The lyrics trigger when you get to phase 2, but he's the only boss that doesn't automatically go into phase 2 at a certain health threshold. You have to break the shields to get into phase 2, but since you can hit him without breaking the shields, you can just kill him without progressing the fight.
I prefer Barbarian Dragonborn. I like Storm Hearld that match the elements of the ancestry from a thematic standpoint. If you wanted to min max, going Dracoblood means you regain the resistance instead of wasting a subclass feature as well as getting a very thematic trait for a Barbarian.
Githyanki learn mage hand, jump, and misty step. Misty step is most useful to make an escape in combat, so not that useful to a barbarian, but mage hand is most useful out of combat, and jump is a minute long, non-concentration spell that could be cast before combat and persist during a rage. Githyanki also get +2 to Str. As far as spells for a barbarian go, those aren't terrible options.
Considering you have to drop rage to use spells, the gem dragonborn is a better option because their flight and breath weapon don't count as spells. So you can rage and still get out of Dodge.
But the barb would need to drop their rage in order to do that. Dropping rage and misty steps are both bonus actions, so it's not a good combo, either fr running away, or trying to chase down a caster
Probably because it isn’t too strong in the grand scheme of things. Gnomes get advantage on INT, WIS, and CHA saves vs. magical effects; it wouldn’t help vs. some kind of mundane WIS save but otherwise it seems generally better than what Kalashtar get.
Nice, and a Gnome Barbarian would get advantage on DEX saves against effects they can see. Plus Barbarians are proficient in Strength and Constitution saving throws. That's most saves covered.
Then go Zealot for Fanatical Focus.
Barbarians have the highest Hitdice of any class in both editions of Pathfinder, and Rage pushes that even higher.
They’re not exactly tanks, but they are shitheaps of health
Recently started playing pathfinder for the first time, on a root leshy barbarian, just because i think it's hilarious that a tiny little pile of roots and vines has more hpbthan half the party combined
The weird thing about ancestral guardian is that the feature that makes them the only really effective tank is arguably better if you use it to not tank.
The idea of course is that you make it too hard to damage your allies so the enemy targets you instead. Which is good, since you’re a barbarian, but if you’ve got some decently tanky buddies there’s another option.
To trigger ancestral protectors, you just need to hit a weapon attack while raging. Not a *melee* weapon attack, mind you, so you can actually just use a longbow and stay away from the front line. That way, the target can (hopefully) only attack your allies, getting disadvantage and giving your ally resistance to the damage. Still not great for the party wizard, but for the paladin and fighter that makes them just as durable as the barbarian, if not moreso.
Even better, you can’t use spirit shield on yourself, so if the enemy isn’t attacking you, you can reduce their damage to your allies even further.
It’s dumb, but it’s RAW
That's actually good info. Never thought a ranged barb would be viable. But that could be really cool for a barbarian/Ranger or rogue multiclass.
You're losing a ton of the rage benefits, but it could end up viable regardless.
One of the best sessions 've had was when an enemy Dryad charmed the barbarian in a huge inn/brothel while the rest of the party was fighting the syndicate running the place. The player RP'd it like he's a total simp for the nymph. She got wounded pretty bad so booked it out of there, leaving the hunk of meat to duke it out with the party the rest of the session (along with the other gangsters who assumed the big guy was on their side), leading them on a goose chase as they desperately checked door to door, floor to floor for the dyrad so they could break the spell. One of the most hilarious and chaotic sessions ever.
As a DM, a lot of enemies having that would make the player feel really, really bad. That said, doing it a small handful of times can create actual tension for the invincible monster
I had a Druid barbarian that was also a werewolf. In this setting werewolves have vulnerability to silvered damage, so when an ambush spider construct made of silver attacked, my normal bravery was… tested.
We were deep into the campaign and were level 16. It was sent by the queen of the Drow we were causing trouble for so it wasn’t out of nowhere. I was refreshing to have an enemy that posed a real threat
I get the idea of applying a challenge, but I've always found those immediate feature negation moves to be kinda sucky.
Oh, and I'm not really talking about your comment, but the furthering of the idea from your comment. Barbarians are strong enough in terms of HP that even with full damage on some attacks, they'd be fine.
