I’m hosting a level 20 one shot and one of my newer players has asked for help building a paladin. We are fighting corrupted angels and dragons. Can use 2024 or 2014 rule

Point buy
Level 20
Magic items 1 legendary, 1 very rare, 2 rare, 2 uncommon
20,000gp+ 1d10x250gp
Can buy or craft equipment
Common 100gp
Uncommon 400
Rare 4000
Very rare 40,000

The player chose half-elf because “no reason”
He isn’t attacked to any specific idea just wanted to give it a try but he liked the idea of a great sword.

Any build/ race/ item/ feat advice would be excellent
Thank you

This is a cheese build.

1. Start as a fighter with any background

2. pick the pure gold option for starting equipment of both. (205 gp)

3. Buy an elephant (200 gp)

4. Profit

Im going to be in a dnd campaign where me and the party members (me and at most 3 others... for now) are isekai'd into a fantasy world by accident. The demon lord has been dead for sometime. So no imminent danger.. thing is, they cant leave for another 30 years to be able to send them back. Theres another way, but essentially we would have to travel about 10 years on foot to go to a scary place with a giant ass dragon (dm confirmed you can seduce the dragon), and the demon lord might me revived. But the demon lord is a giant goth baddie who doesnt want to be a demon lord). Campaign is entirely a sandbox where we coukd either.be contributing to society, or become.the next calamity.

One of my friends said his origin story before he got isekai'd was that his wife is going to sacrifice their family on her wedding day because she wanted to ascend to godhood, and a giant bomb explodes, killing everyone including himself. And he gets isekai'd. Hes set on being a warlock.

He told me either I could either be a teacher in a school shooting or someone who recently started.in a bank and got.killed during a bank robbery.

But I wanna know if theres any interesting ideas you guys would love as ideas for.funny and interesting isekais. My character would be a gal, but I dont think that matters.

I mostly play spellcasters (wizards, clerics, druids, sorcerers, warlocks), so depending on the story ill figure out.

Okay, heres the idea:
Lv1: Monk, build a normal monk
Lv2: Fighter, Take 2 weapon fighting style and a nick weapon mastery
Lv3+:Monk

result: you can get an extra attack every round since the nick property moves the 2 weapon fighting attack to the action. So you get that and the normal bonus action atack from monk.

Is this anything?

So I'm playing a lvl 3 variant human vengeance paladin with the stats (rolled)

16 str

13 dex

14 con

11int

11wis

15char

I took PAM as my feat from my race, and I'm just looking for some ideas on how to continue building my character, such as feats/multiclassing. I don't really wanna do a hexadin, but I do want to pick the next best option, but I'm not sure what that is. Any ideas?

Hi everyone! I've been playing for a long time. The last two characters i've played are a fighter/barbarian (the campaign lasted 2 years) and a paladin (the campaign is still ongoing and is projected to last 3 years or 3 years and a half).

For our next campaign i was thinking of playing a rogue initially, but in the last few sessions i've started to crave a more spell casting leaning class, the last time i played a caster was something like 6 years ago. Most full casters are out for various reasons, i don't want to play a wizard but i want to play an intelligence character, my master allows for warlock to use intelligence instead of charisma so i was thinking of going this route.

So i want to ask you some fun ideas for building an int warlock. The "rules" are:

1. I was thinking of going human

2. i can multiclass but not more than two classes total so x warlock/y something else

3. i don't want to play a pact of the blade warlock as i've played enough martials in the last few years.

4. the campaign will go most probably from level 3 to 16.

5. i don't need a fully optimized build, i'm looking for something efficient and fun

I'm playing my session zero in a few days, and until then I am creating a character. So far, I have a pretty decent class, race, and backstory Imo. If anyone has any feedback on the logistics of my character's backstory, that would be great.

Bonus Question... How do I go about assigning points since this character technically has two different classes?

This character is a Dragon-Blood, Half-Elf Rogue (Draconic Rogue). I hope I didn't shoot too far with this... here's his story.

Jakar Verys

He is a dragon-blooded half-elf born to parents who work as thieves and spies. He grows somewhat larger than his parents but remains comparatively small among others of his kind.

He learns many skills from his parents in his youth, including stealth, agility, infiltration, observation, and moving unnoticed.

He eventually discovers that he is a descendant of the ancient emerald dragon Raulothim. His bloodline traces back to an elf who was with Raulothim before he descended into mass paranoia

He discovers that his dragon blood carries a latent magical power, allowing him to wield magic he never knew he possessed.

Wanting to be different than his parents while learning more about his mysterious bloodline, he travels to Ruathym, where he seeks both answers about his ancestry and an opportunity to join a guild to do good for the world.

He finds and joins a guild that recognizes his natural talent and teaches him disciplined and precise fighting skills. He takes their training and runs with it, developing an exceptional ability to strike with speed, accuracy, and efficiency.

Over time, the guild gradually reveals its darker nature. They force him to carry out increasingly inhumane acts, threatening the livelihood and safety of his parents and younger sister if he refuses.

He eventually becomes a highly skilled assassin, favoring a lightweight weapon suited to his precise and agile fighting style, potentially the Wind Walker Blade.

As his abilities continue to develop, he gains knowledge about his ancestry and slowly but surely learns how to access the magical power that lies within

Realizing that the life he has been forced into is not the life he wants, he devises a plan to escape. Knowing the guild would pursue him and threaten his family, he fakes his own death.

Freed from the guild’s grasp, he disappears under a series of disguises. He continues to practice and understand his newfound magic while keeping his true identity hidden.

Now free from the life he once lived, he waits for the right opportunity to step back into the world as someone who can finally use his abilities for something meaningful.

Please let me know how I did!

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So, I am playing in a Level 20 PVE DnD one-shot in a few days, and I decided I wanted to play as my favorite character from the Green Lantern lore: Razer, the legendary Red and Blue Lantern from Volkregg. I had one idea of a Goliath (since his people kind of look like Goliaths) Arcana Cleric, with the idea that his “deity” or rather “deities” were the Red and Blue Lights/their Entities. my thought was Cleric’s healing, support, and tanking abilities work well for Razer’s Blue Lantern abilities, but then with Arcana Domain giving me access to a lot of the Wizard spell list, that can give me a lot of offensive blaster spells for his Red Lantern powers.

But I wanted to see if other people had other ideas for how to build him in game.

Im playing a dnd game and my character, a glamour bard, recently had a fun side adventure when i was the only one to show up for a session. I went to a comet that had a disco city inside of it, safe to say I was grooving.

I grooved so well that a sentient instrument magic item (a sick bass) deemed me worthy/groovy and gave me a Warlock level.

The DM and I are currently making a disco themed warlock subclass, but I need a temporary warlock subclass in the meantime, and I'm having trouble choosing what to get

I've narrowed it down to two: Celestial Warlock, Hexblade Warlock

Celestial bc she's got some celestial stuff going on in the background and this would just add a little bit to it

Hexblade because i got the level from a sentient "weapon"

Ultimately this gets replaced once we create it but I would really appreciate some help deciding what to get, but if anyone has any other suggestions please i'd love to hear them!

Maybe relevant? My character deals no damage. She's a full on support character, she heals and buffs her allies while debuffing enemies. I technically have means of doing damage but i hardly ever do it