I wanna make a wood elf barbarian, trade some constitution for some dexterity, and I want him to be a spear user when he's in the faces of the enemies and a bow user when utilizing his gruella tactics. how good is this combo and how do I make it work out to it's max potential?
in one game I was play we had a barbarian, a retribution paladin, a healer druid, and a rogue ranger hybrid and what we did while fighting an adult red dragon was the barbarian grappled it to the ground the paladin punished the dragon with radiant damage for hurting the barbarian while the rogue ranger hid in a corner pelting arrows at the dragon while invisible and the druid healed when necessary and had a bunch of animal summons doing damage and grappling the dragon as well so the dragon literally couldn't escape the grapples was getting filled with arrows by the rogue, smited by the paladin, having several animals maw it, a druid casting healing spells undoing all of the damage it does while squeezing in some damage spells and a barbarian smacking it in the face while pinning it to the ground with one had
My favorite barbarian race is actually Forest Gnome. People think I'm crazy because it doesn't have any strength boost and has Intelligence as the primary stat boost, but they are missing an important fact: The Forest gnome weighs between 30 to 40 lbs. This allows my companions to use my gnome as a portable munitions of blood curdling rage, all the while being assisted by a relentless assault of small forest creatures like squirrels, rabbits, and various highly aggressive birds.
@@lookmanopeel6403 My gnome has a squirrel totem spirit. Big creatures are scared to death of small creatures, so going into a squirrel rage is advantageous against those that go into a bear totem rage. =)
I made a Halfling Totem of the Bear Barbarian (the icon I have is a drawing of her). Her name is (maybe "was" after Monday. We're in the final battle of Tomb of Annihilation) Cordie and she's super nice and her battleaxe is called Kindness. She took on a Negaloth(?) by herself completely naked. Update: Cordie survived, she has Moa's Staff and is now home, married to a Drow Wizard and happy.
Ive only played one barbarian and he was a Goliath. I had more fun with that character than any other and I wrecked Strahd. Mechanically the Half Orc seemed the best choice. The extra critical die on top of your brutal critical in addition to rolling with advantage on nearly every attack is amazing.
Im currently playing Goliath BardBEARian grappler and it's amazing. The combat control is just so much fun. The DM lets me use gravity to hurt things (the goliath has a 12ft reach and an 8ft vertical jump at Str20, so 12+8=20ft fall for the bad guy and that's 2d6 damage). It's like a supremely overcomplicated, but way cooler greatsword
@@trequor Very nice. We found the sunsword in Strahd and my DM let me find a Sun Great Axe instead of a long sword. I may have also ran across a Helm of Brilliance in our adventures as well and for about 3 or 4 battles I was a Barbarian casting fireball and wall of fire. It was hilarious. The game died before we got to fight the Ancient Green Dragon and the Demi-Gorgon. We met both. My barbarian had a Hulk in Ragnarok moment and wanted to fight them when we met them at level 12. Have fun with your campaign.
I am banned from playing my barbarian ever again. Her name was Bindi Stomper, and she is/was a halfling barbarian. Not the greatest strength necessarily -- only a 14 -- but DAMN did that halfling luck save my tush on many an occasion. My cousin spent numerous sessions just outright trying to kill her and never succeeded, even when I went bare-knuckle with a grizzly bear, and he finally got so tired of the gung-ho attitude I gave her he just banned her (though to be fair he's used to me typically playing "that character what solves all the clues and has all the skills to do the things," and was rather put out when, playing her, the answer to everything was "ignore anything I can't hit with my axe and kick open the next door.")
Thats not cool, i would be pissed, its not your fault he cant deal with youe character and anytime someone says they tried to kill a character that is always a red flag to me
@@snowman9631 It's honestly fine :) She's one of several characters I've made, both as playables and NPCs, that make my cousin(s) groan whenever they come up. Like my recurring tinker gnome NPC Snobbish (who's built as a specialist wizard with no damage-dealing capability at all,) who always manages to get them wrangled up into trouble in one way or another. We've been a relatively solid DnD group for years: having one character I'm banned from using (who was initially thrown together for a one-shot to begin with) isn't much of a problem :)
I'm playing as a Minotaur Barbarian now and oh my god sooooo good Goring Rush has come in clutch. I've killed all the bosses we've fought 3 weeks in a row (out of 4 weeks our campaign has been played)
I made one of these for the campaign I'm about to start. It's a 3 player campaign with a Rogue (Mastermind) and Artificer (Artillerist) and me the Ancestral Guardian Barb. We all start at LVL 1 and did a modified roll for stats. I planned on playing him like a pinball just bouncing around between enemies and keeping them off the ranged players with the racial traits. However I rolled bad on STR with a 13 total. So I'm trying to nix the idea of playing him like that and just going straight tank. I'm just a little sad that now his traits are gonna be useless, I should've picked a half-orc :/
Hardly mentioned the Mountain Dwarf, but for me it's a top 2-3 choice, +2 Str & +2 Con, and adv on saves vs poison and resistance to poison which is the one of the most common damage types. I am currently playing a mountain dwarf path of the ancestral guardians barbarian, Grimwold Ironhammer, and he is a blast to play :)
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I just started learning D&D and I ended up making a Tortle (razor/spike back) barbarian. Hes not the best but I love him. Also just find your guys' channel and I'm loving it. New sub for sure
sun elf, werewolf barbarian (neutral/chaotic good) an orphan taken in by a non-evil werewolf pack, transformed into a werewolf, rised to be a force to be reckend with, fights to keep his pack safe from a werewolf hunting clan (which he was born into, but his parents defected, tired of the bloodshed and were killed for it)
That Goliath racial ability is great as an intimidation tactic. I used it in a bar fight ones. I let the guy hit me with a chair and just smiled and laughed and he backed down. This was like level 2 or 3.
I'm really enjoying playing a Dragonborn totem barb the with a great Con because that feeds into the DC of the breath weapon so give him a little range if you can't get right up to the baddies and an elemental ability if you don't have magical weapons early
Played a Duergar Ancestral Guardian barb for a long time, it was a good take on the usual angry dwarf archetype, and the extended darkvision and invisibility made them great backup so could go in with our scout for if shit hit the fan. Also, for the daytime battles, reckless attack cancelled out the sunlight sensitivity. Incredible class-race combo.
