soul Knife. To be fair though it was in a heavy combat dungeon 1-shot, and every turn it was just "I throw my soul knife again." All that said, I did get to grapple the BBEG's lieutenant with my psi-knack and throw us both over the ledge as a suicide maneuver. That part was pretty fun 😆

I feel like Conquest paladins can make very interesting roleplaying and fun to play. Making people fear you and making enemies so scared that they never pick up an weapon again

College of Eloquence seems fun! It’s like if Vicious Mockery had it’s own subclass, where you verbally tear into your foes, reason them to joining your side, and even becoming a liar to rival the charlatan greats!

The grave domain !! its soo fun !!

I'm currently in a high level campaign where I play a WATCHERS paladin and let me tell you. Thought the redemption paladin spell list was good, we also get counterspell but also banishment and moonbeam and see Invisibility. On top of that, their channel divinity gives them and 4 allies ADVANTAGE on ALL intelligence, wisdom, and charisma saves for a full minute as well as their auras of courage not letting anyone be frightened and the +5 to saves and initiative

I never thought I would see a picture of a sight of my hometown in germany in an american video but here it is. At 0:13 the picture shows a rolercoaster with stairs, where people can walk through. It's named " Tiger and Turtle" and it's located in the city of Duisburg.

My favorite I've done so far is the wild magic/lore Bardbarian

I had a lot of fun with the Swashbuckler. Give em booming blade and you can really cook, while you can still act as a face in social situations. the only downside for me was I don't want to play the same character every time, but still want to play this subclass more often than not.

>These are not the most powerful subclasses >Clockwork Soul, Echo Fighter and Eloquence Joke aside, the list are actually accurate fun wise Although id argue Order of scribe Wizard is more fun than Divination because they are by far the most all rounded Wizard like you know, what we thought Wizards are and not some 1 school only, these Nerds just become the all end for jack of all trades Also i personally love Fey Wanderer, even tho Gloom Stalker is my favorite Ranger of all time(Especially since Rangers are actually good if you know how to play), Fey Wanderer actually fill a nice niche role

I've run into people who get *so angry* about the Eloquence Bard. Like, they're personally offended that anyone would dare to like it, or even not mind it. And pretty much every complaint I heard from these people boiled down to problems with the players, not the subclass itself.

Mix Shadow 6 & Trix 14. Shennanigans!!!

More Dragon = More Fun: I do approve of this math. But then again there's always Fey Wanderer.

Currently I’m enjoying the Redemption Pally + Eloquence Bard multiclass to have minimum 28 Persuasion rolls reaching as high as 38 :D Optimizing a suboptimal play style by trying to talk everyone into peaceful solutions is a bunch of fun ^^

The subclass I would include would be the barbarian's path of the beast. Granted my experience of it thus far has been greatly altered because my dm is a total chad and has buffed it, like being able to bite as a bonus action and just casually devouring whole bats :)

Some others: Swords Bard Swarmkeeper Ranger Order of Scribes Wizard Arcana Cleric To be fair, if you like a subclass and it’s theme, then play the hell out of it. I haven’t had nearly enough time to play all the subclasses I want, but I’m working on it.

Spores is pretty cool but I have to argue that Wildfire Druid is the most fun. Flaming pet with swapping out teleportation is tonnes of fun and there's even more to the class than that.

You left out the Chronurgy wizard, which is basically just better version of the Divination wizard. Also the Fey Wanderer ranger which lets you do all the usual stuff of ranger, and also be the face of the party at the same time, and can even pull off a full wisdom focused ranger build.

I think three subclasses that should have been mentioned were the Gloom Stalker ranger, the Oath of Vengeance paladin and the Peace Domain cleric!! I've played a Vengeance paladin already and I'd look forward to playing either of the other two somewhere down the road!! LMAO

Genuinely impressed, I was surprised by a fair few of these! I got a few I was really hoping would be on here (Armorer Artificer gang RISE UP), but why is Divination on here? Like genuinely just a question. You get literally nothing after 2nd level and even that feature isn't fun. Take the random out of random and the risk out of risk/reward. Camp until you hit jackpot with some decent rolls and THEN go adventuring. The things you can do with it aren't even that cool. "Hey Dave, what does your character do?" "Well, I'm a div wizard and so either I had a couple nightmares last night and so the next two enemies we fight are going to fail the first save they make or I had some pleasant dreams last night and so our Rogue's going to hit on the surprise round he got from the Stealth roll I gave him" "... that's it?"

I really like echo knight and rune knight, but I tend to experiment alot so i go with pretty much anything

I actually kinda love Way of the Four Elements monk ... for about six levels, so you can get all three of the "2 ki points, move your target" abilities. Then (at least if you *REALLY* want to play Aang the Avatar) you need to move over to Wildfire druid. 😉😈

23 minutes of straight up facts

Great video! Saving this for next time we do a 1-shot 🫶

YES! As a divination is the best!

I think a big part of the reason Order Domain cleric gets slept on so much is that the first printing is in the Ravnica book, which didn't see much use on the player side of things, pretty much the only player options that I've seen getting talked about very much were the backgrounds because they introduced spell list modifications for the first time, which made them hugely powerful compared to all previous backgrounds, other player options got kind of overshadowed and therefore slept on. Then, in the second printing in Tasha's, it got slept on partly because it wasn't new like twilight and peace domains were, and also because twilight domain kind of overshadowed all the cleric discussion with is broken channel divinity. Amusingly, as I said at the time and maintain to this day, the twilight domain is ONLY overpowered because of the channel divinity, if you remove the CD from the equation (or nerf it to not be broken) then twilight becomes the third strongest cleric domain in the book (out of three), still really strong, but peace and order are both more generally useful (albeit all three have rather different playstyles) and impactful, but people were so hyped up to either love or hate twilight domain due to it's CD that if you tried making that point at the time people would tell you you're wrong because they didn't bother to actually think about how powerful the various abilities are individually, they were just used to saying twilight was overpowered. Peace also overshadowed order to an extent in Tasha's, as it's the more "classic" style cleric domain, so it's value was fairly obvious as a really strong support domain, whereas order requires a bit more planning and thinking to really make proper use of, so you couple all that with it being a reprint in a book where it competes for attention with possibly the most controversial subclass in all of 5e and a really solid support domain and it makes an unfortunate amount of sense that it would get slept on the way it has.