The Shadow Mage: A Bladesinger Wizard Twilight Domain Cleric Multiclass 

yup 100 times yep. its also better for the theme.

Fair points!

Love this idea for Shadar-Kai. Might use it as my race next campaign

Thanks! I’m glad you appreciate it!

​@DnD_Daily , could you do a video about the Fighter/ Sorcerer multiclass? Here's why I would recommend it... Fighter/ sorcerer is S-tier. I think the most slept on build is the fighter/ sorcerer build. It makes a remarkable gish, probably THE BEST GISH IN THE GAME. It's a great way to implement an arcane variant of the paladin. Action surge and quicken spell make it so that you almost always have the ability to cast level 1-9 spells during combat. This is your replacement for smite, and it has WAY more flavor. Use booming blade and greenflame blade to give you the damage of extra attack without needing the feature. Use GFB in crowds, and use BB in single combat and step back to force a brute to proc the damage (your AC will be fine with this). Quicken spell, is your bread and butter due to the boost in actioneconomy. The build comes online at level 5 using custom lineage (meta magic adept) fighter 2 / sorcerer 2/ hexblade 1. If you don't want hexblade, this also does well if it's built like a paladin. The next levels are s3, f3, s5, f5, s7, f7, s9, f10. And you've essentially created an arcane version of the paladin that can do some crazy crap. If you want a bit more fuel for casting, go straight from f3/s3 to f3/ s7, and then alternate 2 levels of fighter and sorcerer at a time, stopping fighter at level 7, with a final goal of f7/ s12/ w1. You can buff and attack on the first turn. You can set up a spell that wrecks enemies with your bonus action. Use the war magic feat to get more uses out of booming blade. Set up a hazard, and then pull and push enemies into it with lightning lure, thunderwave, and pulse wave. For subclasses, avoid the 3 fighter subclasses that use intelligence. The rest is dealer's choice. Rune knight, cavalier, and battle master can all do nasty stuff with this build with minimal usage of your bonus action. Draconic sorcerer is sturdy, divine soul brings the smite online, storm soul grants some great mobility, but any sorcerer works great for this build. Wild magic is always hilarious, and would add even more magical madness to this build. I would say that your best bets are rune knight and battle master. The rune knight grants excellent flavor opportunities as you manifest as a monstrous example of your sorcerous origin. The rune knight brings more magic into the mix, whereas the battle master brings more martial with it, especially using maneuvers like precision strike to boost the accuracy of your scagtrips.

love this concept, sounds soo dope. this sorta sounds close to my grave cleric 6/ WoMM14 . He's more a sentinel guardian of death, and prevents those who go to early with the Grave features and offers quick mercy to those who's time has come. his mask is permanently on due to an back ground incident, and wields 2 sickles/hand scythes. Sounds like they definitely could be cohorts lol

I hope D&D Daily makes a video of that

@@SIZModig This seems like the kind of build he might make right? I'd like to see it too. 😆😆😁

I know! I’m ashamed :P

bladesinger falls off compared to other wizard classes towards mid teen levels. This build is not strong end game, but its full of lots of flavor, so points for style

@@alx9487 I'd love to see the stats on what percentage of parties actually get to mid-teen or late game levels, though.

@@SnipeyDaSniper its dreadfully low. most campaigns if they go from 1 end around lvl 13 or so if not before. Tier 4 play is seldom seen wgich is a real shame. think most tables skip lvls 1 and 2 as there isnt much there so 10 lvls of play from 3-13. or speed run it so by end of session 2 your lvl 3.

Thanks for pointing that out! Super weird!

@@DnD_Daily Yeah it is strange, I think it's one of the only second lvl spells to scale like that, but on the bright side that makes it a really good third lvl cast if you are fighting a single enemy. In terms of single target damage it's better than fireball if you have extra attack.

Gloomstalker actually has anti synergy with twilight clerics channeled divinity. It forces the stalker into dim light so no one relies on dark vision to see them and makes then visible, even if in darkness.

