The WORST POSSIBLE CHARACTER in Baldur's Gate 3

How bad can we make our guy?

[@SolenaSunfury]

Now beat the game with this build

[@InvaderTroy]

on honor mode

[@naranja0078]

Solo​@@InvaderTroy

[@TheDrewMango]

Without equipment

[@sir_wffles]

If it did happen probably because barrelmancy too good

[@TheGdav0202]

Blindfolded.

[@Sarum9nich]

You can make this character even worse by failing Zaith'isk encounter and reducing your con, int and wis by 2.

[@happyjonn9242]

And drinking all the Hags potions

[@HereAndThere-o4j]

And wearing the Devilfoil Mask, with three others nearby. So -5 int and wisdom, -2 con, -3 charisma for only +3 str. So use strength as a dump stat.

[@Zubatticus]

Putting the min in min maxing

[@karolswieboda1781]

Min mining

[@SomeOne-vf1rs]

Max minning

[@Akira-ss6cm]

I can imagine a durge playthrough of this build: "My rancid blood whispers to me... Kill, kill, and kill again. Thankfully, my Sorcery is completely worthless for that."

[@aguy8545]

What's funny is that just being Halsin is a factor for the worst build, since he is one of the 2 companions without a tadpole.

[@Flufflord_Puffball]

who's the other one?

[@tenasters]

​@@Flufflord_PuffballJaheira

[@pancake8180]

Does minsc have a tadpole?

[@tenasters]

@@pancake8180 yes, he does. It's relevant to his personal quest (prior to him joining as a companion)

[@complainer406]

​@@pancake8180 Story-wise he does, but mechanically he refuses to use any of the abilities

[@Kailokel]

Finally, a video in which True Strike actively advances us in our build goals.

[@RangerErnsy]

I like the headcanon that this is a situation where the companions all come across this character, who is obviously the main character type (and completely full of themselves), and find out that he is completely useless and they have to drag him through to the end of the adventure.

[@RedSiBaron]

So basically "our flag means death"

[@legateelizabeth]

With how bad my rolls are, this is how I headcanon all my characters. Just constantly failing upwards as they fail to do literally anything to anyone.

[@silentascari2180]

That's literally my jack of all trades run 😂

[@o0ghostsleep0o]

rolan (and i love him for it)

[@morgan3392]

"The worst race and class would be dragonborn sorcerer." Heh.

[@colbyrackler3915]

A Rogue with an 8 in Dexterity would be pretty useless too

[@Cappybara33]

You can still benefit from Sneak Attack if you're making a Strength attack, as long as the weapon has finesse. I'm playing a low Dex, high Strength sneak attacking knife thrower with Tavern Brawler right now. Yeah the AC will be bad if you don't multiclass, but overall it's not quite as abysmal as you'd expect.

[@kittydaddy2023]

my first honour mode Durge was a copper dragonborn because I liked the way his skin looked. Yes, I unintentionally picked the worst race because I judged him by the color of his skin.

[@borrow4654]

To be honest, I beat tactician on a white dragonborn and I'm currently going through honor with a gold one. Your race won't break your game. Sure a duergar would make life easier for the invisibility every battle, or wood elf for movement, or those horrible looking hafling for lucky, but you can have success with anything

[@kittydaddy2023]

@@borrow4654 Excuse me? I'm a Brinna Gang gang member, and I'll butter Roah Moonglow's biscuit any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

[@borrow4654]

@@kittydaddy2023 you better not do that after turning into a bear...

[@shayforest]

dragonborn might not be the best race mechanically, but damn if they aren't pretty

[@arlyduran1510]

Finally more dragonborn fans!! I just love the way they look and how dynamic their facial expressions are considering the fact they’re more animalistic

[@devrogalyon3220]

Such a great April Fool’s gag. The fact that your delivery was basically no different than when you make optimal characters had me cracking up. 😂

[@Ludzig]

It wasn't a gag though, it would have been a gag if he was framing it as a new strong build he had been theorycrafting and to try it out

[@ChicCanyon]

​@@Ludzig correct

[@marasawr]

A+ gag, though all the levelling past 1 feels academic since there’s no way you’re getting off the nautiloid alive with this build 😂

[@ruriva4931]

Solo idk how you’d survive, but in a party Shadowheart can cast sanctuary

[@dr0g_Oakblood]

@@ruriva4931 I was about to say lol, with both Shadowheart and Lae’zel as teammates, especially if you also pick up Us, you should be able to clear the Nautilloid fairly easily with any class lmao

[@shwqa]

​@@ruriva4931 in solo you can just run past anything

[@sarvashaktimaan7106]

DM: I don't want any min-maxed builds. Me:

[@marci8600]

This build has the stats of a book: INT and WIS for the content and STR because it hurts when you hit someone with it. Low CON because it is vulnerable to most damage (water, fire, slashing etc), low DEX because it doesn't move and low CHA because it doesn't speak.

