I’ve been playing a Bugbear swarm keeper named Pooh. His swarm are from the hive he used to steal honey from. They now have a mutual understanding of each other. And I might be using meat honey bees that require a portion of fallen foes to make honey. We’ve homebrewed small buffs based on the creature meat used.
I'm playing a bugbear swarmkeeper. Only his swarm are fey twigblights living in his fur. Every morning they braid and tie ribbons in his hair in random and new ways.
@@knightghaleon Oh, no. Not Disney. They aren't cure fairies. They are more like twigblights. The ribbons look all pretty just to throw you off, but they are murderbeasts. more Guillermo del Toro than Disney
I want to somehow mix swarmkeeper ranger with one of the bard subclasses, have my bard instrument be the violin, and have taught my swarm of bees how to vibrate their wings at different speeds to create different pitches so that they're also my backup musicians. Aaaaaaand his/her favorite song would be Flight of the Bumblebee. Haven't figured out how to make it work, though.
@@xanthangum1217 one of the characters from the anime "My Hero Academia." He's a dude with wings, and his superpower is that he has fine control of the individual feathers on his wings.
Whenever I get around to actually playing a swarm keeper. It'll be a reborn who is just a husk that in reality is being puppeted by a swarm of sentient centipedes that are trying to look as normal as possible
The swarmkeeper is one of the most flavorful subclasses in the game, and is all around solid. Not bad at all. Truly an underrated subclass Also one of my favorites!
Rangers (conceptually) are great but peeps for the longest time didn’t understand what they were - the game designers didn’t either. Rangers are the party’s fix-a-flat. What ever is needed a ranger using the right subclass can fill that hole. They are the team B, of D&D. There is a reason why 4 rangers have no weakness in any tier of play if properly kitted out- something no other class can really do.
@@t2i3m4 I would say Clerics are the Every-man of the Spellcasters, Rangers are the Every-man in General. Rangers are more versatile in every situation if you build them right, but they are pretty average at everything else, which most of the time is enough.
@@t2i3m4 Indeed they are good for many things but Clerics are not well suited to exploration pillar. They are great and very strong at support but they are not as team B are rangers. That sorta is the point I am making their greatness is being good enough at most anything ;)
The Swarmkeeper I'm currently using is in a more modern setting, and her swarm is made up of sheets of paper that she can command to fold into whatever shapes she wants. (Her Mage Hand is even those origami witch finger things.)
Swarm keeper is so fun. I made a deep gnome who had fireflies as his swarm. Definitely a class and subclass I'd play again. Ranger is and always will be my favorite class
If anyone here watched Delicious in Dungeon, they have a species called treasure Insect. Insects that look exactly like gold coins and jewelry. That can be a real cool flavor for your swarmkeeper.
Love this subclass! One of the characters I enjoyed playing most was a Reborn who I flavored as a farmer who got turned into a scarecrow by a petty archfey & his swarm was crows that followed him around. Great fun
I played a lv 5 swarm keeper lv5 twilight cleric multi class that used magic stone and the crusher feat. Made her a victorian governess whose swarm were ghost children. Eccentric and witchy
I like the idea of a SwarmKeeper Warlock multiclass and the patron is the queen bee. Also the extra swarm damage is on an "attack" so eldrich blast works. So now you can oush someone even further with repelling blast or hit for even more damage
Love the concept I’ve seen of an exiled/orphaned/on the run Disney princess type whose swarm is comprised of the birds and small woodland critters naturally attracted by her singing. Snow White doing the Immigrant Song in Shrek but also wielding a bow.
I made a shillelagh ranger for a spell jammer campaign who got hit in face with a space rock. It embedded itself in his eye and gave him control of pebbles. I flavored all my spells and attacks with the rocks, like on a meele attack the rocks formed a hammer head around the end of my staff. Its one of my favorite character I've ever played.
Glad to see ya back. And yeah, the Rangers are definitely the class where you can tell how the designers THOUGHT the game would be played clashes with how it's actually played. You can tell that as the game went on they got better at making cool ideas for the class, still restricted by that original design. Hopefully they'll be fully rectifying that with the new PHB. Also, as to upcoming videos...is the Ancients paladin in the rotation? It's such an interesting concept even though the written lore for it seems at odds with the oath itself. Book says 'nature knight' but I can see the oath being more classic Captain America/Superman vibes.
