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I have never felt powerless against traps. Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you. Traps are a natural part of dungeons because they are a natural part of warfare. It's all about inflicting as many casualties as you can passively before you engage the enemy on purpose. Modern...

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As an Arcan Trickster, I have already been busting out the Mage Hand bonus action tricks for moving my bullseye lantern around to great effect.

I'm curious, but nobody seems to like the Dual Wielder feat despite it giving you a non-light secondary weapon with a d8 + STR damage. I think the idea of a Battle Axe in one hand and a Warhammer in the other is kinda badass...

Since I'm in a great minority apparently, I say Bladesinger FTMFW! Be really hard to get this much goodness in the same package without sacrificing spell levels by multi-classing. Not sure if they're still doing the douchy Elves-only thing with it as I don't have the book myself, but by taking...

No, I understand it just fine. I'm simply pointing out that the stuff you lose for going with Bladesinger vs. another Wizard type isn't what I consider a big hit in most circumstances. With the right character concept, I would even go so far as to say that the stuff that you guys are clinging so...

I was talking about Arcane Trickster and the Eldrich Knight variants, actually.

So when I was fighting Tiamat at Level 13 and barely keeping the to-hit better than 50/50 in my favor...you're saying that simply not being hit wasn't a huge part of my personal success in that battle...when Tiamat easily averages 40+ points of damage per attack... Umm...interesting viewpoint, sir!

And I disagree completely. Once I hit a natural AC 20 and then started stacking defensive spells from there I could basically wade into dang near anything. Most "Big and Bad" enemies cap out at +10 to hit or so and you won't be running into those for a while outside of fighting the critter on...

I agree completely. Some (many of you, in this case) players will focus in the "neat tricks" of certain Wizard styles but when it comes to raw survivability and utility, the Bladesinger goes way too far. At least the other <other stuff>/wizard classes have limitations on them like limited spell...

I would rather not be hit at all than be able to take a hit. Just sayin'...

Dwarves are my favorite non-human race, but I voted for Human. The reason for my vote is that I prefer the challenge of Human. Everything works as advertised. No resistances or immunities. No racial dark vision. No radical stat bumps that move you from "Pretty good!" to "ZOMG!" You have to...

I was waffling between the two but decided on Rapier because they're both primarily thrusting weapons and the Jian is typically too long to be a "short sword". Also, they serve similar purposes in actual fighting with great similarity in technique once you get passed the east/west thing.

All of which a Bladesinger will likely also have. I'm currently looking at a character in my group with a Trance AC of 21 (26 with Shield...higher than Tiamat!) and everything you just mentioned above...at 3rd level and zero magic items. My Tiamat campaign paladin had a 26 AC with Dwarven...

It's certainly not a poor choice for a story. I like it better than "I'm like Caine from Kung Fu"... That said: You can be a boy from the area returning from a war, finding out that battles don't just happen in far away lands. You worked as a Scout for a law enforcement group that hunted...

Good point. But you know, with the removal of basically every strong negative to being a Wizard (and every Wizard you mentioned above suffers as I discussed above), the Bladesinger really shines. You see, I'm an Old Skool D&D player and I honestly had no clue that half the stuff you mentioned...

Complete agreement from me as well on the Spear. My issue is that Quarterstaff (a Spear sans the pokie bit...no, really) can be used with Polearm Master but the humble Spear gets the shaft (no, the other kind of shaft)... A DM could probably also be convinced to allow a Jian, aka Tai Chi Sword...

I agree completely. The consensus with our group is you go Sorcerer to level 5-6 for the Sorcery Points and run Warlock the rest of the way. Pretty sad when a main class character option is only deemed good enough to be used to pump up another character class because after less than 1/3 of the...

Now, now Eric V...you aren't supposed to counter a "Meh! I think it's actually kinda weak..." response about a broken new character option with logic. It's against the rules of internet decorum and stuff.

One aspect to keep in mind is that one of the greatest dangers for a wizard is for the front line to collapse, forcing the Mage (Wizards and Sorcerers both suffer here) into melee combat. Low AC, low hit points, and opportunity attacks while casting don't exactly do you any favors in this...