[@Marianojoey]

hahahhahahahhahaa, so good. :D In my next D&D game I'm telling the DM I want to play as a book. :D

[@MikeHawk04]

My build: 1) Pick human 2) Naked 3) No weapons or gear 4) “Forget” to level up 5) Pure evil. Wants to kill everyone, including all potential companions

[@blazingazong]

Only comment is that sleep and color spray can be upcast to 6th level and so they could actually be “useful” against fodder enemies

[@Cephalopocalypse]

I genuinely forgot you can upcast these - that means they're definitely the wrong pick!

[@Caillouteletub123]

Add the ring of Feywilde Sparks and you will be your companions's worst nightmare.

[@itsFlycatcher]

I fully thought you were going to take "magic initiate: sorcerer" as one of the feats- having access to more of the exact same spells (many of them not great at that point) that you already could have would have been a nice stroke of irony.

[@koboldking2991]

"Yeah I'm willing to make a slightly less powerful character for a good thematic roleplaying build." My thematic roleplaying builds:

[@slaminjaminotter7286]

I know it would probably end at the first fight, but I have never wanted to see a playthrough of a character so badly

[@TasNuri05]

Imagine using this and the whole party leaving you for being useless af

[@acidempire7188]

I didn't know that setting all ability points to odd numbers would hurt me so much to see. Kudos, you mad bastard 😆

[@MrHattor]

I think a build combining the “worst” classes/subclasses on purpose could be interesting. Arcane trickster plus trickery cleric, and maybe four elements monk and pact of the chain warlock?

[@MrHattor]

I think the challenge in this case would be to make the build as good as possible, using what are at least in my experience most often cited as the “worst” classes, all combined. Bonus points for 3 levels each, with no feats

[@RandomGuy010]

Trickery cleric is good.

[@MrHattor]

@@RandomGuy010 I personally agree! I usually keep Shadowheart in trickery. But it’s most commonly said to be the “worst” of the worst, and I think this concept would be good clickbait

[@juanpabloaguilarlobaton3735]

@@RandomGuy010 Cleric is good. Trickery is like not having a subclass.

[@karolswieboda1781]

​@@juanpabloaguilarlobaton3735 I'm not saying trickery is better than the other subclasses but I had lots of good use from its subclass abilities so I wouldn't say it's useless because gaining advantage is pretty great.

[@Dragonking3787]

You can upcast False Life and give yourself a LOT of temporary hit points. Maybe eEpeditious Retreat or Blink?

[@jejo63660]

Its overkill for sure especially if you can get spell slots back with something like angelic slumber/reprieve, or one of the restoration pods

[@pdonettes]

Why did you have to go and make me in the game? I feel called out.

[@LoneIrbis]

Haha, that was fun! Especially since first honour mode character I made was copper dragonborn sorcerer (nearly default Dark Urge). I'm yet to advance it past the nautiloid though, but it could be a interesting challenge to continue making it horrible in all possible ways.

[@MrHattor]

Awesome build, and awesome concept. I love that you went with Halsin 😆

[@OakandIV]

Human. Bonus skill in Survival. Rogue. Int 17, dump everything else you can, pick all skill proficiencies to be as worthless as possible.

[@funkkymonkey6924]

I think you could be worse, multi-class with arcane rouge.

[@challah_back_femme9857]

What a fun April fools joke! I usually dislike Aprils fools because some people will take it way too far but this kind of joke I can get behind

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks! I agree - it's a fun excuse to do something silly, but a lot of pranks are mean-spirited or just annoying (especially because people outside NA have no idea they're supposed to be jokes). Also of course every brand account gets involved and nothing ruins a joke like a corporation making it.

[@derper4553]

Hey, cool idea! I think false life and sleep not a good option, cause upcasting spells may make them useful, maybe haste is interesting option cause every time our sorc cast it, he risks to put an ally into letargy state...

[@XYNTEN]

Clearly last worst spell was phantasmal force, can't land it anyway with -1 in casting stat.