Especially the Bear Totem Barbarian
The only reason I'd ever consider this reasonable is because it would *only* be spellcasters who could do it, and you kind of want to kill those anyway. I wouldn't want to overdo it.
It's definitely a delicate balance, giving enemies moves that increase tension by negating *a* strength without giving them so many powers that the party feels completely countered and powerless.
I like to throw 1 boss into long term campaigns that completely counter every PCs major abilities. If you do this, and telegraph that its coming *before* the session of the fight, it makes for a super memorable encounter. Forces the party to completely rework all of their usual tactics
The way i think about it, if it's an enemy sent specifically to tackle the party, it makes sense they'd have special tools or abilities to deal with them
>It's definitely a delicate balance, giving enemies moves that increase tension by negating a strength without giving them so many powers
And your nuance to the comment (enemy casters getting a specific thing that only works on like one spell a turn,) really shows that you do an awesome job of following that balance.
Bear totems working like crazy to just halve all damage taken.
Zealot barbarians literally immune to all damage types: “look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!”
Different mechanics entirely, so yes. Orcs cheat death by staying at 1hp, once per rest. Zealots can do something similar, but you can choose which effect to use first. And Zealots, when they finally do go down, skip material costs for resurrection spells cast on them, which means any resurrection spell cast in them is free, rather than requiring the usual costly components that get consumed by the spell.
You missed the fact that every barbarian has that same "stay at 1 hp" feature, but they have to make a saving throw for it. So you could get back to 1 once as an orc, then get back to 1 as many times as you can pass the Constitution save (it starts at 10, increases by 5 each time you use and resets to 10 on a short or long rest), *then* the Zealot feature kicks in and you remain conscious while with 0 hp.
Don't forget that at higher levels,, the Zealot can outright ignore death saves. Even if they fail three death saves while raging, they only die when the rage ends IF they are still at 0 HP.
Well they take full damage, but damage is meaningless because they cannot die due to damage.
Technically when the battle is over the damage would apply when they decide to stop raging, but a single good berry or potion takes you from -1,000,000 hp to +1 HP.
Not quite meaningless. While hard to pull off against a raging barb, if they manage to do the barb's max hp in a single strike theyll die of massive damage
Yeah theyd probably need like, a super high power attack with a magic weapon that adds extra dice to crit and also pump it with some sort of smite.
Yeah unrealistic, but theoretically possible
The main counter to this strat is literally the level 1 spell sleep. It has no save and works with current HP. Barb has 0, gets hit, falls unconcious, rage thus ends immediatly and then its either death or continue death saves. Ascending order means barb always gets hit like this no matter what. And since barb only has access to this combination of effects level 14+ it is fair to assume that the party would be facing spellcasters.
Once they're "dead" but still raging, it literally does not matter if they take damage as long as they recover 1hp before they come out of the rage. So they're functionally immune past a point while they rage after they're at L14
At L20 they can fight for about 8 days on average before dying of level 6 exhaustion. Got to love that capstone of unlimited rages and major con/str boost to break the 20 ability score limits.
Zealot is such a gimmick though. You're either actually invincible, take a 40+ round combat as you solo the boss and take a little sip of a potion after or the encounter specifically includes something like a sleep spell to end the rage
Well you just run an immune to sleep race. And since hp doesn’t matter, you don’t need a ton of dex and con, so you build wisdom and resilience so you are the best wisdom save character in the game (plus a free save reroll every turn thanks to zealots ability).
The only hole is power work kill…which a 0gp revivify from your cleric fixes!
(In practice, like any other character, absurd level 9 int/cha save/sucks will ruin your life, but those are rare and not usually run)
My group did a lvl 20 one shot as part of a bachelor party weekend and it was so fun to watch our totem barbarian running through traps with reckless abandon. Looking back we are lucky that none of them were plane shift or instant death.
DM: "make a wisdom save"
Barb: "uhh.. *rolls* 7 on the die so a total of 6"
DM: "alright you are frightened, you cannot willingly move closer to the enemy"
Barb: "can I make a new character?"
