You can’t use a longsword with your dexterity mod until you pick up your first monk level. So at level 4, make sure to use a shortsword or rapier!

THIS BUILD IS SWEET!
DRIPPING WITH FLAVOR!
LOCAL AND SUSTAINABLE!

How to talk to your DM and players about optimization and tactics would be a great video. Yeah, we should, but the “how” matters. Love the build and the channel.

As a beekeeper myself, I love this build

was half-expecting Paul Rudd to show up when you played that clip 🤣

I recently did a swarm ranger undead warlock (who was technically reincarnated...?), she was covered in cockroaches that were siphoning her old life away. At first she hated the bugs and wanted them gone, she tried everything to remove them but nothing worked. Until she made the pact of undeath and was transformed and found affection to the insects

The build I've been using similar to this, focusing WIS and dex. One round can get 60ft of forced movement and every round can move around 50. With the dragon form from druid and starting fighter you have a really hard time failing con saves.

Battlemaster fighter 5
Swarmkeeper ranger 3
Open hand monk 3
Stars druid 3

Pick up crusher feat

Round one: Set up spike growth and shillelagh or starry form dragon
Round two: Use shillelagh with crusher (5) Pushing Attack (15) Action surge Thorn whip (10) gathered swarm (15), bonus action flurry of blows open hand technique (15).

Your welcome home is the vocal equivalent of a warm hearth.
Your builds are always a fun.
Thank you for the effort that goes unseen to make a video.

I don't think you've done anything like this before, but I think it would be really cool to see what you could come up with for a character that scales extremely well. The core of their identity is that so many features scale off their proficiency bonus. Features such as the bard's jack of all trades, the watchers paladin 7th level aura, the harengon's hare-trigger, dipping subclasses that allow "proficiency bonus times per long rest" features, and so on.

I want more Kelly with my Colby! 😁

Here's a challenge. Build a character that can hit for all damage types reliably.  Obviously the weapon damage can be somewhat interchangeable

The Flurry of Throws: D&D Build #160
Level 01: (see above) [ranger 1 & race]
Level 02: (see above) [ranger 2 & fighting-style]
Level 03: (@13:27) [ranger 3 & subclass]
Level 04: (@16:48) [ranger 4, ASI & change fighting-style]
Level 05: (@18:06) [ranger 5]
Level 06: (@20:49) [monk 1]
Level 07: (see above) [monk 2]
Level 08: (@27:30) [monk 3 & subclass]
Level 09: (@29:32) [monk 4 & ASI]
Level 10: (see above) [monk 5]
Level 11: (@39:51) [fighter 1 & fighting-style]
Level 12: (@41:27) [fighter 2]
Level 13: (@41:54) [fighter 3 & subclass]
Level 14: (see above) [fighter 4 & ASI]
Level 15: (@46:00) [monk 6]
Level 16: (@48:32) [monk 7]
Level 17: (@49:09) [monk 8 & ASI]

There's also a new magic item in Book of Many Things which is basically a handwrap that adds +1 to attack and damage to unarmed attacks, in the same vein as other magic items that give flat bonuses.  +1 is uncommon, +2 is rare, and +3 is very rare.  That on top of the Dragonskin belt from Fizban's makes a really formidable monk who gets some bonus ki, bonus to unarmed attacks, and a bonus to their save DCs for monk abilities.

Granted, I know you don't plan for magic items, but can add that on top of the go to's of Claw insignia or eldritch claw tatoo.

Look at Colby, name-dropping celebrities all over the place.

For some reason I thought we would be doing some thrown weapon fighting when I clicked on the video. No clue where I got that idea...

The way you say "welcome home" at the beginning is like being handed a hot mug of cocoa after coming in from the rain...
So I love my swarmkeeper, Littlebear, but he's a bardbaringer as opposed to a cheesemonger. He's a honey-eyed, honey-tongued stout halfling apiarist, locally reknowned for his alchemical brewmastery, and based on a character I played at a LARP (that character was cut shorter by the big bad's favourite pet). This sounds fun though.

In an effort to help martials (and especially monks), our table gives all martials a free subclass which we decided on as being the most iconic version of the character. Also monks get their proficiency bonus to their Ki. So this character would get hunter for ranger, open hand for free for monk, and champion for fighter.

The question I was trying to answer is what subclass to take for monk. Mercy would be good but their abilities only apply to unarmed attacks. Kensei maybe? But I was also looking at Sun Soul, for the ranged attack that you could use if your foe gets stuck far away in the thorns. Or, way of the arcane hand for a couple more spell levels so you can cast spike growth more often.

This build feels like hitting a fighting game corner combo.

I mentioned this in the short previewing this build, but while it doesn't fit the Monk/Ranger concept, my favorite Monk throwing people around idea is a Bronze Metallic Dragonborn Tempest Cleric 6/Ascendant Dragon Monk X. It takes a while to come online, but once you've got it going you can take the attack action and replace the first attack with the Ascendant Dragon breath weapon (dealing lightning damage), move forward, then replace the second attack with the Bronze Metallic Dragonborn breath weapon (also dealing lightning damage). Tempest Cleric 6 may have the enemy size restriction, but it also has no save to avoid the forced movement, and both breath weapons are save for half damage, so you can potentially get 20 feet of unavoidable forced movement against a group of Large or smaller enemies. You can then potentially follow it up with Flurry of Blows to deal more lightning damage to one of those enemies and push them up to 20 additional feet if you hit.

It does rely on other characters for the Spike Growth cheese grater, but at very high levels it might be worth it to divert 3 Monk levels into Circle of the Land Druid (Mountain and Arctic get Spike Growth automatically prepared), which would also allow the character to recharge a 2nd level spell slot on a Short Rest. In that case, the character's got the option to lay down a Spike Growth, and if a group of enemies are trapped inside, they can actually use Step of the Wind to dash (which, with 6 levels of Ascendant Dragon, will allow them to fly), fly above the Spike Growth, then use the breath weapons to push the enemies across the Spike Growth.

Aw man, I thought when he said brewing monastic temple we would have finally gotten a drunken master monk

Time to count the days