5e Throwdowns #3: The Solo Tour!

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The Hex Spoon: AKA The Only Hearth Still Burning

Level 20 level split: Life Cleric 1 / Hexblade of the Tome 11 / Shadow Sorcerer 5 / Alchemist 3

Race: Mark of Hospitality Halfling

Stats: Str 8 Dex (12 + 2) Con 10 Int 13 Wis 14 Cha (15 + 1)

Background: Acolyte

Starting level: Life Cleric 1

Meet Lilly. Born into a land wracked by famines, Lilly's parents turned her over to the Temple of the Kitchen Goddess at an early age so she would be one less mouth to feed. There she would spend most her days, baking bread bread that was half sawdust for the people while the high priests fattened themselves on fine meats and wines. She didn't like this hypocracy, but she bore with it until one day while baking bread she found herself in want of a spoon. Spoons are sacred to the Kitchen Goddess, so sacred that she struggled to find one base enough to actually use for cooking. Her search brought her to the catacombs where she found a single wooden spoon bound in chains. "Why is this spoon treated so badly" she wondered aloud. It was then when her fingers touched it that she realized the truth. A spark of magic went into the ground, and through a crack in the floor sprouted a grape vine with 10 glistening berries. She ate one and with just that her belly was sated. "The high priests have been keeping this from the people?" She shouted. Without a second though she unlocked the chains and disappeared into the night, never to set eyes on the church again.

From the beginning goodberry is the best spell in your arsenal. For a single spell slot a day you get 40 hp worth of healing that can be broken up into 4hp chunks and saved for later, and you'll be able to feed yourself too. 14 dex along with scale mail a shield and shield of faith give you 20 AC, which is extraordinary at level 1. Your sacred flame is a bit weak at this level, but you wont need it long

At 5th level: Life Cleric 1 / Hexblade of the Tome 4

After many days, Lilly found an abandoned farm stand and took shelter there. She made a decision: she would use this magic spoon to feed the people. She would charge only those who could afford it, and take only what she needed to survive. At first there were only a few customers, but they brough friends to her, and those friends brought friends, and soon she could not feed everyone. Then the cutthroats muscled in. They took all she had, gave nothing in return, and shook down all her customers for food and for coin. They would be back she knew. Her plan was ruined. As she cried that night a whisper spoke to her, and she swore it was coming from the spoon: "All is not lost. You can still do them good. Let me give you the strength to feed them, protect them as no one else can." She agreed. The next time the cut-throats came to her, she showed them what she could do.

1 level of hexblade gives you friends, eldritch blast, armor of agathys and shield, as well as hexblade's curse, 2 gives you agonizing blast and master of many masks. 3 gives you pact of the tome, and 4 gives you a cha boost. 3 is where you start making choices. mask plus friends makes you an amazing face, but now you have access to some new abilities that might take precedence. one of your invocations can be swapped with devil's sight if you want that cheese, but in a few levels you'll be getting that from sorcerer, or you can take aspect of the moon. why would you? because goodberries last 24 hours, so you could stay up all night using you warlock slots for goodberries and then short resting. in a single night you can produce 640 hp worth of goodberries, and we're just getting started.

At 11th level: Life Cleric 1/ Hexblade of the Tome 7/Shadow Sorcerer 3

Lilly provided for the people, and soon her farm stand grew into a great market. She alone was the sole employee, and gained a reputation as a strong woman, a socialite and a fine chef as well. In a land where food was rare, she became a symbol of bounty, and in time she even discovered powers of her own. However, as her reputation grew, so too did her infamy. Some said she was a witch who had blighted the lands so that she alone could control the food supply. Most dismissed it, but they couldn't help but wonder.

Once you get hexblade 5, you can now have three of the invocations mentioned above, and you have 3rd level spells to boot. now is the time to switch to Shadow sorcerer. After 2 levels if you have aspect of the moon then congratulations, you are officially a coffeelock churning out 48 sorcery points a night. thats a lot of spells, or up to 960 hp worth of goodberries. your choice. Admittedly, you won't be able to use all of these, as you can only keep 2 sorcery points at a time, and your slots will generate 3. 1 more level of sorcerer will let you keep the rest and give you access to metamagic. quicken spell is a must. you also can those points for eyes in the dark cheese. ordinarily thats a a white room technique that will handicap your party in most games, but you don't need a party, do you. Remember that you can never have more sorcery points than your sorcerer level at one time, so right now for now you'll have to store your sorcery points as slots. By level 7 there will again be overflow, but more levels of sorcerer can quench that need


At 17th level: Life Cleric 1/ Hexblade of the Tome 11/Shadow Sorcerer 5

The wells ran dry one summer. When Lilly began charging for her goodberry wine the people started to chafe. "She is making a profit off this!" they whispered. And those whispers led to cries of outrage. One night a mob assembled outside her mansion, and though her wards held she cowered sick at heart behind her walls. "Spoon," she whispered, "why do they act as if I dried thier wells?" The spoon said nothing for a moment, then it said "Because you did." Lilly looked stricken. "Every time you cast goodberry, I pulled some water from the earth to make them. I offered to let you feed them as no one else could, and I made good on my promise. Now none of them can feed themselves." Lilly looked sick at the spoon that had made her what she was through famine and drought, and was sick at heart. With a shout she lifted the spoon and broke it over her knee. "No hexes," she whispered, "No witchcraft. This is my power now, and I will give these people what they need on my own."

Keep the power boosts coming! By this level you can be churning out 120 sorcery points a night, which at this level will mostly be stored as slots of 1st through 3rd level. For the record, you can cast goodberry 60 times at 1st level if you choose. you can feed 600 people a day with that, or heal up to 24000 hp. again, your choice. By this point you'll be a half-caster, but you'll have half again as many spell slots as a pure wizard of the same level. Use this power wisely, you'll need it.

At 20th level: Life Cleric 1/ Hexblade of the Tome 11/Shadow Sorcerer 5/Alchemist 3

That night, Lilly opened her wine cellar to the people, and repaid them for every drop she had sold. She worked tirelessly through the following weeks and months, not sleeping, not relaxing, until at last she hit upon the solution. If religion couldn't save the people, and magic could not either she would turn to the only force left to fill their bellies. She would turn to science, and in time, she would find a way to bring the water back.

Artificer may seem like a strange choice, and admittedly it is optional, but your coffeelock shenanigans mean that you have a ridiculous number of 1st level spell slots you can spend on buff potions, which last until your next long rest rather than 24 hours, meaning you can stockpile and sell them as you wont be sleeping much, and with quicken spell you have plenty of time to use them.