Transitioning To Tasha's Cauldron of Everything - D&D Beyond

Todd Kenreck, Lauren Urban & James Haeck discuss changing your subclass to one of those found in 'Tasha's Cauldron of Everything' and how it can be done using various story telling tools.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction & Benefits of Switching
7:20 Aberrant Mind Sorcerer
8:27 Phantom Rogue
12:22 D&D Beyond UA Archiving
15:19 Types of Class
19:26 Wildfire Druid
22:41 Ranger Subclasses
27:05 Monk Subclasses
31:15 Barbarian Subclasses
36:26 Dungeon Master Perspective
42:20 Bard Subclasses
44:37 Using Resurrection to change
47:16 Feats & Group Patrons
49:20 Wizard Subclasses
50:49 Artificer Subclasses

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[lawrencecelestino]

Now we know what happened when Gandalf came back. I guess his player wasn't feeling "the Gray" subclass anymore.

[JadenT_VA]

A high elf ranger swarmkeeper, gets hit and their attacker immediately gets swarmed by a flock of chickens. His name is Link

[Sixfingeredmage]

My DM needed a week off from DM'ing, and I'm super excited for the abberant mind sorcerer. Seeing an opportunity in front of me, I talked to the DM and DM'd a one-shot where the party kills my warlocks patron (Great old one/Hadar) so that my character could take the magic for himself and swap classes. It was super fun, and it was a great story moment for everyone involved. I'd reccommend one-shots for class changes to anyone out there who's interested in doing so; it makes it feel earned and can be a lot of fun.

[CitanulsPumpkin]

I think Matt Colvill said something along these lines in one of his campaign diary videos.

The mechanics on your character sheet are not your character. They're the closest approximation the game rules can come to your character. It doesn't matter which set of mechanics and rules you use to get to the character you want to play so long as you get to that character.

[deluchiha]

My DM has been super flexible during our campaign!!

My death domain cleric, during his off time, wandered into the forest and stumbled upon on Wood elves that served as gatekeepers to the Fey Wild. Wanting to know more about his elf heritage, Vul'thyr walked in and through a strange twist returned with a new personality and as a Path of Wild Soul Barbarian :D

He's currently dead but stable as we are in the process of escaping an alternate plane.

Our party is meeting a Kenku Swarmkeeper this weekend as we traverse the dungeon and I am soooo excited to try him out!! Adapt and Overcome! :)

Be flexible, there are ways to make it fun, refreshing and keep everyone happy as these new subclass options come out !

[paulschirf]

Class changes can also be fun if you require some time multi-classing into the new class and then removing the initial class down the road. It takes a lot more time, but it has worked very well for groups who like slower progression.

[FolkMagician]

Shoutout to James Haeck for giving his cat hella love during the entire video without ever drawing attention to himself lol atta boy James

[matthewkennerly]

As a DM, I’d say there needs to 100% needs to be a narrative reason to change. Maybe im the outlier here. That being said I’ll do my best to write in an opportunity to change subclasses, but there will be a quest and/or training involved.

[sethradke]

My last canpaign had a character who died, a lot, but our druid would cast reincarnation lots and so everytime she came back as another race, her class changed too

[fritzthelibrarygoblin]

You know James, your comment on the nature of Druid Circles now has me wanting to make an internet cafe in the middle of the Feywild for my campaign...

[chrisframe]

Could Lauren’s expressions be any more adorable? She’s like a cartoon character brought to life.

[Cubic]

9:35 *YES* make sure everyone knows.
TL:DR You never know how much your character means to party cohesion.

I had a game where I was a Kobold Sorcadin that I was getting tired of because I'd gotten what I wanted out of him. We fought a lich and I made my heroic sacrifice, the lich was brought to near death by my vicious flurry of dual holy mace strikes before Power Word Killing me and absorbing my soul into his phylactery.

The party finished him the next turn. Afterward, they tried to res me with revivify and were told the soul was irretrievable. Apparently all the characters really liked that paladin, because 1 by 1 all but 1 of the characters went through how Rune the Prism Scaled was they're closest friend in the party and how they couldn't bring themselves to go on without him there. All while I sat there muted in Discord PMing my DM about how sorry I was that this happened.

The campaign carried on with the remaining party member recruiting the new party in their mission to prevent the king from becoming a demigod and taking over the rest of the world.

Long story short, if you're wanting to change characters, tell everyone. It can prevent TPR (Total party resignation).

[finleymcmurry]

A cool thing about the reviving people issue is that characters can only be revived if they want to come back, so you could just say that the character was content going out having sacrificed themselves for their friends

[appledoodle]

also not the only way to retire a character is to get it killed, it can also just yknow... retire

[Kiskispal]

So many cool ideas and so much enthusiasm. Great way to spend an hour, thanks!

[flared]

I'd like to discuss this. Find out the classes your characters want to play. Like say a barbarian, a sorcerer and a bard. Then with their permission (<- Imagine those 4 words over there in bold) switch these classes to say a fighter, wizard and a warlock. Have them build their character as their preferred class obviously but for an intro session, have them turned on by the ones that trained them or something in the empire they're all starting in in some regard, and then give them back their original class and subclass etc.

Suddenly you're not the returning fighter they once knew but stronger, you're the barbarian that made your betrayal into strength and found a new set of rules to live by making you fundamentally stronger and different from the one they left behind. You're the ex-wizard now sorcerer that found willing their magic instead of using a book was so much easier. You're the person that patron abandoned them, and found comfort in art and gained strength in some way. The changing class aspect of dnd has always been a great story telling device if everyone is willing to participate. No one has ever argued that.

[AnimatedBlondie]

This was really helpful and wonderful to watch! The other night my dm approached me on letting my druid change her circle if she succeeds in changing her race. This was super helpful to get the ideas going between us~

[goliathbeast]

Now I want to make a Yuan-Ti Pureblood path of the beast barbarian. This character could've been tricked and lured into a Yuan-Ti ritual and was completely morphed into a "new breed". The bite will be fangs, the tail could be a serpent, the infectious fury could be all coming together.

[TheOneAverageJoe]

the question early on is great cuz of the rules in tashas. you can pretty much change whatever if you play with the rules in tashas. and i love it. its so creative and more realistic

[theirishfl]

Aye I got that reference to The Sorrow mad respect already loved the Phantom Rogue with that on my mind I'm gonna have to make a gravel voiced legend