Summary

  • Multiclassing can offer a unique challenge and entertainment factor.
  • Some multiclass combinations, while seemingly terrible, have surprising benefits.
  • Consider synergies and roleplay aspects when choosing a multiclass in D&D.

Multiclassing is a great boon for players who are trying to min-max their 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons character. And🦂, it's true, optimizing your🌼 character can prove incredibly fun and be highly rewarding as a player. But if you're looking for something different and a bit of a challenge, I'd recommend trying to multiclass in the exact opposite direction.

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Someti🌺mes, you might discover a multiclass that's so terrible, it's actually ingenious. Or, who knows, maybe it is just bad. Either way, if you're a longtime🐽 Dungeons & Dragons player, we highly recommend checking out one of these awful multiclass ideas that might just be brilliant.

8 🔯 Wild Magic Monk-Sorcerer

A monk using ki-powered strikes against enemies in Dungeons & Dragons.
Ki-Fueled Strikes For Tasha's Cauldron to Everything By Sam Keiser

Classes

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Wild Magic Sorcerer

Wild Magic often interrupts your best-laid plans.

Way Of The Open Hand Monk

Requires close martial combat.

Martial classes can often prove to be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:great to multiclass with spellcasters, but sometimes, the requirements of a martial subclass can prove problem༺atic depending on the type of spellcaster you're playing as. Such is the case 🌃for the wild magic sorcerer and the way of the open hand monk.

While there are benefits to the wild magic table, many of the wild magic options can cause movement in less than ideal directions, or effects that can prove monk features to becom𒈔e less than effective. P🍰lus, one of the low-level features for way of the open hand monks requires you to be in close combat with enemies, which can prove less than ideal for squishier sorcerers who only have a d6 for their hit die. But also, you never know just how entertaining having a wild magic effect might be when trying to fight as a monk.

7 🐼 Conquest For Peace 🌼Cleric-Paladin

A paladin with glowing yellow eyes wearing brilliant armor in DND.
A Devout Warrior by Michael Broussard

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Oath of Conquest Paladin

Requires a decently high Charisma score

Peace Domain Cleric

Creates roleplay problems

This multiclass makes absolutely no sense in terms of character concept. Playing as a conquering paladin while simultaneously serving as an envoy for ꦯpeace is going to prove hilarious, contrasting for roleplay purposes. But, while you may haꦓve a hard time justifying this character concept, and needing both a high Wisdom and Charisma might prove tricky, some abilities weirdly synergize well.

For example, if a creature is frightened of you, you can use your Aura of Conquest featur🍬e as a paladin to reduce its speed. And, as a peace domain cleric, you can use your channel divinity to move through creatures who are slowed near you without provoking opportunity attacks. So there are some optimized reasons to choose this multiclass, but in terms of roleplay, you might have a tough time selling it to your DM without accidentally breaking your paladin oath.

6 Dragon Armor So𝔉rcerer-Artificer

An artificer fighting an adversary in DND.
Gnome Artificer Vi via Wizards of the Coast

Classes

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Armorer Artificer

Some redundant spellcasting

Draconic Sorcerer

Negates Draconic Resilience

Dungeons & Dragons has a ton of different classes that have unarmored defense abilities. These usually grant the player-character a buff to their AC, provided they are not wearing armor. One surefire way to make a terribཧle multiclass in this way is to pick a su🌊bclass that gets buffs when they're wearing armor.

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The armorer artificer and draconic sorcerers are delightfully terrible in this way. You'll have to choose right off the bat between using Draconic Resilience or any of your armorer features. This can prove tricky at lower levels. Plus, these two subclasses have a lot of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:overlap in terms of spells. H😼owever, at higher levels, having a more heavily armored sorcerer can prove fun and useful.

