Paladin Bard Multiclass Guide for Dungeons and Dragons 5e
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- The bard is an artisan of magic, knowledgeable and witty musicians and warriors capable of lethal arts. Paladins are champions of holy power, heralds of their faith and smiters of the unrighteous through divine favor and martial prowess. Put them together and we get a divine chorus leader who inspires their supporting singers while triumphantly smiting the wicked. Grab your songbook and put on some heavy armor as we go through everything you need to know.
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For when you want to be the biggest personality in the room and have the might to back it up.
You can in fact Divine Smite multiple times per turn, once per hit attack. If you multiclassed with fighter for action surge you could divine smite 4 times (or even 6 if you want to take it that far).
Right. The only "smite" ability thati is limited to once per turn is the Warlock invocation "Eldritch Smite"
7, if you have a bonus action attack you can leverage, such as a polearm master polearm butt
If you want you could also make a paladin/monk who gets more attacks from their flurry of blows feature.
@@BrotherPraetus at least some Smite spells are also limited, because they use your Bonus Action.
@@jonathanrich9281 dont use the smite spells use the slots to divine smite, those are free to use on a hit.
You can divine smite on each attack to include bonus and reactions. With the right feats you can get one or both of those each round. Action surge and Haste will give you even more.
Church choir conductor.... Hell yeah!
Oath of Glory/College of Eloquence Satyr anyone?
Currently playing Mountain Dwarf Valor Bard 4/(Crown) Paladin 1.
Build came up organically through campaign narrative, not so much a pre-existing intent. Starting out as a melee Bard with Medium Armor, he was a near-frontline support PC. Leveling up to PC 5, the campaign took a turn where I had inherited a previous PC's relic plate armour (DM allowed Heavy armor Prof to avoid redundancy of two Medium Prof sources) and had a low-grade holy sword that I started with the campaign with but slowly increased power over time.
Super excited for next level-up when I get Smites. Valor Bard was a personal choice as I never liked the idea of "I sing a magic song", but the idea of a sergeant-at-arms or skald screaming across the battlefield was very appealing. The Crown Paladin choice is, again, campaign plot-driven as we now find ourselves the rulers of the town we started the campaign in. Being the character's home town, there's a lot of duty and connection to the people, so the Crown Oath is less to a person or position, and more to the ideal of the society as a whole.
Overall, I foresee the build being a fairly even blend of tank, damage, and support. Just enough of each to contribute whatever is needed, but not so focused that it conflicts with others in the party.
I'm a main paladin player and thought about making this multiclass. You helped me a lot. Thanks.
I prefer paladin/sorcerer, but paladin/bard is good too, especially if you don't have a consistent bonus action.
I've also played a paladin/warlock and that was loads of fun.
I'm playing a Redemption/Eloquence Palabard currently. At level 8 currently (5/3, going for 6 in pally before staying Bard), and man, that build is powerful. I'm definitely the face of the group, as well as the tank. I'm losing damage, but gaining versatility through my Bard spells and abilities. It's great, IMO.
I'm doing swords and redemption. We're like half siblings lol
Doing the same build, that going?@@Dakarai_Knight
The oath of throwing it back.
Huzzah!
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Paladin2/BardX You will get the juicy heavy armor prof + smite and fighting style and your spell progression will be only one level behind a full caster. You'll have less hp than a paladin (probably have another front-liner in the party) and you'll only get extra attack at level 8 (Pala2/Bard6) if you take valor or swords subclass (consider taking Vuman and polearm master level 1), but you'll be a smite machine and with magical secrets you'll gain acces to high level paladin spells faster than straight paladin.
hexblade 1, pally 2, bard 17 (college of swords) makes for a great legendary hero everyone knows the songs about. i’m lazy and hate splitting stats with strength, though 😂
My favorite is a Conquest/Whisper, I call it the fearadin and normally play lawful evil.
Another idea for a Bard/Paladin multiclass is go 8 straight levels of Oath of Ancients Paladin, then the rest as an Eloquence Bard. Eloquence Bard allows you to target your opponent with Unsettling Words as a bonus action, which really sets up your next spell caster to land something nasty, whilst still being able to protect the party.
You take the extra level in Paladin to get the ASI, as the spell slot progression is identical between 13/7 and 12/8 and it means you get an extra ASI. You will still get access to a 7th level slot, and your Bardic casting allows you to swap out one Bard spell for another when you level of any spell slot you have, so you will get a 7th level spell.
I also like the way you can play the character, first as a martial expression of their Oath, who transitions to be a Herald who expresses their values, and can defend themselves and their allies on the battlefield. I also see some role play synergy which an instrument playing Paladin who serves a Fey patron they have sworn their Oath to, who over time develops into a story teller and lorekeeper for their patron. I think I may have found my next character to play.
