I think you guys didn't go deep enough into the concept of a monk/barbarian multiclass character; Something tells me an Open Hand or Kensei monk would REALLY benefit from a barbarian's rage, as it'd augment their unarmed/armed (Kensei) attacks.
I'm laughing so hard mentally at the idea for zealots of: Random Cleric: "Oh no, the armies of our enemies are approaching. REVIVE THE ZEALOTS!" ~5 priests run into a casket filled mausoleum, placing a hand on each coffin lid, casting whatever revive spell is needed. 30 seconds later ~15 casket lids shatter as they're punched open, then the zealots get up, walk to the doorway, get handed ornate greataxes, and charge out, slaughtering hundreds mere seconds.
I had a friend who mentioned that his DM had a house rule for Barbarians. When raging, the DM tracks your hitpoints. You have no idea how much damage you've taken. This helped support the concept that a truly raging barbarian fights just a ferociously at 1HP as he does at full HP. I thought it was a really cool idea.
A good barbarian that wouldn't be an outlander (that they didn't mention) was Guts from Berserk. He gets pissed, fights like an animal, and doesn't give in. He takes hits like a boss
"Y'know, Barbarians have a ton of raw talent.... I wonder if we applied some discipline...." *Barbarian army begins a nigh unstoppable warpath* "Oh... that's why we never tried training Barbarians before..."
I actually played a Half-Orc Barb/Warlock in with a group running Out of The Abyss. The DM thought it was a really dumb idea, but I insisted on making it. He eventually got on board with the idea and by sheer luck (and a bit of fun on the DM's end) I ended up being able to Hex while raging. Basically what had happened was we were riding across a massive lake in the underdark on the back of a dragon-turtle and the Wizard and I had the bright idea to cast the light spell under the water just to see what was down there... What occurred after that was simply beautiful. The DM made us both make wisdom saving throws and of course we both failed. The Wizard and I went insane and he immediately starting attacking the party and I had to beat the Wizard unconscious to end his rampage. The result of the insanity caused me to get multiple personality disorder. So we had my usual brutish orc self and a super intelligent classy orc. This led to me being able to focus on hex while raging, so our mistake led to me being borderline broken. Good stuff. Though I was forced to roleplay two different people for the rest of the campaign...
Great vid guys. I think I prefer the post vid stuff to the actual video content awesome stuff. Yea Conan is kind of the ultimate Mary Sue character. Really enjoyed the take on the zealot barbarian that gets wheeled out every couple of years to wage war. Nerdarchist Dave
You do you Jim, but if I'm ringing up one of those evil witches from the plane of eternal darkness to come save my ass, _I'm calling her whatever she wants to be called._
I made a rip-off of the wolfman who had noble background. He was cursed with fits of uncontrollable anger and had learned to channel and unleash it. Really fun. People never thought of a barbarian as anything other than a loincloth with no shirt.
As Barbarians are described as having multiple sources of rage you could, technically, be a pampered noble who just gets /realllllllly/ mad sometimes. So you could just do that without the curse. But wheres the fun in that.
The Middle finger of Vecna has some great homebrew for sub-classes and one of my favorites is the Rage Mage. It converts the eldritch knight to a barbarian where they can only cast while raging and some other fun flavor. I wanted to find a way to make a priest of Gork and Mork that made sense and he is a blast (literally at times). He loves to preach the virtue of freedom and orkiness even though he is bad at talking to people and usually just ends up punching people that don't agree with him. Super flavorful character. XD
I made a half elf fiendish bladelock totem barbarian up until level 11 (barb 6 warlock 5). It was surprisingly solid and fun. I was dual-wielding longswords with the dual wielding feat. The extra temp HP from the fiend isn't much, but it does work with your resistances. Some good low level invocations helped me do ranged attacks or area attacks that I otherwise couldn't do. Mostly had lightning lure, green flame blade, hex, armor of agathys, arms of hadar, and eldritch blast were all good options for useful spells. Only issue is I'd go two-handed instead for easier spellcasting.
When you were talking about Conan, it made me remember how many characters in Classic Fantasy had very rogue like elements. Most hero's are stealthy and cunning because of what they are up against!
Great video, barbs need the love that generally isn't given due to their apparent "Simplicity". Now all I ask is: when can we expect the glorious, cunning, and best class: the Bard?
LOL! "Real fictional inspiration" Sorry it struck me that way..... for inspiration read up on Cu'Chullain the Celtic hero. His rage physically changed him and he called it a "Warp Spasm".
That is who he is found out to be in the end. However, I read greek myths and Percy Jackson so in my head I distinguish them by referring to that particular incarnation of the character as berserker.
11:30 I played a first tier barbarian tiefling named Achievement that fought with no armor. The d12 hit die and resistances makes it extremely playable even with only a 14 AC. Couple that with dual wielding hand axes (with Dual Wielder feat, of course), and that character was unstoppable.
Maybe the zelot barbarian body parts aren't who you says it is but actually the Arch Lich Venca who placed the mythology in the hand of gullible priests.
