Take it to 7th level and you have 8 manuvers and 7 dices to fuel it Tho ive been debating if that or 6/6 is better as both are 1d8 damage/roll added Especially becuase that would only require 4 levels (excluding Vhuman) to make such a package deal for a multiclass.
this reminds me of the "fighter variant" class someone made. its basically "every fighter has manuvers, some have specific ones to their class. have fun"
True story. I've built three different Battle Masters, and they all play differently. The first is an agile duelist who focuses on one-on-one fighting, the second is a Heavy Crossbow-toting marksman who focuses on weakening and disabling enemies for the party to finish off, and the third is a defensive Spear and Shield brawler who weaves in and out between friend and foe, defending her allies and striking her opponents from outside their reach.
I wasn't well aware of this subclass, but seeing it be played by Liam O'brien in the latest Critial Role campaign really opened my mind to it. if I ever want to play Fighter, this is probably the only subclass I'd even consider.
I'd consider the Samurai or the Psi Warrior, as well. They're very well-built. The rest of them (with two exceptions, imo) are decently made and might fit your theme for certain characters, but the Battle Master, Psi Warrior, and Samurai are just *built different.*
Wow excellent timing, Im actually building a Battlemaster Fighter right now for an upcoming campaign. He uses a longspear (pike) and is a wealthy charismatic merchant and cunning tactician. Great overview, i think i agree with everything you said, Battlemaster is my favorite Fighter and one of my fav subclasses in 5e overall.
Know your enemy. Player: "I watch my enemy for a minute and assess his armour." GM: "What's your AC?" Player: "20" GM: "Yeah, it's lower than that." Player: "Ok. I drop my shield and assess again." Player: "OK, his AC is 15. I put all my clothes back on. Now... HP. Where's my dagger?"
TBH, I'd look for Strength after AC. If you've got at least 18, then getting to know whether they're stronger or weaker than you can really help understand how hard they're gonna hit you back after you hit them.
I had a Battle Master in Curse of Strahd and the DM had to resort to distance spell attacks just to keep the fight going long enough to be enjoyable understandably so because I was literally Arthur Dayne.
I’m in a game where I’m playing as a Human Battle Master w/ Tavern Brawler feat. And how he got the way he is, was he served in a military and he’d challenge his commanding officer but never won a fight with the commander. So he’s trying to improve his overall skills to hopefully best his Commander & cement his place as the greatest warrior in the land
I have a 5e character concept that's all about being a noble-background adventurer who rather than being a powerful fighter on her own, is more of a tactical leader for the party who assesses the situation, then contrives and executes teamwork solutions to the challenge at hand. There are so many Battle Master maneuvers that play into that idea that I'm honestly a bit spoiled for choice; it's hard to say which maneuvers should be prioritized at earlier levels and which should be left for later. And that's just one way to shape a Battle Master; you can go to almost any combination of heavy-handed martial force and skillful, tactical finesse that you can imagine. What makes the Battle Master so interesting is that it's one of those subclasses in 5e that almost makes you feel like you have the sort of build flexibility you might enjoy in 3rd Edition. It's not nearly the same thing, of course, but the important thing is that it feels that way. Fires the imagination in both the narrative arena and the mechanical one.
If you don't know which tool proficiency to take, Carpenter's is a good default for stealthy characters in particular, as it gives you a bonus to Stealth checks on wooden surfaces.
I’m playing a melee warlock that is multiclassing into battle master and it’s been such a journey. He’s 12 warlock and rn 2 fighter. His backstory is that his older brother is a high ranking officer in an order of elite knights and even though my character isn’t, he grew up around his brother but never had the talent(or the body type) to join the order. Now though through his super natural strength given to him through his warlock pact he has slowly started learning what his brother tried to teach him when he was young. Now that my character’s next level up will be battle master he’s returning to his home town to learn from his brother first hand.
