jmuells
2017-12-04, 06:07 PM
So we recently started a campaign where my rogue died in his earlier levels. I am now playing his grandfather, a young reincarnated druid who is seeking to level up in order to cast or buy true redirection to bring back his grandson. Assuming I can buy it around level 12 I wanted to making an interesting build using xanathar subclasses.
First levels rogue swashbuckler
One level fighter for two weapon fighting.
Level 10, 11, and 12 in warlock hexblade.
I like the charisma synergy. Charisma would be my main stat and dex would be my second.
Eldritch invocations:
-Thirsting blade for 2 attacks with pact blade
-Lifedrinker for additional charisma damage to attacks
Hexblade warrior says the charisma modifier extends to pact weapons, so I'm assuming that means I can have 2 weapons that rely on charisma from it. The weapon I channel my will into during my long rest and my pact weapon.
With two weapon fighting that makes it 3 attacks per turn with the invocation.
Make both of them rapiers with the dual wielding feat.
So at level 12 I can get 1d8+dex+cha x 3, with probably a 4d6 sneak attack in there somewhere from the swashbuckler stuff.
I don't have my characters stats on me, they're at my DMs. But I think my highest 2 are dex and con, at 18 and 15 respeectively. It'll be so long since I used the character, that I am pretty sure my DM will let me rearrange the stat numbers into different abilities.
On a side note, my character is a bugbear with a hat of disguise, he was reincarnated in our last pathfinder campaign when he died as a drunk monk. When we switched to 5e, our DM said we had to either make new characters or explain why they lost all their levels/powers. I said that my character moved from drinking too much to being addicted to opiods, hit rock bottom and began stealing to support his habit.
Our bugbear was just a dex based reskin of a half orc for 5e. So he has relentless endourance and savage attacker feats.
Role-playing wise, he made a pact with his otherworldly patron while his soul was in another plane and I guess trained with the raven queen or something.
Basically my question is, is there anything I'm missing that doesn't make this a good build? Or anything I am misunderstanding?
First levels rogue swashbuckler
One level fighter for two weapon fighting.
Level 10, 11, and 12 in warlock hexblade.
I like the charisma synergy. Charisma would be my main stat and dex would be my second.
Eldritch invocations:
-Thirsting blade for 2 attacks with pact blade
-Lifedrinker for additional charisma damage to attacks
Hexblade warrior says the charisma modifier extends to pact weapons, so I'm assuming that means I can have 2 weapons that rely on charisma from it. The weapon I channel my will into during my long rest and my pact weapon.
With two weapon fighting that makes it 3 attacks per turn with the invocation.
Make both of them rapiers with the dual wielding feat.
So at level 12 I can get 1d8+dex+cha x 3, with probably a 4d6 sneak attack in there somewhere from the swashbuckler stuff.
I don't have my characters stats on me, they're at my DMs. But I think my highest 2 are dex and con, at 18 and 15 respeectively. It'll be so long since I used the character, that I am pretty sure my DM will let me rearrange the stat numbers into different abilities.
On a side note, my character is a bugbear with a hat of disguise, he was reincarnated in our last pathfinder campaign when he died as a drunk monk. When we switched to 5e, our DM said we had to either make new characters or explain why they lost all their levels/powers. I said that my character moved from drinking too much to being addicted to opiods, hit rock bottom and began stealing to support his habit.
Our bugbear was just a dex based reskin of a half orc for 5e. So he has relentless endourance and savage attacker feats.
Role-playing wise, he made a pact with his otherworldly patron while his soul was in another plane and I guess trained with the raven queen or something.
Basically my question is, is there anything I'm missing that doesn't make this a good build? Or anything I am misunderstanding?