One of the campaigns that i had the most fun with was a barbarian theme campaign. Started at 2nd levl. 5 players. 3 guys playing brothers, one ranger/barb human, one rogue/barb human, and a barbarian half orc. Cleric/barbarian and a warlock/barb. Entire thing was so fun. DM said it was the first campaign he had ever run where rail roading was entirely unnecessary because we laugh and charge.
YES! I'd love to hear you guys talk about solo, small, medium, large, low fantasy, high fantasy, steam punk, cyber punk, si-fi, mystery, crime, epic, war, dark and all the other good campaign stuff I cant remember off the top of my head.
I've never had a chance to play D&D, but the idea of like a samurai/Ronin culture barbarian, who has never been able to control their rage and maybe went so far as to have killed their last master, with a big Nodachi, always seemed like it would be cool to play.
Another great video. I like the idea at the end of making videos for specific campaign types. Those would definitely be helpful for DMs, and I know you guys would make them super cool and interesting like you always do. 👍🏼
I'm actually super excited for your Bard and Warlock episodes! Especially for Bard, since that has always been my favorite class, but also because I want to hear your ideas about Warlocks in general. Also, can't wait for the new types of videos you are going to make. The Campaign videos sound cool, and would love for you to do another one that further covers Spelljammer. Keep up the good work guys!
I would be interested in seeing your guys D&D sessions. You ever planned on recording them and putting them on a secondary channel or something like that?
Just started, and I have to comment about exhaustion levels; I fully agreed with your thinking, in that exhaustion doesn't get terrible until 3rd level, where it effects attacks/saves. Then, in an Adventure's League module, 3 out of the 5 of us got 1 lvl at the very start and it completely wreaked us, since we could never take a long rest to get rid of it. This was 6-8 encounters with RP in between, that we sucked at because of the disadvantage. One guy almost plummeted hundreds of feet due to failing the DC 5 acrobatics check.
Speaking of Volos guide at the end, make a video about the yuan-ti pureblood player race? If its really good/bad how you would incorporate it into a game from a player/dm standpoint?
You guys are the best! We got a Monk video for Christmas and now we get a stellar Barbarian video just before New Years. Can't wait for what next year brings. Happy Holidays guys!
You know, I actually really love how Conan, THE BARBARIAN, is a fighter/rogue type character. I think it's a perfect example of how the rules are an imperfect translation of your idea of a character into the actual game.
I know from watching the Fey video that you are both Dresden fans. It was that series that inspired me to create a character that I have had the most fun playing in years. Sanya, always refers to Murphy as "Tiny, but fierce." So I created a halfling barbarian named Murphy. It was 3rd ed and I found a few amazing prestige classes one was called the pit fighter and the other was an improvised weapon master. The pit fighter was designed for the smaller races( you could use it as a med size character but most of the benefits only work if your opponent is at least one size cat larger than you.) I also took a few lvls in rogue and dumped most of my skill pts into use disable device(in our campaign the skill was expanded as a kind of engineering skill because there was a lot of steampunk influence in it, lots of tinkered equipment around.) It became a group running joke that if you wanted something broken point Murph at it.
I am slightly obsessed with playing or running an assassins/thieves guild campaign, so you guys should definitely do an ep. on that. You guys are awesome, thanks for doing these vids!
The x-campaign series is a really cool idea! Always nice to have a place to get inspiration. I also get a lot of inspiration from movies and books but it would be interesting to see you guys translating that into a setting for a campaign!
Right Nerd would never do coke, but he WOULD slam like 12 mountain dews and huff some pixie sticks if you dared him. Left nerd would never let that happen though.
Bheur is Scottish In Gaelic mythology (Irish, Scottish and Manx) the Cailleach (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkalʲəx], Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkaʎəx]) is a divine hag, a creator deity and weather deity, and an ancestor deity. She is also commonly known as the Cailleach Bhéara(ch) or Bheur(ach). The word cailleach means "hag" in modern Scottish Gaelic, and has been applied to numerous mythological figures in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cailleach
Per the zealot barbarian, there was a book called the Forever Brigade. The military figured out a way to cryogenically freeze soldiers for future combat. And at some point hundred to thousand of years into the future the bodies were no longer even needed, they were able to 3-D print bodies and download their prior experience into them. Just a really dystopian view of the life and death of never being able to truly die.
My current path of the beast barbarian is a shifter/lycanthrope hybrid who was abandoned in a city due to his family being hunted down. So he’s very familiar with cities and navigation overall and has sped up the journey of the party significantly in city regions (he turned a week long journey into a single day. Rolled nat 20 surv and had the urchin background) but despite his overall familiarity with the cities he does have to contest with his lineage and his very animalistic nature quite frequently.
I know that it'd be hard with how quickly they're being released now but, I wouldn't mind listening to you guys review each of the new Unearthed Arcana classes as they came out.
I really like mix and matching backgrounds with unorthodox classes. Like im gonna play a Barbarian that is a criminal so he can sneak up on people and then bring the pain
Kercpa Barbarian... a 1 and a half foot tall Elven Squirrel wielding a smithy hammer as a small Maul rushing in, foaming at the mouth. Nearly impossible to hit, and nearly impossible to hurt, climbing around on opponents and basically creating massive chaos
Once I did a urban barbarian, who was just a drunk mercenary that had no actual combat trainning, but was a genius in battle. He was pretty sociable, and loves woman, mead, and a good fight. Money buys the first two, and fighting is a fun way to make some gold. Pretty fun to play.
