Recent content by Nathan Mitchell

As a gish addict, I'm going to say Sorcerer. I love being able to attack and cast in the same turn with Quickened Spell, I normally take a Fighter or Paladin dip for defences and armour proficiency. This is just personal preference, it suits my preferred playstyle best. I think the least well...

Just a tad late to the party, I have played multiple gish characters so my 2cp might hopefully still be valuable here. By far the most effective gish I played that reached 9th level spells was Fighter 1/Warlock 2/Sorcerer 17. Hexblade patron and Stone Sorcery allowed me to invest purely into...

I made two gestalt characters to play as antagonists in a game I am GMing and they are sick. One of them is a Paladin (Oathbreaker) 12/Warlock (Pact of the Chain, Hexblade) 8//Sorcerer (Stone Sorcery) 20 and the other is a Rogue (Arcane Trickster) 14/Monk (Way of Shadow) 6//Wizard (Necromancer)...

There is more to tanking than increasing HP and/or AC. A tank doesn't just need to be able to survive taking hits, a tank has to give his enemies a reason to hit him instead of his allies. A good tank has some way of punishing enemies who want to attack different targets. Of course, a tank does...

At levels 1-4, you're looking at shaping the fate of a village. At levels 5-10, you're looking at shaping the fate of a city. At levels 11-16, you're looking at shaping the fate of a kingdom. At levels 17+, you're looking at shaping the fate of the Material Plane itself. As a DM, you have to...

Currently a part of a 20th level campaign as a playtest for two of my homebrew classes (the Spellblade class and the Force Missile Mage subclass of Wizard) and I have to say, these have been much more challenging and therefore appropriate to our level than the Tarrasque as written in the Monster...

The main benefit of taking Sorcerer levels is to break action economy in half with Quickened and/or Twinned. As a Rogue, you will want to maximise Sneak Attack, which only works once per turn. I can see a Swashbuckler taking one level of Draconic Sorcerer for the unarmoured AC and Booming Blade...

Back to the topic of Tempest Clerics... When I first played a Cleric, I did so because I was asked to fill a hole in the party. I chose Tempest because I wanted to be more than a healbot and to say it exceeded my expectations is a gross understatement. I was a Hill Dwarf for the additional HP...

I presume that you want a character that is similar to the character Thor from the MCU. I personally like the idea of this character; it has a lot of roleplay potential while being effective in combat. However, I think you would have more luck as a Paladin. Paladin gives the divine flavour of...

I have played a number of characters that all tank rather well. My favourite three were as follows; The first was a Fighter (Champion) 17/Barbarian (Path of the Bear) 3. He was a Greataxe wielding Half Orc with Great Weapon Master and Sentinel. He was originally a gladiator and loved nothing...

Wondering the rules concerning multiclassing Monk with the Revised Ranger, specifically Beast Conclave. I see no reason why a multiclass Monk/Ranger can't stack Extra Attack with Coordinated Attack, I mean Extra Attack (2) is only 1 level away for Fighters and by multiclassing you're hampering...

I think Counterspell needs to be rated higher in Additional Magical Secrets, or just Magical Secrets in general. I have disabled bosses using a combination of Greater Invisibility and Counterspell. It's great, especially with Jack of all Trades and Peerless Skill making you a better user than...

IMO there's a couple of really good gish builds out there. Sorcerer is really good for augmenting an already powerful melee class with SCAG Cantrips and Metamagic. Key examples being Paladin and Swashbuckler. Paladin loves the extra spells slots for Divine Smite and Swashbuckler loves the...

Thoughts on a Moon Druid/Sun Soul Monk multiclass? I'm thinking Wild Shape into a flying creature and rain lasers from the sky could be very fun, not to mention having somewhat decent AC in Wild Shape. As a Monk I don't have to worry too much about fall damage either. Would this be effective or...