​@@DnD_Daily Throw in 7 lvls of warlock for shadow of moil and dim light gets turned into darkness.

I haven’t dug through them yet to have an informed opinion. How bout you?

@@DnD_Daily sorcerer and wizard I dig , just really some nice quality of life stuff , an of course switching the subclass to lvl 3 but they were both in pretty good places to begin with the warlock is weird making them a half caster with normal spell slots and lvl 3 subclass makes sense for other classes not so much for the warlock, it's interesting but I have to play test it, I kinda miss the pact slots it made them stand out .

It does not. In fact if you were in darkness it would make you visible because it changes it to dim light.

what was your artificer subclass? armorer?

@@Tom-bi7ir yeah. Its a lovely combo lol

That is what I was thinking

Yeah, when you are using summon shadowspawn you would be using a hand crossbow or rapier and cantrips instead of shadow blade, just wanted to mention both because they are the two spells that take advantage of the dim light we create 👍

I definitely never say no to creative builds but there are some anti-synergies to consider. 1. Stats are going to be rough. Str, con, wis, and chr need to be at least okay. 2. They don’t get extra channel divinities but have to share a single one until cleric gets another. So if you want to use paladins vow of enmity you just spent your twilight channeled divinity too. 3. Both classes have a major power bump around 5 (paladin 6) so choosing how much to put where can be tricky. Let me know what you come up with! Could be fun :)

That’s so cool! Your little Dracos are going to be medium Dracos in no time. ☕️

@@DnD_Daily her attitude is already there sometimes. Lol but yea future gamer.

As a blade singer?

That is specifically what updated Bladesinger's extra attack does.

Yes it works everywhere thanks to the channel divinity from Twilight Cleric!

@@edoardofedeli1205 I have an even cooler idea! Use the Dancing Lights spell to create dim light!

The aura creates dim light. Especially because it’s magic RAW and I lean towards it works just fine

@@DnD_Daily The candle creates dim light too.

@@DnD_Daily Dancing Lights creates dim light.

@@Alex_reH A candle sheds...dim light. Again, the Cleric literally creates an area of Twilight and even mentions that the area is just filled with dim light. Nothing sheds dim light, the area is just filled with it.

a sphere of twilight emanates from you. The sphere is centered on you, has a 30-foot radius, and is filled with dim light. Notice how it doesn't say a sphere of "light" but specifically mentions Twilight and nothing sheds light, the area is just an area of dim light.

Thanks for the correction! That is odd.

Good name

He also has has the posioner feat that for the whole sprite flavor to the character

Eh. I'd just go Artificer Alchemist and then Enchantment Wizard.

@@LupineShadowOmega interesting idea

@@JCinLapel You'd be very tanky, have potions to buff your team, use crafting rules to create the conventional kinds, infusions, and even get full access to the wizard spell list. More even because artificer can heal.

Yeah, but magic

@@DnD_Daily Yeah, but cast Light on a candle stick for the exact same problem.

@@Samuel_Kabel That is not even remotely similar, one is a literal aura of darkness/light that you carry with you, the other is a spell meant to light a dark room...does not compute.

"a sphere of twilight emanates from you. The sphere is centered on you, has a 30-foot radius, and is filled with dim light."

@@LupineShadowOmegaMoonbeam spell: "A silvery beam of pale light shines down in a 5-foot-radius, 40-foot-high cylinder centered on a point within range. Until the spell ends, dim light fills the cylinder."

Unfortunately yes, but both are good and give us diversity in how we capitalize on the dim light 👍

​@@DnD_Daily Actually, Shadow Blade scales up at ODD levels, so when you first get to cast it you are a lvl5 full caster and have 3rd level slots. So your first shadow blade can deal 3d8 on a hit. ❤ P.S.: I am not able to comment on the video, only reply.... 😢

Which is why you have a hand crossbow, shoot people while you have the Shadowspawn out, cut them while you have the Shadow Blade.