I just realized that blade flourishes give a movement bump after attacking. I'm really thinking about a hit-and-run build with a gem dragonborn Paladin 2 / Swords bard. Taking Shield of faith and going sword and board in heavy armor with defense fighting style, that's a baseline AC of 21 (chainmail) -23 (full plate mail). Then with Defensive flourish, that AC is between 22 and 29. I imagine most enemies would miss their opportunity attack at that kind of AC, so now they don't have a reaction. Find a way to slap on Booming Blade, mix in smites, and you're a freight train on the ground and a B1 Bomber with Gem Flight. Neat!
Slap on Spirit Guardians as your Magical Secrets and you're a walking Baladin blender, whether dps or support focused.
I was literally just working on a Bard (tragedy ) Paladin Multiclass when I got the notification.
Redemption or oathbreaker
Well, redemption will have some things to sing about…
Very good! The Smite Artisan might well be my next build! Never played Bard before and I love paladins... So, I will try this! :)
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Really excited to try this in One D&D; getting a free feat at level one means we can get a free Eldritch Invocation, which could be Pact of the Blade, which lets us focus CHA for everything.
Great videos as always
My previous character narratively had to leave the party, so I came back in with a Paladin/Bard multiclass, effectively being an inquisitor.
With Bard 3 being College of Eloquence for being able to get my minimum Persuasion and Deception rolls to be a minimum of 20, and being able to reduce a target's saving throws by 1d6 with Unsettling word, which combines perfectly with either setting up combos with teammates, or for dropping control spells like suggestion/command/etc.
Then on the Pally side, he's currently Paladin 4 Oath of Watchers, so gives heaps of great team support and helps with frontlining when needed with both Watcher's Will which gets even stronger when combined with the aura at level 6, making him into a fantastic supportive bulwark.
Great spread of combat, utility and narrative potency with CHA skills.
If you are going for smite damage college of whispers bard is also good. Depending on how many paladin levels you take you don't need the extra attack from swords bard. The psychic blades damage goes up way higher than the blade flourish in damage. No AC bonus with like you get with defensive flourish though so depends on what you want.
Whispers Bard and Paladin (Any) work amazing together as both abilities work on hit.
For a meme burst build i find this combo hillarious. Feel free to drop 2 levels fighter or rogue for fun or just get as much whisper as possible.
Never forget hold person/monster
I'm playing a Fallen Aasimar death knight paladin/college of rock bard in my heavy metal themed Tyranny of Dragon's campaign. He's a burnout bassist for his band "Dragon's Bane", and he's chaotic neutral with a deck of many things. By the time the campaign is done he will be 6th level paladin/14th level bard. He's the character i've had the most fun playing ever.
Hahaha that intro made me laugh with Seether
I'm working on a college of whispers bard and oath of conquest dexadin. Great burst damage and the stealth/infiltration options are solid. Fear mechanics are hit or miss, but can be very effective in controlling combat.
Solid content
I just want to see a dnd game with all three Paladin multi class a Paladin/bard and Paladin/sorcerer and Paladin/warlock and see what happens if they are Dragonborn or leonin or Minotaur I would lose my mind because I am think of doing that like we have our attacker and a tank and a supporter that is half of the team right there with three leave two other as whatever they want to be for the party 😊 also your voice can your instrument 🎻
I'm playing a Paladin/Warlock and have had my character play in a band with the bard in the party.
I'm thinking of doing college of whispers. Was originally going to do sorcerer but who knows.
Not that I'm specifically going for this but I think the Paladin 2+/ Warlock 5/ whispers bard 3 + has the highest single attack damage in the game because you can smite + eldritch smite + psychic blades. Combine with polearm master stuff or whatever for more attacks.
If your DM allows unearthed arcana then you can take oath of treachery to add extra poison damage on there too. You could also use the curse bringer eldritch invocation instead of eldritch smite to only take 3 levels in Warlock instead of 5.
I don't even want to figure out how much damage that is but I'm pretty sure you could just kill a tarrasque by throwing a rock at them at that point. You are basically one punch man...except the smites can't use punches. Maybe use brass knuckles.
"That is the most boring way to sum this up"
Actually, quite the contrary. Everyone is going along brandishing their swords, knocking their arrows and throwing fireballs. Your character literally has the voice of an angel to such degrees that he smites people with his voice, is a poweful leader and commands the respect of the Church due to his voice and religious praises.
Your character is Tenacious D singing MASTER EXPLODER
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I've built a Hexbardadin as a backup character. The campaign I'm playing is currently level 6, so the split is Paladin 2/Hex 1/Bard 3, with the eventual goal of Vengeance 6/Hex 5/Swords 6+. He's Custom Lineage to start with PAM, but uses a spear (and shield) to work with Hex Warrior and Dueling fighting style. The end goal is to get advantage on all attacks from Vengeance, 3 attacks from Extra Attack and PAM, crit on 19-20, resulting in about 50% chance to crit at least once and dumping a lvl 4 Divine Smite, a lvl 3 Eldritch Smite and a Blade Flourish for 2d(4or6)+20d8+CHA damage on the big bad, while still doing decent sustained damage and supporting everyone with the auras. Did I mention his AC is 21 before magic items?
