Hi everyone! Recently, i came up with the idea for this super evil wizard who is basically Lord Voldemort. I’m thinking of making some other evil characters and suggesting to the group that we could play an evil campaign! However, i’m Having some trouble getting ideas for evil subclasses that people might want to take for various classes. Could someone please give me some ideas for evil character subclasses like necromancy or oathbreaker?
Aside from certain cleric or paladin builds, pretty much anything can be evil. Subclasses are just a set of tools - what you do with those tools determines your alignment.
If that's not satisfying to hear, Shadow Monk, Death domain cleric, the new UA Phantom rogue, Zealot(necrotic) barbarian, Shadow magic sorcerer, and pretty much the whole Warlock class have some specifically dark flavor to them.
an insanely powerful evil wizard (or any other class) that had the clone spell on him/her but some thing went wrong so he/she was reincarnated but at a lower level or just dead pool
I'm actually working on an evil campaign for myself and my friends. We're going kind of goofy with it... a sort of "Saturday Morning Cartoon Villains" approach. I'm DMing, and the leader of the villains is a lich that's essentially just Skeletor. So far not everybody has finalized what they want to play as, but one player is choosing to play as an artillerist artificer, treating them as an older mad scientist character. They're flavoring the Eldritch Cannon not as magically summoning a cannon, but rather, taking whatever random crap there is around them and Science-ing it into a viable gun. It's a classic villain archetype with some fun flavor to make it more than just "mad scientist".
Artificer would be a requirement in an evil group. More to consider than just class is objective, are you out to steal wealth for personal gain? Fighter or rogue. Out for power and influence? Lock and wizard. Trying to create a portal to bring Cthulhu into our dimension to devour the gods so you can steal divine might and conquer whoever survives using them to reshape the world in your image? GOOLock, Divination Wizard, changeling phantom rogue, Battle smith Artificer, and an echo knight would be the party i went with (I am the elven goolock and the only one spared death when we suceed)
In my game the Old Gods are using mortals to escape their prison. I'm creating a cabal of minions that are being used. My party is about to discover 2 of them trying to abscond with a black/green boulder that fell from the sky.
An enchantment wizard (they get alter memories, seems pretty evil).
Then use finger of death to raise loyal zombies then true poly them into any humanoid. They keep their personality which is loyal to you as well as are still evil but now their sapient also do they really count toward the number of zombies you can have under your thrall now?
As a bbeg this guy could be king & his entire town are evil servants of his.
They specialize in torture & interrogation…which they justify as lawful, even though they truth is that they’re simply good at it.
Conquest Paladin is easy to play as Lawful Evil…even Neutral Evil, if they believe that everything THEY will is what is true.
An Illusion Wizard could be based off of Mysterio, from Spider-Man…a spiteful wizard who weaves illusions to instill fear & lead enemies into traps, all because his arcane peers turned up their noses at his presumed “fake” magic.
A Knowledge Cleric of Vecna, obsessed with acquiring the secret of lichdom.
A Zealot Barbarian who has lived multiple lifetimes as a tyrannical conquerer, and has risen once again to claim his throne.
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Hi everyone! Recently, i came up with the idea for this super evil wizard who is basically Lord Voldemort. I’m thinking of making some other evil characters and suggesting to the group that we could play an evil campaign! However, i’m Having some trouble getting ideas for evil subclasses that people might want to take for various classes. Could someone please give me some ideas for evil character subclasses like necromancy or oathbreaker?
Aside from certain cleric or paladin builds, pretty much anything can be evil. Subclasses are just a set of tools - what you do with those tools determines your alignment.
If that's not satisfying to hear, Shadow Monk, Death domain cleric, the new UA Phantom rogue, Zealot(necrotic) barbarian, Shadow magic sorcerer, and pretty much the whole Warlock class have some specifically dark flavor to them.
My homebrew subclasses (full list here)
(Artificer) Swordmage | Glasswright | (Barbarian) Path of the Savage Embrace
(Bard) College of Dance | (Fighter) Warlord | Cannoneer
(Monk) Way of the Elements | (Ranger) Blade Dancer
(Rogue) DaggerMaster | Inquisitor | (Sorcerer) Riftwalker | Spellfist
(Warlock) The Swarm
Thanks so much, i'll keep this in mind when thinking of my next evil character!
I agree that any class/subclass can be evil. Draconic sorcerer that gets their power from a chromatic dragon. An evil bard would be amazing.
The Oath of Conquest paladin and Fiendlock are probably the closest to straight-up evil-flavored subclasses that are available to PCs.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Actually death domain and oathbreaker are available to pc’s
Only if the GM allows it. By default they're not.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
A College of Whispers Bard is pretty easy to imagine as an evil character, but for somehow an evil College of Glamour Bard seems even more insidious.
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
What, necromantic Wizards aren't evil anymore? Why not an Artificer who specializes in instruments of torture?
Necromancers haven't had a requirement to be evil going at least as far back as 2nd Edition.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Not a requirement, but it's certainly a common trope of fantasy fiction.
Evil wizard in general is a common trope.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Homebrew subclasses always work...
Cult of Sedge
Rangers are the best, and have always been the best
I love Homebrew
I hate paladins
Warrior Bovine
an insanely powerful evil wizard (or any other class) that had the clone spell on him/her but some thing went wrong so he/she was reincarnated but at a lower level or just dead pool
I'm actually working on an evil campaign for myself and my friends. We're going kind of goofy with it... a sort of "Saturday Morning Cartoon Villains" approach. I'm DMing, and the leader of the villains is a lich that's essentially just Skeletor. So far not everybody has finalized what they want to play as, but one player is choosing to play as an artillerist artificer, treating them as an older mad scientist character. They're flavoring the Eldritch Cannon not as magically summoning a cannon, but rather, taking whatever random crap there is around them and Science-ing it into a viable gun. It's a classic villain archetype with some fun flavor to make it more than just "mad scientist".
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I was thinking more of an alchemist variant that specializes in poisons and plagues.
Artificer would be a requirement in an evil group. More to consider than just class is objective, are you out to steal wealth for personal gain? Fighter or rogue. Out for power and influence? Lock and wizard. Trying to create a portal to bring Cthulhu into our dimension to devour the gods so you can steal divine might and conquer whoever survives using them to reshape the world in your image? GOOLock, Divination Wizard, changeling phantom rogue, Battle smith Artificer, and an echo knight would be the party i went with (I am the elven goolock and the only one spared death when we suceed)
In my game the Old Gods are using mortals to escape their prison. I'm creating a cabal of minions that are being used. My party is about to discover 2 of them trying to abscond with a black/green boulder that fell from the sky.
An enchantment wizard (they get alter memories, seems pretty evil).
Then use finger of death to raise loyal zombies then true poly them into any humanoid. They keep their personality which is loyal to you as well as are still evil but now their sapient also do they really count toward the number of zombies you can have under your thrall now?
As a bbeg this guy could be king & his entire town are evil servants of his.
How about a Lawful Evil Inquisitor Rogue?
They specialize in torture & interrogation…which they justify as lawful, even though they truth is that they’re simply good at it.
Conquest Paladin is easy to play as Lawful Evil…even Neutral Evil, if they believe that everything THEY will is what is true.
An Illusion Wizard could be based off of Mysterio, from Spider-Man…a spiteful wizard who weaves illusions to instill fear & lead enemies into traps, all because his arcane peers turned up their noses at his presumed “fake” magic.
A Knowledge Cleric of Vecna, obsessed with acquiring the secret of lichdom.
A Zealot Barbarian who has lived multiple lifetimes as a tyrannical conquerer, and has risen once again to claim his throne.