Hey, it's been a while. But im making a character based on Whitebeard from One Piece and this is a huge help! Ty!

Wonder how this build would be with Strixhaven

Currently running a Harengon peace cleric. Playing him as a natural pacifist and his spell list is oriented specifically to buffs, debuffs, and warding. I gave him the alert feat (rn he’s 6th level and had a +11 to initiative) so he is guaranteed to put his buffs out at the start of every round. Currently love playing him and watching my dm pull his hair out

The only thing if i could fuse toger is the grab proectile from range and toss it back

Is there any other feature that does what armor of agathys does?

Thanks! Now i made Anti-mage in dnd

Problem with the jumping grapple move is that you also take the falling damage, and that causes you to drop prone. After jumping 11+ feet in the air (costing double movement because you are dragging/carrying an enemy) you no longer have enough movement left over to stand up. Very risky.

I have an artificer sniper that uses only int It would never work if I was solo, but as long as the pocket healer keeps the tank alive, and I use cover when I can, it’s pretty deadly Just need to be a battlesmith artificer and make sure you have the repeating shot infusion and the sharp shooter feat

If you use 2014 Elderain are great

I built this basic character for a one shot, but it was a sorcerer/warlock who cast fast life a ton.

I'd love to see this one in 2024 but right now I don't think it can work in DND beyond. No access to superior technique, elk totem or minotaur race in a compatible way as they mix the new and old books too much for DND beyond to allow the combination

Wait who are you? Your not dnd daily?

The Prince of Frost

Thunder all the way

That spell sucks bud sorry the fact the spell drops after 5hp of damage

Went tiefling for this build im loving it

I know you where only using the PHB but if you combine this with 2 levels of warlock for Gift of the Ever-Living Ones you use the maximum value of any dice used to regain hit points, which takes this build to even more ridiculous levels.

Had to like just because of the "cancelled" lol. Great perspective.

How would you build this if wanted to dump strength instead of Dex? the 13str requirement for heavy weapons feels bad

I just wouldn't have fun with a low magic setting. I just do not enjoy playing martial characters. Taking the attack action endlessly until the campaign ends is not my idea of fun.

I don't think this build breaks the game but it probably does break small crowded dungeons full of minions. I couldn't blame the DM for designing much larger dungeons to try to keep the AoA to 2 major combats per casting. I also think tactically it's often going to be correct for the enemies to either focus fire this character to try to drop the spell or just (after a period) refuse to fight this character when they could target another and not take 25 damage. It's a very legitimate target for any dispel effects too. However this is basically true of all true tanks - you force enemies to "all or nothing" you.

Another promising Monk Build is to dip 1 or 2 levels into Ranger for Hunter's Mark, Weapon Mastery (get a Nick weapon), added skills, and a couple extra HP. Get Grappler at 4 and Magic Initiate (Wizard) at 8 (or as an Origin Feat). Get Shield and two cantrips of choice. Shield should bring your AC up to 21-22 for a few rounds during combat. Wielding 2 daggers, you would get 4 attacks, typically doing 1d8 (MW) + 4 (Dex) + 1d6 (HM) and another doing 1d8 + 1d6, or 6 attacks at Lvl 11 monk.

Making a character for a one shot Lv 20 our opponent is Tiamat, trying to figure out what kind of Build I wanna do

I love these simple powerful builds because some of my players want to feel powerful but aren't quite knowledgably enough in DnD to pull of more complex builds.

Regarding the Bag of Rats "problem"; keep in mind that, while the Bite can be done infinitely as an Attack, it can only empower yourself from the bite a proficiency modifier amount per Long Rest which is 2-6 times a day. Even if you were to do everything to min-max this, you're definitely trading some combination of resources still: - Space. - Carrying Capacity. - Spell Slots. - Food. - Water. - Coins. - Class Resources (I:E Rages) - Stats (Low Strength, Dexterity, Spellcasting Stat) About the only broken thing with the Bite is that you can make the rats Unconscious due to it being a melee attack meaning you don't have to kill your food source, but even attempting to "abuse" this to fish for crits (instead of spending spell slots on Hold Person/Monster), you'd have to compensate with a HUGE amount of rats that's going to tax your other resources.

