D&D (2024) Rogues plus Nick and Vex

[pukunui]

Nick the Vexing is pretty great!

I also thought of "Nick the Vexatious" or "Vexatious Nick" but those sound more like minor villains' names to me.

"Nikki Vexx" really would suit an entertainer or glamor bard best, but I'm not so keen on going that route with this character, so I think either a plainer "Nicky Vex" or "Nick the Vex" will be more suitable. EDIT: "Vexing Nick" might work too!

I think either a fighter with the charlatan background (going for champion at 3rd) or a rogue with the wayfarer background (going for thief at 3rd). Or a 1-level fighter or rogue MCing into monk from 2nd. Regardless, flavor would be a rough-and-tumble street fighter type who fights dirty. Visually, shortsword plus dagger is the most thematic, but the scimitar does 1d6 whereas the dagger only does 1d4, so ...

Being familiar with Dragon Heist, I was thinking I'd make my PC an admirer of the legendary Black Viper.

 

[pukunui]

@Charlaquin: "Nick the Vexing" is growing on me! That one just might be the winner. I'll let you know. Got a month or so to figure this out.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

. You could then only sheathe one of them with your free object interaction

I don't think that you're supposed to be able to sheathe (or draw) at all with your "free object interaction" in 2024.

 

[pukunui]

I don't think that you're supposed to be able to sheathe (or draw) at all with your "free object interaction" in 2024.

In its definition of an object, the 2024 PHB provides "sword" as an example, so it should work. That said, you could argue that (un)equipping a weapon as part of an attack is your one free object interaction for the round.

 

[Charlaquin]

@Charlaquin: "Nick the Vexing" is growing on me! That one just might be the winner. I'll let you know. Got a month or so to figure this out.

“Vexing” definitely does come across as a title someone else would have given them. That could be a fun background element to play with, like maybe Nick has or had a rival who called them that, and they eventually came to embrace it. Or maybe it was just a nickname an older sibling gave them as children, and they kept using it in adulthood in homage to that (potentially late?) sibling.

 

[pukunui]

I'm thinking either halfling or human for species.

Vexing is being annoying, so halfling could be fun as a small person who feels they have to be annoying to be noticed.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Be a fighter/warlock.

Nikki Vexx and the Nasty Hex.

 

[pukunui]

Be a fighter/warlock.

Nikki Vexx and the Nasty Hex.

I have thought about that. I wouldn't be able to take advantage of true strike, but I could still make use of a pact weapon and have some magic to play around with.

EDIT: That combo goes nicely with the Charlatan background as well, since you can boost both Dex and Cha with it.

 

[overgeeked]

Hi all,

The group I play in will be switching to the 2024 rules sometime in September. Like @Charlaquin, I want to make my first 2024 character a rogue named Nikki Vexx.

We'll be starting at 1st level, and we're playing Dragon Heist, so we should make it to 5th level at least. I like the look of the new soulknife, but if I'm reading it right, the soulknife's psychic blades don't play nicely with TWF / Nick since they don't have the Light property and don't count as a specific melee weapon so you can't use the Nick property with them.

Basically, if I want to be able to use both Nick and Vex, I have to use two actual weapons, right? Seems like a shortsword for Vex plus a scimitar for Nick would be the optimal choice, since all the other Nick weapons only deal 1d4 dmg.

I would need to take a fighter dip to get the TWF fighting style feat to add Dex mod to the dmg of the off-hand attacks. Am I right in thinking that the TWF fighting style feat doesn't apply to the bonus action off-hand attack from the Dual Wielder feat?

I feel like "Nikki Vexx" would be a cool name for a swashbuckler, but the DM has said 2024 rules only for this first campaign, so I'll be limited to the four subclasses in the 2024 PHB. I'd probably go with Thief.

Alternatively, I could just go with a Dex-based fighter instead ...

Thoughts?

Thank you for showing why these should be options inherent to the character instead of aspect of the weapons.

I’d probably house rule it that non-fighters were limited to the properties of the weapons they were proficient in, but able to use any mastery with any weapon.

 

[Ashrym]

I was going to take the Entertainer background for the “rockstar” element of my Nikki

"Nikki Vexx" really would suit an entertainer or glamor bard best, but I'm not so keen on going that route with this character, so I think either a plainer "Nicky Vex" or "Nick the Vex" will be more suitable. EDIT: "Vexing Nick" might work too!

Yeah, I was also tempted to variate the name for my next character who is a glamour bard based on Alice Cooper's role in Dynamite Comics' CHAOS! Universe as the Lord of Nightmares. Main focus of illusions and fear.

Except without nick or vex in the build the variations were hard to come up with for me. I was thinking maybe Mikki Hexx but I'm definitely looking for suggestions. :-D