Evil background.

[SnyferX]

I have an idea to play an evil character, in parallel with another run. My idea is to play a Mephistopheles tiefling with the role of sorcerer and druid as a multiclass (because I would like to talk to animals and transform), however I'm not entirely sure if the druid links well with the sorcerer as a multiclass (in any case I can do the respec).

Also, as the title says, I need advice on choosing a suitable background and where to deploy skills and competences.
Above all, I was wondering if it is better to choose only the Dark Urge to make a bad character or can you opt for another background, in which case which is more suitable? Which background, subclass and skills best relate to an evil sorcerer?

[Smakit]

I don't think there is much good that can come from multiclassing sorc and druid. They both use different abilities for their spellcasting (WIS for druid, CHA for sorc) and if you are looking for powerful shapechange, you'll want more Druid levels as the difficulty of what you can change into is based on your druid level.

Maybe you can make something work. Well, let's be honest, you can do any mess of classes you want if you are using a party, because 3 people can handle the weight. But you'll almost certainly feel subpar.

You can use any background you want to be evil, just pick 'bad' choices. That said, Dark Urge does add a new layer onto situations and conversations, so if you want to see that new stuff it's worth playing. If not going that, then any to fill skill gaps is fine.

What skills to use? Well with a sorc it is easy to go for the charisma stuff, pick what you want. As an evil person you may find deception and/or intimidation more fun than persuasion. Of course depending how evil you are, you may not need either if you're attacking folks and not need to sneak/talk them out of things, but the dialogue choices can be fun.

For a druid, you can grab things under wisdom like perception to notice things or survival to find hidden chests. The sky's the limit really. Just depends how you see your character.

And as said, with a party there isn't anything that can really screw you over. They can handle things you don't want to deal with or add skills/spells towards. As for the subclass, whatever sounds good to you.

If you go storm sorc, a lot of people like to dip 2 into tempest domain cleric for the ability to use channel divinity to get max lightning/thunder damage on a spell (combined with using it on wet enemies for even more). Go draconic if you want some resistance to a particular element and a bit more damage with it (using your CHA mod). Or for a lot of fun (or trouble) use wild mage.

None of it is too important in being evil. It's just the choices you make and the vision you see for them.

[Husker_85]

Well first of all you might want to rethink multi-classing those specific classes together since one uses wisdom and the other uses charisma. You would probably be better off going Druid-Cleric for using more spells outside of wildshape or Druid-Monk for doing more damage with your wildshapes. Or if you're more attached to Sorceror than Druid, there's the Sorceror-Warlock (could go Pact of the Fey for a nature theme) or Sorceror-Paladin for one of the most powerful spellsword builds.

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