Top 10 Most POWERFUL Races in Dungeons & Dragons 5E

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  • @DnDShorts
    @DnDShorts  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

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    • @PacmanPac-m8y
      @PacmanPac-m8y 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      changeling makes a 9th level assasin rogue feature useless at level 1 as well as the disguise kit and disguise self spell, where is it?

    • @saqwana25
      @saqwana25 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i will point out hill dwarf with the extra +1 to hp every level is pretty solid.

    • @PacmanPac-m8y
      @PacmanPac-m8y 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@saqwana25 that is relevant until about level 3 because your hit die is at least six times bigger

    • @goatedfatplug
      @goatedfatplug 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why is half elf not on here ? A plus 4 to stats , advantage against charmed , no magic naps and 2 skills / lots if versatility

    • @saqwana25
      @saqwana25 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Eh depends on the class.

  • @DnDShorts
    @DnDShorts  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1076

    WHAT?! No thri-kreen?!?! Unsubbed, disliked, banned, + reported.

    • @WackassBirrB
      @WackassBirrB 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

      they 4 arm and free mage armor... why he not great?

    • @andreashesseerichsen438
      @andreashesseerichsen438 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      HE IS RACIST AGAINST INSECTS!
      UNSUB, DISLIKE, BAN + REPORT

    • @DnDShorts
      @DnDShorts  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +244

      @@WackassBirrB he great, but I think he number 11.

    • @sir_kossu3710
      @sir_kossu3710 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      I remember we had thri-kreen monk in dark sun campaign and i gave him jump becouse we needed to catch a guy who was running (non combat chace) and had good head start. Our thri-kreen was able to jump over 200ft per jump 😂

    • @koolunit
      @koolunit 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Any Dark Sun generated race is monstrous right? From the OG AD&D they get more stats, more armor, survival skills, psionics...
      Imagine a Dark Sun Dwarf just waking up on say....Faerun....would be a (2023 parlance) Gigachad Dwarf....

  • @SpadeOfAces55
    @SpadeOfAces55 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +513

    20:41 everybody dunks on standard human until they roll 6 odd-numbered ability scores when making their character.

    • @ChiefderWahrheit
      @ChiefderWahrheit 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      + not even two minutes before it was good to have many ability score increases, but standard humans with their whooping +6 in total are mysteriously forgotten…

    • @MrSpannners
      @MrSpannners 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      ​@@ChiefderWahrheit Because that's all they get, +1 across the board and nothing else of note. For most classes, that means points into your dump stats. So they just become jack of all trades master of none. That's why they're low a tier.

    • @happybrain2674
      @happybrain2674 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@MrSpannners but its the easyest choice for multiclass builds. even if its an abomination of 5 classes and more

    • @birdland4397
      @birdland4397 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      and they all 9 9 9 9 9 9

    • @cloverhoofs7249
      @cloverhoofs7249 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ya so many times I been called a basic B$%ch for playing normal human as I roll 13 15 16 13 11 15 then add +1 to all stats become 14 16 17 14 12 16 then take resilient Con at level 4 giving me a 16 INT and DEX with a CON of 18 playing a support Artficer I rarely drop Concentration at Level 10 Bonus +8 with a +4 from int from flash of genius when needed with mind sharper infuion

  • @havocpyro9166
    @havocpyro9166 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +197

    “Which is always handy” man’s was unhinged this video

  • @NickDeShane
    @NickDeShane 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +136

    Funny thing about the bugbear squeze ability it specifies small. If you were a rune knight using giants might that had enlarge cast on you would still be able to do it.

    • @mohammadmurie
      @mohammadmurie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Same thing with raging giant barbarians
      Either way I just love how absolutely hilarious that is that a huge+ creature able to fit through cracks in medium sized doors or them playing like a slasher movie and ambushing others

    • @adambielen8996
      @adambielen8996 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@mohammadmurie The absolute horror that would be a huge Bugbear squeezing through a small space. Pure nightmare fuel right there.

    • @mohammadmurie
      @mohammadmurie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @adambielen8996 exactly it would be prefect for a Halloween slasher based campaign as the killer

    • @jamestaylor3805
      @jamestaylor3805 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ok hear me out. A Champion Fighter bug bear (+5 reach) huge sized (+10 reach) with a polarm (+5 reach) primordial guardian dip (+5 reach) tunnel fighter and polarm mastery (free attack for getting too close) hiding in the roots under a mangrove like tree, or in an alcove guarding a hallway. A crit heavy self healing beast you can't get within 30 feet of.
      Ranger/Primordial 3
      Fighter/Champion 17
      Pretty sure the Rune Carver background/feat would allow self casting of enlarge.
      A 1 level Mystic dip could give another +5 reach all the time and +2AC for a couple hours a day.

  • @jasonking3466
    @jasonking3466 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    I love how his Owlin picture is wearing medium armor

    • @lazarsharky
      @lazarsharky 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I think it's studded leather.