The one time I used this subclass was in descent into avernus, where I gaslit my party into thinking I was a wizard studying fiends and the occult, but I was actually a swarmkeeper ranger with fiends as my favored enemy, the sage background and a swarm of 12 imps soon surrounding my every move
yeah i do love how well swarmkeeper (bats) can work for a Dhampir being full gothic vampire, and i'm not just talking about how cheap Spider Climb plus range attacks can be. but yeah the raise of rangers is interesting, like they were just a bad class due to a bunch of situational niches that meant you didn't "have" class features 99% of the time and two "yep you're a ranger" subclasses..........and now we gotten good subclass with great flavor, a class revamp (with a second one coming in the new PHB), and even the beast master redesigned into something useable.
I've had a concept character in my vault for a while now that I'd still love to play sometime. It's a reflavored Swarmkeeper that, rather than using insects or animals, uses sand instead. Esssentially it's just reflavoring the swarm and its abilities to be sand that the Ranger magically commands to aid them. You know, for if you want more of a Gara vibe than a Shino vibe.
My wife is playing a beekeeper at the moment and it’s my favorite character at the table every time. No tragic back story. Just a beekeeper looking to make new types of honey.
A ran a sea nomad Swarmkeeper ranger, his Swarm spirits took on the form of various sea beasties, his favourite was jellyfish, but he did all sorts, mini serpents, sea otters when he was entertaining folks with them, it was always fun to come up with thematic ways to flavour the swarm.
I love that you've found a way to make classes that I've never really understood and then given them more flavor than the pages of the books do just by explaining their features and making it fun for me to play as a dm. Thank you for this sir.
I played a Swarm Keeper once and I had a blast, my swarm were some little penguins flying around my character (Yes, this is a reference to Inazuma Eleven) and in one battle, a sorcerer boss was in a really high cliff so we had to hit with long distance attacks and spells but then I tought "Hey DM, I hitted that MF with my arrow, I'll try to shove her off the cliff" and it worked, she fell like 100 ft got some good fall damage and then our melee characters had a blast beating her on the ground. Good times
The concept of the Swarm Keeper led me to making a character who commands a army of Spider-Bees (just imagine a very small tarantula that's bee pattern, and has wings, with a bigger version that's the queen) to have the spell list make some sense, and then evolved into a character that backstory led it to it being obsessed with fusing insects with bees, to create a amalgamation, and each level up has a small hive growing on them slowly.
I'm currently playing a Curse of Strahd campaign with a Swarmkeeper Echo Knight both flavored as living shadows like Dr. Facilier from princess and the frog
The main issue with Rangers is DMs who dont build scenarios that help highlight them. There are plenty of rules that allow them to shine. Tomb of Annihilation is a perfect campaign for Rangers for example when it comes to Hex travel and environmental conditions, and foraging. Etc.
You can also flavor all your swarm visuals and mechanics to be shadows if you wanna be edgy. Cloaked in shadow when teleporting, shadow mage hand, shadow clings to arrow to deal more damage, etc. Pretty neat idea I think if you don't want the standard bug or animal swarm
Same, the Horizon Walker always confused me tbh. To this day... even after reading a few different descriptions of them, I am really still up in the air about what exactly they do/ why you would want one. I really only know the generalization of them.. in that they are rangers, pretty much explorers who have an ability to sense the attachment points between realms and/or various portals that may be hidden. I believe they use their talents to keep incursions from other planes at bay & your world safe. In combat, I think they can teleport a short distance as well as enter an ethereal plane and become immune to attacks for a while. I would love to see "You Might Be A D&D" cover them. I want to learn because they seem interesting & I bet the artwork for that episode will be awesome.
I think the actual crime with Vanish at Lv 14 is that secondary part of it that says you can't be tracked by nonmagical means I'd imagine a Ranger that lived long enough to hit that level has probably been doing plenty to prevent themselves from being tracked if the need ever arose
I’m going to give this class a shot, as being able to manipulate insects sounds rad as hell. Also, I always wanted to see a Viking or Norse Mythology-based class in this series.
My favorite idea for a Swarmkeeper Ranger is a Yuan-Ti whose swarm consists of snakes. It’s really fun to reflavor spells to fit your swarm. Ensnaring Strike conjures a giant stake to constrict the target, Healing Spirit takes the form of the Rod of Caduceus. And while it isn’t a reflavor, summoning snakes through Conjure Animals is extremely effective as well. 8 Giant poisonous snakes can deal up to 24d6 damage, and 8 Constrictor snakes can restrain multiple targets.
