The Samurai in Xanathar's Guide To Everything

the samurai include you have to ask yourself well what is it like clearly when someone is saying here in this Forgotten Realms campaign or whatever campaign I want to play a samurai they’re clearly not saying I want to play a noble born warrior from feudal Japan who has a warlord you say okay that’s probably not what they’re saying they’re referring to what I what I think of is like the comic book or movie version of the samurai right like same thing with night when someone says I want to play at night they’re probably thinking more what we saw and feedback and with we had a knight subclass that ended up getting can I have devoured by the Cavalier they want someone who’s really good at fighting on horseback which is definitely part of being a knight but like that’s the part that’s stuck out not the well you’ve sworn fealty to someone and you have to like you responsible for like you’re a warrior noble born who’s just you know because you own a horse and owning a horse is expensive and you’ve gotta be a new little horse and all this other stuff so you have to ask yourself what is it when people say samurai what do they mean and what is the actual thing they’re looking for for me a lot of it goes to Kurosawa you know the Seven Samurai you know which I love that movie and I love any movie that kind of deals with transitions you know that movie is really it’s about the Seven Samurai but what it’s really about is the end of the samurai era right you know it’s about firearms right and the change in culture and Japan’s heading toward modernization you know and so but what is it of the samurai that people find appealing and what we sort of hit on was this idea of that fighting spirit that samurai has duty and puts duty above everything else and will die you know in in trying to seek out here is my duty here’s my what I am said I have set out to do nothing nothing will stop me that implacable nature so the samurai has the ability to get a boost of temporary hit points and attack with advantage for one round and they can do that three times between arrests so basically as a samurai I kind of almost say that mechanically is like this micro range like barbarians range so much much more produced but it in the movie in my mind of thinking of this characters were is we’re designing it what I saw was okay it’s the fight you’re a fighter and you’ve been backed up to the wall the ogre your second or third little fighter the ogre just smashed you you’re down to three hit points you’ve got to put this ogre down well that’s when you’re using your samurai ability and then you’re using your heroic surge as a fighter to get extra extra action and so you’re making a bunch of attacks all with advantage and you’ve given yourself a bunch of temporary hit points if maybe your clerics down or you’re on appealing points you know healing spells so this is your sword if you’re gonna cling to the edge and just alpha strike to try to take this guy down and that felt very much like in the movie my mind it’s like it’s the samurai who’s like bloody Z but he’s just still standing and fighting right like and despite all these injuries this is my enemy this is my goal nothing’s going to stop me so give people that real sense oh yeah that’s that’s the character I want to play I want to play this bold impetuous unstoppable you know warrior really fueled by this fighting spirit I have compared to other fighters

The Samurai is a new fighter subclass in Xanathar's Guide to Everything, out this November. #DnD https://t.co/f1AVqetsrt via @YouTube

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) October 3, 2017

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