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Can the College of Swords Bard's Blade Flourish be used to increase your speed after using the Rogue's Steady Aim feature?
Say I'm running a College of Swords bard/rogue multiclass. Order of combat turn goes as follows:
bonus: steady aim (speed is 0 until end of turn)
action: attack using any flourish (+10 speed until ...
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Does the Swords bard's Slashing Flourish work with the Swashbuckler rogue's Fancy Footwork to prevent opportunity attacks by any affected target?
The Fancy Footwork feature of the Swashbuckler rogue says (XGtE, p. 47; SCAG, p. 135):
At 3rd level, during your turn, if you make a melee attack against a creature, that creature can't make ...
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What class would be good for a magician/trickster character? [closed]
I'm relatively new to DND-5e and want to make a magician/trickster character. I'd prefer this character to rely mostly on illusions, slight of hand, and trickery rather than pure magic. My DM ...
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Bards acting as rogues?
In a campaign I recently played, I encountered a NPC that could do everything a lvl 7 Rogue could do, for instance he was able to pick locks but he didn't even roll for it. Later in the storyline, he ...
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If a character has Expertise in more skills than they have skill proficiencies, is the extra Expertise wasted?
Let's say I take 10 levels of Bard and then 10 levels of Rogue.
This would give me the following skill proficiencies:
2 from my background
3 from Bard level 1
1 from Rogue level 1
This is a total ...
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How viable is a Swashbuckler/Bard? [closed]
I will be playing a new campaign in a bit, which will have the characters start at Level 1, presumably going up to about 11 or 12 before it ends. I have only single-classed so far, but with Xanathar's ...
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Should a Bard's instrument cause psychic damage to a player that cast mage hand to play it?
In a D&D 5e game that I'm in, I play an arcane trickster rogue. We recently added a new player to the session, specifically a bard. In character, we try to one up each other all the time. It just ...
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Does Expertise double all of a skill's modifiers or just the ability bonus? [duplicate]
hi all I have a quick question, to get my +n in the skills column for proficient skills do i add the multiplier from the attributes list ie my charisma is +3 do i then add my proficiency bonus of +5 ...
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Do Bard and Rogue expertise stack?
If you multiclass correctly so you get expertise from both bard and rogue(e.g. Rogue 1 and Bard 3), and if in both classes you put the expertise into Deception, does it stack on an ability check?
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How does Jack of All Trades interact with Reliable Talent?
The Bard's Jack of All Trades says you can add half of your proficiency bonus to rolls to skills that you otherwise can't add your proficiency bonus. And the Rogue's Reliable Talent feature lets them ...
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