My Mountain Dwarf Zealot is wrecking face in AL. I'm maxing Con and getting Toughness, so he'll have over 100hp at level 8, over 200hp @ 14, and 325hp @ 20. He simply WILL NOT DIE and I've been loving every minute of it.
In Defense of the Half-Elf they've got some interesting variant rules. Half-Drow allows to cast a few neat spells and the other options ain't too bad either: Half-Wood Elf's Fleet of foot may occasionally be useful on an already mobile class, Aquatic Elf's swimming speed might come in hand in certain campaigns or if you're building the Moana god, Half-Moon/Sun can get you a free Wizard cantrip. You do pay a toll with your extra skills but the option's availability is nice to have. Incidentally Paladins are easy to multiclass into since you've got +2 Cha. There's also a trick called Fighter 8 aka 3 ASI's. Imho Fighter 8/BB 3 isn't that much weaker compared to a Fighter 11, especially if reaching the capstone is unlikely anyway.
You might not think so at first, but the Tortle works very well. The natural armor allows you to dump DEX without much issue. I am using one in my campaign with a Sentinel Shield and Warhammer. I also went Path of the Totem (Bear) so he’s resistant to damn near all damage types. I’ve been running rough-shot through most battles. 18 10 14 12 12 12
It's a bit of a homebrew, but I'm playing a mammoth variant of a loxodon ancestral guardian barbarian. +1 to strength and con. It has a unique move called Stampede which can knock over an enemy prone if they fail a dex save. It's suuuuuuper fun. Also making elephant trunk sounds for my barbarian rage is so satisfying.
My favorite noncombat barbarian thing is going Goliath totem barbarian, just because at 6 you can take bear totem again and you can lift 2200 lbs. Is it useful in combat? not really but depending on your DM you can do some really fun things with it.
Not useful in combat? You can lift a frigging ton! Toss over statues, throw tables, tear down pillars and make entire portions of buildings collapse. If such high strength hasn't have any combat applications, than your DM needs to start thinking creatively and outside the box of, make attack roll, cast spell,... This is a story telling game to create epic stories. Look at the Hercules movie with the rock. He makes a great example for a Barbarian. Sure most of his feats are not realistic but boy, they do look epic.
Actually, my math, 20 (strength stat) *15 (see how much weight per one point of strength) *2 (size larger for race ability) *2 (another size larger from second bear totem) = 1,200 lbs, but that's still a respectable amount.
@@lockwoan01 That would be your carrying capacity. Push, drag, or lift strength is double that. So a max level barb (who can have a strength of 24 can carry 1,440 lbs and push, drag, or lift 2,880 lbs.
I'd like to make an argument for one of my all time favorite races, the goblin. The stats aren't optimal, for sure; only +1 to Con and +2 to Dex, but Dex is not useless for Barbarians and DexBarb builds do exist. You also get Fury of the Small to add a little extra damage to your hits, and a free Disengage lets you easily manuever around the battlefield in the midst of a melee. You do miss out on a lot of the big heavy weapons, so I would not argue with anyone that the weaknesses might outstrip the strengths, but it's worth it to try at least once just to make your Fury of the Small a TRUE FURY.
Playing a centaur barbarian in one of my current player games: totem barb. Currently Eagle/Bear, and though the lack of the supreme Bear as first totem hurts, nothing beats the 150 movespeed per turn. No wall, ladder, or other barrier can stop him, and he even took a custom feat to get back the riding feature lost in the official Ravnica release version of the centaur. Nothing can run from him, though the number of pitfalls present in the adventure have mysteriously tripled.
Yeah I agree completely. Warforged will always be my favorite race, but if I had to pick one race that I would say is designed specifically for the barbarian class it would be the half-orc.
What would be the most movement speed a Barbarian could get? Tabaxi Monk/Barbarian Elk totem? Without all the spells and magic items. Race, feats and class skills. I've never sat down and played before and my first character I want to be a super fast, in-your-face, Barbarian. Orc sounds cool as a default class. Thanks Nerdarchy!
Sweet, I picked the best race for my Barbarian. Yet it is the half-orc, best stats and extra brutal crits and get a racial endurance. It just fits the Barbarian naturally.
While I doubt many will see this, my personal favorite Barbarian was one I really wish I got to flesh out more, "Iron Oni" Junko, a Tiefling Barbarian - Feral, and built as Tome of Foes was about to come out. I picked Ancestral Spirit at the time due to some Oni messing with ghosts, but she was an ex-Gladiator in the style of Wrestlers, born to a tough family, always found herself naturally super strong, and liked to go around hitting things with her Maul. But on top of that, she had surprising utility through her spells, we used Darkness to enhance our stealth prowess near a camp of Frost Trolls once. If I was going to do her again though, she'd be a Storm Herald, because Lightning.
My favorite character I have ever played was a variant human barbarian named Haalfstaag who hailed from the Wandering Wolf tribe of Icewind Dale barbarians, I focused all his stat boosts into Con got that up to a 20, and had taken the durable feat at level 1. So each time we took a short rest the minimum I got back per hit die was 10 hp. I also did have a Cha bonus because my character was the tribes "negotiator" although Icewind Dale's version of negotiating is I say what my tribe wants and hit the negotiator from the other tribe as hard as I can with my fist, and then he counter-offers with his part of the deal, lol.
My first (And still favorite to play!) Character in D&D was a Half Orc Barbarian, and so far he's been the most fun to play. He's a mountain of health, hits like a truck, and also is incredibly fun to roleplay since I made his wisdom above average and made him proficient with cook's tools! So not only will he slay the dragon, but then cook it up for the rest of the party to enjoy!
I played a Minotaur barbarian in fourth edition. He was a massive tank. I transported him into GURPS 4E and he was even more powerful. My go to will always be a Minotaur.
while barbarians are typically best utilized in the thick of things they do benefit from having a ranged option as well because its kind of hard to hit something that flies out of your reach and just pelts you with attacks so having a few javalins on you is a good thing to have and I would allow you to add rage bonus to your javalin throws and sharp shooter if you had it
Frothbeard the mountain dwarf sold to pirates as a child. Wears a kilt and lipstick. He's known as the lady from hell. Terrifying.. Even I don't know what he will do next.