    • @LupineShadowOmega
      @LupineShadowOmega 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That is leather.

  • @Twisttheawesome
    @Twisttheawesome 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +174

    The amazing thing about the Dhampir is you can use their Bite while wildshaped! This means you can make your bear attacks and then bite for extra damage/hp. Super cool, and mega appropriate if you're going for a vampire build (Dracula WOULD BE a Druid).

    • @The_Crimson_Witch
      @The_Crimson_Witch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Funnily enough, if you go 5 levels in monk, 1 level in fighter and 8 levels in spores druid- you get every ability a vampire does. Very fun, and you can reflavor your symbiotic entity as a swarm of bats surrounding you

    • @Reaper_of_Mars
      @Reaper_of_Mars 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If you take Kansai monk you can choose your teeth as a weapon and increase the damage die as you level too!

    • @The_Crimson_Witch
      @The_Crimson_Witch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Reaper_of_Mars You don't need to do that. They're simple melee weapons, they're already monk weapons.

    • @Twisttheawesome
      @Twisttheawesome 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@The_Crimson_Witch I never realised this! It would be a pretty big investment. I supposed 5 levels of Monk upgrades the damage die on the teeth to 1d6, but also gives you extra attack and FoB. That means if you went Moon Druid, you'd be using animal forms with an extra attack, BA attack, and the potentially to FoB five times per short rest. Not necessarily the worst? Moon Druid scaling is so wacky though that delaying its progression/strong start hurts.

    • @astercat49
      @astercat49 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’d actually argue for Dracula being a Swarmkeeper Ranger, but Druid could work too.

  • @Dwarfurious
    @Dwarfurious 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    one thing i love about dwarf casters in general is that they'd be in actual armor and have actual hit points. Plus they have the best beards, so dwarfs naturally make the best wizards

  • @underthepale
    @underthepale 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    7:47 Given that Warlock's Aspect of the Moon *does* specify that you can keep watch without sleeping, I doubt this would allow you to keep watch if it doesn't specify that.
    A 4-hour long rest is still dummy good though.

    • @Gallacant
      @Gallacant 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Elves have always been watch bots. Yes, you can make perception checks normally while in meditation.

    • @darklordmathias9405
      @darklordmathias9405 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It doesn't say you can't, or that you cannot use your eyes for any purpose, so I'd assume you could.

    • @Zarlos01
      @Zarlos01 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Elves meditates on how their surroundings are, how the leafs move with the wind, the movement and path of small animals,..., and so on.
      Adapt to the type of place you are meditating.

  • @colbyrackler3915
    @colbyrackler3915 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    No Satyr? 35 walking speed? Jumpies? Persuasion & Performance? Instruments? MAGIC RESISTANCE?!?!? No? Ok :(

    • @persuisixh4804
      @persuisixh4804 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It should be

    • @sciencekid8846
      @sciencekid8846 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah

    • @flaredadestroyer9434
      @flaredadestroyer9434 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed playing a satyr druid circle of stars and have gotten saved by the magical resistance multiple times in only 2 encounters and many times by the other features in only about 5 sessions he probably didn't put it cause no darkvision

    • @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket
      @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket หลายเดือนก่อน

      Magic Resistance is quite busted.

  • @Flyingtaco095
    @Flyingtaco095 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

    Table!
    I was not expecting a System of a Down meme.

    • @washmyhoohah
      @washmyhoohah 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I would've also accepted a Metallica meme

    • @data_abort
      @data_abort 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's the first ad I haven't regretted watching in a while. That thing looks sick. But you better have a cave for it.

  • @Emsilly
    @Emsilly 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    I feel that whenever the lineages come up, these type of videos tend to gloss over the "if you don't keep these elements *or you choose this lineage at character creation* you gain proficiency in two skills."
    Like, that's still really good! Perception, stealth, persuasion, what have you... but if you want to be a Dhampir Owlin with functional wings, you'd need to get turned IN GAME, which then is a whole process and very DM dependent

  • @jarzz3601
    @jarzz3601 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I love the kobalt screaming sneak attack I've never wanted to make a dnd character more :D

    • @kMegalonyx
      @kMegalonyx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love that you chose to split the difference between “kobold” and “cobalt”.

  • @gabegabriel5627
    @gabegabriel5627 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    You have been missing for so long. Thank you for coming back.
    Hopefully your Kickstarter is doing good. Good luck and God Bless.

  • @vibinginacoffin
    @vibinginacoffin 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    The dnd man has blessed us with content

  • @clericofchaos1
    @clericofchaos1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

    I liked the old kobolds better. Draconic cry is nice, but there's a limited amount of times you can use it. Pack tactics just gives you infinite advantage as long as your tank is doing his job.

