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MAIKERU DORKAS

#017

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[male-to-less-male-derogatory]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's okay for your gender to change over time. Maybe you were sure you liked your squishy internal bits for years, then started to feel you'd be happier as a skeleton animated by dark forces.

Perhaps you're like me, someone who's fervently stuck to being a spellcaster in every game, but is now considering playing a Tank sometimes. I still mostly consider my gender to be level 32 Voidmage but I've come to understand the part of me that's a tank-caster hybrid like an Artificer, even when other people would say my build is janky. A lot of people will try to gatekeep you, but frankly, 1d8 + Int modifier temp hp as a bonus action to your entire party every turn is absolutely worth the higher level spells you give up by not playing a wizard.

And you know what? I'll just come out and say it, Booming Blade IS valid and the Artificer-Artillerist's Arcane Firearm feature DOES work with it if you're using a magical focus staff as your firearm and wielding it as a Quarterstaff to make the Booming Blade attack with. Yes I'm running a 16 in Str and Int, no I'm not "too MAD". Don't listen to the optimizers trying to tell you you should pick Battlesmith instead. People like you being SAD serves to reinforce their worldview and that's what they're really looking after.

Besides, it's not like you'll have the ASIs to rush 20 int, since you're going to pick a vHuman and plan your feats so that you get Crusher, War Caster, and Polearm Master in that order.

You see, Crusher lets you move enemies if you hit them with a blunt weapon using Booming Blade, meaning they'd have to voluntarily move back to you in order to melee you, triggering the extra Booming Blade damage.

With your level 4 ASI, War Caster is a must to protect your concentration. It also lets you cast a spell with your reaction instead of an attack of opportunity. This is not that useful yet, but it is very funny to hit an enemy with Booming Blade as they are running away.

At level 8, you pick the final piece of the puzzle: Polearm Master. You won't be using the bonus attack feature, since as an Artillerist Artificer, your bonus action is spoken for and supremely valuable. What Polearm Master truly lets us do is have an attack of opportunity when an enemy first ENTERS our range. War Caster means we can replace it with a cast of Booming Blade, which on a hit will do our weapon damage, 1d8 immediate damage from the spell, an extra 1d8 damage thanks to Arcane Firearm, and an extra 2d8 damage if the target willingly moves... Which they have to if they wish to attack us, since Crusher can push them out of range right after we deal bludgeoning damage to the enemy, guaranteed since we cast Booming Blade with a Quarterstaff.

Should we hit with Booming Blade twice - once with our action, once with our reaction - that comes out to a max of 2*(1d8+3 + 1d8 + 1d8 + 2d8) or 10d8 + 6 damage at level 8, most of it the seldom-resisted thunder type.

And that's my gender.

[ink-flavoured-tea]

Fun D&D Builds 7: Spore-Blade

You like mushrooms? Sad there isn’t a fungus themed patron yet? Craving those spores in combat? Well here’s a build that can help with that. 

You will need: 

Warlock Class - Hexblade Subclass - Pact of the Blade

Druid Class - Circle of Spores Subclass

Hexblood Lineage 

College of Witherbloom Background 

How it works: 

For this build to work, you’ll need to take Warlock and go for Pact of the Blade and specifically choose a Melee weapon (if you go for the Improved pact weapon invocation) choose the Hexblade subclass, this way you’ll only need to improve your Wisdom and for this build. Thanks to Hexblade’s Curse, you’ll also do extra damage to your melee attacks equal to your Proficiency bonus. I'd also recommend the following Invocations:

Thirsting blade - gives you two attacks with your pact weapon per turn

Maddening Hex - as a bonus action you deal psychic damage equal to your charisma modifier to a target affected by Hex

Lifedrinker - For extra charisma damage to your melee attacks

Eldritch Smite - Expend a spell slot for a looot of damage when you hit a creature with your pact weapon. 

Next, go for the Druid Class and choose the Circle of Spore subclass, with your Halo of spores feature you’ll get to use your reaction to deal necrotic damage to targets within 10ft of you. If you use your Symbiotic entity feature then you’ll do an additional damage die when you use your Halo of spores feature AND all of your melee attacks deal an extra 1d6 necrotic damage. 

You’ll also want to Grab the Hexblood Lineage, why? Because not only is it thematic, but you’ll also get to cast the Hex Spell for free once per long rest, so you’ll deal ANOTHER 1d6 damage without expending a spell slot and allowing you to choose another warlock spell to help give you more versatility (plus you can use your maddening hex invocation as a bonus action next turn)

Finally, choose the Witherbloom Student Background, this will give you more spells to choose from (which again, works with the theme of Druids and Warlocks) you’ll get two cantrips and a spell from the Wizard or Druid spell list (which you can also cast for free once per rest) 

Takes a turn or two to set up (and more to stack damage) but overall you’ll be using your action to deal a ton of damage and your bonus action and reaction to chip away at your opponent’s health. You’ll also get three cantrips and two spells slots for free too! 

Outside of Combat, you’ll be able to turn into creatures for infiltration and stealth, have access to more cantrip choices as you’ll be getting three cantrips for free in addition to your Druid and Warlock ones. You’ll have a range of invocations to pick and choose from and you can prepare different Druid spells every day while also having more healing and/or support spells (like cure wounds and goodberry) and be able to use them without burning through your limited Warlock spell slots (as multiclassing with Warlock gives you extra spell slots instead of having to do maths to figure out how many slots you have if you go for Wizard and Sorcerer, for example.) Thanks to Hexblood you'll also be able to cast the message cantrip for free and if be able to cast Disguise self too!

Thanks for reading, hope y'all are having a great weekend :)

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