[@meliannhawke3318]

This has been an especially delightful video. 😂 Thank you a lot for literally saving an otherwise terrible day!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks very much! Really glad you enjoyed it - hope the rest of the day gets better!

[@tobiaskoran6787]

Shouldn't the level 11 spell have been Expeditious Retreat? All it does is give you cheaper Dashes unlike HP in the case of False Life.

[@nathanfivecoate5848]

*Worst Possible Character* >Uses Halsin for the example Done. You finished the build.

[@tannerweinheimer7839]

Halsin is pretty chill imo.

[@user-mu8dm4rk7g]

Lmao

[@sir_wffles]

Nah bro Halsin is chill. He ALWAYS takes the kidnapping bullet for me, a real homie. :)

[@cloudy978]

"Don't talk about my husband you snake !" ~Lisa Rinna

[@nathanfivecoate5848]

@@sir_wffles His sole redeeming quality in act 3

[@tinycatfriend]

oh, i love this. i certainly couldn't get far with this! i'm doing a challenge run with 8 STR/DEX/CON, and one thing Ceph doesn't mention is how constitution is used for concentration saving throws, so concentration spells will be pretty useless when you can be one-shot by anything. and with abysmal AC, you'll be the first to go down! my run is going pretty well because i'm trying to be good, but my early game was hell. some fun stuff: -mage armour will absolutely add your negative dex modifier -i got insta-killed by a trap chest once. not downed, just instantly burned to ash. it was the initial blast too, and the game kept rolling saving throws for his dead body (though he managed to warn the party about the trap even after death, how considerate) -did you know curses like flesh rot persist after battle? i sure didn't! -i got wiped by anders a few times, until the game sent my tav to the roof for some reason and he didn't enter combat. the battle went fine after that -i failed every CON save when drinking with the brewer in act 2, giving me THREE disadvantages! (i know they don't stack, but it was hilarious just to see them all)

[@dusty3186]

Hey Cephalopocalypse, this is a fun "how not to" build that teaches you to avoid certain things when building. I was theorizing an OP Honor Mode build, I was wondering if you wanna do a video on it. Here's the detail: Lvl 4 (or 3 with a variant) Assassin + Lvl6 Sword Bard + lvl2 Fighter What do you get: 1. Opening Round Surprise 2. Surprise Enemies = Crit 3. 5 Flourishes in the opening round that attack 10 times - Surprise flourish + 2 flourishes from standard actions + 2 flourishes from Action Surge, all of them crits and attack with advantage. 4. Flourishes and Action Surge comes back from short rest 5. Access to Bard level 3 spells - Hold Person, Fear, Hyponotic Pattern, etc. So it goes great with Band of Mystic Scoundrel and Arcane Acuity (either Fire hat or Helm) 6. There's a variant with level 3 Assassin and 1lvl dip into Warlock for Command, Hex, and survivability. 7. For weapons, you want 1) Rhapsody, 2) Shield of the Undevout or Walking Fortress, 3) Banshee Bow (Frighten) or Titanstring (Str modifier) or Blightbringer (Slwo on Crit) or Vicious Short Bow (+7 damage on Crit). 8. For Feat, you definitely want Sharpshooter, or ASI (not really needed). Fighter levels should be your lowest priority. 9. For race, you definitely want Drugar for the cantrip invis. Start with Rogue for skill proficiency if you are party face or lockpicking guy, otherwise go with fighter for the CON Proficiency. Obviously this build is best to put on Ascended Astarion. I think this is way stronger than the popular GloomAssassin build. You still get access to Bard spells and you attack way more times. Opening with 10 attacks with all of them crit with advantage is just too isnane. I think this build does even more damage in the opening round than your previous Assassin Paladin build.

[@jake3662]

Been looking for a self insert build thanks

[@nick4488]

Hey Keep up the content. You strike a great balance between fun/balance/effectiveness and i appreciate how you try to temper optimization with flavor, which is something i always appreciate

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much for the support and the kind words! I really appreciate it - that's something I really try to do!

[@Deadknight67]

Yeah now we need a walkthrough of the game with this character.