    • @Ghilannugs
      @Ghilannugs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and most importantly the flavor is great

    • @sev1120
      @sev1120 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Plus, there were ways around sunlight sensitivity (such as playing a caster and saving your attack spells for key moments, or using a Gnave's Eyepatch)
      Plus, the "cower, grovel and beg" feature was thematic. Kobolds aren't actually cowards who grovel at the feet of anyone even slightly intimidating, but that perception of them is known, and they can use it to their advantage

    • @clericofchaos1
      @clericofchaos1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@sev1120 or just wear a hat or sunglasses. That's what i always do.

    • @LucanVaris
      @LucanVaris 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      To be honest, both are good. Old Kobolds make for excellent mounted melee combatants, as you'll always have an ally in-range for Pack Tactics.
      New Kobolds, however, make excellent Druids, since Conjure Animals can make _you_ the Pack Tactic. XD

    • @imakecrappyvideos9360
      @imakecrappyvideos9360 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's great for rogues tho, advantage whenever you want, wherever you want. On command. And if you're a rogue, you're the skill monkey, you are GOING to have a high proficiency bonus, meaning you probably won't run out of your draconic cry's if you play a half decently optimized rogue.

  • @AetherPanda
    @AetherPanda 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    im in a campaign now as a shadar kai, and with the teleport ability, its basically just a free misty step and has saved my ass so many times

  • @theloreghost312
    @theloreghost312 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    "Screaming "Sneak Attack!" during your sneak attack to get your sneak attack is the kind of big brain thinking I would expect from a kobold"
    Underrated line

  • @youmightbeadnd
    @youmightbeadnd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Glad to see you're back!

  • @BigPouge
    @BigPouge 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Welcome back you magnificent bastid! You have been missed and way to start the new year. I only changed my mind on what race to play about 12 times. Please keep up the great work and I hope your time off helped you relax and recharge!

  • @coprophagichobo2377
    @coprophagichobo2377 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The thumbnail saying “best race” was just really funny.

  • @envisionnn
    @envisionnn 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    that final darkvision is handy fkn jumpscared me out of my chair

  • @Loron20
    @Loron20 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    There is one thing almost everyone overlooks about the Van Richten's Lineages. In the "Ancestral Legacy" feature (the one that lets you keep a flying speed) it states "If you don’t keep any of those elements or you choose this lineage at character creation, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice."
    Note specifically "or you choose this lineage at character creation" meaning if you start the game as one of these races you CAN'T keep a fly speed (or anything else) from a previous race. You only get that if you become one through the course of play.
    Still strong options. But not as broken as everyone seems to think.

    • @ellaberintodejuan0524
      @ellaberintodejuan0524 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah that’s the thing I thought about. Although imagine a Dhampir Winged Tiefling? That’s straight up like the most vampire you can get without getting killed by one

    • @Nymaz
      @Nymaz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@ellaberintodejuan0524 I always wanted to play a dhampir simic hybrid with manta wings for a combo of wallwalking and glide. Not quite as broken as flight (so more likely to be allowed by DMs) and it really struck me as very cinematic to silently glide down from the ceiling to snack on an enemy.

    • @droolhd
      @droolhd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly. The only thing you get to keep when you replace a race at character creation is a bit of the original flavour.

    • @WyzKyd
      @WyzKyd 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @loron20 wait so if you chose a dhampir shadar kai at character creation would you still keep teleportation?

    • @Loron20
      @Loron20 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@WyzKyd From my reading, if you become a Dhampir after being a Shadar Kai (either at character creation or in the course of play) you would lose the "Blessing of the Raven Queen" (what gives you teleportation) as it is not "any skill proficiencies you gained from it and any climbing, flying, or swimming speed you gained from it." You aren't augmenting your race, but replacing it.

  • @DINOBiscuit-r2p
    @DINOBiscuit-r2p 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    "Darkvision... It's always Handy"

  • @bloodmooncomics2249
    @bloodmooncomics2249 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I loved being a Warforged Artificer. I bought dark vision goggles and was able to rework them into lenses for my eyes so I had dark vision. We did a lot of water based stuff so the water genasi was swimming around as I walked on the bottom allowing the goblin cleric that used water breathing to hold on my shoulder. Also taking gunslinger class was awesome.

  • @CaptainFirefred
    @CaptainFirefred 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    17:00 I wondered when Lucky would be mentioned and chuckeled at "If you want to break the game..."

  • @juanignacioaraujocroizier5545
    @juanignacioaraujocroizier5545 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    "que siempre es útil"... That's a very accurate translation! :D

  • @adhdnd
    @adhdnd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love your content. Glad to have you back from vacation.