Welcome back man, thanks for the vídeo, next round I would like to see you talking about the samurai fighter, it's a martial archtype that I don't see much people talking and with the new Assassin's Creed game coming, I'd like to hear your opnions about this subclass and If it's good or not.
I had a Changeling Swarmkeeper named Misc Pete who commanded mosquitoes. I've never seen anyone more disgusted as when Pete cast cure wounds for the first time and I described the juiciest mosquitoe crawling out of his coat biting into the wizard and emptying blood into him.
I...I'm sorry, but as a medical person I can't help but think of the disease and autoimmune risks that would cause...I'm just gonna assume they're magical mosquitoes that can sanitize the blood and magically yank antigens off it...
One time I took a Swarmkeeper Ranger and completely reflavored it as “Psi Warrior 2: Ranger Boogaloo”. No swarm anymore: the push and pull/mobility effects were telekinesis, the extra piercing damage from the swarm was accelerating his arrow or rapier strikes, web was like a force slow.
I’d love to see Oathbreaker paladin pop up in one of these vids! It’s one of the strongest paladin subclasses along with Conquest in my opinion and has tons of potential for in terms of flavor, utility, and just messing up your enemies on the battlefield. That being said, this video was a banger as always and I look forward to seeing what pops up next
A video on the Druids’ Circle of Wildfire would be great. Playing one right now in a campaign and it’s fun. The Wildfire Spirit they can summon has saved us on more than one occasion 🔥
Fun ideas for Swarmkeepers: 1)An actual Character i played from a a Campaign we never finished: Triton Swarmkeeper/ Genie Warlock He was born in an Island Tribe who worshipped an Entity who protected and provided for them. Before he left on Adventure he made a pact with the entity to find a new vessel and save his tribe. His Swarm was water, literally. With Armor of Shadows, i flavored Mage Armor as just turning my body into water and my swarm was spectral water that surrounds and pushes enemies. Armor of Agathys was freezing the water around me as a shield, and my climbing speed was me using water to carry me upwards. It was quite strong too. 2) Custom Lineage Humanoid, their swarm is literally their bones (a-la Andy from Undead Unluck), coming from a protrusion, their Mage Hand literally cutting their hands and floating. Bonus Points if you flavor Spike Growth aa bone pieces coming from the Ground. More bonus Points if multiclassed with Astral Self Monk. 3) Half-Orc Ancestral Barbarian/Swarmkeeper Your swarm is literally your ancestors. The ghost of your people cover for you and move you around. Very effective as a Tank. 4) Humanoid Swarmkeeper / Echo Knight Fighter A girl with literally a Hyper Active Imagination. Her swarm is a cloud of whatever she imagines, drawings and pictures. Would be very abstract.
I could see changing the base ranger to more of a fighter/thief skill monkey combo with bow specialization and at higher levels get into the mystical woodsman motifs with spell effects or stuff then do the branch of subclasses at 3rd level. 1st and 2nd edition ranger were power houses having sneak and hide throw in bow specialization and gain a free shot before initiative and doing double damage at point blank range. If you have a magic or strength bow holy crap. Then get a +1 to damage per level during melee vs giant and humanoid creatures...do that with 2 weapon fighting, plus the survival stuff and only being surprised on a 1 of a d6 roll. The ranger was as bad ass as the paladin back then.
I've had an idea for a Water Genasi Swarmkeeper, where the "swarm" was actually water, and reflavouring some ranger spells to be more like "water-looking"
I'm creating two swarm keepers right now: a variant human that loves bees, wasps, and hornets, though he's more like a bardic merchant and a changeling that stole his identity and is the big bad of a campaign idea
This video has just locked in that I’ll multi class my stars Druid into ranger. He is an snow owlin where the black specks on his feathers light up forming the different constellations. When he gets to ranger 3 the spots of light will peal off and turn into spectral twinkling firefly’s
My two favorite Swarmkeeper concepts are... - Some variation of a "pied-piper", using rats like you're Corvo or just some cranked out homeless Kobold who thinks that he's actually a dragon and his rat friends are HIS Kobolds... - Just playing Link from Zelda, but your swarm are Cuckoos (Chickens).
