You Might Be a Lycan Blood Hunter | Blood Hunter Subclass Guide for DND 5e

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Hey! Guess what. You're Awesome and thanks for watching. I promise this is the best DND tutorial based on a 30 year old Jeff Foxworthy joke you'll ever see. Stick around for more and vote in the comments for which subclass you'd like to next.
I once slapped a werewolf in real life. It's a great story actually. So these kids in my high school were obsessed with the twilight movies and this couple thought they actually were the girl and the werewolf from the movie and every morning they would be fiercely making out in the lunch room while people are trying to eat their terrible breakfast. Well I stumbled past them half asleep because mornings were created by Satan, and kinda reacted in surprise and a little disgust at these two dry humping on those round swivel chairs in the lunchroom. So the girl who thought she was Bella, got really really mad at that... Well about a week or two later I'm walking around after school and spot those two again just going at it in a corner when the girl looks up, points, and I swear on my life, snaps and yell's "Sic 'em," to the boy. And this mf got on all fours and started running at me like a dog... I was so shocked I went to put my hand out to either stop him or punch him or something, but I ended up just flat palm slapping him right across the face. He was so stunned and I was so stunned and we just sat there for a minute before I just started laughing like an idiot and walked away... So there it is... I slapped a werewolf irl.
All music credit to Kevin Macleod
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[@samadtheduelist]

also just wanted to say the comedy is never stale, and I'm sooo happy that you got a sponsorship just means that you are being recognized which you highly deserve

[@Wintermute909]

Totally agree! All I'd add is that no one on KZbin does 'shorts' as well. That loopback trick is genius!

[@dougthegorgon2341]

I’m glad that footage from Van Helsing was your go-to. That movie is just plain weird but the werewolf design is awesome

[@9toelarry61]

Setting your Hemocraft modifier to INT and taking a 2lv dip into Wizard for Bladesinger is a fun combo if you can wait till character level 7 for it really come online.

[@jcmohr]

In Curse of Strahd, I'm playing a Firbolg Lycan Bloodhunter who's werewolf half was an entirely different person at one point, but the two were merged together by torturous experimentation in a place called 'the Abbey' (think an insane asylum, mixed with a mad scientist lab, and a church) to become a mindless, super-powered werewolf that would be the ultimate vampire killing machine. This didn't work, and now I essentially am playing a two-in-one character with very different personalities who are united in their goal to kill 'the Abbott', who did this to them in the first place and runs the Abbey, so the Abbott can't hurt anyone the way they hurt my character. My party also just now found out about my werewolf side, so that's been super fun hehe

[@mitchmcginn4250]

Not going to lie, that all sounds freaking awesome!

[@jeffreyeshbach9372]

If you don’t yell “‘ey Abbott!” when you eventually face off against this guy then I don’t even know what you’re doing with your life.

[@thesilliestgoose5990]

As someone who played Bloodborne this whole comment felt delightfully familiar

[@BlackWolf-bu5dt]

@@thesilliestgoose5990glad I wasn’t the only one

[@jimmyteeling737]

Lycan Bloodhunter and Beast Barbarian could be a really sick combo! If youre at or below half hp and rage while in Lycan form, use your beast barabarian bite to regain hp to put you over the bloodlust threshold! Im adding this to the list of characters I desperately wanna play, but never will as the forever DM

[@danielhaycroft1597]

dude just make a dmpc im a forever dm and get away with having a character it just takes a little multi tasking and a little bit of avoiding the accidental meta gameyness of knowing what the party are fighting at the moment.

[@wrightcore3367]

One of my favorite characters is a Shifter Lycan Blood Hunter. Just all in on the werewolf motif. He started out as a lone wolf, but he grew to be the leader figure of his pack (i.e. his party).

[@dylanpollack]

I made mine a winged tiefling damphir for the sake of having all the infernal abominations in one character lol

[@salgutierrez4710]

Multiclassed this with Beast Barbarian. Somehow, some way, I nearly soloed a young red dragon almost halfway through the campaign

[@grantbourgeois2436]

I just want the bard lol... although this is good too

[@rileygibs4956]

poor lore bard

[@starhalv2427]

No bard. Only chaos.

