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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8173378" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Rogue Bladesingers are awesome, and I'll evangelize for them any day. It's one of the few multiclasses that doesn't have a bunch of waiting to come online levels, and almost any split you do works. I particularly love Arcane Trickster-Bladesinger because it solves my problems with both those subclasses (AT just doesn't get enough spell slots and variety soon enough, a couple Wizard levels fixes that right up, and Bladesinger just doesn't have enough incentive to be in melee, even a little sneak attack and easy disengaging after booming blade up their melee damage considerably). Also can't recommend Shadow Blade enough for such builds. Advantage in dim light and darkness is the most Rogue friendly weapon you can possibly find, and one of the most satisfying spells to upcast which, since you'll often have higher level slots than you have spells with the multiclass, is pretty damned awesome. Even if your DM won't play ball on using it with the SCAG cantrips after the Tashas rewrites it is still a mandatory part of a melee Rogue/Wizard's toolkit as soon as you can pick it up. You might consider going custom lineage rather than variant human so that you can pick up darkvision. Being a Rogue without darkvision often sucks under any circumstance, and once you pick up Shadow Blade it will be especially painful to not be able toThe only issue I've had playing my AT/Bladesinger is that it has really serious bonus action demand. Between Bladesong, Shadowblade, Cunning Actions, and other bonus action spells, you have some really tough calls to make on how to spend the bonus action, and may find yourself getting surprisingly far into combat without actually getting around to activating your Bladesong (which is fine because you can cast Shield). Probably worth considering before committing to a feat for Hex, yet another bonus action hog. But it sounds like you might have your heart set on that. On the bright side you'll probably never once waste your bonus action.Personally with those stats I would consider putting off Rogue level 4 until a little later. If you had a 16 or less Dex it would be one thing, but at 18 you have good enough Dex to put off the ASI, and Wizard 3 unlocks the whole world of 2nd level magic that Arcane Tricksters usually have to wait for level 7 for. A familiar will likely be giving you advantage most turns so you'll usually still hit, and between the Bladesong and Shield your AC is insane even without maxed Dex. What ups your Rogue skills more, an additional +1 to stealth rolls or a spell that lets you BE INVISIBLE? But obviously you can feel things out as you go</blockquote>

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