Ngl dude, i remember you were at 5k subs just a little while ago, and you kinda exploded out of no where. or maybe im just delusional. Anywho good job on 40k!
At some point I'm wanting to play a Swarmkeeper Psychopomp with the swarm being soulbutterflies. Maybe throw in a warlock/cleric/Paladin multiclass for a bit of extra spice.
I can't help but picture a swarmkeeper with an inanimate object, like spoons, or idiots, or knives, or spoons, or youtube ads, or face shov- i mean spoons.
I don't know how to make it. But, a construct swarm keeper ranger, that is a scarecrow controlling crows. I don't if you can make a scarecrow or if the construct has an option like that. But think of how cool that would be. (Probably done already, but still a cool concept)
the ranger at my table initially pitched his character as a swarmkeeper. a crazy old cat lady with a big ol swarm of cats. I was so fucking hyped for this concept, that I was actually really disappointed when he instead decided to be a plain ol beast keeper ranger. with cats. like, bruh! the flavor was there! one year later I was in a mermaid one shot and decided to try swarm keeper for the first time. my swarm were piranhas. it was great
Just so we're all on the same page: I will be using rats. There will be tons of rats. I don't need to fly- I have rats. Hole? Rats. Enemies? Rats. Stealth? Rats. Dialogue? You guessed it; Rats.
See the horror in other players eyes as you roll intimidation by sending a centipede into a guy's ears
And then the Druid makes it even worse by casting Giant Insect.
And that's when I leave campaign
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Alright, Kaneki. We understand that might have been a trigger for you, but you didn't say anything at Session 0.
You're now banned from every game and I hate you.
@@Riddlewizard That sounds like a head exploding!
"This class gets a solid B."
Couldn't resist, could you
Its a sickness...
Playing a Dhamphir Swarmkeeper with a swarm of bats as they slowly come into their vampire powers
congrats if you took a dip into monk you just made vampire batman.
My favourite swarm keeper concept is making the swarm cats & playing a crazy cat lady
Awwwwww
I’ve been playing a Bugbear swarm keeper named Pooh. His swarm are from the hive he used to steal honey from. They now have a mutual understanding of each other. And I might be using meat honey bees that require a portion of fallen foes to make honey. We’ve homebrewed small buffs based on the creature meat used.
I'm playing a bugbear swarmkeeper. Only his swarm are fey twigblights living in his fur. Every morning they braid and tie ribbons in his hair in random and new ways.
@@izegrimcreations That's very Disney princess of you
@@knightghaleon Oh, no. Not Disney. They aren't cure fairies. They are more like twigblights. The ribbons look all pretty just to throw you off, but they are murderbeasts. more Guillermo del Toro than Disney
Planning on making a bee themed swarm keeper that battles his swarms against others 😂 there’s a bit more to it but that’s a summary
I want to somehow mix swarmkeeper ranger with one of the bard subclasses, have my bard instrument be the violin, and have taught my swarm of bees how to vibrate their wings at different speeds to create different pitches so that they're also my backup musicians. Aaaaaaand his/her favorite song would be Flight of the Bumblebee. Haven't figured out how to make it work, though.
My wife played a Swarmkeeper/Rogue multiclass. Her swarm was bats and her backstory included being bitten by a vampire. A very fun character to play!
A swarm keeper concept of mine is a dhampire ranger who's swarm was their own blood
That tortle Swarmkeeper picture is amazing
The character I have, is a Swarmkeeper Kenku, he uses his various feathers as his swarm, and can throw daggers, its awesome
That's a super awesome reskin!!!
Bro made Hawks 💀
Could maybe do something with the Psyknife Rogue as a neat multiclass to take the flavor even further.
@@obviouslykaleb7998 who's that
@@xanthangum1217 one of the characters from the anime "My Hero Academia." He's a dude with wings, and his superpower is that he has fine control of the individual feathers on his wings.
Whenever I get around to actually playing a swarm keeper. It'll be a reborn who is just a husk that in reality is being puppeted by a swarm of sentient centipedes that are trying to look as normal as possible
"a lot less silent, but a lot more deadly"
This is art.
The swarmkeeper is one of the most flavorful subclasses in the game, and is all around solid. Not bad at all. Truly an underrated subclass
Also one of my favorites!
