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I think you're confusing Second Wind with Action Surge. Action Surge only grants one extra action, meaning that you'd only get to attack with the main part of the weapon. Therefore your Action Surge round would be Attack + Attack + PAM bonus action attack. You would have to have Extra Attack to...

If you decide on multiclassing to gain Expertise, there are two ways to acquire it: Rogue 1 and Bard 3. I'll list some of the pros and come of each. Rogue Pros: Only takes 1 level to acquire Expertise. Gain +1d6 Sneak Attack and one skill proficiency. Going to Rogue 2 grants Cunning Action...

Slight correction needs to be made to your damage example under Spiked Armor. The damage range would be 7-10. Other than that, solid guide.

The only way that you'll see this in an official capacity is if WotC decides to bring back multiclass-specific feats, like Ascetic Rogue. If your DM allows for homebrew, then here's what I envision to be the 5e version of that feat. Ascetic Rogue Requires: Sneak Attack, Martial Arts 1. Increase...

Forfeiture of rewards only applies to faction charity rezzes. Just remember that there's still the -4 diminishing penalty that remains regardless of how one paid for Raise Dead. The best way to handle that is to eat the downtime/lifestyle costs at the end of the session to recover, that way your...

Only other advice that I can think of is to make BB your racial cantrip, so you can get 2d8+1d6+3 damage with a rapier at 1st level. At that point, I'd consider going for the Bladesinger dip when you hit character levels 2&3, as your DM might put a target on your back as repercussion for the...

Btw, check the edits on my last two posts, as I added some things to them that you might have missed while replying.

With that line-up, you have two CHA-focused characters who should be doing the lion's share of the Persuasion checks. Therefore, dumping CHA isn't a bad thing. Stats look fine as they are. Fourth cantrip? That's an easy one. Message. Super useful when scouting ahead. Mobile is a decent feat...

I second this, if only to make my DMG more usable to AL as something other than a magic item catalog/madness guide.

This is what happens when I rely on Passive Perception... Do you foresee yourself making lots of History checks in your game? The PHB has rules for customizing backgrounds. See if your DM will allow you to swap History for Investigation, so you can take Athletics with your Rogue proficiencies...

How did you derive your stats? Was it via rolling or point-buy? Remember that Half-elf comes with +2 Cha, so the lowest that a point-buy Half-elf can have their Cha is 10. Faria, the PHB has rules that allow skill checks that use different ability scores. You're more likely to convince a DM...

One of my favorite concept builds that turned out to be quite effective is my ale-chugging, whuppin'-stick-swinging, mudhole-stomping, barwench-glomping son-of-a-gun, Aylagur Buschbudd. VHuman (Polearm Master) Nature Cleric 1/Hunter Ranger (Colossus Slayer) 5/Cleric 15

I figured that a fun exercise in theorycrafting would be to fit some of our beloved superheroes and reviled supervillains into D&D 5e character builds. First rule is that you have to use point-buy or standard array. This is purely to keep a measure of balance between all examples. Plus, it...

Bears still have heads. Headbutts are unarmed strikes. Flurry of Blows doesn't require the use of a Monk weapon, so you can Attack with claws and then Flurry. Using Flurry of Blows as a Bear is a control option that gets better once you get Extra Attack. Until then, Multiattack is the goto move...

Why wouldn't a spellcaster be able to add proficiency bonus to a spellcasting check? That makes no sense.

One of my favorite concept builds that actually fares out pretty well in tanking and support is a VHuman (Polearm Master) Nature Cleric 1/Hunter Ranger (Colossus Slayer) 5/Cleric 15. Assuming point buy, post-racial stats would be as follows: Str 10 Dex 14 Con 16 Int 8 Wis 16 Cha 8 Battle...

The reason that I'm against the prestige class idea is that your players are already in the third tier of gameplay. They may already have ideas on how they plan on playing out the rest of their careers. If this happened before they hit double digits, they might be more open to a prestige class...

No need to use a prestige class for embracing the curse. The rules for it already exist. The PCs suffer an alignment change to that of the respective lycanthrope. That in itself may deter one of them from embracing the curse. If the players get too big for their britches with their new power...

I agree that more follow-up would be nice. However, I have something about each of your points. 1. The only way any UA materials will become AL legal is if they make it into a published product. That's how we got Swashbuckler and Storm Sorcerer via the SCAG. With regards to cleaning up and...

I would go with 2. The off-course adventures could be used to test out how to adjust future encounters, given their newfound strengths. If they embrace the curses, they can then shapechange on command. That means that you're going to have to start equipping the enemies with weapons and abilities...