D&D 5E Build advice

[FrogReaver]

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.

Are you wanting to fiddle while in combat? Or just be good at out of combat fiddling?

 

[Oofta]

Bard is obvious but...


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

I was going to say exactly the same thing. Play against type ... a bard fiddler is just too obvious for me.

 

[mundinironhand]

I certainly want to be playing the fiddle in combat. I like the idea of re-purposing magic to work through the fiddle. The bow being fiddle bow being his arcane focus and the movements and sound being the verbal and somatic components.

 

[Lanliss]

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

Yay, someone else who knows about Lindsey Stirling.

 

[mundinironhand]

And Lindsey Stirling , wow that's very cool. I think I'm gonna go warlock fiddler. The eldritch blast can be retooled well. Pact of tome can be a book of sheet music! hmm. Fey, fiend, great old one, or death patrons?

 

[KahlessNestor]

Fey seems to go well with the music aspects.

 

[Tormyr]

eldritch blast retooled as coming from the music sounds great.

 

[the_move]

Aarakocra are banned in AL play.

Are winged variant tieflings banned as well?

 

[KahlessNestor]

Are winged variant tieflings banned as well?

Yes. You can have the wings but they are nonfunctional.

 

[Ashrym]

I certainly want to be playing the fiddle in combat. I like the idea of re-purposing magic to work through the fiddle. The bow being fiddle bow being his arcane focus and the movements and sound being the verbal and somatic components.

The easiest to work with in that way is probably the elemental monk with the noble background (or entertainer). Standard monk abilities, elemental attunement, fist of four thunders and gong of the summit are obvious for your first two abilities. Clench of the north wind is another solid choice thematically. I'd probably take ride the wind as the final ability at seventeenth level. Those are low cost and useful abilities.