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Rangers (conceptually) are great but peeps for the longest time didn’t understand what they were - the game designers didn’t either. Rangers are the party’s fix-a-flat. What ever is needed a ranger using the right subclass can fill that hole. They are the team B, of D&D. There is a reason why 4 rangers have no weakness in any tier of play if properly kitted out- something no other class can really do.
Cleric is a good contender for any role, knowledge, war, twilight and nature domains is all you really need to fill every niche.
@@t2i3m4 I would say Clerics are the Every-man of the Spellcasters, Rangers are the Every-man in General. Rangers are more versatile in every situation if you build them right, but they are pretty average at everything else, which most of the time is enough.
@@t2i3m4 Indeed they are good for many things but Clerics are not well suited to exploration pillar. They are great and very strong at support but they are not as team B are rangers. That sorta is the point I am making their greatness is being good enough at most anything ;)
The Swarmkeeper I'm currently using is in a more modern setting, and her swarm is made up of sheets of paper that she can command to fold into whatever shapes she wants. (Her Mage Hand is even those origami witch finger things.)
Yo that is wicked. Fantastic idea
So like that naruto character?
Like the origami goth girl from naruto?
Knew this subclass when I watched Neverafter. I love how Siobhan uses it for her character
My swarmkeeper used raccoons. Mage hand was floating one of them over while it does grabby hands to get the thing.
Swarm keeper is so fun. I made a deep gnome who had fireflies as his swarm. Definitely a class and subclass I'd play again. Ranger is and always will be my favorite class
If anyone here watched Delicious in Dungeon, they have a species called treasure Insect. Insects that look exactly like gold coins and jewelry. That can be a real cool flavor for your swarmkeeper.
A deadly bee weapon... Bees. My God.
Love this subclass! One of the characters I enjoyed playing most was a Reborn who I flavored as a farmer who got turned into a scarecrow by a petty archfey & his swarm was crows that followed him around. Great fun
I played a lv 5 swarm keeper lv5 twilight cleric multi class that used magic stone and the crusher feat. Made her a victorian governess whose swarm were ghost children. Eccentric and witchy
Waiting for that underwater campaign to be a swarm of piranhas ranger
Legit my favorite subclass for my favorite class. I even made a build based on Jack Frost with this. Using the swarm like ice nature spirits.
I like the idea of a SwarmKeeper Warlock multiclass and the patron is the queen bee. Also the extra swarm damage is on an "attack" so eldrich blast works. So now you can oush someone even further with repelling blast or hit for even more damage
Love the concept I’ve seen of an exiled/orphaned/on the run Disney princess type whose swarm is comprised of the birds and small woodland critters naturally attracted by her singing. Snow White doing the Immigrant Song in Shrek but also wielding a bow.
I made a shillelagh ranger for a spell jammer campaign who got hit in face with a space rock. It embedded itself in his eye and gave him control of pebbles. I flavored all my spells and attacks with the rocks, like on a meele attack the rocks formed a hammer head around the end of my staff. Its one of my favorite character I've ever played.
Aquatic campaign, Sea Elf, Triton or some such. Oh the swarm? A freaking school of piranhas!
Glad to see ya back.
And yeah, the Rangers are definitely the class where you can tell how the designers THOUGHT the game would be played clashes with how it's actually played.
You can tell that as the game went on they got better at making cool ideas for the class, still restricted by that original design.
Hopefully they'll be fully rectifying that with the new PHB.
Also, as to upcoming videos...is the Ancients paladin in the rotation?
It's such an interesting concept even though the written lore for it seems at odds with the oath itself.
Book says 'nature knight' but I can see the oath being more classic Captain America/Superman vibes.
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The one time I used this subclass was in descent into avernus, where I gaslit my party into thinking I was a wizard studying fiends and the occult, but I was actually a swarmkeeper ranger with fiends as my favored enemy, the sage background and a swarm of 12 imps soon surrounding my every move
I’ve imagined it as a swarm of spirits or ghosts, and taking everything with that sort of flavor and it’s all still very fitting
yeah i do love how well swarmkeeper (bats) can work for a Dhampir being full gothic vampire, and i'm not just talking about how cheap Spider Climb plus range attacks can be.
but yeah the raise of rangers is interesting, like they were just a bad class due to a bunch of situational niches that meant you didn't "have" class features 99% of the time and two "yep you're a ranger" subclasses..........and now we gotten good subclass with great flavor, a class revamp (with a second one coming in the new PHB), and even the beast master redesigned into something useable.
