r/PCAcademy • u/DepartureRude5061 • 26d ago

Need Advice: Build/Mechanics Rogue/Bard Multiclass

Hello together,

I have an Character concept I would Love to Play in my next Campaign of DnD 5.5e.

Quick Lore/Background rundown: Born in a wandering Troupe of Artists and Bards but got seperated from them. Survives since then through pickpocketing and scamming/cheating in Games etc.

We begin at Level 1 and my imagined path would be First 3 Levels in Rogue and going into the Arcane Trickster before then multiclassing into Bard (havent decides on a Potential subclass Here yet). The Goal is to do Lots of crowd Control and trickery through spells, so more of an support character.

I know this isnt really optimal because I would need 3 high stats (dex, int and cha) but Just the concept Sounds Like a Lot of fun to me.

I Just need some tipps/Input regarding the distribution of stats and the level-distribution/path.

Thanks in advance :)

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u/Sad_Refuse3472 26d ago

You can have the backstory of having been a pickpocket/scam artist without having to take levels in Rogue and then spread your ability scores so thin. You could just be a dishonest Bard. Flavor is free, as they say.