I like that they are using some of the 4e concepts for barbarians...they were unique and interesting. Both the totem path and ancestral guardian path were cool options for barbarians in 4e, and I think they remain interesting for 5e.
Ha! I've had a barbarian/lock in one of my games after discussing the idea with another player :) Pretty effective but we didn't get to the levels where it would really kick off. When you do get to discussing Warlocks, I really feel Hex is a big trap beyond level 5 unless you MC into a spell casting class for additional first level slots, so easy to get a level or two in bard or sorcerer. I did a big post on reddit a couple of years ago about MC warlocks and Hexblades, it's definitely the way to go if you are playing this character archetype.
I think a great example of "real-world fictional" inspiration is Achilles from the Iliad, which is basically all about how Achilles is an amazing soldier because of his rage. The first lines introduce it well: Sing, Goddess, Achilles’ rage, Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls Of heroes into Hades’ dark, And left their bodies to rot as feasts For dogs and birds, as Zeus’ will was done.
I love the barbarian class, I usually multi-class fighter barbarian together for a feat raging monster. I had a dwarf were-bear that wielded a Huge scyth ( Yes the size huge). He was able to do massive damage prior to transforming in rage, in rage he basically was easily doing 100 a swing if not more ( Don't get me started on a 3d6 x4 crit with this weapon). Not only that my Attack bonus was so high I had to roll a 7 or below to miss epic enemies. Mind you with proper lvl adjustment I was only lvl 9 at the time.
In regards to the bear totem resistances, there is a bearbearian, as I like to call them, and they have gotten drunk on the power of their resistance and think they are invincible. Then I put them up against Mind Flayers and they immediately snapped out of it as soon as they got hit by a big boom of psychic damage that took them out. They were all like: "but I resist all damage!" Then I pointed them to the entry and they just accepted it. They are still raging on, but with a little more mistrust of psionics.
I'm not sure how long after the class videos you'd do this. but I'd love to see an in depth look at the player races (probably excluding most of Volo's) probably the mains ones like elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, dragonborn, tieflings, and maybe even throw in aasimar (probably not humans, but if you wanted to add in something a little extra in there I wouldn't mind). just thought I'd throw the idea out there, love your guys videos, keep being awesome :)
For my first non-premade character in 5e I rolled really high on my stats, so decided to make a Wood Elf Outlander Barbarian. He was found by the Fab Wolves of the Faeweald and learned the ways of glam. Say hello to Fabio the Barbarian, who snaps spears with his pecs and flexes arrows aside while passively collecting food for the whole party and more. Fabio will provide. Also nearly defeated Langdedrosa Cyanwrath in single combat during his second encounter in Hoard of the Dragon Queen. Was Lv 4. If only I'd been Lv 5... Oh well. Single combat is for those without a pack anyway.
Love these videos. Can you guys touch on the UA Faithful compendium? I have an Eldritch Knight multiclassing into a theurgy wizard. Trying to keep it pure so taking arcana domain.
15th level Zealot Barbarian is only killable by power word kill and disintegrate. Nothing else has the ability to kill it until its rage is over, not even psychic scream, which requires the creature to be killed by the spell for its head to explode, but the barb does not die when they reach zero HP or fail all their death saves with the 14th level Zealot ability., which is 10 entire rounds of combat (Rage lasts for the whole minute if you want, even if you don't take damage once you reach 15th level. If you have even a healing word from a bard or cleric that's staying 30 feet away consistently, they can't die, and just keep going and going and going. And that's if you even get them down to zero in the first place. I think it's the second most overpowered thing in the game, only being beat by 20th level moon druid, because unlimited wild shapes. edit: I know that the rage expiring before being healed can kill them, and that taking massive damage to be outright killed (HP going from current, lets say 0 if we're already at that stage, to negative your max HP) will kill you. So time is a factor if the barb is alone. But let's look at why massive damage can be ruled out completely in 5e as a possible way of death for a 15th level Zealot Barb. If you have 20 Con, and you take the 7 instead of rolling a d12 for hit points every single level, you will have 190 hit points at level 15. There is almost nothing in the game that can inflict 190 points of damage at once (within a single turn of combat, not from multiple enemies). The value increases to 380 for bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, because you have resistance to them whilst raging. So, unless you fall from a height that would inflict 380 points of damage, you can't be killed outright by massive damage. So there are three things that can kill you. Power word kill, disintegrate, and your rage ending with all failed death saves.
when will you be doing a paladin class video ? I'm new to the game and it looks like I'll be playing a dragonborn paladin and it would be great to hear your take on them
I currently have a high elf dex-based Berserker. I'm glad you touched on how barbs don't have to be the typical meatheads. Mine is smart and trained but has an anger issue
ajsee790 I know this comment is kind of old.. But! I literally just helped a friend build his first D&D character, and it just so happens to have almost that exact build. I'm really excited to see how it plays out
I had an idea for the barbarian: instead of rage being anger, I imagined it as a sort of battle trance that the warrior goes into. Seperation of mind and body, really monk like. The specific character concept was a half orc battlemaster that started as a barbarian for the first 3 levels then got trained in actual combat.
one of the players in my game is playing a Warforged Barbarian, and his character is flavored as a golem who's master put his controller amulet inside of him and his dying command was to live as a free man. his "programing" is fritzing because of a cognitive dissonance with his final command and that is his rage mode.
