D&D 5E Build advice

[mundinironhand]

Looking for help with a build for an adventure league game.The concept is a fiddler, preferabaly a character than can fiddle and kickbutt in combat.What class or classes would you consider?

 

[ExploderWizard]

A bard? If you create an aarakocra bard then you could be a fiddler on the roof.

 

[mundinironhand]

Bard hit me as an obvious choice, given the music instrument prof. I guess it would need to be a lore bard, to make the most use of the fiddle.

I'm curious what else might work. Trying to think outside the box.

Oh and this would probably be running the new season of Adventure leaque, so a fiddler that end sup in Ravenloft.

 

[ExploderWizard]

Bard hit me as an obvious choice, given the music instrument prof. I guess it would need to be a lore bard, to make the most use of the fiddle.

I'm curious what else might work. Trying to think outside the box.

Oh and this would probably be running the new season of Adventure leaque, so a fiddler that end sup in Ravenloft.

If you want to be more combat oriented then you could be a valor bard. They are a little stronger in melee.

 

[Z. H. Darkstar]

A bard? If you create an aarakocra bard then you could be a fiddler on the roof.

Aarakocra are banned in AL play.

 

[KahlessNestor]

Anything with the Entertainer background gets tou musical instruments. So does Noble.

 

[mundinironhand]

I didn't even think about Noble, but that could be an intersting way to take this character. I mean who ever heard of a noble fiddler wandering around with Adventurers. Would he be Sheltered and arrogant? or more wordly and eccentric?

The classes i htink could be played with fiddle in hand are bard, any full caster(using arcane focus) and monk.

 

[Illithidbix]

Bard is obvious but...

Monk.
You can make unarmed attacks without ever needing to put your fiddle down.

 

[BookBarbarian]

You could go a different direction. The Outlander background gets an instrument proficiency as well.

 

[Tormyr]

I know it is probably not really what you are looking for, but I always considered bards to fight with their music. Vicious mockery refluffed as blasts coming from the fiddling, cure wounds as the music healing the allies, etc.

A little Roundtable Rival from Lindsey Stirling as an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvipPYFebWc

More off subject, the bard or monk could be more of a dancer who focuses energy and releases it, a la LXD (although LXD combat is a little slow for D&D).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btvpgsy3h8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7lBgPpyYzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeHMeV7pe-0

My point being, refluffing how the PC does the damage while the mechanics of the class stay the same works really well. So the fiddler can be great in combat through playing the instrument which gets executed as magic spells.

EDIT: And bard going up against a dragon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJnvC8voJY