  • @heenim96
    @heenim96 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I’m currently playing a shadar-kai cleric in a campaign with friends; can confirm it’s incredibly powerful and SUCH a good and fun race to play! 😁 Using that blessing of the raven queen teleportation bonus action has saved my ass a few times in combat

  • @Nuck82
    @Nuck82 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I built a shadar kai light domain cleric because he was tired of the dark. And he's my favorite character I've ever made. He's so fun to play and is very broken on accident lol

    • @chad8767
      @chad8767 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nice. I'm playing a Rogue/Battlemaster Shadar-kai and yes, I'm very OP as well. A crazy skill monkey when I can swap skills and the fighter giving me an extra tool prof. Teleportation sets up my sneak attack easily, or my battlemaster sets it up (maneuvering attack is so underrated, I just tell people to flank me and use my 2nd attack to trigger sneak attack. Or, if my teammate is prone from a trip attack I just tell them to stand up and boom, have them back in flanking position). The resistance to damage means I can teleport into dangerous positions and push people around.

  • @The_Number1Candyman
    @The_Number1Candyman 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Been playing a necromancer lich using reborn as his race in a campaign for a while, and reborn is underrated in my experience with talking about races outside of the flying exploit, I've never seen someone use it before. Advantage on death saves is great, and knowledge from a past life has been incredible since my modifers for the checks I usually make are so good even a bad roll isn't that bad and can be made passable by that d6, not to mention how every other aspect of it has come into play at some point, we've fought multiple enemies that dealt poison, the 4 hour long rest without sleep has been super handy, and just last session an enemy did an AoE that would've put me to sleep.

  • @NadirEatsRocks
    @NadirEatsRocks 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It might not be especially OP, but a Changeling's face change ability is really good for shenanigans. I've seen Changelings pull off some incredible stunts by doing things like disguising themselves as the BBEG or passing as an old lady to get senior discounts at Fantasy Bath and Bodyworks

    • @CivilWarMan
      @CivilWarMan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The wild thing that makes Changelings pretty crazy is that in MOTM they are classified as Fey, not Humanoid. So they are actually immune to spells that can only target Humanoids like Charm Person or Hold Person. In order to affect them the same way, you need to use the Monster-targeting versions of the spells, which generally require a spell slot of 3 levels higher. You can Charm most PCs with a 1st level spell slot, Hold them with a 2nd, or Dominate them with a 5th, but with a Changeling you need a 4th, 5th, or 8th level slot to do the same thing.
      Other lineages that get a benefit like this are Centaur, Fairy, and Satyr in MOTM (all Fey), and Autognome (Construct), Plasmoid (Ooze), and Thri-Kreen (Monstrosity) in Spelljammer.

  • @lucacrab
    @lucacrab 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    that "que siempre es util" made me laugh as someone who has Spanish as his mother language, great vid

  • @aeloswindrunner
    @aeloswindrunner 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I enjoyed the "always handy" bit throughout this. Not sure what this says about me tbh but hey, I'm happy :p

  • @TKDragon75
    @TKDragon75 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We had a warforged in a game I run who for long rests, would like describe how he folds up like a box into a basically an oversized security camera. And the Harengon who while very intelligent had low wisdom, and the one time the warforged stacked of up his armor in a way where it looked like he rests as, and the Harengon knocked it over, she thought she killed the warforged.

  • @jeeves9233
    @jeeves9233 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    New to the channel and DnD, really loving the BG3 clips! My favs so far seems to be Reborn and Dhampir :D

  • @avian1799
    @avian1799 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love that the Volo‘s version of Kobolds have the same draconic roar feature, but you grovel instead. Basically you get to decide what you do to get the advantage by the kind of Kobold you‘re making

  • @jinxhead4182
    @jinxhead4182 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You lost me at +3 to two attributes at 19:36. Where's the extra +1/+1 coming from? Or did you mean +3 ability bonus? Not sure, I am kinda confused.

  • @nickm9102
    @nickm9102 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I agree, for any class with no armor proficiency Mountain Dwarf is good and with Tasha's 'amorphous blob' rules it makes them the best. Armor, weapons, Versatile casting, and the CON to back it up. You can be the true war wizard.

  • @XperimentorEES
    @XperimentorEES 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another fun thing with the races that don't need to sleep or are immune to magical sleep, pick up the Alert feat; it not only makes you impossible to surprise unless dying, but also denies enemy sneak attacks even if you cannot perceive them. It's kind of like blindsight, which is almost impossible to get outside of a particular tasha warlock invocation, except this doesn't have a range limitation.
    Lineages are basically modern day Templates from older editions, and would've loved if they added more but doubt that'll happen now outside of homebrew.

  • @petershea6666
    @petershea6666 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I almost always skip ads in videos, but I watched through this one just because you made it so hilarious. Great work.

