5E Character Help

I don't know what level but I played a Hexblade/Arcane Archer a few months back and I liked it. Just have Str 15 and max Cha, wear heavy armor and shoot shit.

Play a Bard. People say 5e is balanced and those people are idiots. Bards are by far the best class in the game.

With XGE, you could play a sword bard mutliclassed with swashbuckler rogue. Take mobile and just sprint through combat slashing and sassing.

How far should I go in levels into both when multi classing this?

Never tried Bard before, One of my friends says that she's had fun with it though

Just play a Paladin. They are good rp material and are great in combat. Alternatively you can be a Bard. Glamour or Lore for ranged spellcasting, Sword or Valor if you want to be in melee. Make sure you take Shadow Blade at 10 for your melee bard

General base at 6 is 3/3.
What you want is Pact of the Blade quickly and the invocation that makes your summoned blade stronger.

Don't multiclass Warlock. It's cheesy as fuck and bad roleplaying

I've also heard Warlock isn't the greatest class to go into, but I wouldn't really know :/

How is it cheesy roleplaying. Making a pact with a sentient shapeshifting weapon about defending your ancients is a pretty cool plot point.

it really depends on the DM. Warlock patreons are suspicious, and there's always the choice that the DM takes this as "Your patron WILL make you betray the party!" And thats rough RPing

Warlock is incredibly broken for multiclassing due to being very frontloaded. Hexblade is almost tailor made for cheesy bullshit dips. There are like 5 cheesy af walock multiclasses and all of them are simply munchkin builds that aren't made for rp

Because how tf is a Paladin who has a strict code going to intentionally be subserviant to the will of a being that doesn't follow his tenants? That's straight up retarded

Hexblade could be fluffed out to be like Meridia from the elder Scrolls; a light blade. Still under them tenets, maybe even having the same goals.

Bard is one of the most well made classes. I'd say the best built classes are Bard, Paladin, Rogue, and maybe Cleric. All of them give very good options at almost every level and excel at all 3 pillars of play

That is my point, in order to make your munchkin build make sense you have to homebrew the class into something different. That's super cheesy

I wouldn’t call it homebrew as much as it another intepretation. It depends on the setting as well.

If it's roleplay, you can always make a class seem more fresh by reflavoring it.

Instead of playing a Necromancer Wizard as a Necromancer, play it as a retired chinese general and his company of terra cotta warriors that gives his "men" and anyone who will listen long-winded lectures. If you take inspiring leader, it somehow works. Or play a bard with animate dead instead and be a mariachi band.

Instead of playing a beastmaster ranger and his animal companion, try playing puss in boots trying to meme forrest gump into becoming something; play a revised beastmaster ranger and ask your DM if you can play an awakened animal (the Awaken spell increases their INT to 10 and allows them to speak a language).

Play as a bard with find greater steed and one of the paladin smite spells; you fell in love with a ladyknight paladin once and now are convinced (and try to convince everyone you run into) that you're totally a paladin now, dude.

In what way do you interperet your Lawful Good Paladin being subserviant to an evil sword made by the Raven Queen of the Shadowfell?

If you’re such a stickler for these sorts of things, then just go Oathbreaker paladin. Done.
Just like “The Celestial” I believe the Hexblade can be reintepreted to whatever you wish. It’s supposed to be open, and not truly tied down to one deity or something.

An Ancients Paladin/Lore Bard is fun, strong, and makes thematic sense (loves to party and get people to tear up the dance floor)

Yea, if you're in an evil campaign, sure. Doesn't change that you're doing gymnastics just to make a munchkin character when Paladin is already strong enough

Vengence Paladin also works. I dunno about gymnastics all I see are just character concepts that can have reasons to legit be in any party.

but the Celestial is very specifically not a god pact. That's what a cleric is. A Celestial Warlock is one thats working with like a unicorn or coatal, so by that it can represent anything. Hexblades work for the Raven Queen, but what their mission is is mysterious, and thats where the flexibility comes from. I have a hard time parsing a good paladin bartering with a hexblade... but a unicorn? No problem

>Oathbreaker
>works in literally any party

Vengeance Pally fights evil bruh, they wouldn't ally with an evil extraplanar being. Also stop trying to push your warlock cancer on people

Valor Bard is good, Paladin/Bard MC is more fun in my opinion.

Again, can change with setting. Previous setting was that the Raven Queen balanced life and death, hates undead, had a champion who was a skeleton life cleric but whose soul was tied to the Raven Queen.

Oathbreaker could be on a path to restore his pact and get rid of his weapon for a pact with a celestial or god for good.

Yea, I'm sure the DM wants to change his campaign setting to fit your mary sue munchkin bullshit

Hey man you guys have your setting, we have ours. Point is it’s a build; whether people use it or not is up to them.

>we
DM makes the setting, players play in it. There is no 'we'. In my setting you can't multiclass warlock because it's cheesy af. If your DM is changing his setting to fit your snowflake bs then he's probably not very good

Yeah, because working with your players to make a logical and interesting setting for everyone is bad. Sure, in your setting, that multiclass is not allowed. Fine. In our setting, Hexblades can also be celestial swords, whatever. The point is, everyone’s having fun, yeah?

If you sincerely are having fun, cool. But try not to push your mary sue munchkin crap on people asking for advice because his table is prob gonna get pissed with him if he tries using your powergamer bullshit