I've had a concept character in my vault for a while now that I'd still love to play sometime. It's a reflavored Swarmkeeper that, rather than using insects or animals, uses sand instead. Esssentially it's just reflavoring the swarm and its abilities to be sand that the Ranger magically commands to aid them. You know, for if you want more of a Gara vibe than a Shino vibe.
My wife is playing a beekeeper at the moment and it’s my favorite character at the table every time. No tragic back story. Just a beekeeper looking to make new types of honey.
A ran a sea nomad Swarmkeeper ranger, his Swarm spirits took on the form of various sea beasties, his favourite was jellyfish, but he did all sorts, mini serpents, sea otters when he was entertaining folks with them, it was always fun to come up with thematic ways to flavour the swarm.
I love that you've found a way to make classes that I've never really understood and then given them more flavor than the pages of the books do just by explaining their features and making it fun for me to play as a dm. Thank you for this sir.
I played a Swarm Keeper once and I had a blast, my swarm were some little penguins flying around my character (Yes, this is a reference to Inazuma Eleven) and in one battle, a sorcerer boss was in a really high cliff so we had to hit with long distance attacks and spells but then I tought "Hey DM, I hitted that MF with my arrow, I'll try to shove her off the cliff" and it worked, she fell like 100 ft got some good fall damage and then our melee characters had a blast beating her on the ground. Good times
The concept of the Swarm Keeper led me to making a character who commands a army of Spider-Bees (just imagine a very small tarantula that's bee pattern, and has wings, with a bigger version that's the queen) to have the spell list make some sense, and then evolved into a character that backstory led it to it being obsessed with fusing insects with bees, to create a amalgamation, and each level up has a small hive growing on them slowly.
Multiclass into artificer and unleash untold horrors with a swarm of drones!
I'm currently playing a Curse of Strahd campaign with a Swarmkeeper Echo Knight both flavored as living shadows like Dr. Facilier from princess and the frog
Wooh sounds cool as concept
The main issue with Rangers is DMs who dont build scenarios that help highlight them. There are plenty of rules that allow them to shine. Tomb of Annihilation is a perfect campaign for Rangers for example when it comes to Hex travel and environmental conditions, and foraging. Etc.
A video about swarm keepers, I will use my normal box containing exactly one bee
Abarami clan is strongest in Naruto. Bugs bugs and more bugs. Offense, defense, chakra sucking, poison so deadly its like acid, etc.
So good they had to remove them completely from Shippuden
You can also flavor all your swarm visuals and mechanics to be shadows if you wanna be edgy. Cloaked in shadow when teleporting, shadow mage hand, shadow clings to arrow to deal more damage, etc. Pretty neat idea I think if you don't want the standard bug or animal swarm
I will always love my swarmkeeper ranger, Ash Jhinzu, she was a moth person who had a swarm of moths, it was so much fun
I have a swarm keeper idea where you ARE the swarm, your just piloting some clothes and trying your best to act human
A bunch of bees in a coat
Warforged big hero 6 concept sounds killer
I’m still waiting for horizon walker, it’s my favorite ranger subclass. It has a fun concept around it and it’s insanely fun
Same tbh
Same, the Horizon Walker always confused me tbh. To this day... even after reading a few different descriptions of them, I am really still up in the air about what exactly they do/ why you would want one. I really only know the generalization of them.. in that they are rangers, pretty much explorers who have an ability to sense the attachment points between realms and/or various portals that may be hidden. I believe they use their talents to keep incursions from other planes at bay & your world safe. In combat, I think they can teleport a short distance as well as enter an ethereal plane and become immune to attacks for a while.
I would love to see "You Might Be A D&D" cover them. I want to learn because they seem interesting & I bet the artwork for that episode will be awesome.
I think the actual crime with Vanish at Lv 14 is that secondary part of it that says you can't be tracked by nonmagical means
I'd imagine a Ranger that lived long enough to hit that level has probably been doing plenty to prevent themselves from being tracked if the need ever arose
I loved that Spidersman reference. I'll deff be playing that next haha
I’m going to give this class a shot, as being able to manipulate insects sounds rad as hell.
Also, I always wanted to see a Viking or Norse Mythology-based class in this series.