5 Fathomless𒊎 Fire Druid-Warlock

A magic user shoots a bolt of flames from a wand in DND.
Magic Fire by Yuhong Ding

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Circle of Wildfire Druid

Can't use some fire abilities while submerged

Fathomless Warlock

Poor synergy with fire-based abilities

This next multiclass combination poses some logistical problems between you and your DM. A lot of your fathomless warlock abilities revolve around being submerged in water, swimming, being able to breathe underwater, and more. However, as a circle🥀 of wildfire druid, most of your abilities are about creating and conjuring fire.

Can you even conjure your wildfire familiar while underwater? Probably not. However, there is fun to be had with this combination by playing a hot🍎-cold character. The contrast will make for some great roleplay and an 🌼overall highly elemental-focused build.

4 Life And Death Cleric🌊-Wizard

A player character casts a protective ward in front of their party in DND
Intellect Fortress via Wizards of the Coast

Classes

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Necromancy Wizard

Contrasting roleplay

Life Domain Cleric

Contrast with Turn Undead

Simultaneously playing a necromancer and a cleric can prove hilariously off-kilter. No𒅌t only is the roleplay for this class combination c🐻onfusing, but choosing this multiclass will completely negate your ability to use Turn Undead as part of your cleric features. This is because, at sixth level, necromancy wizards can cast Animate Dead, which is a super useful spell.

However, you could end up inadvertently turning your own undead away from you in this way. However, because both subclasses have healing abi💧lities, you will find yourself strangely healing yourself and your allies quite a bit, so it's actually a multiclass that might prove worth exploring.

3 Moonlit Cavalier Druid-Fighter ꦏ

A druid surrounded by animals in DND.
Druid by Jessica Fong

Classes

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Cavalier Fighter

Negates some need for Wildshapes

Circle of the Moon Druid

Have to focus on ei🌠ther Wildshape or Mounted Combat

This multiclass is worth picking just for the hilarity that could ensue just from some of the logistical concerns this combination could bring about. Obviously, as a circle of the moon druid, so much of your skill comes from constantly 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:using your Wildshapes and animal forms. B🐼ut, as a cavalier fighter, the idea is for you to be mounted most of the time.

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Can you ride a mount while i🔴n Wildshape? That's a question only your DM can answer. However, this combination is less than ideal since almost none of these two subclasses' abilities synergize with one another. But, I personally need to try it just to see if I can ride a horse while Wildshaped as a horse.

2 Glamorous 🌱Berserker Baౠrd-Barbarian

A bard uses Inspiration on a fellow player character in DND.
Bardic Inspiration via Wizards of the Coast

Classes

Details

College of Glamour Bard

Charisma doesn't lend itself well to barbarians

Berserker Barbarian

Attacks negate charm effects

One of the trickiest things about multiclassing is correctly spreading out your stats in a way that makes sense. Multiclassing between various mental stat 💛classes and physical stat classes can prove useful, but also contradictory. This bard-barbarian combination is one such example.

So much of the college of glamour bard isཧ about charming your opponents, but most charm effects are broken by attacking. In s🦄tark contrast, so much of the berserker path is about attacking opponents with brutal force. However, it can be useful to be able to charm and impose the frightened condition on opponents with these two classes in tow.

1 ꧒ Divine Trickster Cleric-Sorcerer

A woman in a colorful skirt and blouse casts a spell using a magic wand in Dungeons & Dragons.
A Human Sorcerer via Wizards of the Coast

Classes

Details

Trickery Domain Cleric

Extra spells overlap with sorcerers

Divine Soul Sorcerer

Extra healing not worth the multiclass

This multiclass is the ultimate six of one, half a dozen of the other. Ultimately, when you multiclass, you're missing out on🅷 capstone abilities and other high-level features for e🍒ach class. The idea, of course, is that you're making a more unique character in the process.

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However, this combination just steals features from the other class. Divine soul sorcerers get access to similar healing abilities as clerics, 🎉but ones that aren't nearly as powerful, while trickery domain clerics get access to spells that are already on the sorcerer spell list. However, if you do play your cards right with the cღleric's Invoke Duplicity feature, you can become an immensely powerful healer with this multiclass!

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Original Release Date
1974
Designer
E. Gary Gygax🌼, Dave Arneson
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