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This. If you do plan to go 3 in 'lock for this that works and seems pretty decent. Without pact of the chain you would have to channel a touch spell through your familiar, so no shortbow, but shocking grasp works quite well for hit and runs.

Having blasty damage spells doesnt make you a 'blasty damage type' perse. what it does is adds to your options in a given situation. Sometimes burning hands is the right choice and even if you only use it a couple of times it's still useful to have. That said as people have mentioned you have...

As we just talked about, generally that ward is good for 1 full charge and maybe about 20% over the course of the day. It takes suuuuper long to recharge. Honestly I would advise evocation for a school for gishes. Make sure you grab sword burst for the aoe.

Except that isnt how the sage advice reads. I agree thatd make more sense. Also by your interprutation, does it reset every turn? If you use your shield once and then pull out your longsword next turn can you get dueling?

I was comparing them to clubs since they both do 1d4 damage, sorry that wasn't clear. The dueling fighting style; "When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 to damage rolls with that weapon." So here's how that turn goes, two shields example; Attack...

With the current weapons we have yes, I would agree. But that closes the door for weapons later on that work as making the target take a save instead of rolling to hit.

Rangers don't have access to gwf. Aside from that I take issue with how mearls and crawford are treating improvised weapons. They are saying that they are a weapon when you want them to be(twf, dueling, booming blade) and not a weapon when you don't want them to be(Dueling, +2ac). Generally any...

Booming blade doesnt qualify for spell sniper because it doesnt require you to make an attack roll specifically. It says as part of casting make a melee attack. The wording is close it just seems off, and very out of flavor.

Thats gonna be themreal issue, he has 3 feats max, strahd only goes to 10 if that.

I would direct you to the homebrew section of thil forum. They will be better equipped to help you.

The issue we are having is that you seem to have a thematic mechanically dependant concept that you are needing backup that it will work, I cant give you that. I agree that 5e shields are super limited and not super realistic, but this not being the homebrew forum the most I can tell you is...

Tavern brawler makes you proficient with improvised weapons, it does not alter how they are treated rules wise. Im not sure how you are using your shield to attack with a bonus action, two weapon fighting? The reason that it becomes abusive is that with a longsword and a shield with the dual...

As does the dual wielder feat but it has classicly not been allowed with shields for abusable reasons. I undertsand your interpretation Im just saying the interpretation that I have seen wore often is different. Basically all of nhis comes back to talk to your dm. Which is sadly usuallythe...

I was just covering general usage scenarios. As far as dueling and gfb/bb that is also up tomyour dm. All of those require a "weapon" which raw a shield is not.

Personally we specifically banned this ua in our groups for balance reasons. Ive seen a couple build threads including these classes, Id start there if I were you.

You are definitely at your dm's mercy but I see it as reasonable. One nhing to note, shields are neither light nor 'weapons' so there is no raw way to attack with a sword and shield ala two weapon fighting. As for examples of 'defensive' magic being used offensively 'blast of tempest' is a...

Agreed, an alternative since wis saves are a big deal sometimes would be to take resilient con and start in pal for the wis save becaise you likely dont want the +1wis that resilient wis would give you. You also get a little bit more starting hp and if the campaign is starting at level one it...

Soutds fun. For schools take a look at evocation. The ability for half damage on cantrips if they save(which they likely will) gives you much more options for range and aoe cantrips. Sculpt spells is always great and the level 10 says you can add your int so you dont have to if you dont want to!

The inv. To see in magical darkness plus shadow monks casting darkness works pretty nicely. The other one Id say between the pushing eblast or a utility one.

To be clear I never played an abjurer in a campaign. While working on my curront character I wanted to make a mage tank. Abjurer was the first build I tried, I ran him through some testing and found the ward unattractive because of the recharge time. I remade him as an evocation wiz and it...