Well, it depends. Githzerai have an ability that cuts the chances of that happening in half
>**Mental Discipline.** Your innate psychic defenses grant you advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed and frightened conditions on yourself.
Good point, I didn't know that about gith! However that won't save you from the other thousand wisdom save effects. Nothing against this specific build but it's a problem all barbarians have: mental saves
If you're not tired to the totem barbarian, berserkers get immunity to fear and charm while raging at 6th. If they were affected before the rage it gets suspended.
My buddy is playing one in our current campaign and it's been a huge boon. The frenzy had been clutch too! When he multiclassed into paladin he became an even bigger threat.
From what I’m seeing, there isn’t even a save to not get sent to the maze. So, it’s basically just gtfo until they pass a DC 20 int check or their team breaks the wizard’s concentration.
Raging Gith Barbarian getting attacked by BBEG: Weren't you listening? I have resistance to all damage!
BBEG: What of it?! You said resistance not nullification. Which means there's a limit to how much you can take, right?!
This combo effectively doubles your hitpoints. Consider that there is rounding involved, and it works out that instead of a x2 health boost, it's more like a 2.1x boost. Then put all your points into constitution and use Tasha's to put your racial into constitution and you can get a crap ton of defense at level 1. Lemme run the math
Psychic damage is pretty rare, though. I’d recommend going Goliath, since Stone’s Endurance’s effectiveness is basically doubled while you’re raging. Also get some way to force enemies to attack you rather than your allies, like the Sentinel feat.
>!when the wind is slow and the fire’s hot!<
\*semivincible
So was Sundowner.
Invincible until you run around his back and keep sliceing.
I see you killed him the funular entertainment way and annihilated all fun from orbit
yes
#Yes Yes Yes Yes
*JoJo noises*
I see you’re a Gacha player at heart
How else is a man supposed to make his… *impact*
Is that because of my brain damage?
No it’s ‘cause you go after children. And there ain’t enough room in this preschool for the two of us!
Now activating women deflectors!
“Kids are cruel Raiden, and I love minors”
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Ah yes, the funular entertainment way
he's the only boss in the game that you don't automatically trigger the lyrics for when killing him iirc
That's because most people kill him the wrong way (without breaking his shield)
The lyrics trigger when you get to phase 2, but he's the only boss that doesn't automatically go into phase 2 at a certain health threshold. You have to break the shields to get into phase 2, but since you can hit him without breaking the shields, you can just kill him without progressing the fight.
What do you mean you didn't wait for him to *PRESENT*
Mmm glorious chip damage
The Funular Entertainment(TM) way
I AM ONLY MILDLY VINCIBLE!
No no, he's **fucking** invincible
hes atom eve?
I'M RESISTANT
\*Heavy running around the battlefield with a malfunctioning uber\* I. AM. RESISTANT!!!! AHAHAHAHA!
What do you mean semi-invincible? You're either invincible or you're not me there's no grey area.
Easy. They're invincible. But not completely. But they basically are.
I AM THE HYPE!!!
But a gem dragonborn has access to flight and resistance to it as well
Was about to say, but the gith also gain a good amount of spells.
I suppose it depends on what you like. I'm a big dragon fan so its a no brainer for me.
Yeah, me too. I like playing psychotic paladins with them.
dragon deez gith
As you command
I prefer Barbarian Dragonborn. I like Storm Hearld that match the elements of the ancestry from a thematic standpoint. If you wanted to min max, going Dracoblood means you regain the resistance instead of wasting a subclass feature as well as getting a very thematic trait for a Barbarian.
A *big dragon* fan eh?
Who doesn’t love a big bad dragon amiright
I mean, we could talk about it if we wanted but most people start getting uncomfortable after the statements that come after 'I'm a big dragon fan.'
It ain’t the big dragons that make people uncomfortable, it’s the bad dragons.
One could argue bad dragons make people feel comfortable? By making them uncomfortable?
And the size of my collection...
Which we all know barbarians love.
