The main thing I missed was that if you become half Illithid you can get Expertise in Persuasion and Intimidation checks as well, giving you Expertise in all Cha based skills and in 10 skills overall, more than half of them, which isn't too shabby.
For Levelling I've found so far that you want Rogue / Cleric 2 / Bard to 6 / Then slot in Ranger.
My skill proficiencies have looked like this:
1 - Street Urchin BG gives Stealth and Sleight of Hand, Dark Urge gives Medicine and Intimidation, Drow gives Perception, Rogue gives Persuasion, Insight, Performance, and Deception. Expertise on Sleight of Hand and Stealth.
2- Knowledge Cleric gives Expertise in Arcana and Religion
3 - For now you're using the Channel Divinity to cover Int since it's far worse and you're down 3 there vs 2 for Wis (one of which is coming up next level)
4 - Bard Prof used for Survival
I'm only lvl 5 currently but intending to use the Bard expertise for Persuasion and Perception, and then the reshuffling to cover other skills will come with the Ranger level, but as is I'm really just missing the expertise I'll eventually possess in Cha based skills and investigative skills, and Athletics, Acrobatics, and Animal Handling, which makes me easier to push around and means my Beastmaster Ranger companion is putting in work for animal-based scenarios. If that becomes an issue or if I find heavy armor I *must* possess I'll have to accelerate slotting in the Ranger level, but so far so good. I'm not a combat monster, but I pass my skill checks.
Last edited by GiantOctopodes; 06/03/24 09:24 PM.
