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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6777861" data-attributes="member: 6799649">My first 5E character was a human fighter in AL. He took this feat at 1st, for both flavour (I envisioned a swashbuckler/duellist noble) and tactics.I chose prestidigitation for flavour (clean/dry in a few moments, plus other tricks) and ray of frost. I knew that a dragon gifted me my powers (all fluff), so it would be ray of frost if the dragon was silver or fire bolt if it was gold.Having this as my ranged weapon meant that I didn't have to waste money on buying ranged weapons/ammunition, could never run out of ammo or be disarmed, and was very cool. (Hah! See what I did there?)My 1st level spell was mage armour. I can't believe you rated it as red! You can only cast your 1st level spell 1/day, and this spell lasts 8 hours! Next, being a Dex fighter, I can only wear light armour and still get the benefit. I knew that I'd get 20 Dex asap, and the 3 points of AC granted by the spell gives me better AC than any light (or medium) armour; AC16 at 1st, 17 at 4th and 18 at 6th. Although you could find magical light armour, it's more likely that you'd find Bracers of Defence (not that I found either).Also, I didn't have to waste my starting gold on either ranged weapons or armour, and spent my money on buying a silvered rapier, which became my bond, as a 'Faberge Blade' crafted by the famous swordsmith, who was actually a silver dragon in disguise. Fluff is cool. And that's solid crunch. The fluff was that swashbucklers/duelists don't like to wear armour. I actually accepted Cyanwrath's challenge, and persuaded him that we needed to fight unarmoured if he wanted an 'official' duel. I used my inspiration on that check, and it worked! I still lost, but I impressed him (and everyone else) because I kept hitting him and he kept missing me! I just wish I'd've thought to mention "No breath weapons" too!BTW, a different character used message in a cool way: I was hidden in the trees, eavesdropping on a big orc sergeant chewing out a couple scared goblin soldiers. When the orc turned away, I cast message at him, and imitated a goblin (Deception check) whispering to his mate behind the orc's back, "Ooohh, he think's he's so hard!", in the campest voice I could muster. "WHAT!!! Which one of you maggots said that?"They each pointed to the other... <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=":)" />I got bonus XPs for that!</blockquote>

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