[@erikwilliams1562]

Never!

[@RockLucena]

I used to scoff at the blood hunter as "just a class for teenage edgelords", until I played one. Now, my dampyr lycan blood hunter is probably my favorite character. His "lycan" form is a bat/demon... :P

[@mattcurnell2545]

yah its so easy to make work

[@quantum7046]

I just discovered your channel an hour ago and was binge watching it and here's another! Love your content

[@xxSADPUPPYxx]

So happy to see you keeping up consistency on these videos been around since bladesinger and seeing how your channel is growing from those early moments. Genuinely happy for ya

[@youmightbeadnd]

I appreciate it. Truly.

[@darkvizardking69]

Oh the hemocraft die is fun to gamble with, just ask Mollymauk. I know, I'm terrible for bringing it up but he was the reason a dual wielding blood hunter is a badass option. Hoping you do a ghost slayer vid at some point! Take your time on it though, can't rush the good stuff.

[@jeffreyeshbach9372]

It’s been like 3 years… I think it’s fine to bring up his death at this point. Hell… I was laughing about it like five seconds after it happened.

[@darkvizardking69]

@@jeffreyeshbach9372 true, but you never know who's experiencing that story for the first time.

[@jeffreyeshbach9372]

@@darkvizardking69 that’s like saying spoilers when discussing Endgame. If you’re that far behind you can’t fault people who aren’t. Edit: I should mention that I’m just saying this in light-hearted ribbing. I realize tone doesn’t translate well and this could be coming off really douchey.

[@darkvizardking69]

@@jeffreyeshbach9372 oh that's fine, but you've got new critters coming into this because of TLOVM and soon we'll be seeing this animated, so to say I'm expecting people to react is an understatement.

[@samadtheduelist]

dude I'm a huge fan just looking out for you, you might wanna remove some of those gore scenes in the vid youtube is sensitive about that stuff, otherwise excellent vid as always

[@youmightbeadnd]

Good so far but thanks for the heads up. I can blur if I need to later. Good looking out!

[@re1v3r]

The humor in your videos are so money, I can't stop watching them 😂 I really like your stuff!

[@Nightmareblackop]

Like you've literally become one of my favourite DND channels. Keep up the great work and hope it continues

[@dustonr9570]

Just wanted to say your sense of humor and direction for this channel are incredible finding your channel has been a breath of fresh air. Keep it up

[@ellaberintodejuan0524]

A really food build would be Lycan Bloodhunter/Swashbuckler rogue. Since your claws are finesse they count for Sneak Attack and with Fancy Footwork you always get Sneak Attack while in a 1v1

[@woutvanostaden1299]

I don't think they are actually stated as finesse (despite giving the choice of dex or strength, it's the same with monk weapons, just because you can choose between dex or strength doesn't mean it has the finnesse trait. Otherwise I would definately dip monk if I'll ever play dhampir rogue), can you look again just to make sure, cause it would be pretty cool with swashbuckler.

[@woutvanostaden1299]

A dhampir lycan blood hunter/phantom rogue using their bit to sneak attack and heal a little would be awesome. (Swashbuckler is cool too though)

[@kiritotheabridgedgod4178]

So, I recently helped a DM with creating some pre-generated characters for drop in oneshots, and this class and subclass can be really scary, and also thematically fitting, for a triple class in a level 5 character. Order of the Lycan 3, Hunger Sorcerer 1, Hunter in the Dark Warlock 1(both the warlock and Sorcerer subclasses are in Tome of Heroes). You know when an enemy is blow half health, when you kill an enemy, you heal equal to your Sorcerer level + charisma and cause enemies within 30 feet of the enemy you killed, to make a wisdom save equal to your warlock spell save DC or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn. It works stupidly well with Fallen Aasimar, given the additional sources of fear. Cause Fear and Hex as warlock spells, Mage armour and Shield as Sorcerer spells. If you have a Hide armour, Mage armour and Shield, with a dex of 12, you'll have an AC between 17 and 19 in combat, whilst being a melee blender and CC specialist, who has minor self healing. Myself and the DM were giggling like fucking madman the entire time we were making this character. And for an extra flair of fear factor, due to the celestial aspect of the race we chose, the transformation has an uncomfortable amount of eyes. Marie Gascoigne is a fucking Menace of a build, and it's only going to get worse as they level up between oneshots.

