I would like to play a charisma based character with a disguise/subterfuge theme while still being respectable in combat. I have a little experience playing pathfinder but am new to DND/multiclassing.
If anyone could give me recommended builds to look into and advice on executing it would be greatly appreciated.
I'd be open to other recommendations as well and have until this coming Wednesday to start my character.
Most rogues are pretty flexible in terms of what stats they can use, assassins are the best for any kind of subterfuge.
Playing nearly any warlock subclass can get you what you want due to the fact that invocations allow you to obtain everything you want, with probably the best subclass being fey & GOO due to their flexible abilities (such as charm & psychic damage). It really depends on if your playing 2014 or Onednd.
I’d look at archfey warlock. Invocations like mask of many faces and master of myriad forms. When you say respectable in combat, there’s two main routes. For melee pact of the blade, then things like thirsting blade and eldritch smite. Staying ranged, agonizing blast, then add in some battlefield control with stuff like repelling blast.
Charisma-based with a disguise focus sounds like a Warlock with the invocation "Mask of Many Faces," which allows for at-will castings of the "Disguise Self" spell. If you want mundane disguises, the Charlatan background in 2014 gives proficiency with the Disguise Kit.
However, in the 2024 rules, no PHB proficiency gives Disguise Kit proficiency; you'd have to talk about it with your DM, or take the same tool proficiency twice (class and background), which allows you to switch one of them out for another. I think only the Rogue: Assassin subclass gives Disguise Kit proficiency.
Honestly, unless it's really important to you that CHA be the main stat, I'd recommend just going straight Rogue. They're SAD so it's easy to give CHA a good boost, and Expertise gives a lot more kick than an extra point or two from CHA mod for skill checks. Taking the Eldritch Adept feat can be helpful if you want magical disguise powers as well. Or there's always the Changeling race option.
What level are you starting at and how far do you expect the character to go? If you're starting low my advice is not to split much on general principles, plus Bladelocks in particular need a fairly dedicated progression if they want to maintain their fighting chops as they level- basically everything to improve their weapon performance is an Invocation. This also means you'll have fairly limited options for the disguise side of things like this.
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I would like to play a charisma based character with a disguise/subterfuge theme while still being respectable in combat. I have a little experience playing pathfinder but am new to DND/multiclassing.
If anyone could give me recommended builds to look into and advice on executing it would be greatly appreciated.
I'd be open to other recommendations as well and have until this coming Wednesday to start my character.
Most rogues are pretty flexible in terms of what stats they can use, assassins are the best for any kind of subterfuge.
Playing nearly any warlock subclass can get you what you want due to the fact that invocations allow you to obtain everything you want, with probably the best subclass being fey & GOO due to their flexible abilities (such as charm & psychic damage). It really depends on if your playing 2014 or Onednd.
I’d look at archfey warlock. Invocations like mask of many faces and master of myriad forms.
When you say respectable in combat, there’s two main routes. For melee pact of the blade, then things like thirsting blade and eldritch smite. Staying ranged, agonizing blast, then add in some battlefield control with stuff like repelling blast.
Are you doing 2014 order 2024? What level are starting at?
Depending on the level you may not even want to multiclass.
Charisma-based with a disguise focus sounds like a Warlock with the invocation "Mask of Many Faces," which allows for at-will castings of the "Disguise Self" spell. If you want mundane disguises, the Charlatan background in 2014 gives proficiency with the Disguise Kit.
However, in the 2024 rules, no PHB proficiency gives Disguise Kit proficiency; you'd have to talk about it with your DM, or take the same tool proficiency twice (class and background), which allows you to switch one of them out for another. I think only the Rogue: Assassin subclass gives Disguise Kit proficiency.
Honestly, unless it's really important to you that CHA be the main stat, I'd recommend just going straight Rogue. They're SAD so it's easy to give CHA a good boost, and Expertise gives a lot more kick than an extra point or two from CHA mod for skill checks. Taking the Eldritch Adept feat can be helpful if you want magical disguise powers as well. Or there's always the Changeling race option.
What level are you starting at and how far do you expect the character to go? If you're starting low my advice is not to split much on general principles, plus Bladelocks in particular need a fairly dedicated progression if they want to maintain their fighting chops as they level- basically everything to improve their weapon performance is an Invocation. This also means you'll have fairly limited options for the disguise side of things like this.