The zealot path of eternal warriors just makes me think of the order from The Last Witch Hunter where you have an eternal warrior followed around by a collection of clerics to help them exact their god's will.
Polearm Master is basically Frenzy without the exhaustion using a 1d4 damage die. Combined with the Divine Fury feature from the Zealot subclass, you can come close to the raw damage output from an equivalent Fighter. The survivability from that subclass is also great. I think Zealot Barbarian is the new Totem Barbarian in terms of not dieing (or in the case of the Zealot, not caring because Revivify is free!).
On the "collect all the pieces to bring back Zealot" thing, maybe It's not turned to stone, but some powerful curse was placed on them, turning them to, I dunno, obsidian, and the only way to reverse the curse is to get the pieces, which can then be rezzed.
Did people really forget about Rage Mages from 3.5 Edition? I mean, the prerequisites are 2 levels Barbarian, 2 levels mage, and have a high enough wisdom and intellect to become the class, and be able to at least cast a fireball, then you can use Rage to empower spells lol. I remember reading about that anyway, never been fond of playing any kind of casting class. My favorite character that I ever played was my Barbarian / Fighter / Frenzied Berserker / Warforged Juggernaut / Legendary Dreadnought build that started as a level 1 human, died around level level 20, then had his soul forced into a large-scale Warforged with an Adamantine body, then he just became an unstoppable, unkillable, uncontrollable killing machine once he got his 10th level of Warforged Juggernaut that always had the party and the DM shitting themselves when the enemies were all dead and worried he might not get himself out of frenzy, since you have to make a wisdom saving throw of at least 10 to break out of frenzy, and my character had a -8 modifier for wisdom lol.
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I think you guys didn't go deep enough into the concept of a monk/barbarian multiclass character; Something tells me an Open Hand or Kensei monk would REALLY benefit from a barbarian's rage, as it'd augment their unarmed/armed (Kensei) attacks.
That opening was terrifying! I thought it was Arnold Schwarzenegger from 1980 for a minute. Such rage!
@Wesley Johnathan OMG exactly why I went to get info and advice on barbarians in 5e, Thanks! Jack-ass.
I'm laughing so hard mentally at the idea for zealots of:
Random Cleric: "Oh no, the armies of our enemies are approaching. REVIVE THE ZEALOTS!"
~5 priests run into a casket filled mausoleum, placing a hand on each coffin lid, casting whatever revive spell is needed.
30 seconds later ~15 casket lids shatter as they're punched open, then the zealots get up, walk to the doorway, get handed ornate greataxes, and charge out, slaughtering hundreds mere seconds.
Stealing this.
Sounds to me like the PERFECT Barbarian role for VAMPIRES.
I had a friend who mentioned that his DM had a house rule for Barbarians. When raging, the DM tracks your hitpoints. You have no idea how much damage you've taken. This helped support the concept that a truly raging barbarian fights just a ferociously at 1HP as he does at full HP. I thought it was a really cool idea.
wait, what kind of barbarian fight less angry with his Hp low? that the best moment to go reckless
@@darkwin1977 The barbarian won't, the player might.
That is a feature of the barbarian class in pillars of eternity or coincidence
A good barbarian that wouldn't be an outlander (that they didn't mention) was Guts from Berserk.
He gets pissed, fights like an animal, and doesn't give in. He takes hits like a boss
Listening to Jim Davis erupt with campaign ideas is like taking an invigorating D&D shower.
"Y'know, Barbarians have a ton of raw talent.... I wonder if we applied some discipline...."
*Barbarian army begins a nigh unstoppable warpath*
"Oh... that's why we never tried training Barbarians before..."
Barbarians are to Fighters as Sorcerers are to Wizards.
where is the lie?
...... Storm Sorcerer/Totem Barbarian???
Make it a Firbolg. Hahaha.
Damn that’s actually solid af
I actually played a Half-Orc Barb/Warlock in with a group running Out of The Abyss. The DM thought it was a really dumb idea, but I insisted on making it. He eventually got on board with the idea and by sheer luck (and a bit of fun on the DM's end) I ended up being able to Hex while raging. Basically what had happened was we were riding across a massive lake in the underdark on the back of a dragon-turtle and the Wizard and I had the bright idea to cast the light spell under the water just to see what was down there... What occurred after that was simply beautiful. The DM made us both make wisdom saving throws and of course we both failed. The Wizard and I went insane and he immediately starting attacking the party and I had to beat the Wizard unconscious to end his rampage. The result of the insanity caused me to get multiple personality disorder. So we had my usual brutish orc self and a super intelligent classy orc. This led to me being able to focus on hex while raging, so our mistake led to me being borderline broken. Good stuff.
Though I was forced to roleplay two different people for the rest of the campaign...
Bheur, as far as I can tell, is pronounced "vur" in Gaelic. It derives from Cailleach Bheur, a sort of divine hag from Scottish folklore.
