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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krafus" data-source="post: 6708769" data-attributes="member: 27256">Miburo99: I've taken a look at your Swordmage class as you requested. Remember that the following comes from someone who has very little experience with 5e, so take my words with several grains of salt.I don't know if that's the vibe you were going for, but your Swordmage feels like a middle ground between the Bard and the Eldritch Knight. The emphasis on knowledge, intelligence and exploration distinctly reminds me of the Bard, while the hit dice, armor and weapon proficiencies are more what I'd expect of a Fighter.To me it looks like a viable arcane halfcaster, but it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for – what I want is a warrior-mage who focuses purely on battle and damage-dealing (with weapons at melee range and evocation magic at long range) as part of a military order, without other considerations/distractions like exploring and searching for lore. Also, a lot of your swordmage's abilities and features are (understandably) based on his bonded weapon, while I want my warrior-mage's magical focus to be on his spells, not his weapon. The one modification I think I'd make to your Swordmage is eventually letting him learn one or two additional cantrips from the list you provided in Arcane Attunement. It just seems natural to me that a character focused in part on learning new lore would eventually learn additional cantrips during his career.Here's hoping you find this useful (and in the knowledge that I mean no slight upon your work – you've obviously put a lot of time and thought into your Swordmage). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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