  • @_hirol6907
    @_hirol6907 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    loved the darkvision "siempre es útil" line😂. great video as usual

  • @gaelofariandel6747
    @gaelofariandel6747 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My #1 all-time favorite character I've ever made is a Warforged Forge Cleric named Heisenberg (which can LOOSELY be translated as the fire/heat of the mountain). At first it was a gimmick because I'd have 20AC at level 1 & 23 with Plate Mail at level 6. MORE with magical items. When I actually started to build the CHARACTER I had so many fun(ny) ideas to make his personality to the point where when we were done with the campaign... I was sad that I used it for a one-shot with no future campaigns in sight to use him again...
    My solution? I used him as a merchant & craftsman NPC for a new party in a campaign that took place 30 years after all of the others we had done. He was pretty much a writer/DM's convenience tool to help guide the party in any direction they needed to go if they haven't spotted or used clues & intel they were given on what task(s) to do next.
    Did a Reborn Tortle Spore Druid whose entire body was practically a black-as-night, gooey, walking talking fungal colony. He has no idea who he was before he woke up in the Underdark next to an enormous, black fungal mass about a mile away from a Mychonid colony. He spent time around before heading to the surface (almost immediately being chased away by nearby villagers with torches & pichforks) then met his current party at some point before level 5 (where we started the campaign). Funny thing is, we run point-buy, so the lowest stat we get is an 8. The DM let me break this little rule & made my Intelligence a 6 for RP purposes (in exchange for a +1 to Charisma to balance it out). He has a perpetually high AF demeanor, a thick Canadian accent (like, cartoon level thick) & an extremely happy & supportive attitude with almost anyone in spite of the fact that people are usually freaked TF out at first glance. The DM let me rules lawyer keeping his shell defense feature, as a turtle's shell is literally fused to their spine. Sadly, 2 of the 6 players had a change in schedule the same time the DM made a few bad decisions & the entire campaign pretty much died. Sad.

  • @TyanFH
    @TyanFH 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you. I love a break down of the races. I can show this to new players and this can help them, if they so choose.

    • @garyco766
      @garyco766 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There's probably at least a dozen other REALLY strong races too, like Aasimar, Vedalkin, YuanTi, Githzerai, Satyr, etc.

  • @mlear559
    @mlear559 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey man! The mountain dwarf profiency in stone work has definitely come in handy a single time during a long campaign i was a part of!

  • @jamestaylor3805
    @jamestaylor3805 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I made a Dhampir out of a Kingfisher flavoured Arakokra. Gave him a custome background Pearldiver with these abilities, swimming movement, water vehicles, comfortable lifestyle when on the coasts or islands, and a few times a day adding a die to Constitution checks(to represent the extreme times spent underwater seeking pearls, and attacks are Stat Checks after all). Of course went Lycan Bloodhunter... with the wolfy aesthetic changed to a Skyrimesque Vampire Lord aesthetic for transformations.

  • @Krlytz
    @Krlytz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    14:12 Just a footnote, instead of "Que siempre es útil" (the last word has emphasis on the U, btw) in order to keep the hand theme going you could have used "Que es bueno tener a mano", because otherwise you are saying "Which is always useful" while raising your hand, so that doesn't make much sense 😅
    Anyways, that was just a tiny detail I wanted to mention. Your video is awesome and I loved learning how powerful many of the races I've used are (whereas I chose them for completely unrelated reasons like just wanting to be an adorable little owl person 😂)

  • @paytonbeech7206
    @paytonbeech7206 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I always love the aasimar, the level 3 features all slap, the flavor is super customizable, they have 2 damage resistances and free healing

  • @teamcyeborg
    @teamcyeborg 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    19:13 Um, Actually! Humans (NON-variant) get a total of +6 to their stats.

  • @austink.5827
    @austink.5827 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My testament to Mountain Dwarves comes from Geran Hammerstroke, my Mountain Dwarf Barbarian I created for a campaign that unfortunately never took off. Through an unusual stroke of fortune, I rolled two 18s for stats, and a couple other really basic rolls (10s or 12s). Being a barbarian, I put both of those 18s into Strength and Constitution, giving Geran TWO TWENTIES AT LEVEL ONE! My DM allowed this for one reason...I rolled a 4 for my intelligence. That campaign never ended up happening, but I did get to use him for a higher level one shot, and I must say, it was really fun playing a dwarf who was as dumb as the mountain he was born in but could absolutely destroy everything he came in contact with. Which almost included our changeling rogue on a couple of occasions lol.

  • @ryanscanlon2151
    @ryanscanlon2151 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hexbloods also make pretty great warlocks too, a free hex spell that doesn't cost you a warlock spell slot is massive for any warlock spamming Eldritch blast. Plus preparing hex and disguise self from your race frees you up to pick up other spells from warlock and your subclass list since currently those aren't automatic preps like for I think every other class. Also you can do some fun things with spells using the ribbon feature, while you don't cast from that space you do see from it which opens up more options in the cases where spells only require you to see the target like casting spells from armor and corners or behind cover

  • @chickengaming4344
    @chickengaming4344 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I think it's worth pointing out that number 4 only gets flying speed if you become one over the course of a campaign. If you choose one of them at level one it doesn't matter what race you were before, because you don't get those benifits. source is this quote "At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of one of the game’s fantastical races. Alternatively, you can choose one of the following lineages. If you choose a lineage, you might have once been a member of another race, but you aren’t any longer. You now possess only your lineage’s racial traits." right on page 15. Don't get me wrong they are still super powerful, but I think not mentioning this is very misleading

  • @JoshuaKirtley
    @JoshuaKirtley 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm currently playing a Winged Tiefling Grave Cleric. Previously played a Warforged Forge Cleric, I really liked that character. And before him, I was a Githzerai Tempest Cleric, also very fun.