My favorite idea for a Swarmkeeper Ranger is a Yuan-Ti whose swarm consists of snakes. It’s really fun to reflavor spells to fit your swarm. Ensnaring Strike conjures a giant stake to constrict the target, Healing Spirit takes the form of the Rod of Caduceus. And while it isn’t a reflavor, summoning snakes through Conjure Animals is extremely effective as well. 8 Giant poisonous snakes can deal up to 24d6 damage, and 8 Constrictor snakes can restrain multiple targets.
And you can't deny to have a fun little secret weapon with those snakes to go "Pocket snake!"
8:38 that swarmkeeper tortle design is amazing!!
I love the way swarmkeepers feel. I always imagine that one scene from dracula untold when bursts into the swarm of vampires
I would like to see a video about the oath of the ancient paladin please
Welcome back man, thanks for the vídeo, next round I would like to see you talking about the samurai fighter, it's a martial archtype that I don't see much people talking and with the new Assassin's Creed game coming, I'd like to hear your opnions about this subclass and If it's good or not.
I had a Changeling Swarmkeeper named Misc Pete who commanded mosquitoes. I've never seen anyone more disgusted as when Pete cast cure wounds for the first time and I described the juiciest mosquitoe crawling out of his coat biting into the wizard and emptying blood into him.
I...I'm sorry, but as a medical person I can't help but think of the disease and autoimmune risks that would cause...I'm just gonna assume they're magical mosquitoes that can sanitize the blood and magically yank antigens off it...
YES FINALLY THANK YOU!
I like how after rangers got their boost in tahsas, our collective menacing gaze slowly turned to Monk
Please please please do Stars Druid next my dude!
One time I took a Swarmkeeper Ranger and completely reflavored it as “Psi Warrior 2: Ranger Boogaloo”. No swarm anymore: the push and pull/mobility effects were telekinesis, the extra piercing damage from the swarm was accelerating his arrow or rapier strikes, web was like a force slow.
I’d love to see Oathbreaker paladin pop up in one of these vids! It’s one of the strongest paladin subclasses along with Conquest in my opinion and has tons of potential for in terms of flavor, utility, and just messing up your enemies on the battlefield. That being said, this video was a banger as always and I look forward to seeing what pops up next
I adore Ranger's Subclasses, the concept great. They are the Swiss army knife, they do a lot of things good, but never excel.
I'm excited to play this now that they are adding it to Baldur's Gate 3.
i litarly planned to do swarmkeeper for tomorrow (intruduction campain start) perfect timing love it!
Rangers are dope. They are a great utility martial. I've played nearly every ranger subclass from one shots to tier 3 campaigns. Always a powerhouse.
A video on the Druids’ Circle of Wildfire would be great. Playing one right now in a campaign and it’s fun. The Wildfire Spirit they can summon has saved us on more than one occasion 🔥
I once thought to write up a triton swarm keeper who'd have his swarm be a group of crab, just having that be a crab rave all over your face.
Fun ideas for Swarmkeepers:
1)An actual Character i played from a a Campaign we never finished:
Triton Swarmkeeper/ Genie Warlock
He was born in an Island Tribe who worshipped an Entity who protected and provided for them. Before he left on Adventure he made a pact with the entity to find a new vessel and save his tribe.
His Swarm was water, literally. With Armor of Shadows, i flavored Mage Armor as just turning my body into water and my swarm was spectral water that surrounds and pushes enemies. Armor of Agathys was freezing the water around me as a shield, and my climbing speed was me using water to carry me upwards. It was quite strong too.
2) Custom Lineage Humanoid, their swarm is literally their bones (a-la Andy from Undead Unluck), coming from a protrusion, their Mage Hand literally cutting their hands and floating. Bonus Points if you flavor Spike Growth aa bone pieces coming from the Ground. More bonus Points if multiclassed with Astral Self Monk.
3) Half-Orc Ancestral Barbarian/Swarmkeeper
Your swarm is literally your ancestors. The ghost of your people cover for you and move you around. Very effective as a Tank.
4) Humanoid Swarmkeeper / Echo Knight Fighter
A girl with literally a Hyper Active Imagination. Her swarm is a cloud of whatever she imagines, drawings and pictures. Would be very abstract.
On my life I thought she was gonna become frieza and yell “HELO MONKEYS”
I could see changing the base ranger to more of a fighter/thief skill monkey combo with bow specialization and at higher levels get into the mystical woodsman motifs with spell effects or stuff then do the branch of subclasses at 3rd level.