THIS IS THE CORRECT ONE I BELIEVE
In Irish (as gaeilge) It's pronounced "V Air". It means "old women" or Hag.
Ross Doyle So Bheur Hag really just means “Hag Hag”?
Great vid guys. I think I prefer the post vid stuff to the actual video content awesome stuff. Yea Conan is kind of the ultimate Mary Sue character.
Really enjoyed the take on the zealot barbarian that gets wheeled out every couple of years to wage war.
Nerdarchist Dave
I thought Mary Sue was the ultimate Mary Sue... lol
Kind of....but at least he worked for it, he was trained, and has a background that explains some of why he is so damn awesome.
You do you Jim, but if I'm ringing up one of those evil witches from the plane of eternal darkness to come save my ass, _I'm calling her whatever she wants to be called._
we NEED another playthrough, please kind gents.
Seriously
Omg. This episode intro takes the cake for second hand embarrassment. I appreciate Pruitt's commitment to making me laugh uncomfortably.
Anna Fleissner yes omg haha
I made a rip-off of the wolfman who had noble background. He was cursed with fits of uncontrollable anger and had learned to channel and unleash it. Really fun. People never thought of a barbarian as anything other than a loincloth with no shirt.
BonadanAlloy Holy crap I love that
As Barbarians are described as having multiple sources of rage you could, technically, be a pampered noble who just gets /realllllllly/ mad sometimes.
So you could just do that without the curse.
But wheres the fun in that.
I forget which edition it was but a description listed Porthos as a great candidate as well :D
I've seen interesting builds for Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde using the Barbarian class with Artisan background (alchemy) or Noble background
i made mine a reeeeaaaaaally short orcish pirate. he was short due to steroids- and his rage was also from steroids
I'm happy that the barbarian episode appropriately has a spelling mistake in the title
The last three minutes of your videos are very quickly becoming my favourite portions of your videos. Pure unadulterated brilliance.
It's pronounced "ice hag"
Emma Lambert
THANK YOU!!!
hahahahaha
JPruInc it's pronounced "LeviOsah" not "LeviosAh"...
This is the most underrated dnd Chanel's on TH-cam.
The Middle finger of Vecna has some great homebrew for sub-classes and one of my favorites is the Rage Mage. It converts the eldritch knight to a barbarian where they can only cast while raging and some other fun flavor. I wanted to find a way to make a priest of Gork and Mork that made sense and he is a blast (literally at times). He loves to preach the virtue of freedom and orkiness even though he is bad at talking to people and usually just ends up punching people that don't agree with him. Super flavorful character. XD
Rogue-barian a friend made a character like that she's terrifying!
I made a half elf fiendish bladelock totem barbarian up until level 11 (barb 6 warlock 5). It was surprisingly solid and fun. I was dual-wielding longswords with the dual wielding feat. The extra temp HP from the fiend isn't much, but it does work with your resistances. Some good low level invocations helped me do ranged attacks or area attacks that I otherwise couldn't do. Mostly had lightning lure, green flame blade, hex, armor of agathys, arms of hadar, and eldritch blast were all good options for useful spells. Only issue is I'd go two-handed instead for easier spellcasting.
When you were talking about Conan, it made me remember how many characters in Classic Fantasy had very rogue like elements. Most hero's are stealthy and cunning because of what they are up against!
Great video, barbs need the love that generally isn't given due to their apparent "Simplicity". Now all I ask is: when can we expect the glorious, cunning, and best class: the Bard?
+Embrace Your Destiny next week.
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All abard the hype train!!!
I'm still waiting on Warlock and Sorcerer personally.
I like my casters and blasters.
ghostbirdofprey warlocks are my favorite class, I'm hyped to see the video for them
love the last line: "Fifth!?" "Yeah, it's a lot of fun. What'd you expect me to say?"
When Jonathan said about spreading his body to the four corners my mind went straight to. William Wallace the Zelot Barbarian :D.
LOL! "Real fictional inspiration"
Sorry it struck me that way.....
for inspiration read up on Cu'Chullain the Celtic hero. His rage physically changed him and he called it a "Warp Spasm".
You want fictional inspiration for a barbarian?
Cuchulain.
Nuff said.
Thinking the same thing.
Berserker Fate/Stay Night fits the same mold of terrifying bull ****.
Tying yourself to a post so you can die facing your enemies on your feet is the most barbarian shit ever
@@isaachaahr8691 You mean Heracles?
That is who he is found out to be in the end. However, I read greek myths and Percy Jackson so in my head I distinguish them by referring to that particular incarnation of the character as berserker.
11:30 I played a first tier barbarian tiefling named Achievement that fought with no armor. The d12 hit die and resistances makes it extremely playable even with only a 14 AC. Couple that with dual wielding hand axes (with Dual Wielder feat, of course), and that character was unstoppable.
Maybe the zelot barbarian body parts aren't who you says it is but actually the Arch Lich Venca who placed the mythology in the hand of gullible priests.
Andrew C u mean a "zealot"?
Dudes your outros are the shiznit... keep up the excellent work
Pruitt's turn - First thing, Bonus Action - Rage
Logen Ninefingers is my favorite barbarian. A thinking mans fighter with a tendency to go into a unreasoning bloodlust.
