Barbarian

Sean O'Hare.

And joining me, as always, engineer of the cleanest fadeout [laughs] of all time, and playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian, Abdul Aziz.

Oh, yeah, sorry.

[laughs]

Oof.

Taking him away from the fight and, uh, tossing him to who knows what threats and dangers.

Uh, meanwhile, Tacoma Dome the Barbarian, passed out from pain-

Yes

Can we stick the landing? well at level 14 we could go back to fighter right grab another feat it'd be nice and i mean obviously there are other good things to be had in fighter for sure but the best things from fighter damage wise at least wouldn't come until very late game fighter 17 and beyond so for our purposes Yeah, I think we should do something that I bet a lot of you have been anticipating since you first realized I was making a strength-based needler today.

That's right, we are tapping into our rage and going Barbarian.

Because at Barbarian 1, yes, we get rage, which says that as a bonus action we can tap into our inner anger and then, for 10 minutes, As long as we make an attack, or force a save, or just use a bonus action to keep it going every round, we have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, awesome, have advantage on strength checks and saves, and also, yes, do an extra 2 damage per hit when we use strength to make a weapon attack or unarmed strike, and no, it doesn't have to be a melee weapon, just has to use strength.

Though, for every ranged weapon except the dart, it does, right? So again, a fun little unique thing that the dart allows us to do.

Now, we can't wear heavy armor and rage, so I hope you haven't gotten too attached to your plate.

Now we can turn on Reckless Attack and take advantage of Tactical Master, right? And start pushing or slowing or sapping our targets when we hit them with our darts instead of vexing them.

And we can save those Luck Points for what we should have been saving them for all along our saving throws.

Speaking of, Barbarians also get Danger Sense at this level, which gives them advantage on Dexterity saving throws.

Alright, okay.

Alright, Barbarians.

Tonight we're going to optimize D&D 5e's Barbarians.

As we draw closer and closer to the end of the list of classes in 5th edition, we finally come to the Barbarian, the angriest boy, the most furious character at the table at any given time.

The literal meat shield in many cases.

All right, we're going to jump right into the basics.

So race, ability scores, as always.

Barbarians are pretty simple.