1st and 2nd edition ranger were power houses having sneak and hide throw in bow specialization and gain a free shot before initiative and doing double damage at point blank range. If you have a magic or strength bow holy crap. Then get a +1 to damage per level during melee vs giant and humanoid creatures...do that with 2 weapon fighting, plus the survival stuff and only being surprised on a 1 of a d6 roll. The ranger was as bad ass as the paladin back then.
I'm just imagining those gnomes from gravity falls as a swarm keeper ranger and it's HILARIOUS
That "little guys" line reminds me of [BAD COMPANY] and that's my new swarmkeeper.
I've had an idea for a Water Genasi Swarmkeeper, where the "swarm" was actually water, and reflavouring some ranger spells to be more like "water-looking"
I'm creating two swarm keepers right now: a variant human that loves bees, wasps, and hornets, though he's more like a bardic merchant and a changeling that stole his identity and is the big bad of a campaign idea
An Insectoid but it’s a swarm of bees synchronizing to form a person in a cloak and gaseous form is them dispersing
My favorite Ranger subclass. I had to do a Batman style build, and it’s really fun to play.
I’m giving you inspiration for the Army of Darkness reference
This video has just locked in that I’ll multi class my stars Druid into ranger.
He is an snow owlin where the black specks on his feathers light up forming the different constellations.
When he gets to ranger 3 the spots of light will peal off and turn into spectral twinkling firefly’s
The sudden Jollibee jumpscare killed me LMAO
My two favorite Swarmkeeper concepts are...
- Some variation of a "pied-piper", using rats like you're Corvo or just some cranked out homeless Kobold who thinks that he's actually a dragon and his rat friends are HIS Kobolds...
- Just playing Link from Zelda, but your swarm are Cuckoos (Chickens).
Ngl dude, i remember you were at 5k subs just a little while ago, and you kinda exploded out of no where. or maybe im just delusional. Anywho good job on 40k!
Idek this one so I'm excited. 🥳🥳
Well that was hilarious AND cool.
At some point I'm wanting to play a Swarmkeeper Psychopomp with the swarm being soulbutterflies. Maybe throw in a warlock/cleric/Paladin multiclass for a bit of extra spice.
I can't help but picture a swarmkeeper with an inanimate object, like spoons, or idiots, or knives, or spoons, or youtube ads, or face shov- i mean spoons.
I don't know how to make it. But, a construct swarm keeper ranger, that is a scarecrow controlling crows. I don't if you can make a scarecrow or if the construct has an option like that. But think of how cool that would be. (Probably done already, but still a cool concept)
Missed opportunity to say “you might bee a swarmkeeper ranger”
Sooo... The sublcass gets a rate of Bee... Well played.
A deadly bee weapon. Bees, my God.
I was waiting for this so bad
the ranger at my table initially pitched his character as a swarmkeeper. a crazy old cat lady with a big ol swarm of cats. I was so fucking hyped for this concept, that I was actually really disappointed when he instead decided to be a plain ol beast keeper ranger. with cats. like, bruh! the flavor was there!
one year later I was in a mermaid one shot and decided to try swarm keeper for the first time. my swarm were piranhas. it was great
A ranger from my last campaign used Crawling Claws as her swarm.
This does sound like fun albeit not that strong. I like the idea of the swarm being dust cloud of sand. Thanks for the video
An albino kenku with a flock of seagulls (adoptive family)
You could easily make your swarmkeeper a necromancer by making your swarm a bunch of human bones that you can eventually turn into spooky skeletons.
Kind of a hated subclass but I’d love to see your take on storm sorcerer !
we have a swarmkeeper goliath, it's swarm are literally BONES, i don't know how that works but BOOOONES!!
In italian Bees are api now knowing this give the ranger the proeficency with Guns so it can have "l'APIstola" (a pun about hand gun and bees)
Just so we're all on the same page: I will be using rats. There will be tons of rats. I don't need to fly- I have rats. Hole? Rats. Enemies? Rats. Stealth? Rats. Dialogue? You guessed it; Rats.
I really want to make a toymaker swarmkeeper ranger that made that worlds version of LEGOS, and uses that as his swarm.
A swarmkeeper but you have a swarm of mini slimes like flubbers.