Probably my favourite Barbarian I've played was a Halfling Barbarian.... he was a mad pigmy from the Jungles of Chult
Wolf Totem Battlemaster with Shield master and Protection fighting style. The Ultimate team leader.
Can you two cover what you think about DnD online vs. table-top, and your experiences with each? Thank you!
One of the campaigns that i had the most fun with was a barbarian theme campaign. Started at 2nd levl. 5 players. 3 guys playing brothers, one ranger/barb human, one rogue/barb human, and a barbarian half orc. Cleric/barbarian and a warlock/barb.
Entire thing was so fun. DM said it was the first campaign he had ever run where rail roading was entirely unnecessary because we laugh and charge.
I like your after banter almost better than the actual episodes!
Love your vids guys. One about staying with a pc for a long time vs. one-offs would be great, i.e., feelings vs. variety. Cheers.
poshzombie
Great idea!!! On the list!
YES! I'd love to hear you guys talk about solo, small, medium, large, low fantasy, high fantasy, steam punk, cyber punk, si-fi, mystery, crime, epic, war, dark and all the other good campaign stuff I cant remember off the top of my head.
I've never had a chance to play D&D, but the idea of like a samurai/Ronin culture barbarian, who has never been able to control their rage and maybe went so far as to have killed their last master, with a big Nodachi, always seemed like it would be cool to play.
Another great video. I like the idea at the end of making videos for specific campaign types. Those would definitely be helpful for DMs, and I know you guys would make them super cool and interesting like you always do. 👍🏼
I'm actually super excited for your Bard and Warlock episodes! Especially for Bard, since that has always been my favorite class, but also because I want to hear your ideas about Warlocks in general.
Also, can't wait for the new types of videos you are going to make. The Campaign videos sound cool, and would love for you to do another one that further covers Spelljammer. Keep up the good work guys!
I would be interested in seeing your guys D&D sessions. You ever planned on recording them and putting them on a secondary channel or something like that?
Man, I really REALLY appreciate these videos. Im a born again DM and this is some inspiring stuff. Thank you! Keep em comin
Just started, and I have to comment about exhaustion levels; I fully agreed with your thinking, in that exhaustion doesn't get terrible until 3rd level, where it effects attacks/saves. Then, in an Adventure's League module, 3 out of the 5 of us got 1 lvl at the very start and it completely wreaked us, since we could never take a long rest to get rid of it. This was 6-8 encounters with RP in between, that we sucked at because of the disadvantage. One guy almost plummeted hundreds of feet due to failing the DC 5 acrobatics check.
Great stuff as usual. I need more raging Pruitt in my life.
I love the concept of totem spirits and heralds of the storm having visual effects when they rage. Gives a very good flavor feel.
Speaking of Volos guide at the end, make a video about the yuan-ti pureblood player race? If its really good/bad how you would incorporate it into a game from a player/dm standpoint?
One thing I loved about 4e barbarian was the whole semi shifting rages like the bear. I like how the implemented it in 5e to the totem barbarian.
You guys are the best!
We got a Monk video for Christmas and now we get a stellar Barbarian video just before New Years.
Can't wait for what next year brings. Happy Holidays guys!
You know, I actually really love how Conan, THE BARBARIAN, is a fighter/rogue type character. I think it's a perfect example of how the rules are an imperfect translation of your idea of a character into the actual game.
I know from watching the Fey video that you are both Dresden fans. It was that series that inspired me to create a character that I have had the most fun playing in years. Sanya, always refers to Murphy as "Tiny, but fierce." So I created a halfling barbarian named Murphy. It was 3rd ed and I found a few amazing prestige classes one was called the pit fighter and the other was an improvised weapon master. The pit fighter was designed for the smaller races( you could use it as a med size character but most of the benefits only work if your opponent is at least one size cat larger than you.) I also took a few lvls in rogue and dumped most of my skill pts into use disable device(in our campaign the skill was expanded as a kind of engineering skill because there was a lot of steampunk influence in it, lots of tinkered equipment around.) It became a group running joke that if you wanted something broken point Murph at it.
I love your guys' content.
love your intros, love the videos. Keep up the good work gentleman.
I am slightly obsessed with playing or running an assassins/thieves guild campaign, so you guys should definitely do an ep. on that. You guys are awesome, thanks for doing these vids!
Running and dealing with an illusionist heavy campaign would make a great episode.
can we just get a constant live stream of you guys talking in the background, similar to the end scenes? I'd just leave it on all day
Love the channel guys! I like every video I watch! Keep up the good work.
The x-campaign series is a really cool idea! Always nice to have a place to get inspiration. I also get a lot of inspiration from movies and books but it would be interesting to see you guys translating that into a setting for a campaign!
I couldn't tell if Right Nerd was mad or just trying to poop. At least Left Nerd had it under control.
Wrong. Right Nerd got some bad coke.
From the smirk on his face I think Left Nerd sold it to him.
Right Nerd would never do coke, but he WOULD slam like 12 mountain dews and huff some pixie sticks if you dared him. Left nerd would never let that happen though.
Right nerd here. With regards to being mad and pooping, one generally leads to the other. Both are a result of coke.