[@theStonerKid69]

Going by all that logic, my pick for worst character would still be a Copper Dragonborn...but with the Monk, and giving them 11 Strength, 10 Dexterity, 8 Endurance, 17 Intelligence, 12 Wisdom and 16 Charisma. This would give an unarmored Monk a whopping 11 AC with a negative 1 Constitution Modifier, they would have to take at least 2 ASI's to get even close to being able to do anything in combat, and,being a Dragonborn means they'd only be able to use simple weapons and short swords meaning their options for melee or ranged damage are all going to be 1d6 to 1d8 weapons, assuming they don't use a lit torch, and they'll be swinging those weapons with only their proficiency bonus to buff their chance to hit. To make it worse, you could force them to take the Way of the Four Elements subclass to force them to use their whopping +1 Wisdom modifier to...still do most likely nothing in combat, since all their damaging spells require are attack rolls, if I remember right. Theoretically, the monk's DPS would be buffed by the fact that Monk's can punch things as a bonus action whenever they make a melee attack. But with no Strength or Dexterity bonus, any enemy they try to punch will just be able to swing right back at them on their turn and turn the, again, 11 AC monk who is gaining 4 hit points per level into shredded cheese and or dust, depending on the weapon the enemy is using.

[@LolUGotBusted]

-Endurance- Constitution*

[@taintwasher3703]

why not 11 dex and 11 wisdom,? this character would still be playable because of items and potions and have 12 more hp for a total of 50 allowing it to survive a single attack, also plenty of good simple weapons that are specifically for monk. And at level 7 you get evasion which makes you take half damage from failed dexterity saving throws, giving 100 effective hp vs casters, also you have movement options creating the same problems as storm sorcerer. Might be one of the hardest classes in the game to make bad

[@Haunttts]

This is just what my builds look like

[@gildeddrake1479]

I always thought expeditious retreat seemed absolutely worthless.

[@vaniushka9625]

We are reaching Baldurs Gate with that one 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@imaginaryguide1895]

False Life at level 11 has the advantage of wiping out any other temporary hit points, like an upcast Aid, making the spell either useless or actively worse.

[@blight4519]

So now we need someone to try this build and make a playthrough of it. Some tips: 1. Fight with melee weapons instead of casting spells. 2. Use as many elixirs as possible and good potions for you bonus actions. 3. Exchange your useless(low CHA) spell slots for sorcery points and cast change luck every combat encounter for good dice throws. 4. Browse and buy all the food you can so you can sleep whenever you run out of sorcery points. 5. You can upcast sleep and color spray to make them pretty good still. 6. Scrolls are still useful with your high int (not sure about that one but the utility and self cast spells are still always useful) 7. Illithid powers are still a thing

[@Bath0rius]

I'd personally say picking Eyebite over false life would've been worse. Upcasting false life can potentially grant a LOT of temp hp, but also, just having two level 6 spells, when there's only a single level 6 spell slot, means you'll always be unable to use one of your spells for lack of spellslots

[@kayn9651]

So uhh... A few things. - First, even if this character is as bad as possible, playing with a party makes that irrelevant so then the challenge is in playing solo with no other party members. Which is valid! Otherwise though you really could just have a different character be the face of the party and they could carry through combat, one min-maxed character would compensate for all this one's lacking spots. Second, presuming you wanted to play this one solo. - Things that come to mind would certainly be to do the exploit that lets you get Raphael's armor early. - Like you do technically need a party member for that but maybe you can make it work with a summon that you could get from a scroll. - Other thing that comes to mind then is the staff you get from the Underdark, the ice one. Could be difficult to obtain, but it'd give us to - if nothing else - a damaging cantrip to use. And until that point, we'd certainly want to wear heavy armor regardless of the lack of proficiency, to make up for the lack in dex for AC purposes, and only fight with weapons, since we acknowledge we got no spells that would be worth a damn. - Other than that combat definitely ought to be handled through stealth, since sneaking around doesn't require a check if you just avoid entering the red zones. - And then you could exploit some merchants to try and obtain large quantities of damaging consumables. - Fire flasks, smoke powder bombs, barrels, etc. - Plus, of course, scrolls of all types and potions. Many traps can be avoided well enough by just using turn based mode, and having low HP isn't relevant if you manage to take out combat encounters by one-shotting them with well placed barrels of explosives. - Now of course this is all still gonna be insanely difficult, but there -are- interesting options that you can do that would make a playthrough plausible.

[@riastarthay]

This guide helped me beat honor for the first time!

[@draccorll]

Time to have someone beat the game with this build solo

[@hookshot320]

Why you gotta do my husband, Halsin, like this? lmaoo

[@brandonhogstad9666]

I thought we were gonna see a game run with this build… someone needs to beat the game with it now!

[@Eirandir]

One of my favorite stupid things you can do is pick up sleetstorm, which disrupts concentration, while being a concentration spell, so if you cast it over yourself it automatically ends lmao

[@JohnArktor]

Wait.. Dimension door, a situational spell? Well hold my beer now...

[@jejo63660]

Do you use it often? In my experience i would only be using it in Iron Throne, and the first phase of the final fight with that huge arena

[@DodoLePiaf]

I would love to see one really bad build fir every class, or every race. Great content, thanks

[@alexmoran8662]

This was interesting nonetheless hahah. Idk if you have done this yet but an all healer warrior could be a cool video. Something like life cleric 5/ ancients paladin 7. Tons of heals and better spell slots for smites.

[@An_Cardb0ardBox]

Survival helps you spot buried chests, which give money. The amount you find throughout the game though probs couldnt get you a legendary item.

[@sullenskulls9709]

But, its the fact that the game tells you when you have failed a check. Meaning, you don't need to have a good survival skill to discover that a chest exists. And then you can just dig at the ground with a shovel, around the spot where your notification pops up, and you will reveal the chest anyway. This combination is what makes the survival skill effectively useless.

[@jasonb2089]

I was really hoping to see this character in action at the end, as part of a party, to see how little it can contribute while at the same time actually trying to have it contribute something. 😂

[@Skillfulstone]

If I recall correctly I heard there's an achievement for multiclassing in all classes in one playthrough (basically forcing you to multiclass at every level up and never get advanced spells/attacks since all classes would be first level). Wouldn't a Copper Dragonborn attempting this achievement be the worst character?

[@Narrlocke]

You essentially end up progressing normally as a wizard up until level 5-6ish by taking all of the caster levels first, and then get some other minor goodies after that, you can definitely make worse characters than a level 5 wizard

[@Cephalopocalypse]

There is, but this character is much worse than that - in fact, I have a guide to that achievement where we make a pretty reasonable build - you can find it under "one of every class? On tactician?!"

[@Kassi_gaming]

This looks like a fun idea for a challange run.

[@borrow4654]

Make it solo

[@Kassi_gaming]

@@borrow4654 I propaply will, after I finish my current run.

[@LoneIrbis]

Another potential build idea is partially opposite: a character that would be the easiest to play for a total newbie who doesn't really feel like investing much into doing well in combat but wants to play anyway. For example, something that would be viable even if you just hit things with basic melee attack, with as little buttons to choose from as possible, but being good at not dying passively. Or something that can just cast a single spell all the way and be good at it, without any tricky stuff like applying water and metamagic. Or maybe be very good utility character to solve most fights peacefully while being able to contribute to unavoidable fights in a simple way. All in all, something that one can setup for a friend or family member, explain to them that this button you push in the fight and they won't feel overwhelmed by it to a point of dropping the game on first combat.

[@alnoso]

that's easy, just go single class champion subclass fighter. high strength and constitution, low int and charisma assuming they're not the party face, and decent wisdom and dex for saves. fighting style defence for the bonus AC, then one of the weapon fighting styles. for feats: ASI for strength and/or constitution, savage attacker and then maybe alert or shield master since those would be the most straightforward feats left. and now all you have to do is click on the enemy until you run out of attacks, and at most jumping towards them for some extra movement. half-orc would be the best race as far as bonuses go and for being simple by far, but human, wood elf, gold/shield dwarf also work and provide fully passive bonuses, if preferable. any race is fine, really, but these would be the most straight forward. if you prefer a simple spellcaster, warlock would be the simplest spell-casting class. I'd say fiend patron for the easy to understand spells fiend patron gets (like flame strike and fireball) and pact of the tome or blade, but you do need to remember to bind your weapon each long rest with pact of the blade. agonizing blast and devil sight would be nice as invocations, I always like taking repelling blast too myself, I think it's the most fun one. then just eldritch blast everyone, when enemies are close enough together use some big AOE spell. the warlock spell slots being of a single level and refreshing on short rest means that you don't need to worry about resource management nearly as much, or explain what upcasting is, and even if they do waste their spell slots, eldritch blast remains the best cantrip in the game for damage. for ability scores, high charisma, low strength, decent scores in everything else. then for feats probably ASI and just put 2 points in charisma, war caster and maybe spell sniper for the crit bonus (would synergize better with great old ones patron though) and learn thorn whip so you can both push and pull enemies however, fighter is still gonna be far simpler to understand than any spellcaster. there's a lot of D&D rules that go into spellcasting, with champion fighter it's just click on enemy > dice gets rolled to do damage > damage is done.

[@sublimefanaticsf8616]

In the character creation, you accidentally create a great cleric (exept for the hit points) who unfortunally born with the wrong magic afinity

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Haha, true!

[@kleinesdaisukii]

Now I want to start a new game with this build 😂

[@MarkCsigs]

I'm totally going to make this character on Honor Mode and see how far I can take it! LOL

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Let me know how it goes!

[@MarkCsigs]

@@Cephalopocalypse Well, Cat Astrophy the copper dragonborn sorcerer just made it to second level, so-far, so-good! lol

[@MarkCsigs]

@@Cephalopocalypse Currently half way through level 3, and just picked up the Smugglers Ring, so at least for now they have a 7 Charisma. lol

[@MarkCsigs]

@@Cephalopocalypse The Phase Spider Matriarch and her brood were too much! Cat Astrophy made it to 4th level, and I was looking forward to picking up the poisoner's robe to help with poison spray but alas, it wasn't meant to be!

[@SillyBoyKisser74]

I lost my honor mode run because Shadowheart missed 3 consecutive spell casts next run she's going with this build and staying in the camp, she's grounded

[@ihateyoutube772]

I kinda love the idea of some bumbling, incompetent sorcerer having to go on a journey to take down a literal demigod and scraping through by the skin of his teeth

[@papasquat9026]

you definitely forgot upcasting was a thing on making this

[@SteveRecFPS]

Pretty powerful build, considering a lot of the spells you took with levels have upcasts, and you failed to realize that. Pretty good utility character.

[@supuhmon3217]

For level 11, I’d argue that the stone wall spell is worse than false life. Not only is it extremely situational (not useless, but melee characters can usually walk around it and ranger ai is weirdly good at finding cheesy angles), it also costs a level 5 spell slot.

[@2323stickboy]

Funny build. One issue I have with it is taking Acid Splash. AS is actually really good for finding invisible enemies, like those annoying Bahl cultists and such. I think Minor Illusion would be a better pick as it's use in combat is limited and enemies will definitely make the save.

[@helion_ut]

Minor Illusion is really busted out of combat tho, you can completely cheese so many encounters with it.

[@MarkSpirals]

Great video. Any chance on a 1-12 Eldritch Knight build? I know you did a split build with Wizard, but I'm curious to see what you can make of a pure EK.

[@gonetomars3697]

There’s a EK thrower build on this channel, I think using lae zel. He does put a level in war cleric but you could skip that.

[@MarkSpirals]

@@gonetomars3697 Yeah, I should've also mentioned a non-thrower EK. I just wanted to see his take on making EK work like one would assume. Fighter with a splash of arcane magic. I ask for this because he did a pure Arcane Trickster build fairly recently and I enjoyed his approach to it. Just was curious to see how he would do the same for EK.

[@suiton20]

I would think the worst build would be taking multi classes every level

[@Cephalopocalypse]

This is much worse! For a jack of all trades guide (where we make actually a pretty reasonable character), check out my guide "one of every class? On tactician?!"

[@henrymalinowski5125]

I think you wiffed on taking the Blink spell.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

I dunno, I think this character not existing half the time is a net benefit! One of the problems you'll have is that they'll keep going down in combat and demanding healing and potions from allies to keep them from dying, so reducing that seems like it would be too powerful

[@KingMJAH]

Do a play through with this character making bad story decisions but in the custom mode to make the game as easy as possible and call the video, can you make balders gate 3 in fail-able ?

[@hamzatber1]

Ready for a solo honor mode

[@un7n0wing85]

This build MIGHT be salvageable with good equipment, it would just be really hard to survive long enough to actually find the items. Most notable is a strength based bow in act 1. You could do a special arrow based build using that bow much in the same way people try to survive the 12 level multiclass achievement.

[@nicholasbaxter8547]

Hey can you make some kind of dual wield melee build. I was thinking barbarian for extra damage while rage with one of the wild hearts probably bear or tiger. I was also thinking fighter for dual wield fighting style and probably throw in some thief rogue.. I actually think getting extra attack isn’t something that needs to be bee lined at because you already get a “second attack” with your off hand. There is some dis synergy with barbarian because of needing bonus action activate. Would love to see it !!!

[@calad6482]

Best dw build is 6 bard, 3 gloom stalker and 3 thief with Ascended Astarion with dw crossbow. For melee build idk :p

[@TasNuri05]

This was me on my very first playthru w/out any DnD knowledge or any head for strat thinking in video games and didn't watched any guides as I played

[@jayrobitaille2402]

For the weakest party composition (with no deliberately g!mped characters), you use melee/martials with the worst sub-classes and no multi-classing to improve. Here goes: 1 Champion Fighter (the only good things this class can do is 3 attacks per action at Lv 11+ and reduced critical range), 1 Arcane Trickster Rogue (rogue is a melee marial with no extra attack and with this variation you cannot get either of the actual good things a rogue can get like an extra bonus action to take an extra stab or hand crossbow shot or get free surprise attacks/criticals at the beginning of combat), 1 Way of the Elements Monk ( no shadow teleports, no special flurries that can knock down, no ki resonance, etc), 1 Wild Magic Barbarian ( no Frenzied Throw, no resistances from Bear Rage, No AOE attack from Tiger Rage). Ranger does not have any particularly bad sub-classes and is usually a ranged combatant, but I might switch them with the monk (since the monk can still stun and use tavern brawler) and make a dual wield melee build.

[@grubbygeorge2117]

Champion fighter can still be pretty solid if you give it stuff that works well with the lowered crit range. Worse than other fighters, but not outright bad. Instead, I'd bring in a valour bard (it's pretty much swords bard without everything that makes swords bard good) or a wild magic sorcerer who has the potential of losing you the game with an unfortunate wild magic proc.

[@jayrobitaille2402]

@@grubbygeorge2117 Great Points. Even though this game loves casters (explode on death enemies, difficult/harmful terrain and the whole truth that tanking is the riskiest and least desirable strategy), Wild Magic Sorcerer is so risky in a game already full of dangerous RNG that there are melee martials and especially decent ranged martials that destroy it ( Way of the Open Hand Monk, Ranged Assassin Rogue, etc not even counting multiclassing as that can make a lot of things broken). I have to push back on the Valour Bard being in the bad party, as even though it is like the Trickster Cleric (the worst Cleric subclass), it is still a great hybrid arcane caster/melee martial and a more caster focused alternative to a Paladin like an Arcane cleric and it is CHA based so it can ace dialogues or give bonuses to dialogue checks. Bard is just such a good class overall, like Cleric or Paladin even the "bad" subclasses still rock.

[@jayrobitaille2402]

@@grubbygeorge2117 Since we are playing the best versions of these subclasses, using the best gear, etc if the champion fighter is your PC, you make them a Half Orc to capitalize on the critical range by adding more critical damage on top.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

If you go by my subclass tier list here, you'd end up with Thief Rogue, Assassin Rogue, Wild magic Sorcerer, and Wild Magic Barbarian. Arcane Trickster is actually I think the best of three three rogue subclasses as a monoclassed rogue, though obviously much worse for multiclassing.

[@jayrobitaille2402]

@@Cephalopocalypse Until they nerf hand crossbows by not allowing you to dual wield them (basically the reason you use them in the first place), Thief Rogue as a monoclass can just Sharpshooter 1 Lv later and do insane damage with the 3 attacks per turn you get. If you are sticking to melee, similar idea (except no sharpshooter, probably the best thing you can do for melee Thief is the Dual Wielder feat and make sure one weapon is light for Sneak Attack).

[@DrGrabAss.]

Oh my god, I'm 8 minutes in and this is the most unintentionally (or intentionally) hilarious build commentary I've ever heard. It's like responding to the question, "Make a BG3 build, bad advice only." I've been laughing so hard the entire time. "We also don't want to be passing dialogue checks because that would make us useful to the party." LOL!

[@AskTheDM]

hehe, detect thoughts gives you access to some conversational solutions, and while it's tooltip says Wisdom, it's actually an INT based roll. Since you have the high int, you inadvertently gave yourself something "useful" 🤣

[@kaleyfantastic]

What if you select 1 level in each class

[@MrHattor]

Lots of classes have really good level 1 features, I feel. Jack of All Trades is literally an achievement in the game to do just that (at least ostensibly, I know it can be cheesed easily)

[@devonsharkey414]

I think there is an achievement for that. The main problem will be no feats and limited to no multiple attacks.

[@exantiuse497]

That makes for a bad class but it's not as bad as you'd think. You'll get 1. medium armor proficiency from cleric, 2. sneak attack from rogue, 3. spell slot progression from wizard, cleric, sorc, druid and bard, and wizard allows you to scribe good scrolls, 4. good hitpoints from all the marshal classes. So you'll end up with a halfway useful character which has decent spells up to level 3, alright hitpoints and can be somewhat fixed with magic items, which is better than this build which is pretty much imunfixable without respec

[@Cephalopocalypse]

I get this request a lot, which is funny because I already did it! Check out my guide "One of the every class? On tactician?" :D

[@gork8468]

You end up being a slightly crappier College of Lore bard, basically. If you grabbed dex and charisma you're still a great face character with proficiency with every ranged weapon. Mine used the Titanstring with the club of hill giant strength for at will attacks, and lobbed fireballs once she found a scroll to scribe it from.

[@WiiSportsTwo]

Can you also make a guide soloing honor mode with this?

[@RandomTuber782]

This was painful.

[@yvaskhmir]

Wouldn't Crown of Madness be good (i.e. terrible) on this character? I think you yourself have said the spell mostly does nothing due to enemy AI, plus it'd never land with how abysmal is the Charisma of the character. Yes, it would benefit from the metamagic, but even if the effect goes through, it's still not good. At least it certainly seems much worse than False Life.

[@MortalWombat1988]

Good, good. Now solo honor mode with it.

[@moccalotus]

If I start as a wizard then take 11 sorc levels, what spell casting ability do spells learned from scrolls use? Charisma or int?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

The spells you learn from scrolls will use INT, since they're wizard spells - spells will always use the stat of the class you learned them from.

[@Athanatov]

Race: I think if you make every option unusable, the Dragonbreath actually becomes a lot better. Having a viable attack on short rest makes a lot of difference. I'd honestly go Lightfoot Halfling. Lucky isn't that impactful if you're gonna miss a lot anyway. Class: I don't think Sorceror is the way to go since you can still metamagic scrolls and Bend Luck, making a playable support. A Chain Warlock with similarly bad spell selection would avoid this at the cost of getting Light Armour. You do get a familiar, but Shovel and Scratch are available either way.

[@Athanatov]

And go Durge for background, which with your low stats might kill off some companions or other major characters on failed rolls.

[@seawolf_USA]

What if you take one level in each class?

[@vidyagaems4063]

Should have picked friends over acid splash. You already have charm person, which covers all the utilities of friends. Low dex will be covered by gloves of dex later on. False life might be better than mage armor. Mage armor has many alternatives and I'm pretty sure there's an item that casts it per rest.

[@hassanmalano4216]

you can choose minor ilusion as a lv 1 cantrip

[@christopherjones7191]

Except that has a ton of utility for grouping enemies up before combat starts. Then just fireball

[@cannyvalley8522]

Could you do something legit with wild magic sorcerer? Wild magic sorcadin, perhaps, as divine smite doesn't trigger magic surges

[@cosmicwhaleyoutube]

This sounds like a challenge one I take personally lone wolf honer mode not single save no barelmancey or stealth archery all major encounters completed may 20 2024

[@chinaman1]

I dont think it can get any worst than 1 in each class

[@Cephalopocalypse]

This is much worse! For a jack of all trades guide (where we make actually a pretty reasonable character), check out my guide "one of every class? On tactician?!"

[@CMiY0]

So… you’re trying to make a Rolan build? If you went Paladin for this it’d be more of a Dame Aylin.

[@toddparker514]

I think I would have picked monk lol

[@user-KS-13]

Why not 1 in every class?

[@Loast_Toast]

Kinda thought it was gonna be a shadow heart build

[@thepeoplesjewels]

Good job, I would never want to play that build.

[@chinaman1]

I feel like no matter how hard i try, i can never be able to make Wyll good.

[@daegredwinsterhand]

warlock pact of the blade 7 paladin oath of vengeance 5 three smites per turn universal advantage go brrrr

[@curio27]

just don’t bring him out til you have enough levels for hunger of hadar (I was in the same boat my first like 3 playthroughs but AoE spells & a tiny dip into Paladin for more utility finally meant he left camp 🥲)

[@mutevampire]

And here's me running stock Wyll in my first run (admittedly, balanced mode) as a pact of the tome warlock just rocking spell sniper, the crit buffing elixir, and the item that adds reverberation to his crits. Pew! Pew! Pew! With a side order of the only major CC on my (very, very tired, i was so, so bad about taking long rests) team. Why pact of the tome? Because i couldnt find a speak with animals potion and wanted to talk to the strange ox, and tome gave me access to speak with animals. Edit to add: i have beaten that run using that build for Wyll. It may not have been great, but it was good enough.

[@gork8468]

I usually take a scroll happy Wyll over Gale. Crit fishing Eldritch Blast and short rest counter spells remain good late game, and short rest fireballs or wall of fire are good mid game.