Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Ok, I'm a pretty new player so forgive me if these are dumb questions. I'm building a character that's mainly hexblade warlock with a few levels in fighter, probably battlemaster, using 5.5e rules (yes I know hexblade isn't an official class anymore, just roll with it). My question is about how many fighter levels to take. My DM says we'll get to level 20 this campaign, so I can choose to do either a 17 3 split or a 16 4 split. If I do 16-4 I can take an extra epic boon feat (at least I'm pretty sure, correct me if I'm wrong) and get my charisma score to 22, but if I do 17-3 I get level 9 mystic arcanum. Not sure which one would be better, what does everyone else think?
Hexblade is an official subclass that's perfectly valid for use with the 5.5e rules.
I would ask: what level are you starting at?
If it's less than 16, my advice would be: do not worry about this now at all. Play the character for a while, learn the game more, and see what parts of it you like and what parts you don't, and let that inform your decision much, much later. It's going to be a long time before you need to actually make this decision and there's a good chance you'll change your mind along the way anyway.
(And yes, the rules as written do allow you to take two Epic Boon feats if you take 16 levels of one class and 4 of another in a very specific order, but it's not clear that this is an intended interaction and some DMs may not allow it.)
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Oh so they did add hexblade, I could never get a straight answer out of Google. That is a fair point, I'm only level 7 right now so it's a long ways off, but thank you for the clarifications!
There hasn't been a 5.5e version of Hexblade yet, if that's what you're saying. The 5.5e rules allow using 5e content that hasn't been updated yet.
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I second this.
Especially as a new player, avoid the "build" mentality. Planning your character with a focus on what it will have at level 20 is a thing for people who are building theoretical characters.
Do what makes sense in the moment, and what fits the personality of your character. You will spend most of your time not at the highest levels. Make choices that are fun now, even if they mean you won't be the "best" you could possibly be when the campaign's wrapping. (You won't notice the difference, anyway.)
That said: each level of fighter you take delays your warlock spells and other features further. Unless there are in-character reasons to take multiple levels, there's not a lot of good reasons to take more than one. Also, 9th-level spells are really sweet. (And again, you'll have them longer than you will any epic boons.)
i honestly would not take more than 1 level. Start as a fighter, go warlock the rest of the way. you only lose out on warlocks level 20 which is crap anyways. you will get 9th level spells and all your feats.
It really comes down to more are you taking fighter so you can actually survive in melee and are a bit better at it with weapon masteries. Or are you trying to create a sort of new class by making a hybrid multi class build. 1 level is enough for the first, the second usually needs more levels in both to get the vibe.