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2020-09-22, 01:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
So Tasha’s stat bonus switching during character creation has made a whole plethora of builds optimal from the get go (as far as stats are concerned) what once meme “fun” builds have got your dice a twitching?
For me it’s the Luckiest Halfling Alive!
Zee Bashew already covered this one, it’s the Halfling (lucky) Diviner (portent) with the Lucky Feat and more dice rerolls or substitutions than you can shake a staff at, now with optimal stats.
What meme builds would you like to make?Last edited by prototype00; 2020-09-22 at 02:05 AM.
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2020-09-22, 01:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
Oh I've actually considered playing a divination halfling before, and being able to do it with better Int sounds nice. I'd go for Bountiful Luck to share the love though.
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2020-09-27, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
I don't know if this is OPTIMAL, per say, but my best idea (and likely the character I play next, unless the party needs a face, in which case I'll play a Genie (Efreeti) Warlock) is a High Elf Forge Cleric. Previously, High Elves made relatively poor clerics as they didn't get a wisdom increase, and the dexterity and intelligence increases are almost useless to a Forge Cleric. But now that those aren't an issue, High Elf has a lot to offer; proficiency in perception is nice, but proficiency in longswords means the Forge Cleric can use a martial weapon (I don't know why they get heavy armor and abilities that encourage melee, but no weapons built-in to benefit from that), which is already nice, but the big draw here is the Wizard cantrip; specifically in this case, Booming Blade. Booming Blade paired with Divine Strike means she'll be capable of lots of melee damage as she levels up, possibly enough to compete with a dedicated martial class, and having plate armor and a shield means she's comfortable on the front lines. Oh, and on top of this she's still a full spellcaster with access to the entire Cleric spell list, and the amazing domain spells offered by the Forge domain, making her an excellent defender or tank, but able to fill lots of other roles too.
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2020-09-27, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
Abjurer wizard - Mark of warding dwarf, it was good, now it's phenomenal. Throw in 2 levels of warlock for armor of shadows and it's just insane.
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2020-09-27, 11:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
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2020-09-28, 01:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-09-28, 01:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-09-28, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
When the new genie warlock subclass was revealed, I thought of a dwarf genie warlock with a dao patron due to the dwarven connection to the earth. Now that character idea is optimal.
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2020-09-28, 02:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
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2020-09-28, 02:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-09-28, 02:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
For an AL RotFM game i jumped into, i'm playing a kenku enchanter wizard. I pulled the doppelganger card for my secret. It's not combat optimized, but it sure is optimizing my fun. Especially with my imp familiar from dm rewards.
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2020-09-28, 03:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
Wildhunt Shifter Barbarians can Reckless Attack without giving enemies Advantage to hit them.
Mountain Dwarf Monks can get 18 Dex / Wis at level 4.
Jorasco Halflling Life Cleric 1 / Wizard Xs are among the best healers now.
Goblin is now phenomenal on any spellcaster that didn't have a ton of bonus action competition.
Scourge Aasimar were always an odd fit with their Cha statline because they force Concentration checks on themselves, now they can be martials like they always wanted. Barbarians might actually LIKE the modest self-damage because it ensures their rage keeps going.
Protector Aasimar have a much better statline for many builds now.
Loxodon go well with grapplers who want to use sword and board. (And frankly, Loxodon Serenity and Keen Smell are both pretty great).
Tieflings now are better suited to make Flames of Phlegethos builds on Int classes.Originally Posted by ProsecutorGodot
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2020-09-28, 06:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
Dwarves and Elves now get to swap their weapon proficiencies for Tools... A whole lot of them. That's pretty cool.
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2020-09-28, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
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2020-09-28, 08:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Last son of the Lu-Ching dynasty
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2020-09-28, 08:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
I wouldn't call it fun by any stretch, but I'd be able to play my dwarf rogue without requiring my GM to help me out by swapping out the +Con modifier to +Dex.
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2020-09-28, 08:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
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2020-09-28, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
I’ve been playing a ton of Final Fantasy XIV lately
So the idea of playing a Halfling Mark of Healing Bladesinger sounds pretty fun, as I flavor it as a Lalafell Red Mage.
EDIT: Also, High Elves are now some of the best Clerics. Clerics never get an Extra Attack so having a SCAG Cantrip like Booming Blade is pretty amazing. Combined with Nature Domain, you can key everything off Wisdom by picking up Shilaleigh as your Druid cantrip that you get for going Nature.Last edited by jaappleton; 2020-09-28 at 08:40 AM.
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2020-09-28, 08:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2020-09-28, 09:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
My wife is going to finally make her black-cat Tabaxi wizard. The extra mobility will be a help.
Now she just needs to find a tiny human to sit on her shoulder...
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2020-09-28, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
Stout Halfling Barbarian: Str +2, Con +1
STR 17, DEX 14, CON 16, INT 8, WIS 10, CHA 8
Squat Nimbleness brings your speed up to pace and you're quite the force to be reckoned with, even if you can't wield heavy weapons properly.Please be mindful of what you say in public; sadly not all can handle sarcasm or The Internet Credibility.
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2020-09-28, 10:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
Last son of the Lu-Ching dynasty
thog is the champion, thog's friends! and thog keeps on fighting to the end!
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2020-09-28, 11:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
If I ever played an Ebberon game I would love to play a dwarven hexblade with one of the abberant spiked whips but before now it just didn't make sense to use the hexwarrior feature at all as I already would get a str boost, medium armor, and martial weapons but now I could use the hill dwarf replace wis with cha and be pretty solid.
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2020-09-28, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
Second known member of the Greyview Appreciation Society
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2020-09-28, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last son of the Lu-Ching dynasty
thog is the champion, thog's friends! and thog keeps on fighting to the end!
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2020-09-28, 12:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
Do we actually know how it is going to work? I mean... i heard about it and read a lot of how it will work, but we still don't know the whole mechanical sense of it, or did they revealed more?
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2020-09-28, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-09-29, 08:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Now that i checked the rules of the lineage thing, it does give me some ideas:
In general, it makes some races better all around.
Like the Yuan-ti (Now you can put those points where you really need it, instead of 2 mental stats) -My artificer would be happy, but i don't think my DM would let me change the stats based on this
The Mountain Dwarf becomes sooo good for everyone now, +2 in 2 stats is really good, the extra weapons prof can be changed for tools and some of the martial weapons for skills.
With Mountain Dwarf you can now make a really good caster, as you now can use it to get Medium armor easily, be it a Wizard with +2 INT and +2 CON or DEX (as you see fit), tools in anything (more useful if there is no rogue with Thieves Tools)
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2020-09-29, 09:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Now that Tasha’s Lineage rules are revealed, which fun builds are optimal?
Mountain Dwarves made out like bandits because of this.
Imagine a Mountain Dwarf straight Abjurer Wizard (flavour it as Runesmith or something), with tremendous base AC and the ability to cast Shield (which also gives them and everybody around them stacking effective THP) for literally RIDICULOUS AC.
I'm definitely going to make one of those this season.Last edited by prototype00; 2020-09-29 at 09:21 PM.
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2020-09-29, 09:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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