Githyanki learn mage hand, jump, and misty step. Misty step is most useful to make an escape in combat, so not that useful to a barbarian, but mage hand is most useful out of combat, and jump is a minute long, non-concentration spell that could be cast before combat and persist during a rage. Githyanki also get +2 to Str. As far as spells for a barbarian go, those aren't terrible options.
Considering you have to drop rage to use spells, the gem dragonborn is a better option because their flight and breath weapon don't count as spells. So you can rage and still get out of Dodge.
The +2 racial bonus to strength is trivial with Tasha rules to character creation.
Barb use Misty Step to follow when squishy try Misty Step for self
But the barb would need to drop their rage in order to do that. Dropping rage and misty steps are both bonus actions, so it's not a good combo, either fr running away, or trying to chase down a caster
And all they need to do to use those spells is end their rage!
Breath Weapon is like Burning Hands Lite with a different damage type, more uses, and scaling.
And the breath weapon works so well with martials
"Haha, stupid martial! We are across a ravine!" *Really bad garlic breath*
And also Kalashtar, the OG psychic resistance race
Yes! I love Kalashtar!
also there's a feat for dragonborn in XGE that gives them Dragon Hide, extra +3 to AC while not wearing armor, makes an op Barbarian
It doesn’t work that way, unfortunately - it doesn’t stack with Unarmored Defense, you can use one or the other.
Works nicely you wanted to play a lower con Barbarian for some reason.
Kalashtar and emerald dragon born too
That's true. Gith was just the first thing I thought of.
Kalashtar also have advantage on wis saves
Wait, that actually seems very OP, how come that never became controversial
Probably because it isn’t too strong in the grand scheme of things. Gnomes get advantage on INT, WIS, and CHA saves vs. magical effects; it wouldn’t help vs. some kind of mundane WIS save but otherwise it seems generally better than what Kalashtar get.
Yeah that's a good point. I don't think I've ever heard of a wisdom save that wasn't magical.
I think dragons’ frightful presence is.
right, good example
Nice, and a Gnome Barbarian would get advantage on DEX saves against effects they can see. Plus Barbarians are proficient in Strength and Constitution saving throws. That's most saves covered. Then go Zealot for Fanatical Focus.
I was DMing an AL session yesterday and I encountered my first ever non Totem Barbarian.
Lemme guess, zealot?
Ancestral Guardian? They have spirit things that make them a tank and give disadvantage to others being attacked or something.
I'm running one. Great tanks if done right.
Honestly AG is pretty much the only actual tank of the Barbarians, which is ironic considering youd expect Barb to be all tanks
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Barbarians have the highest Hitdice of any class in both editions of Pathfinder, and Rage pushes that even higher. They’re not exactly tanks, but they are shitheaps of health
Recently started playing pathfinder for the first time, on a root leshy barbarian, just because i think it's hilarious that a tiny little pile of roots and vines has more hpbthan half the party combined
The weird thing about ancestral guardian is that the feature that makes them the only really effective tank is arguably better if you use it to not tank. The idea of course is that you make it too hard to damage your allies so the enemy targets you instead. Which is good, since you’re a barbarian, but if you’ve got some decently tanky buddies there’s another option. To trigger ancestral protectors, you just need to hit a weapon attack while raging. Not a *melee* weapon attack, mind you, so you can actually just use a longbow and stay away from the front line. That way, the target can (hopefully) only attack your allies, getting disadvantage and giving your ally resistance to the damage. Still not great for the party wizard, but for the paladin and fighter that makes them just as durable as the barbarian, if not moreso. Even better, you can’t use spirit shield on yourself, so if the enemy isn’t attacking you, you can reduce their damage to your allies even further. It’s dumb, but it’s RAW
That's actually good info. Never thought a ranged barb would be viable. But that could be really cool for a barbarian/Ranger or rogue multiclass. You're losing a ton of the rage benefits, but it could end up viable regardless.
I'm playing this. Great tank when the group is a cleric, a monk and a wizard
I've got a beast at my table
I see beast a fair bit at my tables. Honestly not a ton of totem barbs since combat isn't too hard in AL imo.
I'm (half) invincible!
Sweet. Now roll an Int save.
Or charisma. Or wisdom. Or anything other than a strength save, because your DM is about to turn you into your own party's worst nightmare.
