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Ancestry: Gnome
- Heritage: Sensate gnome
Background: Barkeep
Class: Bard
- Muse: Enigma
STR 0 (10)
DEX 2 (14)
CON 1 (12)
INT 1 (12)
WIS 1 (12)
CHA 4 (18)
Ancestry Feat: First-World Magic
Perform cantrip: Inspire Courage
1. I am trained in occult spells, but First-World Magic gives me a primal spell, so the spell attack modifier is 5 (not 7 as for occult spells) and the spell save DC is 15, not 17.
2. The class description does not say that I am trained in Class DC, so it is 15.
3. As I understand the new rules, I can use three actions per turn. So I could use 1 action to do Inspire Courage, and 1 action to attack.
4. I see nothing that gives me a performance spell or a focus spell, so I have none.
Have I got these right?
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1. The cantrip granted by First World Magic is an innate primal spell. Your proficiency in innate spells is at least trained, but if you have a better proficiency in any spell tradition, you use that proficiency instead. So your First World Magic cantrip would have a spell attack of +7 and save DC of 17.
2. I don't think bards use class DC for anything, but if you do need it for some reason, it would be DC 14 (not 15 - since it is untrained, your proficiency modifier is 0).
3. Correct. And since there are 3 actions, you still have 1 action left after using Inspire Courage and Strike.
4. Inspire Courage is a composition cantrip and Counter Performance is a composition focus spell.
5. Correct.
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1. The cantrip granted by First World Magic is an innate primal spell. Your proficiency in innate spells is at least trained, but if you have a better proficiency in any spell tradition, you use that proficiency instead. So your First World Magic cantrip would have a spell attack of +7 and save DC of 17.
2. I don't think bards use class DC for anything, but if you do need it for some reason, it would be DC 14 (not 15 - since it is untrained, your proficiency modifier is 0).
3. Correct. And since there are 3 actions, you still have 1 action left after using Inspire Courage and Strike.
4. Inspire Courage is a composition cantrip and Counter Performance is a composition focus spell.
5. Correct.
The spellTrue Strike uses 1 action, so I could use it when I attack.
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Assuming I reach 5th level...
I have Magic Missile in my repertoire. By 5th level, I will already have the Signature Spells feature. My 1st level signature spell will be Grim Tendrils. It looks as if I could potentially do the following at 5th level:
1. Learn Magic Missile as a 3rd level spell;
2. Swap Magic Missile for some other 1st level spell;
3. Make Magic Missile my 3rd level signature spell.
Or does this fall into the "if it seems too good to be true, it is" category?
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Hi there,
I am trying to build a human bard, worshipper of Shelyn who wields a glaive.
I can get trained in the glaive via versatile heritage/ weapon proficiency (general feat).
I will get bardic weapon expertise at 11th level, but only with simple and bard's weapons (longsword, rapier, etc.).
Is there a way to get to expert proficiency in glaive/another or all martial weapons via a general feat, multiclassing or something I have missed out?
Thanks a lot!
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Fighter MCD for all martial weapons. One Class Feat for proficiency, a later one for Expert.
Gnome Ancestry for glaive (and a few others). Again, one feat for proficiency, a later one for Expert though these are Ancestry which changes the economics. Add another feat if you're not a Gnome and need to gain access.
Of course, being a melee Gnome in a class that doesn't give Strength is quite a setback so Fighter MCD's better, especially since it'd unlock a few combat tricks and Resiliency if you want to be in the front.
You'll still be a secondary combatant unless you sacrifice Charisma to get Str, Dex, & Con at max. If not casting offensive spells (other than Magic Missile), this isn't so bad actually.