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Not sure exactly what you mean by tier 2 and tier 3, but I would disagree with this. I think booming blade+SA always outruns a SA plus an extra attack, especially since you will give up 3d6 of SA dice to get an extra attack. Booming blade is +3d8 at 5th level (character level) and + 5d8 at...

Of your choices I would play a wizard, either the diviner or the bladesinger. I think the bladesinger would be better in that group if you were going to be a single class. My second choice would be sorcerer.

To be clear I would be intimidating her into not killing me/us ... and my DM may not let it fly either .... she might say to hell with the artifact you're dead. If there is no roll and she does not kill us then all that means is it is an easy intimidation - i.e. an automatic intimidation...

Ok here is one I might very try well against a Lich very shortly in a game I am playing with a way overmatched 4th level party and a Lich .We plan to kill her, not intimidate her but if we fail to kill her our fallback is to intimidate her into letting us live. We currently have a Lich...

I don't know about RAW but in the games I DM and in the games I play help breaks invisibility. That happens quite often in a game I DM with a player with a rogue-warlock with an imp familiar. The fact that the player never even questioned this or asked and assumed this was how it works makes...

I think the Vampire or the lich can be intimidated easier than he can be persuaded in most cases and it has nothing at all to do with being able to kill someone. This is my biggest problem with these arguements against it, it is narrowly focused on using violence or the threat of violence...

My point is yes you can intimidate someone without breaking the law or creating a situation where it breaks the game if you fail. Your earlier example on intimidation and your idea of intimidation as a thing is very narrow and that is why you can't see the possibilities. Regarding the...

Disagree on both these points. Yes if you walk up to stick man and make a scene threatening him with bodliy harm, that it is true. But that is the same if you walk up to stick man and try to bribe him (persuasion) and people see you or it fails and he tells. Yelling at someone and threatening...

Disagree completely in both the games I DM and the games I play. In games I play intimidation is probably the most used social skill and does not ususally end the social interaction. It could, but so could persuasion or deception. We never use strength for intimidate. The example in the PHB...

I do not like that idea and players at my table routinely cause OAs. There is also a definite strategy at play on both sides since an character only gets one reaction. The fighter moves purposely away from the enemy so he uses the OA and then another player can walk right past the enemy. Or...

This would only work if he is actually old or disguises himself.

I kind of agree, althoug I will point out that as someone who is playing a pact of chain warlock I am not currently in favor of this houserule :p

I did not say will not get damaged, I said won't get damaged by a weapon attack. And the DM I played with did eventually ensure exactly this. The party started seening "easy" enemies with save cantrips instead of or in addition to low-damage weapon attacks. The kind of enemies designed to not...

He takes a lot more hits ... on the order of 20 times as much. Maybe 15 times as much when you consider disengage will prevent a few. Yeah you can use uncanny dodge to cut one attack in half, but by the time you get it on a multiclass build a bladesigner can take a spell slot and reduce it by...

In said case you will have SA as long as you do not have disadvantage, the mount is within 5 feet of the enemy and the mount is not incapacitated. That means you will get SA most of the time (unless you are using a whip) but it is not "always available". That is how I would rule FWIW.

Disagree about surviving in melee. A bladesinger of any level will generally outlast a fighter of the same level in melee (meaning survive longer). Having twice as many hit points is not an advantage for the fighter when he will get hit 4 times as often. When you get to 10th level the...

In a party of characters where allies can help keep the enemy off you maybe. By yourself no, especially if you are not using blur, mirror image or a similar defensive spell (which would eliminate most of the extra damage). There is also a big difference between not "getting hit all that much"...

That is a good build and it can work well in some cases because of the disengage. But it won't stand up to a pure bladesinger, it is not really even close, especially when there are a lot of enemies or limited room. Shadowblade works against you too by taking up concentration that a...

A bladesinger is not usually going to deal a lot of damage in melee. Your best melee option is going to be green flame blade when there are multiple enemies. Your AC is high enough that you can also consider using booming blade and move away without disengaging and eat the OA. For high damage...

IMO Bladesinger 4 is best. Of the other two others fighter is better than rogue IMO. Rogue and bladesinger don't really gel very well IMO. You give up SA dice to get wizard levels and the rogue doesn't really need the insane AC because she can disengage as a bonus action. The bladesinger...