I'm about to play my first game of DnD. My DM told me not to try to minmax but just have fun.. minmaxing is how I have fun, so I've been watching a ton of videos. I'd already decided on Half-orc prior to watching this :) unsure what starting proficiencies to get.. Perception maybe? Something else. I'm planning to try to get a glaive (not sure if you get to pick your starting weapon or not) so I can get great weapon AND Polearm specialization. My goal is to be able to go super tank mode (I don't know the other players classes yet), so I was gonna do Totem warrior with the bear. I don't know if I'd be able to use the ancestor path with the materials my DM is using, cuz I heard that's the best for tanking. My wife is gonna play a half-elf bard. Any other big stuff I'm missing? Any tips for a first timer?
You should make a disclaimer every video that variant human is always good due to extra skill, two choose your own stat adjustment, and a bonus feat, then not include them in the overall list of who makes the best whatever
I love the flavor of a Scourge Aasimar Barbarian Zealot and want to run one soon. Having an angelic guide only speak to you while raging or screaming in celestial as your eyes are clouded seeing only friend and foe as a angel or fiend. Keeping your rage no matter what happens by taking a little radiant damage each turn so you can still or not attack as your form can't contain just how radiant you are, it's beautiful.
so one thing I always look for in my barbarian is the powerful build trait because powerful build makes grappling barbarians absolute units to the point where when my GM was giving us boons I specifically asked for the powerful build trait and I put an adult red dragons head in the dirt while the rest of the party just stood around it and pelted it with damage and that is why when it comes to fighting a boss monster their is no better tank then a barbarian
Surprised lizardfolk didn't get more attention in this. Feeding frenzy, natural armor, +2 Ac, and a 1d6 bite for an unarmed attack is prettu great. Also a barbarian that can move well in water is pretty huge in my opinion.
I kinda like the character flavor you get from a Dragonborn Barbarian using the Zealot out of Zanathar's. It's a very interesting race on how far they go to worship either Tiamat or Bahamut depending on if they are good or evil.
Halfling no one would ever expect it and the element of surprise is quite valuable used small daggers or Fighting Dirkand dual wielding And Whirlwind attack you are now effectively the Tasmanian devil 😂
The Barbarian class always throws me, probably because I was exposed to Everquest 1&2 before D&D (Which I didn't get into until 5e). The Reason, Barbarians are a Race in EQ2, one of the Human Subraces (Humans, Barbarians, Erudites ) and the Calss of Barbarian is called the Berserker ;) I understand the differences just something I have to keep reminding myself is all :D
I suggest a wildhunt shifter because their shifted ability makes Reckless Attack one sided and aides with wisdom saves and gives you a bonus to wisdom if you want to multiclass into a moon druid.
While I dont think it is a good barb, it's good for freeing up your subclass in my opinion. Tiefling with the Infernal Constitution feat from Xanathars gets 3 resistances from some really common elements. You dont need to go Bear Totem if you use this Tiefling feat. The spells are not lost on you either. You can't use spells while raging, but if your dm makes you have many fights or breaks your rages, you have back up spells that can be very useful. You can mix it with Storm Herald Barbarian to get a 4th resistance to Lightning. It's not a super common element, but if you are collecting resistances, it's an option.
Also you guys mentioned having some trouble making the flavor of a kalashtar barbarian work. Barbarian is one of my favorite classes, and I'm super interested in the kalashtar, but I'm super new to Eberron and I know so little about the lore and their setting-specific races. Can you elaborate on what makes it more complex, and maybe share some light on some of the ideas you mentioned having in the video?
Rip Headphone users at the start. I’m doing a campaign with a club with my friend and some aquatints and our Paladin is a very self centered person and tries to dictate everyone’s actions and even just attacks anyone or anything that moves including the party, he won’t attack me ( due to my AC or 22 at level 2) and I try to defend the party members as much as I can but he still tries. We are debating if we should kill off his character to maybe show him he is not as good as he thinks or the DM is even thinking about asking him to not come to a few sessions. I’m sorry for the novel I’m writing but we have 3 new players with us and we are trying to give them a good first time. sadly I was out of town when he decided to attack our CLERIC so he KNOCKED OUR CLERIC DOWN while the party was in a dungeon with undead and when I got back we had 2 new character sheets on the table. The wizard failed two medicine roles and the cleric died. So NO BODY likes this guy. he’s new to DnD and we thinks it’s because he has never played a game where everybody was working together but he has pushed it pretty far.
Bio Chill yeah... that guy needs to be sat down by the group and told he’s spoiling the fun. If you’ve already tried that, then he needs to not be a part of the group. He’s putting his own fun before the group and trying to bully other players. Talk first, if that doesn’t work, show him the door. Killing the character might only make it worse, giving him something to hold against you. Just do it clean, warn him whats coming if it doesn’t stop, and then follow through if needed.
The half orc is pretty much built for barbarians. It's damage output and outright durability is insane. His racials stack with the class abilities. The first time you crit with a half orc or laugh off a killing blow, you're hooked.
as Taliesin has proven street ,ids make great barbarians. Surviving 'in the gutter' doesn't leave any room for niceties like manners, this opens up the number of races available. You could even build a discarded or kidnapped High Elf or other noble races for a campaign.
To be honest my first thought for a barbarian isnt conan but wulfgar. That said my favorite race to "play" as was when i dmed my first higher level campaign and gave a frost giant levels in barbarian just for the rage resistance.
Was the bugbear mentioned and I just missed it? Feel like that race shouldn't be skipped over between long-limbed and surprise attack there's potential for an awesome stealth barb especially if you combine it with swashbuckler rogue.
I've always thought that dragonborn is a solid choice of barbarian. Mainly due to the str bonus and the fact that you can have an elemental shotgun once per short rest
The best barbarian is tortle. You get a +2 to strength and now you have an AC of 19 starting off if you equip a shield. With half damage from raging that makes you the toughest tank on any battlefield.
Hey guys, I'm playing a campaign where I'm a Variant Native American Totem Warrior Barbarian, I want to hear your Ideas of the build, or even better if you could do a character build video on it would be amazing, thanks guys.
