I'm planning to multiclass into Bladesinger wizard after 5 levels of Battlesmith Artificer and after seeing the new changes I'm curious if your Intelligence mod is added twice to damage and attack rolls. I know ability modifiers aren't usually stacked, but I don't see anything saying you can't. Battle ready and Bladework seem to be two completely different abilities even though they do the same thing. I also feel like its just a lot of damage and possibly broken so I'm curious about everyone's opinions before talking to my DM about it.
Bladework and Battle ready do they stack? What do you think?
I'm planning to multiclass into Bladesinger wizard after 5 levels of Battlesmith Artificer and after seeing the new changes I'm curious if your Intelligence mod is added twice to damage and attack rolls. I know ability modifiers aren't usually stacked, but I don't see anything saying you can't. Battle ready and Bladework seem to be two completely different abilities even though they do the same thing. I also feel like its just a lot of damage and possibly broken so I'm curious about everyone's opinions before talking to my DM about it.
Bladework and Battle ready do they stack? What do you think?
No, they do not stack. Both features say that you can use your Intelligence modifier for the attack and damage rolls instead of using Strength or Dexterity. Both are offering an alternative way of calculating your attack and damage rolls that happen to do the same thing.
This is similar to how different ways of calculating your base Armor Class (e.g. Mage Armor and the Monk's Unarmored Defense feature) don't stack with each other, because they're both offering an alternative way to calculate the same thing.
If one feature or the other said something like "you gain a bonus to attack rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier", then that would stack.
I'm planning to multiclass into Bladesinger wizard after 5 levels of Battlesmith Artificer and after seeing the new changes I'm curious if your Intelligence mod is added twice to damage and attack rolls. I know ability modifiers aren't usually stacked, but I don't see anything saying you can't. Battle ready and Bladework seem to be two completely different abilities even though they do the same thing. I also feel like its just a lot of damage and possibly broken so I'm curious about everyone's opinions before talking to my DM about it.
Bladework and Battle ready do they stack? What do you think?
No, they do not stack. Both features say that you can use your Intelligence modifier for the attack and damage rolls instead of using Strength or Dexterity. Both are offering an alternative way of calculating your attack and damage rolls that happen to do the same thing.
This is similar to how different ways of calculating your base Armor Class (e.g. Mage Armor and the Monk's Unarmored Defense feature) don't stack with each other, because they're both offering an alternative way to calculate the same thing.
If one feature or the other said something like "you gain a bonus to attack rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier", then that would stack.
Thank you for the clarification! That makes a lot more sense.
No problem!