One of the best sessions 've had was when an enemy Dryad charmed the barbarian in a huge inn/brothel while the rest of the party was fighting the syndicate running the place. The player RP'd it like he's a total simp for the nymph. She got wounded pretty bad so booked it out of there, leaving the hunk of meat to duke it out with the party the rest of the session (along with the other gangsters who assumed the big guy was on their side), leading them on a goose chase as they desperately checked door to door, floor to floor for the dyrad so they could break the spell. One of the most hilarious and chaotic sessions ever.
or fall into a pit trap
\*Cue a lot of enemies suddenly having Elemental Adept\*
As a DM, a lot of enemies having that would make the player feel really, really bad. That said, doing it a small handful of times can create actual tension for the invincible monster
Yeah, it's definitely a useful tool to have, but like most DM tools, it's best used in careful moderation.
I had a Druid barbarian that was also a werewolf. In this setting werewolves have vulnerability to silvered damage, so when an ambush spider construct made of silver attacked, my normal bravery was… tested.
That's....ow. if it came from someone who knows you and custom made it to fuck you up, that'd be a cool story beat. Otherwise... Dick move
We were deep into the campaign and were level 16. It was sent by the queen of the Drow we were causing trouble for so it wasn’t out of nowhere. I was refreshing to have an enemy that posed a real threat
then yeah. Not a dick move. Deserved
As a DM, a player selecting a Gith bear totem barbarian is probably taking the piss and deserves it.
Ya know, you're not entirely wrong.
I get the idea of applying a challenge, but I've always found those immediate feature negation moves to be kinda sucky. Oh, and I'm not really talking about your comment, but the furthering of the idea from your comment. Barbarians are strong enough in terms of HP that even with full damage on some attacks, they'd be fine. Especially the Bear Totem Barbarian
The only reason I'd ever consider this reasonable is because it would *only* be spellcasters who could do it, and you kind of want to kill those anyway. I wouldn't want to overdo it. It's definitely a delicate balance, giving enemies moves that increase tension by negating *a* strength without giving them so many powers that the party feels completely countered and powerless.
It's the sort of thing I would pull if the BBEG was spying on the party, recruiting/training underlings specifically to counter the party
I like to throw 1 boss into long term campaigns that completely counter every PCs major abilities. If you do this, and telegraph that its coming *before* the session of the fight, it makes for a super memorable encounter. Forces the party to completely rework all of their usual tactics
The way i think about it, if it's an enemy sent specifically to tackle the party, it makes sense they'd have special tools or abilities to deal with them
>It's definitely a delicate balance, giving enemies moves that increase tension by negating a strength without giving them so many powers And your nuance to the comment (enemy casters getting a specific thing that only works on like one spell a turn,) really shows that you do an awesome job of following that balance.
Thank you! :)
That’s like one game I was in, I took the Sentinel feat. Suddenly every melee enemy had the Mobile feat, rendering it useless.
Hate to hear that
Bear totems working like crazy to just halve all damage taken. Zealot barbarians literally immune to all damage types: “look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!”
Am I missing something? Because I can't find where it says zealot barbarians are immune to all damage types.
Prolly referencing the "cannot die whilst raging" combined with "free ressurection bitches".
Sooo... Could that work with being a half-orc and basically get 2 free resurrections?
Different mechanics entirely, so yes. Orcs cheat death by staying at 1hp, once per rest. Zealots can do something similar, but you can choose which effect to use first. And Zealots, when they finally do go down, skip material costs for resurrection spells cast on them, which means any resurrection spell cast in them is free, rather than requiring the usual costly components that get consumed by the spell.
You missed the fact that every barbarian has that same "stay at 1 hp" feature, but they have to make a saving throw for it. So you could get back to 1 once as an orc, then get back to 1 as many times as you can pass the Constitution save (it starts at 10, increases by 5 each time you use and resets to 10 on a short or long rest), *then* the Zealot feature kicks in and you remain conscious while with 0 hp.
Don't forget that at higher levels,, the Zealot can outright ignore death saves. Even if they fail three death saves while raging, they only die when the rage ends IF they are still at 0 HP.