[@elizabethmentelos5836]

One of my players is playing a lycan BH / monk multi class and once we found out he could run and swim 160 ft in a round AND had a standing jump of 30 feet we stoped and reassessed.

[@ktontim9926]

Do explain further....How?! LMAO

[@gavinbock8531]

Videos keep getting better!

[@CainSuzuko]

Was initially interested in the Profane Soul subclass but I got converted when I saw the artwork in the thumbnail. That's fucking badass.

[@glarak9819]

My Lycan attacks with custom claw weapons (mechanically Shortswords) and deals with Fey-Touched (Hunters Mark) and Gift of the chromatic dragon 1d6 (Weapon) + 1d6 (Rite) + 1d6 (HM) + 1 (Transformation) + 1d4 (Gift) + Dex Damage. Twice per round. And with his offhand attack everything except the 1d4 again (With a +3 Dex that is 50.5 damage/round on average if all three attacks hit) Downside, he fails his Bloodlust automatically because of HM so the Wizard is paste

[@B_Grizly]

Awesome video as always. Tried it a couple years ago and had a blast as a Lycan Witcher. If you’re working on Wild magic sorcerer, you gotta use a bit from Imagine Dragons song “Bones” it works way too well for it.

[@TheOnyxFoxReturns]

At the start: I just wanted to play Guts from Berserk and have his Lycan form be basically the Beast of Darkness. Vid: *Shows Zodd from Berserk at the very start* Me: Ah, okay.

[@user-zc1xo9tl9e]

Gotta say I‘m really exited for the sorcerer. I bet you‘re gonna pick the Wild Magic Subclass as that‘s basically a comedic rough draft by itself. Getting ready for round two of the subclasses!

[@tetsushatarii2108]

Right on time

[@brotheraracon3646]

I made a wendigo lycan I tied its transformation to his hunger and the amount of fresh meat around so he could even turn involuntarily if he was out of combat. He only fights with all of his abilities if he consumed sentient flesh

[@theblindjedi41]

Love the idea of this class.

[@SimplexStorm]

LMAO the references this time were perfect. Well done

[@qualitymcbro8452]

The Twilight puns for the twilight Cleric video are catching up with you lol. Stay strong (and maybe clear your cookies).

[@jonktheemu4449]

Love your way of making "turtorials"

[@Wilder-fx1sg]

Another great video bud! Love the humor. I'd love it if you did forge cleric

[@zanewollam3155]

Currently playing through rime of the frostmaiden as a Lycan Bloodhunter who was seperated from his Order during an investigation in the Dale. He has been one of my favorite and msot fun characters to play in recent, super fun class!

[@pauliepizzo8633]

With so slight retooling you could reflavor this as a jekyll and hyde like transformation and skip of the lycan stuff if you put your head to it

[@Seraphzero0]

I’ve never played a blood hunter but I think I’m sold

[@abrogaming5976]

Watched this to help understand the subclass. Im doing a compain with a friend whos dming for the first time, and im playing a owlfolk lycan blood hunter who was also born with lycanthropy

[@ghostthespiritgaurdian9172]

Dunno if it was overlooked or not but around a certain level , you can use your claws instead of your weapon during the transformation for your blood write effects

[@fremontstaples1752]

Great job man thank you

[@lifeofzumot1771]

My Variant assamir Blood Hunter appreciates the BH content. Not enough on the internet and it really helps lay things out

[@Volvith]

I always like the sacrifice option in games. Same with MTG and demon decks, basically sacrificing everything you've got in order to take every life point the opponent has.

[@Orcawsom]

So I've been wondering, how do you plan to handle classes you've already covered once we start getting to our next lap? are we gonna assume viewers have seen the previous ones and skip just to covering the subclass features or will every new video be treated like the first and go over the regular class abilities again? Been a fan of this channel since the beginning when you did Bladesinger and can't wait to see you cover my favourite classes like Rune Knight and Trickster Cleric, but I am hoping you have an interesting plan of how you'll handle these repeats.