Why not use a Duergar from SCAG? You get 2 con, 1 str, you get enlarge and duergar resiliaence. Tyhe only downside is sunlight sensitivity if you're in an outside campaign, but after all, it's called Dungeons and Dragons
duergar are one of my favorite races and i'll deal with the sunlight sensitivity to play one. i'm playing a duergar barbarian in Dragon Heist right now!
my kalashtar barbarian has the following back story: her mother was a rune knight guard for her people’s wizards. they inadvertently teleported her to the faerûn. when she got there she was hurt and alone. a barbarian chieftain saved her life, married her, then got her knocked up with my character. she died during child birth. my character’s father blamed her for the death of his wife. so over time she built up anger and resentment.
I'm Pathfinder I'm about to play in urban Barbarian multi-class with a shield Champion brawler. At first level I took a vigilante feet. We're basically making the Avengers in korvosa and I would be the Hulk mixed with Captain America
Just started to get into this. My first character is a Noble Zealot Goliath Barbarian. O am only lvl 4 right now and I want to have him carry/lift the max weight. Any help would be great.
I like playing tiefling for barbarian ( choosing the variant with +1 to strength ) not the best but I like to flavor him when he rages his head goes full ghostrider
I'm planning to make a Wood Elf Eagle Totem Barbarian using that sweet sweet speed, based on the Wardancers and Wildwood Rangers from Warhammer. But I'm not sure how I shall go stat wise. DEX based, with the dual wielding feat carrying Finesse Weapons but not getting the Rage Bonus (this would look and feel really cool or) STR based using a Greataxe...has anyone else tried something like this before?
so I bring a unique character to a high level campaign and GM gives me the okay watch as he immediately regrets his decision when I have a goblin arcane archer that deals an extra 29 damage per hit and has advantage on all hits and only a minus 1 to hit with sharp shooter. By level 20 I had a plus 35 for each his and one time when using action surge I crit like 5 times and did almost 1000 damage goblins are over powered at high levels and I dare you to prove me wrong
I made a lizardfolk barbarian and his stats were rolled really well, basically I started with an ac of 21 and since he dual wields he’s technically had a ac of 22 at lv.1 😂
I want to play a Minotaur cleric of the grave. I want to role play him like a priest soldier who ensures his fellow brethren that are suppose to cross into death so so peacefully and save those who are not fated to cross over.
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Guys. I hope Scourge Aasimar is in this video.
Looking forward to the video in general.
Edit: Zealot by default.
I wanna make a wood elf barbarian, trade some constitution for some dexterity, and I want him to be a spear user when he's in the faces of the enemies and a bow user when utilizing his gruella tactics. how good is this combo and how do I make it work out to it's max potential?
Hey nerdarchy can you make the scariest build in D&D and by that I mean the build that has the highest possible chance to fear opponents
in one game I was play we had a barbarian, a retribution paladin, a healer druid, and a rogue ranger hybrid and what we did while fighting an adult red dragon was the barbarian grappled it to the ground the paladin punished the dragon with radiant damage for hurting the barbarian while the rogue ranger hid in a corner pelting arrows at the dragon while invisible and the druid healed when necessary and had a bunch of animal summons doing damage and grappling the dragon as well so the dragon literally couldn't escape the grapples was getting filled with arrows by the rogue, smited by the paladin, having several animals maw it, a druid casting healing spells undoing all of the damage it does while squeezing in some damage spells and a barbarian smacking it in the face while pinning it to the ground with one had
tell me this is not over powered
My favorite barbarian race is actually Forest Gnome. People think I'm crazy because it doesn't have any strength boost and has Intelligence as the primary stat boost, but they are missing an important fact: The Forest gnome weighs between 30 to 40 lbs. This allows my companions to use my gnome as a portable munitions of blood curdling rage, all the while being assisted by a relentless assault of small forest creatures like squirrels, rabbits, and various highly aggressive birds.
They also are resistant to the worst possible effects that can hit them.
I am also a huge fan of red caps =D
High intelligence barbarians are fun and probably the second (just after Conan) most famous barbarian is one: Bruce Banner!
@@jaspermooren5883 Bruce is more of an Alchemist Wizard whose experiments led into becoming a Totem of the Bear/Tiger Barbarian.
@@lookmanopeel6403 My gnome has a squirrel totem spirit. Big creatures are scared to death of small creatures, so going into a squirrel rage is advantageous against those that go into a bear totem rage. =)
I'm digging it! Way back when we did a swamp barbarian build with forest gnomes.
Nerdarchist Dave
I made a Halfling Totem of the Bear Barbarian (the icon I have is a drawing of her). Her name is (maybe "was" after Monday. We're in the final battle of Tomb of Annihilation) Cordie and she's super nice and her battleaxe is called Kindness. She took on a Negaloth(?) by herself completely naked.
Update: Cordie survived, she has Moa's Staff and is now home, married to a Drow Wizard and happy.
Ive only played one barbarian and he was a Goliath. I had more fun with that character than any other and I wrecked Strahd.
Mechanically the Half Orc seemed the best choice. The extra critical die on top of your brutal critical in addition to rolling with advantage on nearly every attack is amazing.
Im currently playing Goliath BardBEARian grappler and it's amazing. The combat control is just so much fun. The DM lets me use gravity to hurt things (the goliath has a 12ft reach and an 8ft vertical jump at Str20, so 12+8=20ft fall for the bad guy and that's 2d6 damage). It's like a supremely overcomplicated, but way cooler greatsword
@@trequor Very nice. We found the sunsword in Strahd and my DM let me find a Sun Great Axe instead of a long sword.
I may have also ran across a Helm of Brilliance in our adventures as well and for about 3 or 4 battles I was a Barbarian casting fireball and wall of fire. It was hilarious.
The game died before we got to fight the Ancient Green Dragon and the Demi-Gorgon. We met both. My barbarian had a Hulk in Ragnarok moment and wanted to fight them when we met them at level 12.
Have fun with your campaign.
I am banned from playing my barbarian ever again. Her name was Bindi Stomper, and she is/was a halfling barbarian. Not the greatest strength necessarily -- only a 14 -- but DAMN did that halfling luck save my tush on many an occasion. My cousin spent numerous sessions just outright trying to kill her and never succeeded, even when I went bare-knuckle with a grizzly bear, and he finally got so tired of the gung-ho attitude I gave her he just banned her (though to be fair he's used to me typically playing "that character what solves all the clues and has all the skills to do the things," and was rather put out when, playing her, the answer to everything was "ignore anything I can't hit with my axe and kick open the next door.")