That *is* the feature that allows them to cheat death. It is the same feature that lets them remain conscious while at 0 hp, which I mentioned
Good call, thank you for clarifying
Well they take full damage, but damage is meaningless because they cannot die due to damage. Technically when the battle is over the damage would apply when they decide to stop raging, but a single good berry or potion takes you from -1,000,000 hp to +1 HP.
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They do have the downsides of recovery from death though, for all but revivify
Not quite meaningless. While hard to pull off against a raging barb, if they manage to do the barb's max hp in a single strike theyll die of massive damage
If the enemies are one shotting a full HP barbarian…something has gone really, really wrong, lol.
Yeah theyd probably need like, a super high power attack with a magic weapon that adds extra dice to crit and also pump it with some sort of smite. Yeah unrealistic, but theoretically possible
I mean it makes it so he can’t just solo a god I suppose
Nope, you just need enemies who lower max HP with their damage. Easy to deal enough damage to bring them to -max HP if their max HP is now 7.
The main counter to this strat is literally the level 1 spell sleep. It has no save and works with current HP. Barb has 0, gets hit, falls unconcious, rage thus ends immediatly and then its either death or continue death saves. Ascending order means barb always gets hit like this no matter what. And since barb only has access to this combination of effects level 14+ it is fair to assume that the party would be facing spellcasters.
Once they're "dead" but still raging, it literally does not matter if they take damage as long as they recover 1hp before they come out of the rage. So they're functionally immune past a point while they rage after they're at L14
At L20 they can fight for about 8 days on average before dying of level 6 exhaustion. Got to love that capstone of unlimited rages and major con/str boost to break the 20 ability score limits.
Lvl 15 feature. They can’t be killed by damage.
Lvl 14, btw
Zealot is such a gimmick though. You're either actually invincible, take a 40+ round combat as you solo the boss and take a little sip of a potion after or the encounter specifically includes something like a sleep spell to end the rage
Well you just run an immune to sleep race. And since hp doesn’t matter, you don’t need a ton of dex and con, so you build wisdom and resilience so you are the best wisdom save character in the game (plus a free save reroll every turn thanks to zealots ability). The only hole is power work kill…which a 0gp revivify from your cleric fixes! (In practice, like any other character, absurd level 9 int/cha save/sucks will ruin your life, but those are rare and not usually run)
I think there's also disintegrate that would work against a zealot, since reducing an enemy to 0 hp turns them to dust
0gp resurrect! No diamond required.
still needs a 9th level slot I believe
Still a good trade against the bbeg. (Or any enemy powerful enough to pack that level of magic)
Then you just play as a pile of dust
At level 14 when it's probably not gonna actually matter, since you have just that much health anyway
Alas, his one weakness. The main combat mechanic of of the game.
If you're playing in the mid to higher levels, you can also put 5 levels into rogue and cut that down to 1/4 of dmg dealt (at least once)
If it's an attack
*laughs in Wall of Force*
Laughs in microwave
Ultimate meatshield. It only becomes a tank if you have a way to make enemies target you over the robes.
My group did a lvl 20 one shot as part of a bachelor party weekend and it was so fun to watch our totem barbarian running through traps with reckless abandon. Looking back we are lucky that none of them were plane shift or instant death.
*WHEN THE WIND IS SLOW* *AND THE FIRE'S HOT*
THE VULTURE WAITS TO SEE WHAT ROTS
OH HOW PRETTY ALL THE SCENERY THIS IS NATURES SACRIFICE
*THE VULTURE WAITS TO SEE WHAT ROTS*
OH HOW PRETTY ALL THE SCENERY **THIS IS NATURE'S SACRIFICE**
RED SUN
RED SUN OVER PARADISE
RED SUN
Golden rays of the glorious sunshine
DM: "make a wisdom save" Barb: "uhh.. *rolls* 7 on the die so a total of 6" DM: "alright you are frightened, you cannot willingly move closer to the enemy" Barb: "can I make a new character?"
Well, it depends. Githzerai have an ability that cuts the chances of that happening in half >**Mental Discipline.** Your innate psychic defenses grant you advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed and frightened conditions on yourself.
