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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8400777" data-attributes="member: 20564">I had a heck of a lot of fun playing a bladesinger 1-13 in Avernus.  That was pre-Tasha's, and the extra attack change addressed the low damage issue I had.  I raised DEX faster than INT and my spell list was not focused on things that required saves or spell attacks.  I was very hard to hurt a lot - between a fantastic AC while bladesinger and spells like Shield, Absorb Elements, Misty Step for OA free repositioning and eventually Counterspell I could tie up half the foe's melee combatants on one side while the party dealt with others on the far side.I had a heck of a lot mroe slots left over for utility, including high level utility that often only gets used in combat like Wall of Force.Just as a side note, Custom Lineage says "Instead of..." and JC has confirmed that Custom Lineage is instead of and not any existing race from the book - for an existing race you play that race.  So you can't pick Custom Lineage and at some point pick up a racial feat like Elven Accuracy.  I mention this because once you start getting things like Great Invisibility (or the pseudo-trap option Tenser's Transformation), you can generate a lot of Advantage and may want it.</blockquote>