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So I know we're playing this module after my group finished Descent into Avernus, we already created characters and I chose a Bard with the actor feat, I want to impersonate people, and get access to cool stuff doing so, but I am wondering if this is a module that would even have political intrigue or any of these kinds of situations or am I just wasting skills here?

the DM is keeping everything hush hush before we even start and of course I do not want to spoil myself by reading it but at the very least I would like to knwo if opportunities will arise where these skills can be useful or if its just gonna be a dungeon crawiling fest?

Watch the Castlevania anime.
There's plenty of room for politics and intrigue in the CoS module.

I do need to watch it but even if I had there is no telling what kind of structure the module has.

But thank you.

I did it for Adventurer's League, it was fun

And plenty of opportunities for politics.

I've run it. There are a few different parts of the adventure where it's open for you to do some political maneuvering. Make sure your DM knows that's what you want so he can make sure to give you those opportunities.

My fav 5e premade tbh. Loved it. I do remember there being room for political stuff, but dealing with the basically omnipotence of Strahd can be a challenge in that regard

It depends on how hard your DM goes, but Strahd is definitely one of the more extreme on the political side of things if you let it be.

Sounds good, I will def try it, I was thinking multiclassing the abrd into a mastermind rogue to gain access to proficiency in the disguise kit and forgery kit, maybe impersonate stahrd himself and documents he would make. Dunno how that would come to bite us in the ass but it does sound fun.
If the actor feat lets me perfectly imitate Strahd as well as prof with the disguise kit, I may get to do whatever the heck I want at least once before they know I can do it. And then we can do mindgames where if they see Strahd they might always be on edge not knowing it is me or him.

orcus_snake posted...

I do need to watch it but even if I had there is no telling what kind of structure the module has.

But thank you.

Anyone who will be playing or DMing Strahd should watch at least the first season.
The amount of parallels is crazy, and the tone is very similar.
Combat isn't inevitable, but it will be brutal.
Intrigue abounds, and not all of it from Vampires.

Reviving this if anyone cares for possible level progression and/or multiclassing.

So I see that Bards have kinda shitty IMHO levels 5,6, and 7.

I know that Strahd goes up to level 10 so I would only have a single level of magical secrets as I am dead set on college of eloquence, its is non negotiable.

This I was thinking, sure let's multiclass, the idea that goes the best with my variant human actor feat at level one would be mastermind to have proficiency with the disguise kit for full espionage flavor, I know there are more optimal options but we are thinking flavor first, and otpimize the flavor chosen.

Now if I am to go Bard into Rogie, I was thinking, go up to lvl 4, get ASI. go rogue up to lvl 4 for ASI as well. then we have to left over levels and at that point expertise and uncanny dodge sounds much better than everything the bard gets at lvl 5 and 6, even when you count 3rd level spells.
This is my second character and Bards might really need the spell slots and I might just be a shitty theorycrafter still, feel free to shit on my build and steer me on the right direction.

orcus_snake posted...

So I see that Bards have kinda shitty IMHO levels 5,6, and 7.

access to 3rd and 4th level spells is definitely not shitty. it's better than pretty much any feature that martial classes get

as for level 6... yeah Countercharm sucks. but you also get a subclass feature. so it's really dependent on the subclass

orcus_snake posted...

Reviving this if anyone cares for possible level progression and/or multiclassing.

So I see that Bards have kinda shitty IMHO levels 5,6, and 7.

I know that Strahd goes up to level 10 so I would only have a single level of magical secrets as I am dead set on college of eloquence, its is non negotiable.

This I was thinking, sure let's multiclass, the idea that goes the best with my variant human actor feat at level one would be mastermind to have proficiency with the disguise kit for full espionage flavor, I know there are more optimal options but we are thinking flavor first, and otpimize the flavor chosen.

Now if I am to go Bard into Rogie, I was thinking, go up to lvl 4, get ASI. go rogue up to lvl 4 for ASI as well. then we have to left over levels and at that point expertise and uncanny dodge sounds much better than everything the bard gets at lvl 5 and 6, even when you count 3rd level spells.
This is my second character and Bards might really need the spell slots and I might just be a shitty theorycrafter still, feel free to shit on my build and steer me on the right direction.

You could also go for two levels in Fighter for Action Surge and a fighting style.

You could alternately dip into Warlock. It excels with Charisma, and you'd get two Invocations.

Like Mask of Many Faces (cast disguise self at will) and Devil Sight (true dark vision, including against magical darkness).

averagejoel posted...

access to 3rd and 4th level spells is definitely not shitty. it's better than pretty much any feature that martial classes get

as for level 6... yeah Countercharm sucks. but you also get a subclass feature. so it's really dependent on the subclass

You are absolutely correct, that said I am not familiar with the bard class spell list so I'm gonna check it out real quick.
action surge sounds alright but not flavorful to what I want to do, 2 warlock levels do sound pretty great.
But if I do want to get more bard spells and spell slots I would ahve to go at least to level 8 for an ASI and at that point I might as well get to 10 for magical secrets.