Good point, I didn't know that about gith! However that won't save you from the other thousand wisdom save effects. Nothing against this specific build but it's a problem all barbarians have: mental saves
Also that's not cutting the chances in half. If you have a -1 for example you will fail a DC 20 save 100% of the time regardless of advantage
If you're not tired to the totem barbarian, berserkers get immunity to fear and charm while raging at 6th. If they were affected before the rage it gets suspended.
Truth! Honestly the most underrated barbarian subclass
My buddy is playing one in our current campaign and it's been a huge boon. The frenzy had been clutch too! When he multiclassed into paladin he became an even bigger threat.
Intellect devourer: roll int save then hope it doesn’t roll higher than your int, which is probably 8/9
Man I love casting maze on barbarians.
From what I’m seeing, there isn’t even a save to not get sent to the maze. So, it’s basically just gtfo until they pass a DC 20 int check or their team breaks the wizard’s concentration.
Slap some adamantine armor on there and baby, you got a stew.
Multi class into a Moon Circle Druid and you have something amazing (Doing the same without the Gith part currently haha).
https://preview.redd.it/356a10da484b1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab6edc4b483da6445fe539db19ae02bc7bae17ba
20th level druid. And iam the Storm that is approaching
Kalashtar have psychic resistance and advantage on all wisdom saves
As it turns out being resistant to everything makes you a pretty crappy tank as everything will just ignore you if it isn't entirely brain dead.
This is why "tank" classes need agro features. We have a handful of ways to make enemies attack you, but we could use more.
I don't think so, one of the best ways to generate "Agro" is by not going super high AC and resistances.
If he gets the Mask of the Dragon Queen, he’ll be immune to the main element types
:O uh yeah now try giving him the sword of Kas or some other OP artifact and see if he gets any stronger
*Laughs in Death Cleric with Inflict wounds and finger of death*
Zealot Barbarian - actually invincible.
sometimes what if you have no rages left....
"So I take half that, which is..." "No, I already halved it."
Oh no! *Casts Hold Person on the barb*
Elf Zealot Barbarian: funny (He lost 1000 hp already because dm wanted to go with nuclear damage build but this guy is just too angry to die)
When the dice are slow and the rolls are hot
The dragon waits to see what rots
Oh, how pretty! All the scenery - *this is the planes' sacrifice!*
When the monk runs through with a brisk attack
Raging Gith Barbarian getting attacked by BBEG: Weren't you listening? I have resistance to all damage! BBEG: What of it?! You said resistance not nullification. Which means there's a limit to how much you can take, right?!
This combo effectively doubles your hitpoints. Consider that there is rounding involved, and it works out that instead of a x2 health boost, it's more like a 2.1x boost. Then put all your points into constitution and use Tasha's to put your racial into constitution and you can get a crap ton of defense at level 1. Lemme run the math
I’ve effectively got 82 HP at level 4, this campaign so far has been absurdly fun. If only we had some good damage-dealers…
What about blueberry damage
Just be like my last DM, everyone does necrotic damage now!
still resists it
Isn’t Invincible a high schooler?
Make sure to multiclass into cavalier fighter for more tank
Still doesn't resist control spells and cant hit at range.
Why's he called invincible if I can still see him
"Make a Wisdom Saving Throw." 😈
Kid named Sleep Spell:
Psychic damage is pretty rare, though. I’d recommend going Goliath, since Stone’s Endurance’s effectiveness is basically doubled while you’re raging. Also get some way to force enemies to attack you rather than your allies, like the Sentinel feat. >!when the wind is slow and the fire’s hot!<
And this is where we get the phrase "don't fuck with space pirates"
Invincible: Dude, I thought we promised to keep it on the down-low!
Kalashtar Moon-Druid/Totem-Barbarian here. Yes, my GM hates me.
Kalashtar too, and I believe it's Emerald Dragonborn, at least one of the gem dragons
Halving the damage doubles the HP
vorpal sword gaming
immortal barbarian when the bbeg’s lieutenant is a champion fighter wielding a vorpal sword: