D&D Build #24: The Draconic Trickster (2024 Sorcerer + Rogue)

[@ericpeterson8732]

This is the brilliant thief build. But instead of taking a level in wizard, you went sorcerer instead. Both proc at level 3-4, but the brilliant thief build focuses on rogue levels to quickly build up that juicy sneak attack damage. The key is the thief rogue's fast hands feature and using spell scrolls of true strike. Fast hands makes it a bonus action to cast true strike and then ready your action to cast it again on your friend's turn. Double sneak attack as long as you have enough spell scrolls. The brilliant thief build uses the elf species to get a shorter Long Rest to use the other 4 hours to make scrolls. 1 scroll/ 2 days adventuring. But the best part of the build is the thief capstone of 17 (so @18 for our build will get you 4 sneak attacks, two with your regular bonus and readied attack and two more with your second set of actions!) Using innate sorcery to get advantage to proc sneak attack is inspired. But arcane trickster is Int based, not Cha based. I'll finish watching to see how you deal with this problem. (I'm at 4:18 so far)

[@ericpeterson8732]

Wow! I was not expecting that! Converting all your spell slots to sorcery points just to fuel your metamagic??? That is just crazy enough to work. It will feel bad at times to be so focused as well as choosing wizard spells that don't require a spell DC or attack roll. But I see how it could work. The benefit, of course, is you don't need spell scrolls to make it work. Your AC will be pretty good, thanks to draconic resilience. Yeah, not bad at all. Since you're going charisma, you could also be the face of the party.

[@Energianera]

Sorry, but don't you Need 13 in Dexterity and Intelligence (rouge primary ability) ?

[@zSavageWolves]

@@Energianera the main ability score of rogue is DEX. So you only need 13 DEX to qualify for multiclassing in or out of rogue. Although Arcane Trickster uses INT for its spellcasting, it doesn’t impose an additional stat requirement to multiclass. The minimum stats you need for this build are 13 DEX (rogue) and 13 CHA (sorcerer). You might be confused with rogue’s saving throw proficiencies? Those are DEX and INT.