Thats not cool, i would be pissed, its not your fault he cant deal with youe character and anytime someone says they tried to kill a character that is always a red flag to me
@@snowman9631 It's honestly fine :) She's one of several characters I've made, both as playables and NPCs, that make my cousin(s) groan whenever they come up. Like my recurring tinker gnome NPC Snobbish (who's built as a specialist wizard with no damage-dealing capability at all,) who always manages to get them wrangled up into trouble in one way or another.
We've been a relatively solid DnD group for years: having one character I'm banned from using (who was initially thrown together for a one-shot to begin with) isn't much of a problem :)
i had a simuler experience with a pixie wizard i had in 3.5 ad...
I would think a gung ho attitude would be a good thing.
I'm playing as a Minotaur Barbarian now and oh my god sooooo good Goring Rush has come in clutch. I've killed all the bosses we've fought 3 weeks in a row (out of 4 weeks our campaign has been played)
Do you have more Score in your charisma or dexterity. Right now I am making one with more in charisma but I might change that so I have a higher AC.
I am thinking about making one as well. Any more juicy details other than goring rush?
Hk-47 I used it as a battle starter because you have to dash at least 20 feet but it’ll take your bonus Action to do. So plan around that
eljeffers92 thanks!!
I made one of these for the campaign I'm about to start. It's a 3 player campaign with a Rogue (Mastermind) and Artificer (Artillerist) and me the Ancestral Guardian Barb. We all start at LVL 1 and did a modified roll for stats. I planned on playing him like a pinball just bouncing around between enemies and keeping them off the ranged players with the racial traits. However I rolled bad on STR with a 13 total. So I'm trying to nix the idea of playing him like that and just going straight tank. I'm just a little sad that now his traits are gonna be useless, I should've picked a half-orc :/
Hardly mentioned the Mountain Dwarf, but for me it's a top 2-3 choice, +2 Str & +2 Con, and adv on saves vs poison and resistance to poison which is the one of the most common damage types. I am currently playing a mountain dwarf path of the ancestral guardians barbarian, Grimwold Ironhammer, and he is a blast to play :)
I am too playing a mountain dwarf barbarian following the bear totem
For me it's a mountain dwarf, take totem warrior, bear totem and if your dm is really nice...werebear. I dub him the bare/bearserker
#DwarfMasterRace
Nerdarchist Dave
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I just started learning D&D and I ended up making a Tortle (razor/spike back) barbarian. Hes not the best but I love him. Also just find your guys' channel and I'm loving it. New sub for sure
Awesome welcome to Ted's basement.
Nerdarchist Dave
Im also playing a Tortle Barbarian, my 3rd barbarian. I just multiclassed him to a Wizard
sun elf, werewolf barbarian (neutral/chaotic good) an orphan taken in by a non-evil werewolf pack, transformed into a werewolf, rised to be a force to be reckend with, fights to keep his pack safe from a werewolf hunting clan (which he was born into, but his parents defected, tired of the bloodshed and were killed for it)
Sorry. My Goliath totem Barb was insanely awesome. Stones endurance is great, and just thematically fun to play.
That Goliath racial ability is great as an intimidation tactic. I used it in a bar fight ones. I let the guy hit me with a chair and just smiled and laughed and he backed down. This was like level 2 or 3.
That's amazing ill have to keep that in mind for the barbarian i am currently playing
I'm really enjoying playing a Dragonborn totem barb the with a great Con because that feeds into the DC of the breath weapon so give him a little range if you can't get right up to the baddies and an elemental ability if you don't have magical weapons early
At 8:00 Dave mispronounced epitome and I find that funny.
How do you say it?
Nerdarchist Dave
Just Googled it. I guess it is funny.
Nerdarchist Dave
I thought it was interchangable lol
Played a Duergar Ancestral Guardian barb for a long time, it was a good take on the usual angry dwarf archetype, and the extended darkvision and invisibility made them great backup so could go in with our scout for if shit hit the fan. Also, for the daytime battles, reckless attack cancelled out the sunlight sensitivity. Incredible class-race combo.
My Mountain Dwarf Zealot is wrecking face in AL. I'm maxing Con and getting Toughness, so he'll have over 100hp at level 8, over 200hp @ 14, and 325hp @ 20. He simply WILL NOT DIE and I've been loving every minute of it.
My Hill Dwarf Zealot Barbarian is also great for that
Rayclaw Icefire hill dwarf is probably better cuz you will have an extra 20 health
In Defense of the Half-Elf they've got some interesting variant rules. Half-Drow allows to cast a few neat spells and the other options ain't too bad either: Half-Wood Elf's Fleet of foot may occasionally be useful on an already mobile class, Aquatic Elf's swimming speed might come in hand in certain campaigns or if you're building the Moana god, Half-Moon/Sun can get you a free Wizard cantrip. You do pay a toll with your extra skills but the option's availability is nice to have. Incidentally Paladins are easy to multiclass into since you've got +2 Cha. There's also a trick called Fighter 8 aka 3 ASI's. Imho Fighter 8/BB 3 isn't that much weaker compared to a Fighter 11, especially if reaching the capstone is unlikely anyway.
You might not think so at first, but the Tortle works very well. The natural armor allows you to dump DEX without much issue. I am using one in my campaign with a Sentinel Shield and Warhammer. I also went Path of the Totem (Bear) so he’s resistant to damn near all damage types. I’ve been running rough-shot through most battles. 18 10 14 12 12 12
I love it every time you guys are able to mention DragonLance!
It's a bit of a homebrew, but I'm playing a mammoth variant of a loxodon ancestral guardian barbarian. +1 to strength and con. It has a unique move called Stampede which can knock over an enemy prone if they fail a dex save. It's suuuuuuper fun. Also making elephant trunk sounds for my barbarian rage is so satisfying.
Goliath and minotaur are great for barbarian builds
My favorite noncombat barbarian thing is going Goliath totem barbarian, just because at 6 you can take bear totem again and you can lift 2200 lbs. Is it useful in combat? not really but depending on your DM you can do some really fun things with it.
