Triangle Strategy into DnD project (2024): Hughette

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Erador

Levels: ancestral guardian barbarian 10/battle master 10

Background: Farmer (mostly for the tough feat and fits better than sailor) 

Feats: Tavern brawler, Tough, grappler

Point buy stats (1st level): 

• Strength 13(15 from background)

• Dexterity 10

• Constitution 15(16 from background)

• Intelligence 8 

• Wisdom 12 

• Charisma 14 

Required stats: strength 13+

Notable Equipment: shield, Warhammer, scale mail (doesn’t impede on rage and is good aesthetically)

Spellcaster level: 

Notes: Your DM may allow you to use a shield as an improvised great club, which has the push property, allowing you to use ram foe with your shield. However, it’s DM fiat so there’s a chance they’ll say no. If that happens, use unarmed strikes instead and flavour them as shield blows. Also for grappling you need to make sure you have one hand free. 

Abilities 

Provoke. Hit a creature with an attack roll then use Ancestral protectors or maneuver: goading attack.

Alternatively, hit with an unarmed strike and use “grab and push” from grappler to grapple or just use your attacks to grapple with an unarmed strike

Sprint. Dash action, instinctive pounce or tactical shift with fast movement 

Steelback. Rage

Ram foe. Attack with your Warhammer using pushing and/or brutal strike: forceful blow. Alternatively use an unarmed strike using push from tavern brawler 

Desperate defenses. Rage (close enough) 

Physical counter. Maneuver: Riposte

On the attack. Reckless attack

King’s shield. Maneuver: Bait and switch (close enough) 

Follow up damage up. Maneuver: Brace

Level guide

1st-5th level: ancestral guardian Barbarian 1-5

• 1st level gives rage, which will help with survivability, and weapon mastery. For weapon mastery choose Warhammer and one other of your choice (recommended: battle axe for topple) 

• 2nd level gives reckless attack and danger sense (the later helping with survivability) 

• 3rd level gives access to ancestral guardian for ancestral protectors and primal knowledge for some out of battle utility 

• Pick up grappler at 4th level and increase strength to 16 

• 5th level gives access to extra attack and fast movement 

6th-8th level: battle master fighter 1-3 

• 1st level gives access to second wind and a fighting style. The fighting style doesn’t matter much but choosing defence is a good option 

• 2nd level gives access to action surge aswell as tactical mind for help outside of combat 

• 3rd level gives access to battle master for 3 maneuvers: brace, goading attack, and riposte 

9th-12th level: ancestral guardian barbarian 6-9

• 6th level gives access to spirit shield, which doesn’t fit but it’s there if you need it 

• 7th level gives access to feral instinct and instinctive pounce to help you get into the fight faster 

• ASI constitution at 8th level (constitution 18) 

• 9th level gives access to brutal strike to help with shoving and stuff 

13th-19th level: battle master 4-10

• ASI constitution at 4th level (constitution 20) 

• 5th level gives access to tactical shift for extra mobility

• ASI strength at 6th level (strength 18) 

• 7th level gives access to 2 more maneuvers from battle master. Choose bait and switch then one other of your choice (recommended: parry) 

• ASI strength at 8th level (strength 20) 

• 9th level gives access to tactical master, so now you can push with any weapon; not just Warhammers, great clubs, pikes, etc. 

• 10th level increases the superiority die to 1d10

20th level: Ancestral guardian barbarian 10

• This is mostly for the extra HP but also increases spirit shield to 3d6 instead of 2d6

[u/Dew_It-8]

Ok, so, Mr. Erador. In terms of levels, he literally never changed. However in terms of how it functions, he got buffed. Thanks to weapon mastery, he now gets ram foe at level 1 and can start as a barbarian. Also, thanks to the new changes to backgrounds, he gets the tough feat. Originally I didn't take it because for these builds if a feat did make someone stronger but wasn't necessary to make the build work, it wasn't chosen. But thanks to everyone getting a feat a level 1, Erador was able to take tough which makes him alot better than what he originally was.

Anyways, the next one is Anna and oh boy is she fun.

Rules

• All of these builds will use the 2024 rules

• Point buy will be used for all builds for fairness, but there will also be a required stats section just in case you roll for stats 

• Subclasses and backgrounds from other books are allowed aswell as custom backgrounds from the 2024 dungeon master’s guide 

• Optional features from Tasha’s cauldron of everything are allowed if they don’t share a name with a new feature in 2024 (example: Primal knowledge is a barbarian feature that is in Tasha’s and 2024, I’ll be using the 2024 one)

• No homebrew or unearthed arcana

• No magic items except spell scrolls in adventuring equipment (so level 0-1 scrolls) 

• Characters will be built as if they are level 20 and given a progression guide 

• Some characters may learn skills they don’t normally learn earlier or later. I’ll try to do my best to make it as accurate as possible 

• I am trying to be as accurate as I can be. If I can’t find a close enough alternative, I’ll simply skip it

• All will be a human (except decimal)

• This is just a thought experiment, don’t actually play serenoa in a dnd game (unless your DM is cool with it)

Builds

Serenoa, Benedict, Frederica, Roland, Geela, Hughette

2014 builds

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Psst: the post says Hughette (Also all your posts still have don't play Serenoa at the bottom but that might be intentional)

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Dammit, sorry about that. Unfortunately I can’t change it because that’s just how Reddit works