Barbarians are one of the most fun classes you can play inDungeons & Dragons, but a lot of the fun you might have depends on your subclass selection. If you’re looking to create a fun, whimsical barbarian, look no further than the path of the belly brewer subclass, which comes from the Obojima campaign setting supplement for 5e.

The path of the belly brewer is a fun and creative subclass for barbarians that fits right into the easy-going, chill vibes of this campaign setting. If you’re looking to shake up your build, here’s what you need to know to build a path of the belly brewer barbarian.

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Path Of The Belly Brewer Overview

Barbarians who follow the path of the belly brewer aremaster potion makers and alchemists, whomake their concoctionsinside their own guts!

In essence,the barbarians use their own stomachs to brew ability-buffing potionsto help them in combat.

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Belly Concoction

You learn the skill of belly-brewing, allowing you to swallow and mix ingredients inside your stomach togain chosen effects while raging.

These effects include things like reducing your damage from ranged attacks, stretching your melee attack range, healing yourself, teleportation, and more.

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Side Effects

You gain various side effects from the countless magical ingredients you’ve consumed, andyou learn the Prestidigation and Thaumaturgy cantrips.

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Quick Brew

You canselect a common potionthat you would normally consume (such as a Potion of Healing) andactivate the chosen effects of the potion as a bonus action once per long rest.

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Lingering Effects

When you finish a long rest, you maychoose from conditions like blinded, charmed, exhaustion, and more andgrant yourself advantage on saving throws against that condition.

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Mighty Quick Brew

Youlearn an additional Quick Brew potion(Common) as well as an uncommon potion.

Path of the belly brewers are incredibly tanky, and quite flexible when it comes to flexible self-support options, like self-healing or reducing incoming damage. This makes them ideal front-line combatants.

Best Ability Scores For A Belly Brewer

While you always have a lot of flexibility on offer when it comes to where you place your ability scores, you’ll want tofocus on Strength and Constitution for barbarians.

While Strength and Constitution are important, ultimately,you can also choose to play against typeand buff other stats instead.

Obojima is a roleplay-focused campaign setting, so having high mental stats isn’t necessarily a bad idea.

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Strength

Place your highest ability score in Strength, as this will dictate the strength of your attacks and allow you to do more damage on the field of battle.

Constitution

Constitution informs hit points, as well as many of the saving throws and damage reductionsgranted to you by your subclass features.

Because of this, you’ll want tomake Constitution your second-highest stat.

Dexterity

Dexterity informs Armor Class and other physical stats, which you are more likely to use as a barbarian.

Grant yourself a decently high Dexterity scoreas well to round out your physique.

Wisdom

Wisdom is useful for overcoming difficult saving throws, so as far as mental stats go,place your next highest stat here.

Charisma

Because Obojima is roleplay-focused, it’s not a bad idea tohave a good Charisma score to inform things like Persuasion and Deception.

Intelligence

Ultimately,Intelligence is not that important to a barbarian, so you’re able to place your lowest stat here.

Best Species For a Belly Brewer

When it comes to selecting a species for a path of the belly brewer, you may be rather flexible with your selection. However,some species are better than others.

Obojima technically only includes humans, data, elves, and Nakudamaas species in its campaign setting, but you may use other species if you so desire.

Best Backgrounds For A Belly Brewer

Obojima has a handful of unique backgroundsto select for your campaign, but also permits players to choose from the Player’s Handbook.

While there are no hard and fast rules for selecting a background,here are some backgrounds that synergize well with the path of the belly brewer.

Ultimately, to immerse yourself in the world of Obojima, you might want toconsider using the Spirit Kin background,which is designed specifically for the campaign setting.