[@garrett17roccaforte]

This was awesome to watch. Especially the fact I took the lycan path. Only a lvl 3 with an AC of 20 and 36 hp. A 7ft great sword that gives me a +2 to my d12 attack. Add the crimson and my bloat. Absolutely unreal. And I a pinch my sword gives me healing hands if necessary. Most bs thing ever lol 😅

[@Zamun]

Thanks for the howler content.

[@vlogswagon2342]

I love your content

[@daboi-god]

I use blood curse of marked and bloated agony to get juicy damage at lvl 6

[@Daedric_Secrecy]

I have a feeling a lot of people would do the same as you in the description story

[@TheIdealofGreed]

This makes me want to see more Blood Hunter videos

[@trialconesiaur1638]

I’m going to play Order if the “Lichen” (i.e. fungal zombie monster infection). Very excited

[@pumpkinknight5732]

Just remember, 🔥 is the most resisted element in the game.

[@casbot71]

Plasmoid or War Forged Lycan Blood Hunter, just to mess with how the DM interprets your use of blood.

[@kikiscribbles]

Now ive got a good class for a potential character that im hoping to play someday!! Her backstory is that she's the ex wife of a serial killer who's offering his victims to a devil for eternal life, and a trademark of his killings is to freeze his victims' corpses into ice statues using some magic his patron gifted him. Shes a really sweet and lovely 50s housewife, but also scarily intense, and now she can turn into a giant death puppy :D

[@jason7120]

Nice one

[@Dylan_lion]

I thought maybe pairing this with the werewolf barb class for double the wolf double the fun

[@a.z.pantera5577]

A Blue Dragonborn Lycan Blood Hunter with the lightning damage on your claws, and you're basically a Zinogre from Monster Hunter

[@sarosp9330]

That doggo... Why dogs?

[@nickdoingitbig]

god these are the best

[@l-Linguine]

The story in the description is pretty fuckign funny

[@Leon.K69]

Elden ting build. Fyi it's an incantation called bloodflame blade. Its a buffing spell

[@JeremieCampeau33]

You should do the other subclass of the BloodHunter

[@knightghaleon]

Originally I was glad to see the bloodhunter had a sort of warlock subclass, but it feels weaker than a regular warlock. So I've enjoyed the Mutant and the Lycan subclasses the most because of the flavor and abilities. Lycan really gets that risk/reward balance of the wolf form.

[@Crazy-vx2bn]

Is it me or would a reborn blood hunter order of the Lycan be really cool

[@Sanji19995]

I´m a little conflicted about the predatory strikes feature of the transformation. Since you still can use your weapons when transformed and the dmg bonus from feral might is added to melee attacks... why use the unarmed attacks at all? Should your character fight with two weapons the addition of one bonus attack from predatory strikes becomes meaningless. Am I missing a point or is it just not worth using predatory strikes over your weapons when you can still use your crimson rites?

[@Araeard]

So unfair after each one of these i'm like hell yeah i wanna be that in game! but im always stuck as the DM i need new friends

[@leiaanderson8859]

I have a question, does it have to be like a werewolf, or can it be a mythical creature? Cuz I have a Teifling Monster Hunter(multi class) Blood hunter and they turn into a Wendigo, would that be aloud? Or would I have to discuss it with the DM?

[@davidcantrell2568]

I’m curious would the resistance stack with the resistance of the bear totem barbarian because taking 1/4 damage would be a little OP.

[@WolfHreda]

"Why are Wolf People _so_ fuckin' horny?!" I know, dude.

[@dantedetoussaint209]

What the dog doing

[@calebwall987]

"Respect the alpha.." -Chetney

[@scribblerstudios9895]

I made a satyr lycan bloodhunter w/ the dueling fighting style. And medium armor (breast plate) w/ shield snd a comfy +3 dex. Dudes a fucking bowling ball, great for ping ponging the enemy back line :3

[@mickmack1409]

Did they errata two weapon fighting so that you only need to lice yourself once to get the damage bonus on both weapons? Because before you were better off using a single two handed weapon to avoid giving up too many hit points for your weapon damage bonus.

