As we need to multiclass into Warlock, we need at least 13 Charisma. Ability ScoresĪs this is a ranged build that uses the Hand Crossbow and Crossbow Expert, just bigger, we’ll be prioritising Dexterity. Waaah! Waaah! Cry some more! Heavy Weapons Guy – Team Fortress 2įor this build, we’re making a bit of a gish: A fighter 12 and warlock 8 multiclass. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. RPGBOT is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Keep in mind that the state of the meta periodically changes as new source materials are released, and the article will be updated accordingly as time allows. The advice offered below is based on the current State of the Character Optimization Meta as of when the article was last updated. We also won’t cover Unearthed Arcana content because it’s not finalized, and we can’t guarantee that it will be available to you in your games. We will not include 3rd-party content, including content from DMs Guild, in handbooks for official content because we can’t assume that your game will allow 3rd-party content or homebrew. Blue: Fantastic options, often essential.Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which is simple to understand and easy to read at a glance. In this build guide, we will put both of these methods onto a single character, but the most efficient way to do this is to split these requirements across multiple PCs, having a caster and a martial working in tandem. So we need a good large weapon and a reliable way to cast Fog Cloud or reliable access to Large size. The 1st-level spell Fog Cloud is the most accessible method of doing this. If you can’t see the target, and the target can’t see you, then both Advantage and Disadvantage have been applied and negated, preventing any further modifications to the roll. But there’s another way to negate the Disadvantage that would not also give you Advantage. Thus an already Large weapon does not grow to Huge. The advantage to this is that the Rune Knight doesn’t increase in size relative to their previous size, instead becoming Large. The other method is to use the Rune Knight’s Giant’s Might feature. Since all of the target’s equipment also enlarges, a Large weapon is suddenly Huge and thus remains too large for the user without doing a dumb manuver of dropping it and picking it up to get the effect off. The spell Enlarge/Reduce can do the trick, but the wording of the spell can become problematic. There are two reasonable ways to become Large. This would in turn allow the Large weapon user to gain Advantage if it were available. If we could be Large somehow, this would also work, but instead of canceling out the Disadvantage it wouldn’t occur to begin with. It’s even possible to get that much of a swing with as little as the Archery fighting style and an oversized ranged weapon, or using the Bless spell.

There are, of course, exceptions where the math swings so far in the other direction that even swinging the bigger weapon with Disadvantage beats the smaller weapon with Advantage. The way the math works, if we can get the Advantage required to defeat the Disadvantage, your DPR is usually better just having Advantage with a medium-sized weapon than having a straight roll with the large weapon. This penalty is enough to make the weapons a poor choice in most situations. The only thing keeping most PCs from using these weapons is that a creature has Disadvantage with any weapon sized too large for them. As an example, a large flail would do 2d8 bludgeoning damage, while a large maul would do 4d6 bludgeoning damage. The basic concept is that as a weapon increases in size, the weapon dice are added again for every step above Medium, as per the rules on page 278 of the DMG. Oversized weapons are an interesting and hotly debated topic in 5e Dungeons and Dragons.

Larger than light weapons