Now that's the creativity in DnD build I like

3 level Scribes wizard with flame blade and Rome’s Binding Ice for second level, manic middle and ice knife for first level thunderclap, shocking grasp, fire bolt and frostbite for cantrips, and HEAFTY use of the ability to swap damage types.

funny enough I’ve made a eladrin wildfire Druid and realized it was amazing with the movement but he’s going more healing focused

Would probably take a Barb level later at some point If i do not Polymorph

Great build and a really fun play style

I'm sad they didn't put my favorite spell in the 2024 PHB...Shadow of Moil is just so cool! It's Blur+Darkness+Fire Shield all wrapped up into one

I wish they would’ve made the eldritch invocations that used to affect Eldritch Blast but now affect any warlock cantrip scale the same way as it does with Eldritch Blast. Like at level 11 Agonizing Blast would be a +5 damage three times with Eldritch Blast but only once with the other ones. Make it so the effect of the invocation occurs for every damage die that is rolled, bringing the other cantrips in line with the damage/utility of Eldritch Blast with a greater risk/reward since it isn’t 3 separate attack rolls or saves. Firebolt would go from 3d10+CHA to 3d10+(n•CHA), where n is the number of damage dice

Ok, but temp hit points don't stack right? It always picks the highest amount. So in theory if you cast false life your armor of agathys just drops.

Physical Damage reduction pairs well with AoA. If only there was an easy way to get access to that kind of DR easily at early levels and with barely any cost. **Heavy breathing in Barbarian** Just gotta cast AoA before activating Rage. The spell’s duration is long enough to reasonably do this before combat if you have the chance.

If you’re using One DnD content you shouldn’t label your video “DnD 5e”

Using the bastion rules I started my last combat with 85 temp hp. I'll have to ask if I can use 2024 AoA

The main problem with this build is you tank so well and punish so well the attacks, the enemies have to ignore you and attack your team mates xD The build have the Levistus seal of aproval, a great melee duel expert whit a impenetrable ice armor.

This also makes the perfect FOIL to the mob boss, the detective.

Don’t mean to be that guy. But there is a much simpler way to do this lol. The new rules for Druid say that ur wild shape is counted as temp hp… but for higher level, yea this is way better

Polymorph yourself into a giant ape on turn 2 for 154 temp HP! The new polymorph gives you temp hp equal to the beast's instead of replacing your HP with the beast's.

Abuse scribe wizard and take shadow blade but change the damage type and grab crown of stars at higher level. You'll only be able to do one shadowblade so take gift of the chromatic dragon for your offhand and go dual wielder. You'll want a rapier scimitar and shortsword for finesse and then hit up dexterity for AC off of mage armor. For all that fancy fighting either go Battlemaster or Eldritcj Knight for more spells. In fact you should start your build with fighter for con saves. Because you are squishy you should be taking tough as a v. Human (I dont want to do custom lineage). I refuse to suggest bladesinger as lorewise and flavorwise it makes no sense, and the whole "dance of battle" vibe to skirt around the subclass lore with a dumb excuse never really was my style. Reflavoring is okay but never desirable

I made a build in dnd that absolutely abused wither and bloom to the point where I would be able to heal 28/29 hp as a bonus action each round. Plus resistances equates to roughly 60 hp per round

I made a similar build that was a Warlock 1/Bard 13, getting access to Polymorph and Power Word Fortify along the way.

Me: Armor of Agathys was already a spectacular spell, how the hell could they have buffed it?! Me after the explanation: My....GOD

I'm not saying this is optimal in every fight, but one thing you could do is take a couple hits, pop AoA and Vampiric Touch, and heal yourself up while your AoA absorbs hits. You'd want Fire Shield up first to make those hits you take worth it. You want Fire Shield any way you cut it.

Wouldn’t Archfey be better here? Its spells arent as good but you have so many misty steps that youll never run out of them and refreshing step can give you temp HP. You also have fear step and if you take sentinel you can fear step to somthing and smack it > if it failed the save it disengages on its turn > Sentinel lets you hit them again. And if they pass the save they will just hit into AoA and take damage anyways.

Lovely

There's no way in hell this is actually how the new Armor of Agathys is supposed to work. Still, very cool build. Keep up the good stuff

I made a 2024 build very similar to this except i run a tiefling with the flames of p feat. Greenflame blade a great axe and mastery with great axes.

Dont temp HP still not stack? How do you get temp HP from both Armor of Agathys and False Life at the same time?