While it is possible to multiclass in D&D in order to gain Heavy Armor with less investment, there are many campaign that don't allow multiclassing at all. The costly investments needed to create this build, along with Wizards' naturally low health pools, could mean the Wizard is less capable of making an impact during encounters. Unless the player's campaign is using the alternate race rules introduced in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, the Mountain Dwarf attribute increases do not include Intelligence, hindering the Wizard's spellcasting abilities even further.

Having an armor class of 18 would make a Wizard formidable in D&D's combat, and combining this with the defensive Abjuration subclass could make the Wizard very difficult to take down.Īn important drawback to this build is that, in order to gain the Heavily Armored feat, the Wizard has to sacrifice an Ability Score Increase that could go towards Intelligence. Chain Mail, Splint, and Plate Armor all surpass this number, with Plate being the strongest, at a whopping 18. Assuming their Dexterity is a decent, they likely spend most of their time with an Armor Class of around 15. A Wizard's standard protection spell, Mage Armor, grants them an Armor Class of 13 + their Dexterity Modifier. My DM does usually allow homebrew material (though obviously only if it's more or less balanced, as with Gunslinger), and I have been given the OK to use a different casting stat if I dip 1 or 2 levels into Sorcerer or Warlock, if it matters.Building a Wizard that uses Heavy Armor in Dungeons & Dragons opens up the possibility of some very strong builds. I thought I'd ask to see how others would approach this idea, so I could decide if I wanted to change things up! Our campaign is going to take us to level 12 by the end my initial plan was to take feats granting different magic abilities at every possible opportunity, but I'm not completely sure anymore if that's the best option. I am wondering if there is a better way I could achieve this. We will be starting back up again at level 3. The campaign is coming out of hiatus, and other players have been altering or even totally rebuilding their characters with DM permission. I ended up making this character as a variant human Fighter (Matt Mercer's Gunslinger) with Artificer Initiate so I could play him up as an arcane tinkerer and nerd who made guns (and had invented other weapons, like a reskinned whip as a yoyo) and who liked to act like a stereotypical cowboy, but was clearly putting on a show. You prepare the list of wizard spells that are available for you to cast. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. In a campaign that went on hiatus a few months ago, I created a character loosely based on a meme as an in joke with a friend (the meme of Kermit with a wizard hat where he says 'behold! the most powerful spell of all!' while brandishing a gun). The Wizard table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. Megathread D&D 5e 1D&D D&D 4e D&D v3.5 D&D 3e Pathfinder 1 Pathfinder 2 WOD PBTA Fate GURPS Universal Other r/DnD /r/rpg /r/Pathfinder_RPG /r/tabletop /r/UnearthedArcana /r/DnDHomebrew /r/dndnext Related Non-TTRPG Subreddits r/characterdrawing /r/Imaginar圜haracters /r/alternativeart On-Topic Subreddits

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