I’d suggest taking the feat for more superiority dice and maneuvers with most melee builds and especially with a battle master to fill out their abilities and number of times to use said abilities first fighter I ever built was a half orc battle master he lived for fighting
After running through the full roster of martial classes and their subclasses, I fell in love with battlemaster during one moment in a campaign against a frost giant. We were lvl 16, I was low on health, but had been saving my superiority dice for this one miniboss in the form of a frost giant warrior with a thankfully unenchanted greatsword. I used my own greatsword. The dm rolled the giant's attack on me and it was a nat20. He rolled the dice, and that would have been enough to just finish off all my health and put me out of the fight. But I decided to throw nearly all my dice into a parry maneuver. I rolled. I prayed and hoped. And low and behold... all but a 1 of the dice maxed out and I negated all of the damage. Dm decided to rule the zero damage as a miss, so I got to use the rest of my dice in a riposte. Another bunch of high rolls plus my own attack being a crit, and the giant who was already low on health himself was dead. I have not used another subclass ever since. Battlemaster is my favourite
Might sound crazy but for a multi class I would’ve loved the idea of a assassin rogue, surprise rounds and going first on initiative would make you a menace that feels like you are the one controlling the battlefield.
Im playing a bugbear bear totem barbarian 4 fighter 11. Ive played him since lvl one and he is such a freaking powerhouse. I have PAM so i have 4 attacks 7 on an action surge all of which get an extra 2D6 on the first round of combat. GWM to add 10 to each as well. Reckless so they all have advantage.and precision strike incase i some how miss.I have 15 ft of reach 20 if i use lunging attack.
I have a path of the giant Barb 5 fighter 2 Bugbear and I can’t wait to get maneuvers next level, the group paladin and I are both multiclassing to battlemaster to become a frontline power duo
Honest I’d lower the damage of superiority die if I could have more uses of it, I’d be fine if it was just a d6 if I could use it like 12 times for more skillful attacks.
this might be a hot take but I think all martial classes should have one or 2 set maneuvers to make marshal classes a bit more versatile and allow the player to spice up their turns with some utility if they want to use it but I would also want battle master to be relevant so maybe a slight rework because I feel martial classes don't have a crazy amount of options and a few cool moves to spice up their experience would be cool. : )
That's one of the things I like about One D&D, how martials get the weapon masteries to varying extents. Obviously it still needs some polishing but it makes a surprising amount of difference.
Absolutely NOT a hot take. I completely agree. Fighters as a base should have one to two maneuvers (plus the Tasha's Guide Fighting Style pertaining to them) to choose with a d4 as the die and it increases to a d6 over time but the Battle Master cranks it up to a d8 and so forth.
battle master is the most realistic monk ever, like....I love the monk but....the better option is the Battle master with maybe a bit of rogue or something
what if fighter could use expertise instead of prof x times a day for attacks. for some subclass or champion upgrade. imagen having a bladesinger battlemaster
Yeah this reminds me of a very shitty DM i had in a campaign (probably did not understand the rules). I was playing as a Battlemaster and used my maneuvers like a normal fighter would. He did not understand that those superiority dice came back on a short rest and didn't give the party any short rests. The result was a less then desiarable character becasue i could not use my abbilities the way they should. Luckily nobody was playing a Warlock... yeah DM's please just give your parties short rest's ok it doesn't brake the game. Characters can't heal themselfs idefinetly (beceause of the Hit Dice rules) and giving a fighter more maneuver's each day doesn't brake the game.
Think about it a Battlemaster with War Wizard levels must be badass maybe not optimal but come on. Must be alot better then just Eldritch Knight wright?
Before getting into 5e, I heard tanking wasn't possible. I am old guard. I started in 2nd Ed. I was skeptical that position couldn't make an effective tank. Then I found the battlemaster...now I don't know what the heck these people are talking about. My backup character for my current game is a battlemaster fighter that I designed to tank. I am somewhat eager to try him out. Unfortunately, there is next to no lethality in 5e combat...and I am not going to go out of my way to off my current character.
“You are so proficient, you have shit no one has ever SEEN before!” Absolutely revolutionary to hit someone in the head, trip someone, say some mean words, or hit marginally harder than usual. I genuinely think this class should just be part of the core rules.
