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2019-02-11, 08:44 PM
Okay so I'm currently playing a level 4 CN Tielfing Warlock with the Great Old One Patron and & Pact of the Tome and I'm unsure whether I should continue on in Warlock or if I should use the 5th level I've just advanced to, to multiclass across into the Bard class. I was thinking of multiclassing to the Lore Bard because of the backstory and original build idea behind my warlock.
He became a Warlock purely by accident when he briefly observed a Great Old One (Something straight out of the Cthulhu Mythos) and formed a connection to it, unbeknownst to the GOO in question.
Since then, he's been plagued by dream's he can't understand, and an unquenchable thirst to seek out knowledge, uncover secrets and further his understanding of things. Because of this link he has with the GOO, he is not altogether sane and has the odd but short bout of insanity.
He's pretty much a self-serving, manipulative individual who’s always looking for ways to further his own ends in the acquirement of information and knowledge, even if that means working with those he deems his inferiors (Pretty much the whole party, but he's subtly manipulated several of them to his benefit despite them being well aware he dislikes them)
Now, my Warlock isn't really much for fighting, and frankly with our party composition he doesn’t need to be as we have a Barbarian, a Monk and Fighter type who can fight on the front lines, and an aspiring Sorcerer who can stand back and blast away at things, with myself sending out the odd EB or spells such as Command (Telling a heavily armored, high AC enemy to strip is really helpful even if your party accuses you of being a pervert) to try and sow some discord and such into the enemy ranks.
I also tend to act as the scout via Invisibility to try and get an idea of what threats lurk ahead, though it’s still nerve wracking when your DM asks you to roll Stealth when you've back a pack of monsters around you.
So I'm thinking of progressing into the Bard class in order to stay true to the characters driving interests, the procurement of knowledge, magic lore etc. etc. as well as have more in the way of skills and useful spells with which to keep myself, and perhaps the party, alive and suitably informed about things we come across.
But I'm not entirely sure if it's advisable to multiclass to Bard, or if I should multiclass into more than one thing, or how far I should progress each classes level, so I'd appreciate some advice.
My DM is pretty flexible with things and has agreed I can alter my character's spells and stuff, assuming I haven't used those particular ones yet (So that’s most of them then) I also know it's going to be a rather long campaign (So I'm planning for level 20 considering I know my DM has ran campaigns lasting 2 years before) and will feature other-planar beings, especially demons to a possibly large degree, as well as a powerful spell caster whose the ultimate BBEG of the campaign.
A little more background on how I envisioned my character, though it might already be obvious that what magic’s he does use tend to those focused at influencing the mind and controlling peoples actions, I want to make him more of the party’s Face, but not exactly a happy, smiley, looking to please you sort of Face. When it’s come to bargaining and stuff with merchants, Intimidation and actual use of his powers has been his go to response so far, but he can evolve and grow to be more deceptive.
Any help/advice on this would be welcome.
He became a Warlock purely by accident when he briefly observed a Great Old One (Something straight out of the Cthulhu Mythos) and formed a connection to it, unbeknownst to the GOO in question.
Since then, he's been plagued by dream's he can't understand, and an unquenchable thirst to seek out knowledge, uncover secrets and further his understanding of things. Because of this link he has with the GOO, he is not altogether sane and has the odd but short bout of insanity.
He's pretty much a self-serving, manipulative individual who’s always looking for ways to further his own ends in the acquirement of information and knowledge, even if that means working with those he deems his inferiors (Pretty much the whole party, but he's subtly manipulated several of them to his benefit despite them being well aware he dislikes them)
Now, my Warlock isn't really much for fighting, and frankly with our party composition he doesn’t need to be as we have a Barbarian, a Monk and Fighter type who can fight on the front lines, and an aspiring Sorcerer who can stand back and blast away at things, with myself sending out the odd EB or spells such as Command (Telling a heavily armored, high AC enemy to strip is really helpful even if your party accuses you of being a pervert) to try and sow some discord and such into the enemy ranks.
I also tend to act as the scout via Invisibility to try and get an idea of what threats lurk ahead, though it’s still nerve wracking when your DM asks you to roll Stealth when you've back a pack of monsters around you.
So I'm thinking of progressing into the Bard class in order to stay true to the characters driving interests, the procurement of knowledge, magic lore etc. etc. as well as have more in the way of skills and useful spells with which to keep myself, and perhaps the party, alive and suitably informed about things we come across.
But I'm not entirely sure if it's advisable to multiclass to Bard, or if I should multiclass into more than one thing, or how far I should progress each classes level, so I'd appreciate some advice.
My DM is pretty flexible with things and has agreed I can alter my character's spells and stuff, assuming I haven't used those particular ones yet (So that’s most of them then) I also know it's going to be a rather long campaign (So I'm planning for level 20 considering I know my DM has ran campaigns lasting 2 years before) and will feature other-planar beings, especially demons to a possibly large degree, as well as a powerful spell caster whose the ultimate BBEG of the campaign.
A little more background on how I envisioned my character, though it might already be obvious that what magic’s he does use tend to those focused at influencing the mind and controlling peoples actions, I want to make him more of the party’s Face, but not exactly a happy, smiley, looking to please you sort of Face. When it’s come to bargaining and stuff with merchants, Intimidation and actual use of his powers has been his go to response so far, but he can evolve and grow to be more deceptive.
Any help/advice on this would be welcome.