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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 8128944" data-attributes="member: 2525">There are certain conventions of char opt builds which are presented to the public for comment like this one. Since you've chosen to participate, you either follow those conventions or you lose out on the ability to have your creations compared and contrasted to other builds, and taken seriously as part of char opt libraries and authors.There is power in being good at char opt. TreantMonk for example is making decent money, and has prestige, for having done it well for years and turned it into a successful Youtube channel, and a patreon.You're pretty good at it, and will get better over time. But, you cannot succeed unless you're willing to work within those conventions.One of them is you cannot use "highly optional, DM approval or else automatically no" type options. Feats and Multiclassing are considered acceptable because both are acceptable in AL so they've sort of fallen out of the "optional" category for charop despite being called out as optional. Point Buy and Standard Array are considered acceptable but rolling for stats is not due to the variability. Assuming magic items is generally considered not acceptable. Using rules specifically called out as optional rules of the nature of Custom Lineage is considered not acceptable. Using backgrounds from a specialty setting which don't conform to the standard format and elements of background (like the one which gives you tons of spells) are considered not acceptable.   Even using more than Core +1 Supplementable books is sometimes considered not acceptable, and other times if it's acceptable it's done with a caveat that this might not be AL legal.It's not that you cannot combine all these things against convention. It's just that you can't hope to be considered successful as a char oper unless you do.So your choice. I think you have the bones of a really good build here worth developing further, within the conventions. If you think it cannot really hold up without those elements which go against the conventions, well that probably says it was never the subclass that was powerful but those other elements.Personally, I hope you take another crack at it, because I am starting to enjoy your builds and I'd like to see more in the future from you.</blockquote>

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