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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7155580" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>I like the concept, my biggest concern is that it's quite MAD. Bladesong AC is +INT, but that's not really useful elsewhere in the build. You'll need at least a 13 INT to multiclass, say 14 for +2 at low levels. If you're point buy that's really eating into other abilities you'd want to raise like DEX and CON. You don't mention any concentration (bladesong bonus) or spells with attack/save, so at that point raising DEX gets you everything raising INT does and lots more. If you start with a +3 DEX mod, 4th and 8th bring it up to +5, and it's not until 12th you'd have a free ASI to raise INT - assuming you don't want to get a feat or raise CON - or CHR, you do get some from that as a Swashbuckler and there's a lot of good skills based on it.</p><p></p><p>In other words, the features go well together but it seems to spread yourself thin in terms of ability scores. On the other hand, if you're rolling and you have several good scores it could really work together.</p><p></p><p>As a side note, Rogue (Arcane Trickster) does get ONE spell known (more at higher levels) from other schools besides Enchantment and Illusion. So if you go that rouge you don't have an INT requirement and you can pick up shield, featherfall or fog cloud in addition to disguise self (since it's illusion already). You lose the quite nifty bladesong, but it doesn't bring you as much as it would an INT-focused character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7155580, member: 20564"] I like the concept, my biggest concern is that it's quite MAD. Bladesong AC is +INT, but that's not really useful elsewhere in the build. You'll need at least a 13 INT to multiclass, say 14 for +2 at low levels. If you're point buy that's really eating into other abilities you'd want to raise like DEX and CON. You don't mention any concentration (bladesong bonus) or spells with attack/save, so at that point raising DEX gets you everything raising INT does and lots more. If you start with a +3 DEX mod, 4th and 8th bring it up to +5, and it's not until 12th you'd have a free ASI to raise INT - assuming you don't want to get a feat or raise CON - or CHR, you do get some from that as a Swashbuckler and there's a lot of good skills based on it. In other words, the features go well together but it seems to spread yourself thin in terms of ability scores. On the other hand, if you're rolling and you have several good scores it could really work together. As a side note, Rogue (Arcane Trickster) does get ONE spell known (more at higher levels) from other schools besides Enchantment and Illusion. So if you go that rouge you don't have an INT requirement and you can pick up shield, featherfall or fog cloud in addition to disguise self (since it's illusion already). You lose the quite nifty bladesong, but it doesn't bring you as much as it would an INT-focused character. [/QUOTE]
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