  • @RingXross
    @RingXross 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    The problem with using the Longtooth Shifter ability with Moon Druids or Barbarians, is that it takes a surprising amount of set up. Round 1: bonus action transform/rage. Round 2: Shift. Round 3: Bite. You can't even use the bite feature until the 3rd round, the fight might be over by then.

    • @Orpheu5S
      @Orpheu5S 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      My brother you can bite in the turn you shift.

    • @RingXross
      @RingXross 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@Orpheu5S You are correct. I was looking at the old Eberron Shifter.

    • @Orpheu5S
      @Orpheu5S 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@RingXross Its alright pal, now go bite some monsters😎

  • @colehokkanen6461
    @colehokkanen6461 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m currently playing a reborn tiefling barbarian path of the kaiju and it is so much fun.

  • @gabrielsalesmartins
    @gabrielsalesmartins 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    13:25 dude, it's literally stated on the image you presented "OR IF YOU CHOOSE THIS LINEAGE AT CHARACTER CREATION, YOU GAIN PROFICIENCY IN TWO SKILLS OF YOUR CHOICE"
    You
    Can
    Not
    Start
    The
    Game
    As
    A
    Flying
    Dhampir

  • @NeoN-PeoN
    @NeoN-PeoN 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This always happens....
    I love Kobolds. But apparently, people loved them so much that now they've made them powerful.... WHICH DEFEATS THE BIGGEST PURPOSE OF PLAYING A KOBOLD

  • @That_One_Kobold
    @That_One_Kobold 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    I refuse to accept the new kobold, VOLO'S GUIDE FOR LIFE

    • @Raudulf
      @Raudulf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      FOR LIFE!!!

    • @partymantis3421
      @partymantis3421 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      i for one like both,
      often we use both new & legacy versions of races at the same time & justify them as a distant group, tribe or colony.
      its possible to classify them as for ex:"Labyrinth"&"war"minotaurs "primal"&"Grumsh"Orc, "pack"&"cry" Kobold etc

    • @hyzmarie
      @hyzmarie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@partymantis3421oh that’s really cool! I saw a Hyrule homebrew that did this too! The Rito race (bird people in Zelda) have showed up twice, once as mostly human fellas who live on a dragon island and gain wings through a ritual, and once as straight-up bird people who love among frozen mountain peaks… so they made them two different subraces: coastal and mountain rito!

    • @drakegrandx5914
      @drakegrandx5914 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah, as much as I dislike MotM and love Volo's, the latter's kobold is the worst-designed part of the book, only second to the orc. ASD in 5E? An ability that makes them useless most of the time, and another one that makes them OP when the first one isn't active? "Cower, Grovel & Beg" as a special attack, the race whose individuals routinely sacrifice themselves for the sake of protecting their community? No thanks...

    • @That_One_Kobold
      @That_One_Kobold 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@drakegrandx5914 firstly, kobolds ARE cowards, secondly it's more of a ruse anyway, thirdly that is the worst part about it. Kobolds are also a monstrous race, which meant ASD's which have since been removed even from volo's kobold, daylight sensitivity is fun to get around and pack tactics isn't OP unless you abuse it

  • @raymondtrabulsy7294
    @raymondtrabulsy7294 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The "zinc!" In the ad tickled me

  • @machomandalf2893
    @machomandalf2893 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m playing a warforged zealot barb in one of my games and he’s very quickly become one of my favorite characters. He’s reflavored as an animated suit of armor who got put there through some Fullmetal Alchemist type magic and all of my zealot abilities have been reflavored as arcane potency that just explodes out of him when he rages.

  • @damianotucci3972
    @damianotucci3972 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks bro, this video is very handy 🖐🏻

  • @MundoMan0
    @MundoMan0 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    So we counting out gem dragonborns for busted flyers? Heavy armor flight at level 5 😂

  • @lrioje1
    @lrioje1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I still think "Draconic Cry" should have been "Raucous Yipping". Perfect description of a distraction, giving advantage. Also fits Kobolds better.

  • @ditto6463
    @ditto6463 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Using Malekith the witch king to represent the Shadari Kai.
    BASED!

  • @GhostMas7er
    @GhostMas7er 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I tried playing a mountain dwarf clockwork soul sorcerer mele build and it is pretty fun. You max out str and con and use shadowblade/booming blade for attacks. Also Armor of aghatys + blade ward + Bastion of Law makes you super tanky and anyone who hits you gets tons of dmg. You can quicken spell colour spray and attack, or you can twin spell haste or polymorph for some nice party buffs.

