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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6424213" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=51930]fireinthedust[/MENTION] Normally I'm very open to homebrewing, but the Spellblade needs serious revising and I'd be disinclined to allow it in its present form. If you're really gung-ho about a swordmage conversion, here's my advice...First, there's no flavor. Right now, the Spellblade isn't sufficiently different from an Eldritch Knight Fighter or Fighter/Wizard multiclass. I would come up with some flavor of what the Spellblade represents in the setting/genre. Not only might that help with your character concept, but it might suggest abilities to round out the class. Some ideas...Is it an ancient form of sea elven or triton magic/fighting that uses a trident and casts sea-themed spells? Is it a Catalonian elven dueling school with its own strict code of dueling? Is it based around bonding with a weapon infused with magic and tied to a ship, a la Blackbeard from Pirates of the Caribbean: Stranger Tides? Is it a nearly lost Atlantean tradition passed down from father to child, with forbidden magic undertones allowing conversion of spell energy into wrath (spellsmite), but requiring one's anger to always be kept in check less it explode uncontrollably?Ok, going thru level-by-level...2nd Level: Having *both* spellsmite and arcane aegis at 2nd level is overpowered compared to other Arcane Traditions...at 2nd level you should get either spellsmite OR arcane aegis, as well as some minor thematic ability (like the Eldritch Knight sword bonding) related to the flavor.6th Level: Teleporting is cool, and seems balanced with the 7th level vengeance paladin feature. I do wonder about "killing" being required to use dimensional step...is that intentional as part of the flavor? Or would "reducing an enemy to 0 HP" suffice, allowing you to teleport after knocking someone out?10th Level: Switching from Strength or Dexterity as main melee ability to Intelligence is weird conceptually. Also, this flies in the face of 5th edition's design paradigm. Instead, I'd come up with something new or possibly move arcane aegis here.14th Level: Hard to say what should go here without knowing the flavor you are going for.Hope that helps!</blockquote>

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