[@SunLovinSolaire]

Fun fact: Crimson Rite makes your weapon Magic. So you could always mess up other werewolves as long as you’re willing to be Metal as fuck first.

[@Chronesys]

What happen when you mix the beast barbarian with the lycan blood hunter? How many attack you can make with your attack action? 3/4?

[@kubiakpella]

Oathbreaker paladin pls

[@stormyblackheart7286]

THE FIRST FIVE SECONDS!!!

[@GlitchGhost1285]

I wanna slap on some path of the beast barbarian on this for more lvls of share badass! 💪😎

[@williamtodd6614]

What are the best races to choose for a Lycan Blood Hunter?

[@nicklasjr1612]

Funny enough I played a blood hunter kinda forgot they had this subclass I was a mutant blood hunter so I could make potions and he got bit by a wear wolf and turned

[@nabra97]

I'm still not over with an idea of the arteficer/blood hunter who got weird abilities and uncomfortable urge to gossip all the time after accidentally cutting herself while dissecting a vampire. Unfortunately, my DM doesn't allow any of these classes (it's a long story with arteficer, and blood hunter is homebrew).

[@drewpalacio8516]

Love this class, however, DM approved my transformation into a weretiger as opposed to a wolf.

[@shanomano1233]

Wait would wisdom be better or intelligence for this build?

[@unknowndragon3736]

If you get level 11 with an iuon stone of regeneration, you will never need healing again unless you get knocked down.

[@pranakhan]

I had a really fun idea for a BH:OotL in a Black Ops game. His name is {redacted}. I tried an exotic build by going {redacted}. Its worked well up to level 4, going through some Dead Realm homebrew called {redacted}. He is part of a clandestine organization called {redacted}, a para-military outfit working within the nation of {redacted}. He has done everything he can to distance himself from them, as he fears retaliation because of {redacted}. By breaking code, he'll spend the rest of his life on the run. Doing what he can to help those he comes across, to atone for what he had allowed himself to become. Also horny, but

[@martinderabbie3429]

I just can't believe the Blood Hunters Mascot Class is Lycan instead of Vampire. That's like if they made it Zombie it dosen't make sense. Vampires deal with Blood, Zombies Deal with Flesh

[@The_Proud_Finacal]

Blood hunter are basically Witchers, change my mind.

[@marcusblacknell-andrews1783]

I wonder if this works for all 5 types of Lycanthropes?

[@youmightbeadnd]

Yes. You can choose any kind as flavor as long as the stats remain the same.

[@marcusblacknell-andrews1783]

What about using the “Shifter” race to create a character with this subclass?

[@TheRox0923]

Wait... today isn't Friday :O

[@RoshiZen]

Lol

[@WunderhausMickeymaus]

"Blood Hunter is an official class at this point, right?" Tell that to my DM; they won't let players use it because it isn't from official books. :(

[@youmightbeadnd]

Gimme his number. I'll let him know.

[@erikwilliams1562]

Time for a new group fam

[@SoulRuninFree]

Hey do you have to play as a werewolf Or is it any lycanthrope.

[@youmightbeadnd]

Any lycanthrope!

[@SoulRuninFree]

@@youmightbeadnd oh thank you very much

[@BlackWolf-bu5dt]

What book is this class in?

[@reneestidston9119]

Nooo the furrys are taking over.

[@TheSilverCanine_R3D-H]

Hello there

[@michaelcampbell7037]

He says blood 25 times.

[@mnordpol7805]

Love how you made the video! Sub from me

[@woutvanostaden1299]

So blood hunt won? I'm lycan it🤣🤣🤣😂😅. Now let me go dive into the comment section to see how many fellow furries there are.

[@TheSilverCanine_R3D-H]

You called?

[@Ryker2608]

The lycan aspect of the bloodhunter seems underwhelming

[@arcmen2275]

Can heavy armor master nullifies 3 of the 1d4 damage?

[@jeffreyeshbach9372]

Just gonna say it… blood hunter is a big swing and a miss. But hey, edgelords gonna edgelord. Have fun making yourselves easier to kill so you can do extra damage for that one turn you survive.

[@chasehensley9415]

U where right doctor was impressed or shocked i dont remember. She looked like 😟🫨