  • @cstuart5638
    @cstuart5638 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m playing a thri-kreen abjuration wizard who subclassed into cleric. With war caster feat as well. He wields 4 shields and casts spells. Although, some DM’s might not let you hold a shield in your secondary arms.

  • @murpledeer
    @murpledeer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    17:03 Actually there are some backgrounds that give you feats, rune carver from Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants gives you one. Granted that is under DM’s approval and with some asterisks attached

  • @morgancorey982
    @morgancorey982 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am a fan of reborn winged tiefling. They make good decaf coffee locks (just using the additional 4 hours while others sleep to take shorts rests and convert your warlock spells to sorcery points). Add that to flying in medium armor, and it is a recipe for fun!

  • @noahbrown1007
    @noahbrown1007 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am starting a wildhunt shifter barb next week, I am very much looking forward to it

  • @wrestlingfan836
    @wrestlingfan836 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In my most recent my current campaign, my dm gives everyone pack tactics and it gives the melee builds a leg up over spell casters. Essientally, if we’re flanking them then we get advantage very nice

    • @hyzmarie
      @hyzmarie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s not pack tactics… that’s flanking! Flanking requires being on opposite sides of the enemy, while pack tactics lets you just be nearby. Subtle difference, but it matters because you don’t have to go all the way around the enemy :)

  • @t2i3m4
    @t2i3m4 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Swashbuckler mountain dwarf with Medium Armor master. Never be hit again

  • @MrMagyar5
    @MrMagyar5 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Agreed. This list is accurate. I've been playing and DM'ing for decades and been a 5e supporter for a long time. We've seen a LOT of power creep come into the game with different races, but the mountain dwarf has always been broken. They are incredibly versatile and have only gotten more powerful as Tasha's and additional power creep has made it into the game. Thank you, Tasha's.

    • @nathans9764
      @nathans9764 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mountain dwarf was always strong, but it wasn't broken before Tasha's. The +2 str and the medium armor proficiency really aren't useful on the same character. Once they introduced the rule to swap out proficiencies or reassign attribute bonuses though, it just became a stupidly powerful subrace.

    • @MrMagyar5
      @MrMagyar5 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@nathans9764 I would politely disagree. The fact you got a +4 starting with medium armor proficiency gave you a lot of ways to customize. Their poison resistance, Darkvision, proficiency in 4 weapons, and light & medium armor made them amazing for any class. It might not have been optimal, but it was still beastly strong. Of all the original races, when 5e came out, it was the strongest and when Tasha's hit, it made it even stronger. Even without Tasha's and a point buy system you could drop your Str to 8 and still have a 10 Str and use the points elsewhere. It was extremely strong for any caster or melee combatant. About the only class it didn't benefit was the monk in the early game.

  • @demnix6210
    @demnix6210 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @14:28 Bugbear ' gives proficiency and not advantage in stealth. I never realised the surprise attack wasnt restricted and could be mulitple attacks... I need to play one, right, the f now :D

  • @crispyjokingtuna1495
    @crispyjokingtuna1495 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My halfling build is really similar to your mountain dwarf, except I also have the lucky feat for free 😂

  • @stephancardenas-navarro127
    @stephancardenas-navarro127 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How can you have +3 in one stat and +3 in another with mountain dwarves? It would not be +2 from Str and +2 from Con?

    • @fragehardt
      @fragehardt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was wondering this too. Was this is a mistake? Or is there actually something I'm missing?

  • @arokan327
    @arokan327 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I gotta admit, my heart skipped a beat when I read "The 10 most powerful races" before "in DnD5e". This could've been a whole different video! Glad you didn't do it!

  • @J_Seven
    @J_Seven 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    So just to be clear... Darkvision is indeed handy???
    Great video.

  • @letstec
    @letstec 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A formerly stron option was the old Changeling which allowed you to take a +3 in Charisma. This allowed you to get Charisma Score of 18 with point buy or 20 by rolling. Combined with the Changelings Shapechanger feature at level 1 you were already one of the best infiltrators. This however got changed I believe with Monsters of The Multiverse to the new standard +2/+1 rule

  • @calebcalkins3657
    @calebcalkins3657 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    as a bugbear level 11 rouge you have double advantage on stealth checks plus 1-9 count as 10 on ablity checks

  • @morrigankasa570
    @morrigankasa570 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My personal list of most powerful D&D Races.
    1. Eladrin(especially Summer)
    2. Shadar-Kai
    3. High Elf
    4. Mountain Dwarf
    5. Duergar
    6. Drow
    7. Dhampir
    8. Tortle
    9. Deep Gnome
    10. Tiefling
    But each their own thoughts/opinions/preferences.

  • @Joe-ib4qo
    @Joe-ib4qo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    please continue the subclass tier list!!! I have been waiting years

  • @DrDirtyBird
    @DrDirtyBird 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm honestly surprised that Hobgoblin wasn't on this list. Their teamplayer synergy is crazy good, I slept on them for so long.

