Kogliounas
2017-11-21, 08:49 AM
Hey guys, long time lurker first time poster here!
After many years of playing 3.5 I convinced my local group to try out 5e. I DM’d some of the adventures from Tales from the Yawning Portal and we really enjoyed ourselves so we’re starting Tomb of Annihilation next month, and this time I’ll be a player.
My last characters have all been fighter/gish types so I wanted to build a more “traditional” caster and since everyone on the forums seems to love bard I decided to give it a try.
I heard ToA will bring PCs up to level 9/10 so I was planning on 8 levels of Lore Bard with a 2-level Warlock dip for a bit of extra blastiness.
Party composition is still uncertain but we’ll probably have a tanky fighter or barbarian, a sneaky roguish-type and probably another full caster.
This is my prototype build:
- Variant human: +1 CHA and CON, resilient (con)
- Starting stats (point buy): STR 8 DEX 14 CON 16 INT 10 WIS 10 CHA 16
- Proficiencies: Perception, Acrobatics, Persuasion, Stealth, Investigation, Deception?
- Bard cantrips: Minor Illusion, Mage Hand, Vicious Mockery?
- My 2 ASIs will be spent to raise CHA to 20
- Level 6 magical secrets: Aura of vitality/Haste and Fireball, depending on party composition
- Warlock cantrips: Eldritch Blast, Friends
- Eldritch Invocations: Agonizing Blast, Mask of Many Faces
My questions for the playground:
1) Does the stats distribution look fine?
2) Is resilient (con) a good pick or should I go with something else like warcaster?
3) Should I start bard and dip warlock later (when?) or start with warlock and then go full bard?
4) Which patron would be better suited for this build? I know Hexblade is all the rage lately but is it worth it if I don’t plan to engage in melee very often?
5) Any spell that absolutely shouldn’t be missed?
6) Any other suggestion/critique is well accepted!
Thank you for your help!
PS: I apologize for the eventual typos/errors/weird phrasings, english is not my first language.
After many years of playing 3.5 I convinced my local group to try out 5e. I DM’d some of the adventures from Tales from the Yawning Portal and we really enjoyed ourselves so we’re starting Tomb of Annihilation next month, and this time I’ll be a player.
My last characters have all been fighter/gish types so I wanted to build a more “traditional” caster and since everyone on the forums seems to love bard I decided to give it a try.
I heard ToA will bring PCs up to level 9/10 so I was planning on 8 levels of Lore Bard with a 2-level Warlock dip for a bit of extra blastiness.
Party composition is still uncertain but we’ll probably have a tanky fighter or barbarian, a sneaky roguish-type and probably another full caster.
This is my prototype build:
- Variant human: +1 CHA and CON, resilient (con)
- Starting stats (point buy): STR 8 DEX 14 CON 16 INT 10 WIS 10 CHA 16
- Proficiencies: Perception, Acrobatics, Persuasion, Stealth, Investigation, Deception?
- Bard cantrips: Minor Illusion, Mage Hand, Vicious Mockery?
- My 2 ASIs will be spent to raise CHA to 20
- Level 6 magical secrets: Aura of vitality/Haste and Fireball, depending on party composition
- Warlock cantrips: Eldritch Blast, Friends
- Eldritch Invocations: Agonizing Blast, Mask of Many Faces
My questions for the playground:
1) Does the stats distribution look fine?
2) Is resilient (con) a good pick or should I go with something else like warcaster?
3) Should I start bard and dip warlock later (when?) or start with warlock and then go full bard?
4) Which patron would be better suited for this build? I know Hexblade is all the rage lately but is it worth it if I don’t plan to engage in melee very often?
5) Any spell that absolutely shouldn’t be missed?
6) Any other suggestion/critique is well accepted!
Thank you for your help!
PS: I apologize for the eventual typos/errors/weird phrasings, english is not my first language.