There are different ways to pronounce it. I've heard Ri-Pos-St. And I've heard Re-Post. It just depends on your dialect, doesnt mean he minpronounced it. Just how they pronounce it in his part of the world. Like Nevada, thats a word a lot of people disagree on lol
After running through the full roster of martial classes and their subclasses, I fell in love with battlemaster during one moment in a campaign against a frost giant. We were lvl 16, I was low on health, but had been saving my superiority dice for this one miniboss in the form of a frost giant warrior with a thankfully unenchanted greatsword. I used my own greatsword. The dm rolled the giant's attack on me and it was a nat20. He rolled the dice, and that would have been enough to just finish off all my health and put me out of the fight. But I decided to throw nearly all my dice into a parry maneuver. I rolled. I prayed and hoped. And low and behold... all but a 1 of the dice maxed out and I negated all of the damage. Dm decided to rule the zero damage as a miss, so I got to use the rest of my dice in a riposte. Another bunch of high rolls plus my own attack being a crit, and the giant who was already low on health himself was dead. I have not used another subclass ever since. Battlemaster is my favourite
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Very nice video! I would be interested in getting your take on the Echo and Eldritch Knight subclasses.
I'd love to see your review of the Samurai! I don't think it gets the love it deserves.
The Samurai is indeed much better then it gets credit for
Cavalier
Cavalier maybe?
Ya know why so many fighters are humans? It's so they can have 6 manuvers and 6 superiority dice.
It's definitely worth considering.
How?
@@motihill2844 level 3 battle master, martial adept feat, superior technique fighting style
Take it to 7th level and you have 8 manuvers and 7 dices to fuel it
Tho ive been debating if that or 6/6 is better as both are 1d8 damage/roll added
Especially becuase that would only require 4 levels (excluding Vhuman) to make such a package deal for a multiclass.
A good way to feel like a battle master right at level 1 (Martial adept feat + Superior technique)
this reminds me of the "fighter variant" class someone made. its basically "every fighter has manuvers, some have specific ones to their class. have fun"
True story. I've built three different Battle Masters, and they all play differently. The first is an agile duelist who focuses on one-on-one fighting, the second is a Heavy Crossbow-toting marksman who focuses on weakening and disabling enemies for the party to finish off, and the third is a defensive Spear and Shield brawler who weaves in and out between friend and foe, defending her allies and striking her opponents from outside their reach.
I wasn't well aware of this subclass, but seeing it be played by Liam O'brien in the latest Critial Role campaign really opened my mind to it.
if I ever want to play Fighter, this is probably the only subclass I'd even consider.
I'd consider the Samurai or the Psi Warrior, as well. They're very well-built. The rest of them (with two exceptions, imo) are decently made and might fit your theme for certain characters, but the Battle Master, Psi Warrior, and Samurai are just *built different.*
If battlemaster and champion was part of the core fighter class, it might have been a lot more attractive.
My first character is a fighter i made in the middle of april of this year. And the subclass i chose was the battlemaster and i love it :D
Wow excellent timing, Im actually building a Battlemaster Fighter right now for an upcoming campaign. He uses a longspear (pike) and is a wealthy charismatic merchant and cunning tactician. Great overview, i think i agree with everything you said, Battlemaster is my favorite Fighter and one of my fav subclasses in 5e overall.
Know your enemy.
Player: "I watch my enemy for a minute and assess his armour."
GM: "What's your AC?"
Player: "20"
GM: "Yeah, it's lower than that."
Player: "Ok. I drop my shield and assess again."
Player: "OK, his AC is 15. I put all my clothes back on. Now... HP. Where's my dagger?"
TBH, I'd look for Strength after AC. If you've got at least 18, then getting to know whether they're stronger or weaker than you can really help understand how hard they're gonna hit you back after you hit them.
I had a Battle Master in Curse of Strahd and the DM had to resort to distance spell attacks just to keep the fight going long enough to be enjoyable understandably so because I was literally Arthur Dayne.