Cool concept, though I'm curious why you would start bard 3 at 6 instead of paladin 5 hex 1 for extra attack. If it were me I'd probably finish with bard levels if at all, if the concept was maximum smite power
Use college of whispers bard because you can't stack extra attacks from the swords bard college. You can add in psychic blades for more damage than the blade flourish. So you smite and use psychic blades.
@@zachricca4546 Purely for a more consistent progression. I know it's not optimal, but advancing from 2/3/1 evenly is easier to justify than tacking bard levels onto a 5/1 hexadin.
@@cherniman Swords bard fits thematically and I'm not looking to 100% minmax. Also, paladin 5 will be much later in the progression than bard. I doubt I'll ever play a campaign in those high levels.
One more thing… Even though paladins can cast spells, they do not under most builds get any cantrips. Adding bard will add 2 cantrips, which improves versatility.
The funniest multiclass!
I’m playing an oath of the ancients Paladin/college of creation bard with a forest guardian vibe, the ultimate goal is Paladin 7, bard 13 for aura stuff and magical inspiration
Smite Artisan: 11:34
Glamor Knight: 14:34
The only way that you can make a warrior bard sexy and cool is to put a set of bagpipes in his hand. There are no other instruments that inspire bloodlust and fear that can actually be worn while engaged in battle.
Just say 'So, if you want to be the love child of Freddy Mercury and Galahad, this may be the build for you!' Because who wouldn't?
I leaning to go path of devotion and colega of whispers. Devotion gives me cha mod to attack rolls and whispers gives me 2d6 extra phyquic dmg with bardic inspo.
I wanted vengance for the advantage wuth elven accuracy for super advantage and swords for the insanely high ac. But now i dont know im torn between both
I've been varying one of these guys out.
Starting 6 straight paladin.
I plan to bust him out when we hit 7th level where I pick up 1-3 levels of hexblade.
Then it's all bard from there.
Really wanted to maximize that CHA, so I could boost that aura.
I took tough as a v. human, I'm wondering if I should have done war caster instead.
The campaign had been rough and one player is already on his 3rd character in 4 sessions of him actually playing (lots of waiting for character introduction)
Unfortunately, you can't start with warcaster if you start as paladin. Warcastwr requires the ability to cast spells and paladin doesn't get their spells until 2nd level
@@crownlexicon5225 you're right!
Thanks for pointing that out.
Tough feat it is.
War caster will have to wait.
How do spells work with this bards can only swap at level paladins can just do at start of day if am i stuck with my bard spells forever or can I swap at the start of the day and if I remove one its gone forever or only when I level can i get another bard spell to replace one I threw away for a paladin spell
Paladin Bard is just a Worship Leader
Multiclassing with Bard actually speeds up spell progression if you invest more in Bard. Paladin does not require very high investment, you just want aura of protection the most.
if possible ive had an idea for a character based around tons of teleportaion. Eladrin Abjuration wizards and maybe a way of the shadow monk.... problem is monk/wizard is kinda bad. do you have any advice?
Use echo knight fighter if you just want to teleport you can do that at 3rd level.
the paladin bard: my paladin side tell me to slay the dragon. but my bard side, oh my bard side tel me to lay the dragon.
My one level hexblade warlock dip says "why not both."
I'm not a big fan of using oath of redemption in an optimized build. Same with Peace cleric. Those subclasses are so tied to their flavor that they change your playstyle IMO. So I'm going for something else. Since we're going to Level 6 for the basic aura, I think I'd go oath of devotion for the sacred weapon channel divinity. And then I'd go lore bard for quicker magical secrets. Yes, that means it will require taking warcaster sooner, +5 to attack for the entire combat is just too good to pass up. At level 11, I'd take haste, probably, but maybe something else like fly. It really depends on the party makeup.
Bard Paladin can just use a Holy Cymbal as focus for both classes.
I like to think of them as evangelists
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Is Jerec Grimaldus of the Black Templar boring? Hmmh?
Merek, not Jerec, pardon
You can't do multiple sites in the same turn just burning smite with normal smite I'm not mean to be a smart aleck I just thought this would be cool to know so you can do even more DPS
Nice thumbnail, who's the artist?
DALLE-2
7 Paladin? I thought you said even Paladin levels was a requirement.
Cursed thumbnail is cursed.
5 bard and 15 paladin? Yuck. I hate Paladin ending on odd. Would go 6 bard lore and 14 paladin. That gives you so much good stuff.
pro tip: expertise in athletics ;)
Nice.