Spellcaster Sidekick Class - Tasha's Cauldron of Everything

We discuss the updated Sidekicks Basic Rules from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything! There are three options for sidekicks: Expert, Spellcaster, and Warrior. In this video we discuss the basic rules that include how to incorporate sidekicks into your campaign and the creation process with mechanics. We will be posting in depth sidekick videos for each of the individual sidekick class options as well, so stay tuned for more! In this one we discuss the Spellcaster!

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[Cannn_balI]

I used this in my campaign as a glamour bard and had a prodigy sidekick and he became my magical back up dancer

[Sodapop-njee]

Love the videos guys keep up the work and stay awesome

[jaythemonsterhunter]

I have not been watching your guy's videos for that long but they are really well done and really informative and you 2 have have really good personality's witch make it really fun to watch so keep up the good work.

[mikeleonard]

Thanks for doing these vids guys. I don't see any in depth analysis of this new aspect of the game being done by many others.

[frankyquilavafireblast]

I don’t know about you guys but spirit guardians without the penalty of basically becoming the next target at level 20 sounds amazing

[IMXLegedaryBard]

And I agree, out of the three options the spellcaster does seem pretty meh. but the true benefit that I see of having the spellcaster sidekick is when you run a party and you don't have any spellcasters or just one but they're still learning how to play.

[lockwoan]

As mentioned, I'd look at the statblock before assigning classes. I doubt I'd make a pre-existing spellcaster into a Spellcaster sidekick - Warrior or Expert depending on their equipment and such - unless said magic is inborn, like Pixies and Drow, or others like them. Still, even then, there's always a surprise.

[prophetisaiah]

I wanna play a goblin barbarian with a worg healer for my sidekick/mount. It's definitely a DM call, but I would rule that opposable thumbs are required to handle material components, but not for somatic ones.

[KyleBrancheau]

What about the traits being replaced by the feature so would this include innate spellcasting cause it's part of the traits?

[igotboredfkit]

The sidekicks really just seem like the best solution for rangers to me take hunter ranger and have a wolf sidekick

[IMXLegedaryBard]

So because my party is only with three people, and out of the three only one of them is a spellcaster (a druid who refused to heal lol) I decided I'll give each one through story a psychic. The druid has a wolf warrior, my rogue has a monkey expert and my monk had a sibling playing a sage(the healer spellcaster). It allows them to feel like they are not alone when we do battles, and it also allows my monk player to try out spellcasting for her first time

[scottburns]

Pointing out that at Lv 6 it could gain the agonizing blast feature. Which can end up being super potent.

[mrsmiley]

How many side kicks can you have? Total versus active?