The perfect pack mule.
Nerdarchist Dave
Not useful in combat? You can lift a frigging ton!
Toss over statues, throw tables, tear down pillars and make entire portions of buildings collapse.
If such high strength hasn't have any combat applications, than your DM needs to start thinking creatively and outside the box of, make attack roll, cast spell,...
This is a story telling game to create epic stories.
Look at the Hercules movie with the rock. He makes a great example for a Barbarian. Sure most of his feats are not realistic but boy, they do look epic.
... non applicable in combat? Youre a grappling god! You could go around throwing trees! You can yeet people to outer space!
Actually, my math, 20 (strength stat) *15 (see how much weight per one point of strength) *2 (size larger for race ability) *2 (another size larger from second bear totem) = 1,200 lbs, but that's still a respectable amount.
@@lockwoan01 That would be your carrying capacity. Push, drag, or lift strength is double that. So a max level barb (who can have a strength of 24 can carry 1,440 lbs and push, drag, or lift 2,880 lbs.
I'd like to make an argument for one of my all time favorite races, the goblin. The stats aren't optimal, for sure; only +1 to Con and +2 to Dex, but Dex is not useless for Barbarians and DexBarb builds do exist. You also get Fury of the Small to add a little extra damage to your hits, and a free Disengage lets you easily manuever around the battlefield in the midst of a melee. You do miss out on a lot of the big heavy weapons, so I would not argue with anyone that the weaknesses might outstrip the strengths, but it's worth it to try at least once just to make your Fury of the Small a TRUE FURY.
I'm currently playing a warforged jugurnaught fighter/barbarian named steel he's been a joy to play
Strong build for sure.
Nerdarchist Dave
Playing a centaur barbarian in one of my current player games: totem barb. Currently Eagle/Bear, and though the lack of the supreme Bear as first totem hurts, nothing beats the 150 movespeed per turn. No wall, ladder, or other barrier can stop him, and he even took a custom feat to get back the riding feature lost in the official Ravnica release version of the centaur. Nothing can run from him, though the number of pitfalls present in the adventure have mysteriously tripled.
Pssh I will race you with my tabaxi rogue/monk multiclass. Mobile was my first feat
I'm playing a centaur barbarian too! Although I'm using the ancestral Guardian path
Yeah I agree completely. Warforged will always be my favorite race, but if I had to pick one race that I would say is designed specifically for the barbarian class it would be the half-orc.
I would put money on you going warforged.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy Warforged forever!...literally, because they can't biologically die!
Honestly Goliath is built for it even more than half orc lol
What would be the most movement speed a Barbarian could get? Tabaxi Monk/Barbarian Elk totem?
Without all the spells and magic items. Race, feats and class skills. I've never sat down and played before and my first character I want to be a super fast, in-your-face, Barbarian. Orc sounds cool as a default class.
Thanks Nerdarchy!
Sweet, I picked the best race for my Barbarian.
Yet it is the half-orc, best stats and extra brutal crits and get a racial endurance. It just fits the Barbarian naturally.
Great stuff as always For me Goliath is best have found way more useful than half orc but that just me
While I doubt many will see this, my personal favorite Barbarian was one I really wish I got to flesh out more, "Iron Oni" Junko, a Tiefling Barbarian - Feral, and built as Tome of Foes was about to come out. I picked Ancestral Spirit at the time due to some Oni messing with ghosts, but she was an ex-Gladiator in the style of Wrestlers, born to a tough family, always found herself naturally super strong, and liked to go around hitting things with her Maul. But on top of that, she had surprising utility through her spells, we used Darkness to enhance our stealth prowess near a camp of Frost Trolls once.
If I was going to do her again though, she'd be a Storm Herald, because Lightning.
My favorite character I have ever played was a variant human barbarian named Haalfstaag who hailed from the Wandering Wolf tribe of Icewind Dale barbarians, I focused all his stat boosts into Con got that up to a 20, and had taken the durable feat at level 1. So each time we took a short rest the minimum I got back per hit die was 10 hp. I also did have a Cha bonus because my character was the tribes "negotiator" although Icewind Dale's version of negotiating is I say what my tribe wants and hit the negotiator from the other tribe as hard as I can with my fist, and then he counter-offers with his part of the deal, lol.
Before watching imma make my guess
For stats its gonna be mountain dwarf
For roleplay LITERALLY ANYONE
My first (And still favorite to play!) Character in D&D was a Half Orc Barbarian, and so far he's been the most fun to play. He's a mountain of health, hits like a truck, and also is incredibly fun to roleplay since I made his wisdom above average and made him proficient with cook's tools! So not only will he slay the dragon, but then cook it up for the rest of the party to enjoy!
I played a Minotaur barbarian in fourth edition. He was a massive tank. I transported him into GURPS 4E and he was even more powerful. My go to will always be a Minotaur.
Love minotaurs. Richard Knaak has a book series out featuring them heavily, Rex Draconis.
Nerdarchist Dave
I'd love to be a Minotaur Barbarian.
Same...
@@Nerdarchy Love me some Kaz the Minotaur
A barbarian chieftain would likely have a decent charisma, if that's a character someone is going for (or being trained for).
What About conan the Barbarian He Had some IQ,And Charisma Huh who Agrees??
Alternatively, give your Barbarian Chieftain the Noble Background, and now you have a Noble Savage, who is somehow the face of the party.
I am playing a half-orc zealot barbarian named Zaroak and he is a BEAST.
while barbarians are typically best utilized in the thick of things they do benefit from having a ranged option as well because its kind of hard to hit something that flies out of your reach and just pelts you with attacks so having a few javalins on you is a good thing to have and I would allow you to add rage bonus to your javalin throws and sharp shooter if you had it
Frothbeard the mountain dwarf sold to pirates as a child. Wears a kilt and lipstick. He's known as the lady from hell. Terrifying..
Even I don't know what he will do next.
Why the lipstick.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy terrifying beauty.
In the early days of DnD our gaming group loved to use the Half-Ogre. I do hope 5e eventually includes this incredible race.
I will save you 20 minutes they just say that half-Orks are far and away the best 19:06
I'm about to play my first game of DnD. My DM told me not to try to minmax but just have fun.. minmaxing is how I have fun, so I've been watching a ton of videos.
