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Rogue and Warlock are an easy DnD Multiclassing combo and they can be a ton of fun together!
Jul 22, 2025
Rogue and Warlock are an easy DnD Multiclassing combo and they can be a ton of fun together!
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More D and D multiclassing combos. This
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time, Rogue and Warlock. This is
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actually a pretty easy multiclass, even
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though the ability scores don't line up
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perfectly. On the Rogue, we have
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Swashbuckler, which leans into Charisma
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a bit. And then on the Warlock, we have
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Packed of the Blade. If you're using the
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2014 rules, you definitely want to go
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Hex Blade, so you can lean in really
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hard on charisma. But in the 2024 rules,
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you can just go packed of the blade and
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use charisma. You're going to focus
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primarily on charisma over dexterity,
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which does mean that your dexterity is
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going to be a little bit lower than that
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of a typical rogue, which will hurt some
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of your skills. It will hurt your AC a
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bit, but offensively, you're going to be
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very, very effective because you're
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using charisma for attacks, damage,
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skills. You get the bonus to initiative
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from three levels of swashbuckler rogue.
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From there, you can build either more
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warlock or more rogue, depending on your
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preference. I would go heavily on one or
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the other. Don't do the even split
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because then you never get those highle
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class features. If you go for warlock,
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take the invocations that boost your
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weapon attacks and focus on having
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multiple attacks. Like you're you're
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basically building a fairly standard
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blade packed warlock, but you also have
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the advantages from those swashbuckler
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rogue levels. You've got expertise and
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skills. You have charisma to your
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initiative. And if you hit an enemy with
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a melee attack, you can move away from
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them without provoking opportunity
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attacks. So you can do hit and run
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tactics very easily. And you have
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cunning action to give you dash. So like
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you're very quick, very very mobile, and
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that's fantastic on a relatively frail
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melee character. If you're going more
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rogue, take enough levels in Warlock
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that you can cast darkness. Take Devil's
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Sight so you can see in your own magical
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darkness, and you can just run around in
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the dark and always have advantage on
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attacks. and creatures generally won't
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be able to see you, which will make up
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for your terrible AC. Either combination
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works really well. Um, either level
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split works very well, but again, a
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50/50 split is generally very, very hard
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because you don't advance into those
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higher level class features. And sneak
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attack, no matter what you do, is still
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only once per turn. So, even if you get
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like multiple attacks from the package
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of the blade build, it's not really
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improving your rogue capabilities all
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that much. We do actually have a written
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Hexbuckler build on rpgbot.net. It's
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called Hexbuckler of the astral seas.
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It's it's basically magical Peter Pan.
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It's it's a pretty fun build. I like it
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a lot. Uh so yeah, I'm RPGbot. If you
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what crazy build combination you're
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working on, and let me see if I can
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