I’m in a game where I’m playing as a Human Battle Master w/ Tavern Brawler feat. And how he got the way he is, was he served in a military and he’d challenge his commanding officer but never won a fight with the commander. So he’s trying to improve his overall skills to hopefully best his Commander & cement his place as the greatest warrior in the land
I have a 5e character concept that's all about being a noble-background adventurer who rather than being a powerful fighter on her own, is more of a tactical leader for the party who assesses the situation, then contrives and executes teamwork solutions to the challenge at hand. There are so many Battle Master maneuvers that play into that idea that I'm honestly a bit spoiled for choice; it's hard to say which maneuvers should be prioritized at earlier levels and which should be left for later. And that's just one way to shape a Battle Master; you can go to almost any combination of heavy-handed martial force and skillful, tactical finesse that you can imagine.
What makes the Battle Master so interesting is that it's one of those subclasses in 5e that almost makes you feel like you have the sort of build flexibility you might enjoy in 3rd Edition. It's not nearly the same thing, of course, but the important thing is that it feels that way. Fires the imagination in both the narrative arena and the mechanical one.
If you don't know which tool proficiency to take, Carpenter's is a good default for stealthy characters in particular, as it gives you a bonus to Stealth checks on wooden surfaces.
I’m playing a melee warlock that is multiclassing into battle master and it’s been such a journey. He’s 12 warlock and rn 2 fighter. His backstory is that his older brother is a high ranking officer in an order of elite knights and even though my character isn’t, he grew up around his brother but never had the talent(or the body type) to join the order. Now though through his super natural strength given to him through his warlock pact he has slowly started learning what his brother tried to teach him when he was young. Now that my character’s next level up will be battle master he’s returning to his home town to learn from his brother first hand.
getting the feat that gives you more sup dice anf two more maneuvers makes this feel even better.
I’d suggest taking the feat for more superiority dice and maneuvers with most melee builds and especially with a battle master to fill out their abilities and number of times to use said abilities first fighter I ever built was a half orc battle master he lived for fighting
I did not even know that such a cool fightersubclass existed. ty for showing
After running through the full roster of martial classes and their subclasses, I fell in love with battlemaster during one moment in a campaign against a frost giant. We were lvl 16, I was low on health, but had been saving my superiority dice for this one miniboss in the form of a frost giant warrior with a thankfully unenchanted greatsword. I used my own greatsword. The dm rolled the giant's attack on me and it was a nat20. He rolled the dice, and that would have been enough to just finish off all my health and put me out of the fight. But I decided to throw nearly all my dice into a parry maneuver.
I rolled. I prayed and hoped. And low and behold... all but a 1 of the dice maxed out and I negated all of the damage. Dm decided to rule the zero damage as a miss, so I got to use the rest of my dice in a riposte. Another bunch of high rolls plus my own attack being a crit, and the giant who was already low on health himself was dead.
I have not used another subclass ever since. Battlemaster is my favourite
Might sound crazy but for a multi class I would’ve loved the idea of a assassin rogue, surprise rounds and going first on initiative would make you a menace that feels like you are the one controlling the battlefield.
If you have a monk in your party, using Know Your Enemy to find out a con score could be super helpful
❤Amazing work I wish you could do more classes 🎉❤
Im playing a bugbear bear totem barbarian 4 fighter 11. Ive played him since lvl one and he is such a freaking powerhouse. I have PAM so i have 4 attacks 7 on an action surge all of which get an extra 2D6 on the first round of combat. GWM to add 10 to each as well. Reckless so they all have advantage.and precision strike incase i some how miss.I have 15 ft of reach 20 if i use lunging attack.
Trust me I do not feel underpowered compared to casters. We just have different strengths
I have a path of the giant Barb 5 fighter 2 Bugbear and I can’t wait to get maneuvers next level, the group paladin and I are both multiclassing to battlemaster to become a frontline power duo
Thank you!
Honest I’d lower the damage of superiority die if I could have more uses of it, I’d be fine if it was just a d6 if I could use it like 12 times for more skillful attacks.
Really enjoying it in BG3 but it’s more focused on combat. Would love artisan tools. Know Your Enemy would been great in BG3
this might be a hot take but I think all martial classes should have one or 2 set maneuvers to make marshal classes a bit more versatile and allow the player to spice up their turns with some utility if they want to use it but I would also want battle master to be relevant so maybe a slight rework because I feel martial classes don't have a crazy amount of options and a few cool moves to spice up their experience would be cool. : )
That's one of the things I like about One D&D, how martials get the weapon masteries to varying extents. Obviously it still needs some polishing but it makes a surprising amount of difference.