I'd already decided on Half-orc prior to watching this :) unsure what starting proficiencies to get.. Perception maybe? Something else. I'm planning to try to get a glaive (not sure if you get to pick your starting weapon or not) so I can get great weapon AND Polearm specialization. My goal is to be able to go super tank mode (I don't know the other players classes yet), so I was gonna do Totem warrior with the bear. I don't know if I'd be able to use the ancestor path with the materials my DM is using, cuz I heard that's the best for tanking. My wife is gonna play a half-elf bard.
Any other big stuff I'm missing? Any tips for a first timer?
You should make a disclaimer every video that variant human is always good due to extra skill, two choose your own stat adjustment, and a bonus feat, then not include them in the overall list of who makes the best whatever
We do a disclaimer for 4 races each video now. Used to be 3, but simic hybrid is another great race for pretty anything.
Nerdarchist Dave
A race that not a lot of people know about but I love is the Golric, it is technically a half orc sub race on D&d beyond
I think Minotuar cleric using war domain is pretty sweet also. Wisdom mod. Extra attacks per day.
I love the flavor of a Scourge Aasimar Barbarian Zealot and want to run one soon.
Having an angelic guide only speak to you while raging or screaming in celestial as your eyes are clouded seeing only friend and foe as a angel or fiend.
Keeping your rage no matter what happens by taking a little radiant damage each turn so you can still or not attack as your form can't contain just how radiant you are, it's beautiful.
so one thing I always look for in my barbarian is the powerful build trait because powerful build makes grappling barbarians absolute units to the point where when my GM was giving us boons I specifically asked for the powerful build trait and I put an adult red dragons head in the dirt while the rest of the party just stood around it and pelted it with damage and that is why when it comes to fighting a boss monster their is no better tank then a barbarian
Surprised lizardfolk didn't get more attention in this. Feeding frenzy, natural armor, +2 Ac, and a 1d6 bite for an unarmed attack is prettu great. Also a barbarian that can move well in water is pretty huge in my opinion.
I kinda like the character flavor you get from a Dragonborn Barbarian using the Zealot out of Zanathar's. It's a very interesting race on how far they go to worship either Tiamat or Bahamut depending on if they are good or evil.
Halfling no one would ever expect it and the element of surprise is quite valuable used small daggers or Fighting Dirkand
dual wielding
And Whirlwind attack you are now effectively the Tasmanian devil 😂
Stout Hafling might be a good build.
The Barbarian class always throws me, probably because I was exposed to Everquest 1&2 before D&D (Which I didn't get into until 5e).
The Reason, Barbarians are a Race in EQ2, one of the Human Subraces (Humans, Barbarians, Erudites ) and the Calss of Barbarian is called the Berserker ;)
I understand the differences just something I have to keep reminding myself is all :D
I suggest a wildhunt shifter because their shifted ability makes Reckless Attack one sided and aides with wisdom saves and gives you a bonus to wisdom if you want to multiclass into a moon druid.
While I dont think it is a good barb, it's good for freeing up your subclass in my opinion. Tiefling with the Infernal Constitution feat from Xanathars gets 3 resistances from some really common elements. You dont need to go Bear Totem if you use this Tiefling feat. The spells are not lost on you either. You can't use spells while raging, but if your dm makes you have many fights or breaks your rages, you have back up spells that can be very useful.
You can mix it with Storm Herald Barbarian to get a 4th resistance to Lightning. It's not a super common element, but if you are collecting resistances, it's an option.
Also you guys mentioned having some trouble making the flavor of a kalashtar barbarian work. Barbarian is one of my favorite classes, and I'm super interested in the kalashtar, but I'm super new to Eberron and I know so little about the lore and their setting-specific races. Can you elaborate on what makes it more complex, and maybe share some light on some of the ideas you mentioned having in the video?
Rip Headphone users at the start. I’m doing a campaign with a club with my friend and some aquatints and our Paladin is a very self centered person and tries to dictate everyone’s actions and even just attacks anyone or anything that moves including the party, he won’t attack me ( due to my AC or 22 at level 2) and I try to defend the party members as much as I can but he still tries. We are debating if we should kill off his character to maybe show him he is not as good as he thinks or the DM is even thinking about asking him to not come to a few sessions. I’m sorry for the novel I’m writing but we have 3 new players with us and we are trying to give them a good first time. sadly I was out of town when he decided to attack our CLERIC so he KNOCKED OUR CLERIC DOWN while the party was in a dungeon with undead and when I got back we had 2 new character sheets on the table. The wizard failed two medicine roles and the cleric died. So NO BODY likes this guy. he’s new to DnD and we thinks it’s because he has never played a game where everybody was working together but he has pushed it pretty far.
Bio Chill yeah... that guy needs to be sat down by the group and told he’s spoiling the fun. If you’ve already tried that, then he needs to not be a part of the group. He’s putting his own fun before the group and trying to bully other players.
Talk first, if that doesn’t work, show him the door. Killing the character might only make it worse, giving him something to hold against you. Just do it clean, warn him whats coming if it doesn’t stop, and then follow through if needed.
The half orc is pretty much built for barbarians. It's damage output and outright durability is insane. His racials stack with the class abilities. The first time you crit with a half orc or laugh off a killing blow, you're hooked.
I play a Kalashtar Vengence Paladin/Bearbarian multiclass in a game and the synergy is more real than even I thought
as Taliesin has proven street ,ids make great barbarians. Surviving 'in the gutter' doesn't leave any room for niceties like manners, this opens up the number of races available. You could even build a discarded or kidnapped High Elf or other noble races for a campaign.
To be honest my first thought for a barbarian isnt conan but wulfgar. That said my favorite race to "play" as was when i dmed my first higher level campaign and gave a frost giant levels in barbarian just for the rage resistance.
Was the bugbear mentioned and I just missed it? Feel like that race shouldn't be skipped over between long-limbed and surprise attack there's potential for an awesome stealth barb especially if you combine it with swashbuckler rogue.