  • @davidfollett6522
    @davidfollett6522 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I played a Bugbear Rogue. At level 1, he was the first character to deal over 40 damage (which is HUGE for level 1 encounters) in the party. He wielded a rapier (d8) and he hit a target before their turn (2d6) and I had advantage from flanking, giving me sneak attack (d6) and I had lucked out when rolling stats and maxed out Dex at 20, rolling an 18 and +2 from racial bonus (+5) and the first attack ended up being a critical hit. The DM had a house rule that says whenever something or someone got a crit, they would add up all the maximum numbers on dice and then roll normally. So, 8+12+6+5+d8+3d6. The only downside was that I could only attack once per round since rogues don't get extra attack (I'm not an expert on finding the power plays like DnD Shorts)
    No one questioned the house rule because of how powerful the players can get with it... but it also meant that if an enemy got a crit on a player, the same rule applies

  • @safsren
    @safsren 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have a barbarian wildhunt shifter and my DM considered nerfing my wildhunt form because of that advantage thing 😂

  • @stunspot
    @stunspot 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You are the only tuber I make a point to watch the commercials of.

  • @torgfriednilzram1248
    @torgfriednilzram1248 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gem Flight allows heavy armor and it has hover. Just for 1 minute a day but many partys don't fight more than that.

  • @owenthangwen6040
    @owenthangwen6040 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Shadar Kai Twilight Cleric, cuz I heard you like dark so I added more love for the dark 😎

  • @FutureOverYou
    @FutureOverYou 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My bugbear gloomstalker ranger/fighter/rogue dual wielding hamd crossbows was absolutely so much fun. Almost guaranteed to kill something on turn 1.

  • @gerrynowak9050
    @gerrynowak9050 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi can someone explain for me please how Monks and Paladins get a +3 to 2 ability scores with the mountain dwarf at level 1. He make this statement at 19:36

  • @LocalMaple
    @LocalMaple 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    0:48 How, DARE you, not use Sokka from Avatar TLA!

  • @zebraneon1503
    @zebraneon1503 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm playing a warforge barbarian in my new campaign, they best part is that Warforges (depending on which one you are) deal more damage with just fists, and barbarians can deal bonus damage with no weapons too

  • @persuisixh4804
    @persuisixh4804 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can we talk about how monk is one ability away from being the best ranged kit in the game

  • @stygiansage2661
    @stygiansage2661 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun powerful combo is any changling with charm effects "oh my charm is about to be over back away change disguise charm again." Easy clean house at any merchant.

  • @alexsmith8317
    @alexsmith8317 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm a little confused on how monks are getting a 3/3 same with paladins for stats. Should it not be a 2/2?

  • @ranekeisenkralle8265
    @ranekeisenkralle8265 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    7:10 "Artificers and sword-and-shield heavy-armor Fighters" Funny that you say that. The warforged i am currently running is basically both - and more.
    8 levels of Battle master Fighter with Shield Master feat
    3 levels of Artillerist Artificer (currently anyhow, more levels to come)
    2 levels of War-Wizard (for that insane Arcane Deflection plus nifty little boost to initiative)
    4 levels of Zealot-Barbarian (DM ruled that the integrated armor functions akin to a Tortle's shell - albeit adaptable based on which armor you use - and therefore does not impede Rage - and who am I to complain about that, right?)
    Granted, his stats are not all that extreme, but regardless of that he is insanely durable thanks to resistances - and the adamantine armor he wears
    heck, aside from still being (somehow) susceptible to being frightened, he has basically become a WH40k Space Marine in terms of durability (and his eldritch cannon basically being a plasma gun only adds to that)

  • @JesterSans
    @JesterSans 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This man needs a t-shirt to buy that says "Darkvision, which is always handy" and below it is just a cut out of him making the most dead inside face imaginable with his hand up

  • @bastianandieschack5134
    @bastianandieschack5134 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really good video but, there is one thing I would like to correct about the races that only needs 4 hours of long rest. Anyone can actually cast spells right before a long rest finishes and still get the benefits of the long rest at the end. Phb 186. states that you can spend 1 hour casting spells during it, so the 4 spells mentioned above can be done by anyone, however there are certain spells that take 1 hour which would only allow 1 spell cast by any other character which these characters can cast up 5 of in the same time.

  • @whisperinwind87
    @whisperinwind87 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I used custom linage to make a Koala bear "shifter" who was a small race, which I really wanted so he could ride his steel defender and get sneak attack every attack...

  • @skateboarder27292
    @skateboarder27292 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Drink-kun been lookin for table-san for awhile now.. Drink-Kun will not be denied..

  • @AmberPanda382
    @AmberPanda382 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really am starting to like changelings. They don’t have a game-breaking ability, but the sheer versatility of being able to shapeshift is so useful. Warlocks get mask of many faces, but that requires verbal+somatic components and has to be redone every hour. Changelings are just cool and great bards or rogues if u wanna do stealth-intruige stuff