Absolutely NOT a hot take. I completely agree. Fighters as a base should have one to two maneuvers (plus the Tasha's Guide Fighting Style pertaining to them) to choose with a d4 as the die and it increases to a d6 over time but the Battle Master cranks it up to a d8 and so forth.
Martial Magic, which can be applied when you want!
one of 5e's biggest missed opportunities was giving maneuvers to all fighters as base kit
battle master is the most realistic monk ever, like....I love the monk but....the better option is the Battle master with maybe a bit of rogue or something
sadly in the original playtest of 5e all fighters did have manuvers but for some reason they REMOVED them.
Samurai or Echo Knight
Fighter is a great class.
I like making a shield tank with a small PC moving with me under cover. If anyone even tries to target anything but me it suffers.
I just started playong a haregon fighter and now thinking which subclass im going to choose 🙃
How did that go? I can picture their jumps synergising really well with some of these manoeuvres
what if fighter could use expertise instead of prof x times a day for attacks. for some subclass or champion upgrade.
imagen having a bladesinger battlemaster
Yeah this reminds me of a very shitty DM i had in a campaign (probably did not understand the rules). I was playing as a Battlemaster and used my maneuvers like a normal fighter would.
He did not understand that those superiority dice came back on a short rest and didn't give the party any short rests. The result was a less then desiarable character becasue i could not use my abbilities the way they should. Luckily nobody was playing a Warlock...
yeah DM's please just give your parties short rest's ok it doesn't brake the game. Characters can't heal themselfs idefinetly (beceause of the Hit Dice rules) and giving a fighter more maneuver's each day doesn't brake the game.
Think about it a Battlemaster with War Wizard levels must be badass maybe not optimal but come on. Must be alot better then just Eldritch Knight wright?
I know this doesn't relate to video, but what are the background clips are from?
It's a bunch of stuff, but mostly (like 90%) lord of the rings and game of thrones
Before getting into 5e, I heard tanking wasn't possible. I am old guard. I started in 2nd Ed. I was skeptical that position couldn't make an effective tank. Then I found the battlemaster...now I don't know what the heck these people are talking about.
My backup character for my current game is a battlemaster fighter that I designed to tank.
I am somewhat eager to try him out. Unfortunately, there is next to no lethality in 5e combat...and I am not going to go out of my way to off my current character.
Bat-Manttle Master.
“You are so proficient, you have shit no one has ever SEEN before!”
Absolutely revolutionary to hit someone in the head, trip someone, say some mean words, or hit marginally harder than usual. I genuinely think this class should just be part of the core rules.
Why should you play battle Master?
Because making them a white haired male human is really funny
I know this is a month old but it is riposte is pronounced reepoast
There are different ways to pronounce it. I've heard Ri-Pos-St. And I've heard Re-Post. It just depends on your dialect, doesnt mean he minpronounced it. Just how they pronounce it in his part of the world. Like Nevada, thats a word a lot of people disagree on lol
Im sorry but Know your Enemy is an abysmal feature
After running through the full roster of martial classes and their subclasses, I fell in love with battlemaster during one moment in a campaign against a frost giant. We were lvl 16, I was low on health, but had been saving my superiority dice for this one miniboss in the form of a frost giant warrior with a thankfully unenchanted greatsword. I used my own greatsword. The dm rolled the giant's attack on me and it was a nat20. He rolled the dice, and that would have been enough to just finish off all my health and put me out of the fight. But I decided to throw nearly all my dice into a parry maneuver.
I rolled. I prayed and hoped. And low and behold... all but a 1 of the dice maxed out and I negated all of the damage. Dm decided to rule the zero damage as a miss, so I got to use the rest of my dice in a riposte. Another bunch of high rolls plus my own attack being a crit, and the giant who was already low on health himself was dead.
I have not used another subclass ever since. Battlemaster is my favourite
I assume it was a dm rule in that you could toss multiple superiority dices at 1 move?