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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zene" data-source="post: 7024353" data-attributes="member: 6863496">Checking in with a play report (AL). After messing around with the early levels of a few different grappling builds, I finally settled on an Orc Barbarian. And man, am I having fun! The massive hit point pool and Bear Totem's resistances mean I'm never worried about wading into the thick of things. The Orc's Aggressive feature is quite nice, both in getting to melee range with an enemy, and in "collecting" enemies; I like to grapple one, move to another, grapple that one, then move toward a third so I can tank all three. Then start shoving them prone. On top of that, when I run into un-grapple-able enemies, I can still dish out the dpr. The only real sacrifice I'm making in that space is not having the GWM feat; but I'm still keeping up with almost all other builds.I was worried that without Expertise (or some other help like Action Surge or Cutting Words), I'd be ineffective at grappling. But as-of Level 5, with an 18 strength, proficiency in Athletics, advantage via Rage, and making smart choices on who to target, I'm almost never missing anyway. I just got enough XP to hit level 6, and I'm planning on going Rogue 1 for expertise. Pretty sure I'll be unstoppable.Now if only I can get some magic items to drop! I've got Boots of Springing and Striding, Weapon of Warning, and Belt of Dwarvenkind on other characters, so as soon as I get something to trade and enough downtime I'll have some decent options. Also got my fingers crossed that a Luckstone and/or Winged Boots will come his way.</blockquote>

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