Race either Custom Lineage or Bugbear and for flavour be a small brown bear that was awoken by a wandering druid at some point.
My idea at the moment is that by lv9 I would like to be a Giant Barbarian 6 Armourer Artificer 3. Point buy would allow me to multiclass like this with 14 14 14 13 9 8
The idea being that this character would be the party tank with half-plate, a shield+1 and thunder gauntlet+1 large size raging armoured bear (with reach) that punches all the enemies but also forces them to attack him. Additionally, from Barbarian 6 Path of the Giant feature, would be able to launch those fists from afar.
I am aware that a Moon Druid 2 Artificer 3 could achieve the same image but only for two hours a day, unless for flavour you were always the bear and wild-shaping just when angry (but bonus action economy is a limiter then too)… just seems a bit too clunky to me.
My request for aid for this would be how to have a satisfying lv1-9 experience with this end goal in mind? What choices would you make?
Edit: I suppose if I’m willing to reskin, other races are available (but for some reason, feel slightly worse) like; Mountain Dwarf (for stats), Lizardfolk (for bite), Minotaur (to feel powerful) or Leonin (for claws and roar)
I think best would be to first go barbarian 5. You'd continue to be plenty effective while you artificered up. You'd be delaying the armored gauntlets for a while, so maybe that would be a drawback for your concept? Maybe you could work with your DM to come up with a fun idea to have your Bear want to tech up in game.
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Race either Custom Lineage or Bugbear and for flavour be a small brown bear that was awoken by a wandering druid at some point.
My idea at the moment is that by lv9 I would like to be a Giant Barbarian 6 Armourer Artificer 3. Point buy would allow me to multiclass like this with 14 14 14 13 9 8
The idea being that this character would be the party tank with half-plate, a shield+1 and thunder gauntlet+1 large size raging armoured bear (with reach) that punches all the enemies but also forces them to attack him. Additionally, from Barbarian 6 Path of the Giant feature, would be able to launch those fists from afar.
I am aware that a Moon Druid 2 Artificer 3 could achieve the same image but only for two hours a day, unless for flavour you were always the bear and wild-shaping just when angry (but bonus action economy is a limiter then too)… just seems a bit too clunky to me.
My request for aid for this would be how to have a satisfying lv1-9 experience with this end goal in mind? What choices would you make?
Edit: I suppose if I’m willing to reskin, other races are available (but for some reason, feel slightly worse) like; Mountain Dwarf (for stats), Lizardfolk (for bite), Minotaur (to feel powerful) or Leonin (for claws and roar)
I think best would be to first go barbarian 5. You'd continue to be plenty effective while you artificered up. You'd be delaying the armored gauntlets for a while, so maybe that would be a drawback for your concept? Maybe you could work with your DM to come up with a fun idea to have your Bear want to tech up in game.