I made a Kenku path of the wolf barbarian, dex build with a flaming tongue rapier
I played a Tortle Barbarian and used its natural high armor and ability to tuck into its shell, with the barbarian benefits and man was it scary,
"Epitome" now i KNOW you're fucking with us, Dave! :p
Lol... RAGE!!! Gotta love the barbarian. Thanks for the vid.
~K
You are welcome.
Nerdarchist Dave
Simic hybrid is the best. +1ac, you can breathe under water (if u choose these 2) and perfect status.
I've always thought that dragonborn is a solid choice of barbarian. Mainly due to the str bonus and the fact that you can have an elemental shotgun once per short rest
Protip: If you post early enough, Dave will give you a heart. Maybe even a reply.
Nerdarchist Sushi
The best barbarian is tortle. You get a +2 to strength and now you have an AC of 19 starting off if you equip a shield. With half damage from raging that makes you the toughest tank on any battlefield.
Hey guys, I'm playing a campaign where I'm a Variant Native American Totem Warrior Barbarian, I want to hear your Ideas of the build, or even better if you could do a character build video on it would be amazing, thanks guys.
Hey no fair I wanna play a game later today!
I am brand new to the DnD world and have had only one session so far. But i chose to be a barbarian mountain Dwarf. Glad i chose right lol
That intro made me spit my lunch all over my keyboard as I snorted in sudden hilarity.
Your welcome. Ted insisted on the Grog reference.
Nerdarchist Dave
Hilldwarf for that hp bonus.
+Tough feat hp bonus.
+XGTE racial feat Dwarven Fortitude.
+Bear totem.
Nearly unkillable.
Kerchak the Bugbearian, here to rage. Start off combat with a sneak attack javelin, rage, and hit people with a reach of 10ft. Good times, good times.
Half orc or mountain dwarf probably
I like those guesses.
Nerdarchist Dave
Why not use a Duergar from SCAG? You get 2 con, 1 str, you get enlarge and duergar resiliaence. Tyhe only downside is sunlight sensitivity if you're in an outside campaign, but after all, it's called Dungeons and Dragons
duergar are one of my favorite races and i'll deal with the sunlight sensitivity to play one. i'm playing a duergar barbarian in Dragon Heist right now!
@@DougVehovec Nice. I'm playing a ghostwise halfling monk of way of the long death in my Dragon Heist game. Love the telepathy trait
Also can't rage and use spells.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy but you CAN use the monster powers you gain through your blue magic if you follow the Path of the Azure ;)
my kalashtar barbarian has the following back story:
her mother was a rune knight guard for her people’s wizards. they inadvertently teleported her to the faerûn. when she got there she was hurt and alone. a barbarian chieftain saved her life, married her, then got her knocked up with my character. she died during child birth. my character’s father blamed her for the death of his wife. so over time she built up anger and resentment.
I'm Pathfinder I'm about to play in urban Barbarian multi-class with a shield Champion brawler. At first level I took a vigilante feet. We're basically making the Avengers in korvosa and I would be the Hulk mixed with Captain America
These guys clothing is amazing lmaoooo Great video guys thank you.
Just started to get into this. My first character is a Noble Zealot Goliath Barbarian. O am only lvl 4 right now and I want to have him carry/lift the max weight. Any help would be great.
Goliath Barbarian is my go to for a lot of things.
I'm A little new to DnD where do you find the players and book of elemental evil and the tortal book I've never seen or heard of these books
Goliath barbarian with Herculean Path. Can lift 1200 pounds and wrestle monsters that are 'Huge' size!
I like playing tiefling for barbarian ( choosing the variant with +1 to strength ) not the best but I like to flavor him when he rages his head goes full ghostrider
I like my lizardfolk dex barbarian.
And you should. Optimal and fun don't have to be the same thing.
Nerdarchist Dave
Longtooth shifter path of the beast barbarian is my main
SO FUN AND DEADLY
I'm planning to make a Wood Elf Eagle Totem Barbarian using that sweet sweet speed, based on the Wardancers and Wildwood Rangers from Warhammer. But I'm not sure how I shall go stat wise. DEX based, with the dual wielding feat carrying Finesse Weapons but not getting the Rage Bonus (this would look and feel really cool or) STR based using a Greataxe...has anyone else tried something like this before?
so I bring a unique character to a high level campaign and GM gives me the okay watch as he immediately regrets his decision when I have a goblin arcane archer that deals an extra 29 damage per hit and has advantage on all hits and only a minus 1 to hit with sharp shooter. By level 20 I had a plus 35 for each his and one time when using action surge I crit like 5 times and did almost 1000 damage goblins are over powered at high levels and I dare you to prove me wrong
you do not sound fun to play with.
I love my Goliath Zealot
Beasthide shifter ancestral guardian shieldmaster, equipped with a battleaxe and shield is the best Tankbarian.
I think I prefer the Symic Hybrid for that build
I made a lizardfolk barbarian and his stats were rolled really well, basically I started with an ac of 21 and since he dual wields he’s technically had a ac of 22 at lv.1 😂
Races
•[PHB] Half-Orc & M. Dwarf
•[EEPC] Goliath & E. Genasi
•[VGtM] Aasimar (5:28)
•[TTP] Tortle
•[MToF] (6:36)
•[ERftLW] Ka[lashtar & Shifter & Warforged (7:28)
•[GGtR] (9:20)
Barbarians are actually extremely complex characters. My go to race is the minotaur. They're not afraid to splatter your ass across the landscape.
currently playing a goblin barbarian she´s awesome :P
Haha i made a forest gnome barbarian (wild soul), I love him so much
Shifter Barbarian for the win Alex
That hoodie is so cool.
Where do i get one?
Not sure where Ted got it. He's a regular nerd fashionista.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy like your shirt Better through where Did you Get it/shop At love Dragons,eagles,skulls,flame stuff.
I would say that the Minotaur is the perfect race for barbarian
I want to play a Minotaur cleric of the grave. I want to role play him like a priest soldier who ensures his fellow brethren that are suppose to cross into death so so peacefully and save those who are not fated to cross over.
Kobold. Advantage without reckless.
Unless the suns up.
Nerdarchist Dave
Counter argument. -2 strength
@@Nerdarchy its dungeons and dragons not noon and dragons :P
Why not bugbear for the reach?
Nothing wrong with that build. It works better when combined with the sentinel and maybe polearm master.
Nerdarchist Dave