I think we can all agree that they are now officially right and left nerd.
Bheur is Scottish
In Gaelic mythology (Irish, Scottish and Manx) the Cailleach (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkalʲəx], Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkaʎəx]) is a divine hag, a creator deity and weather deity, and an ancestor deity. She is also commonly known as the Cailleach Bhéara(ch) or Bheur(ach). The word cailleach means "hag" in modern Scottish Gaelic, and has been applied to numerous mythological figures in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cailleach
Spirit Totem: Duck.
"I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the bread that disintegrates in the water. I am ... Mal-Aard! QUACK QUAAAAAAACK!!"
Per the zealot barbarian, there was a book called the Forever Brigade. The military figured out a way to cryogenically freeze soldiers for future combat. And at some point hundred to thousand of years into the future the bodies were no longer even needed, they were able to 3-D print bodies and download their prior experience into them. Just a really dystopian view of the life and death of never being able to truly die.
One of my favourite characters ever was my red dragonborn, great-weapon fighting ,berserker named Kor'cán fire fang.
A dragonborn barbarian isn't too uncommon, but a high-elf barbarian? Now that's a sight to behold, we just wish he'd put on some clothes.
i love the off the cuff ramblings at the end. (also the rest of the video too)
My current path of the beast barbarian is a shifter/lycanthrope hybrid who was abandoned in a city due to his family being hunted down. So he’s very familiar with cities and navigation overall and has sped up the journey of the party significantly in city regions (he turned a week long journey into a single day. Rolled nat 20 surv and had the urchin background) but despite his overall familiarity with the cities he does have to contest with his lineage and his very animalistic nature quite frequently.
I'm sure you have this in the works but, I would love a ranger video! Love your videos guys!
I know that it'd be hard with how quickly they're being released now but, I wouldn't mind listening to you guys review each of the new Unearthed Arcana classes as they came out.
Rage Hunter! I had the same idea! Obsessed with tracking down and going toe to toe with the strongest creatures the world can provide.
I really like mix and matching backgrounds with unorthodox classes. Like im gonna play a Barbarian that is a criminal so he can sneak up on people and then bring the pain
"Here is my great axe, here is my great sword. Deal with it"
Kercpa Barbarian... a 1 and a half foot tall Elven Squirrel wielding a smithy hammer as a small Maul rushing in, foaming at the mouth. Nearly impossible to hit, and nearly impossible to hurt, climbing around on opponents and basically creating massive chaos
Once I did a urban barbarian, who was just a drunk mercenary that had no actual combat trainning, but was a genius in battle. He was pretty sociable, and loves woman, mead, and a good fight. Money buys the first two, and fighting is a fun way to make some gold.
Pretty fun to play.
I like that they are using some of the 4e concepts for barbarians...they were unique and interesting. Both the totem path and ancestral guardian path were cool options for barbarians in 4e, and I think they remain interesting for 5e.
Ha! I've had a barbarian/lock in one of my games after discussing the idea with another player :)
Pretty effective but we didn't get to the levels where it would really kick off.
When you do get to discussing Warlocks, I really feel Hex is a big trap beyond level 5 unless you MC into a spell casting class for additional first level slots, so easy to get a level or two in bard or sorcerer. I did a big post on reddit a couple of years ago about MC warlocks and Hexblades, it's definitely the way to go if you are playing this character archetype.
Barbarian was always my favorite class; first one was obviously a Half-orc but also made a Gnome Barbarian named Badger.
I once had an ancients paladin who I played as a ranger, was some of the most fun I've had.
I think a great example of "real-world fictional" inspiration is Achilles from the Iliad, which is basically all about how Achilles is an amazing soldier because of his rage. The first lines introduce it well:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles’ rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades’ dark,
And left their bodies to rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus’ will was done.
I loved the ending its like a marvel movie
The best part is at the end
I ought to make a barbarian who's rage is either just Joker-esque mad laughter, or deadpan, emotionless killing.
The intro is truthfully the best WebDM intro ever
Also love the ending
I love the barbarian class, I usually multi-class fighter barbarian together for a feat raging monster. I had a dwarf were-bear that wielded a Huge scyth ( Yes the size huge). He was able to do massive damage prior to transforming in rage, in rage he basically was easily doing 100 a swing if not more ( Don't get me started on a 3d6 x4 crit with this weapon). Not only that my Attack bonus was so high I had to roll a 7 or below to miss epic enemies. Mind you with proper lvl adjustment I was only lvl 9 at the time.
In regards to the bear totem resistances, there is a bearbearian, as I like to call them, and they have gotten drunk on the power of their resistance and think they are invincible. Then I put them up against Mind Flayers and they immediately snapped out of it as soon as they got hit by a big boom of psychic damage that took them out. They were all like: "but I resist all damage!" Then I pointed them to the entry and they just accepted it. They are still raging on, but with a little more mistrust of psionics.
