Recent content by Tawek21

Sounds good. Too many builds try to be amazing in one area, esp damage. What's more important is to be well-rounded, and to have enough variety to be fun to play. What I like is when there's enough options that you can keep surprising yourself and your team mates with a new strategy. Sounds...

Thanks for such an interesting and detailed build. Generally, I think the stacking you are doing of charisma bonuses is reasonable, as you don't seem to be stacking near-identical features. I hope you don't mind the following nitpicky questions, especially if the questions are based on a...

I've always assumed it worked as follows: You can add your ability score once for damage if it is the ability modifier for your weapon. (Normally strength or dex, but sometimes a casting stat, such as charisma for a 2014 hexblade) There were a few special abilities that allowed your modifier to...

That sounds thematically good. My only caveat is game balance. I've designed builds for, but not actually played, an EK. If real life play shows that an EK without restrictions to their spell focus overshadows other fighters, then the balance may need tweaking. But some table home-brewing this...

That some EKs and paladins reluctantly use clubs or quarterstaves for mechanical reasons grates with me too. Personally, I'd like a feature like shillelagh for other one-handed weapons, which allows you to use weapons such as long swords with your casting stat. Perhaps make it a homebrewed...

It's complicated. I think it depends on your situation and on your DM. For the shield spell: If you are using a shield and aren't using an arcane focus as your weapon, then you can't cast shield as a reaction. If your weapon is an arcane focus staff, you can. If you are dual-wielding (and not...

Further up the thread, someone was lamenting the thought that EKs might be forced to get War Caster. In my opinion, this would be no great sacrifice. The ability to cast a spell at someone when they provoke an opportunity attack could be incredibly useful for an EK that wants to tank (for...

Good question. And it seems to me they've not really thought this through. I like the decision that you can choose the casting stat. That seems to me to be designed to simplify things for players who get spells from feats and races, so they can use the same stat as their other spells. If that...

I think it being a mish-mash hybrid was inevitable. Perhaps I'm sympathetic because of my experience when I used to work in the software industry. Whenever something was supposed to be upwards compatible, there were innumerable problems. What I like is that the underlying direction of the...

I think it's worth it, if you find it fun :) This is particularly true for an two handed EK. With AC boosting options like shield and blade ward, we don't really need an extra point of AC. And, if we discover blindfighting is too niche for it to be fun, we can just swap it out with another...

In my opinion, nothing is clear. The team who wrote these books is small and they had an enormously complicated set of rules to define. I suspect RAI is a misconception. There is no Rules As Intended, because they probably never thought about the issue of what cantrips count as wizard cantrips...

True. However, if the shillelagh is a club and you have a shield in the other hand, then you have no hand available to hold a focus. [I made the mistake of writing a long reply without reading the rest of thread. I now see Ashrym has already written some excellent posts on this. Kudos to...

Treantmonk argues that, because Shillelagh is a druid spell, you'd need the druid class to be able to use a druid spell focus staff (which is different from an arcane focus staff). Lots of different opinions on this. Some think that if you cast wizard spells, and make a spell from a a feat...

I expect your table will allow Booming Blade. Booming blade is not in the 2024 players handbook but is in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. Your DndBeyond may have both. I believe what WotC have suggested is that old content is allowed with 2024 rules, as long as 2024 rules don't supercede...

Sounds like you have a fantastic weekend coming up. Personally, if I were Charisma based, I'm not sure I'd go EK. With you current build, the only use I can see of your charisma spell DC is starry wisp, which seems a bit of a waste. I think I'd go level 1 fighter, and the rest warlock, with 17...