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<blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6915304" data-attributes="member: 6776887">Check multiclass rules again. According to the Pact Magic section, you can use the spell slots interchangeably. Choose whatever invocations you like and fit your character concept the best. In my experience, 5e works quite well with suboptimal characters (let alone ones that are not perfectly optimized). We have a Paladin with an 8 Charisma that works really well.My suggestion would actually be to play the bard straight up without multiclassing. The odds of this character making it to level 20 due to character reasons or real life stuff is relatively low in the grand scheme of things. The original reason you cited for multiclassing was because of a capstone feature that you were not excited about, but you might not get there anyway. If your character makes it to level 20 and you take 3 levels of Warlock, you will have also sacrificed an ability score improvement and an additional opportunity to dip into the spells of another class. We had a level 19 bard in our party until it died a couple weeks ago, and it was awesome. It was also awesome when I brought him back the following week as a favored spawn of Kyuss and he used all of his signature stuff (tsunami, shapechange into a tyrannosaurus rex, bardic inspiration, etc.) against the party.Go for the lore bard! It will be great. If you do not like it, you can always dip into another class later, even at level 17 or 18.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tormyr, post: 6915304, member: 6776887"] Check multiclass rules again. According to the Pact Magic section, you can use the spell slots interchangeably. Choose whatever invocations you like and fit your character concept the best. In my experience, 5e works quite well with suboptimal characters (let alone ones that are not perfectly optimized). We have a Paladin with an 8 Charisma that works really well. My suggestion would actually be to play the bard straight up without multiclassing. The odds of this character making it to level 20 due to character reasons or real life stuff is relatively low in the grand scheme of things. The original reason you cited for multiclassing was because of a capstone feature that you were not excited about, but you might not get there anyway. If your character makes it to level 20 and you take 3 levels of Warlock, you will have also sacrificed an ability score improvement and an additional opportunity to dip into the spells of another class. We had a level 19 bard in our party until it died a couple weeks ago, and it was awesome. It was also awesome when I brought him back the following week as a favored spawn of Kyuss and he used all of his signature stuff (tsunami, shapechange into a tyrannosaurus rex, bardic inspiration, etc.) against the party. Go for the lore bard! It will be great. If you do not like it, you can always dip into another class later, even at level 17 or 18. [/QUOTE]

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