I'm not sure how long after the class videos you'd do this. but I'd love to see an in depth look at the player races (probably excluding most of Volo's) probably the mains ones like elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, dragonborn, tieflings, and maybe even throw in aasimar (probably not humans, but if you wanted to add in something a little extra in there I wouldn't mind). just thought I'd throw the idea out there, love your guys videos, keep being awesome :)
For my first non-premade character in 5e I rolled really high on my stats, so decided to make a Wood Elf Outlander Barbarian. He was found by the Fab Wolves of the Faeweald and learned the ways of glam. Say hello to Fabio the Barbarian, who snaps spears with his pecs and flexes arrows aside while passively collecting food for the whole party and more. Fabio will provide.
Also nearly defeated Langdedrosa Cyanwrath in single combat during his second encounter in Hoard of the Dragon Queen. Was Lv 4. If only I'd been Lv 5... Oh well. Single combat is for those without a pack anyway.
Love these videos. Can you guys touch on the UA Faithful compendium? I have an Eldritch Knight multiclassing into a theurgy wizard. Trying to keep it pure so taking arcana domain.
15th level Zealot Barbarian is only killable by power word kill and disintegrate. Nothing else has the ability to kill it until its rage is over, not even psychic scream, which requires the creature to be killed by the spell for its head to explode, but the barb does not die when they reach zero HP or fail all their death saves with the 14th level Zealot ability., which is 10 entire rounds of combat (Rage lasts for the whole minute if you want, even if you don't take damage once you reach 15th level. If you have even a healing word from a bard or cleric that's staying 30 feet away consistently, they can't die, and just keep going and going and going. And that's if you even get them down to zero in the first place. I think it's the second most overpowered thing in the game, only being beat by 20th level moon druid, because unlimited wild shapes.
edit: I know that the rage expiring before being healed can kill them, and that taking massive damage to be outright killed (HP going from current, lets say 0 if we're already at that stage, to negative your max HP) will kill you. So time is a factor if the barb is alone. But let's look at why massive damage can be ruled out completely in 5e as a possible way of death for a 15th level Zealot Barb. If you have 20 Con, and you take the 7 instead of rolling a d12 for hit points every single level, you will have 190 hit points at level 15. There is almost nothing in the game that can inflict 190 points of damage at once (within a single turn of combat, not from multiple enemies). The value increases to 380 for bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, because you have resistance to them whilst raging. So, unless you fall from a height that would inflict 380 points of damage, you can't be killed outright by massive damage. So there are three things that can kill you. Power word kill, disintegrate, and your rage ending with all failed death saves.
Please do more planescape videos and a video on variant rules like flaking and their advantages and disadvantages.
when will you be doing a paladin class video ?
I'm new to the game and it looks like I'll be playing a dragonborn paladin and it would be great to hear your take on them
I currently have a high elf dex-based Berserker. I'm glad you touched on how barbs don't have to be the typical meatheads. Mine is smart and trained but has an anger issue
ajsee790 I know this comment is kind of old.. But! I literally just helped a friend build his first D&D character, and it just so happens to have almost that exact build. I'm really excited to see how it plays out
New drinking game: every time Jim repeats what Pruitt just said before answering you take a shot
LOL
I had an idea for the barbarian: instead of rage being anger, I imagined it as a sort of battle trance that the warrior goes into. Seperation of mind and body, really monk like. The specific character concept was a half orc battlemaster that started as a barbarian for the first 3 levels then got trained in actual combat.
I was thinking of making a scourge aasimar barbarian, this video helped out a ton!
one of the players in my game is playing a Warforged Barbarian, and his character is flavored as a golem who's master put his controller amulet inside of him and his dying command was to live as a free man. his "programing" is fritzing because of a cognitive dissonance with his final command and that is his rage mode.
I do love the going berserk in the fray! :D
The zealot path of eternal warriors just makes me think of the order from The Last Witch Hunter where you have an eternal warrior followed around by a collection of clerics to help them exact their god's will.
Polearm Master is basically Frenzy without the exhaustion using a 1d4 damage die. Combined with the Divine Fury feature from the Zealot subclass, you can come close to the raw damage output from an equivalent Fighter. The survivability from that subclass is also great. I think Zealot Barbarian is the new Totem Barbarian in terms of not dieing (or in the case of the Zealot, not caring because Revivify is free!).
On the "collect all the pieces to bring back Zealot" thing, maybe It's not turned to stone, but some powerful curse was placed on them, turning them to, I dunno, obsidian, and the only way to reverse the curse is to get the pieces, which can then be rezzed.
Did people really forget about Rage Mages from 3.5 Edition? I mean, the prerequisites are 2 levels Barbarian, 2 levels mage, and have a high enough wisdom and intellect to become the class, and be able to at least cast a fireball, then you can use Rage to empower spells lol.
I remember reading about that anyway, never been fond of playing any kind of casting class. My favorite character that I ever played was my Barbarian / Fighter / Frenzied Berserker / Warforged Juggernaut / Legendary Dreadnought build that started as a level 1 human, died around level level 20, then had his soul forced into a large-scale Warforged with an Adamantine body, then he just became an unstoppable, unkillable, uncontrollable killing machine once he got his 10th level of Warforged Juggernaut that always had the party and the DM shitting themselves when the enemies were all dead and worried he might not get himself out of frenzy, since you have to make a wisdom saving throw of at least 10 to break out of frenzy, and my character had a -8 modifier for wisdom lol.