

Moderately Armored: medium armor, but requires proficiency with light armor ( PHB, pg 168).Lightly Armored: light armor ( PHB, pg 167).You can’t become proficient with heavy armor by multiclassing unless you take a Subclass (also called Archetypes) that gives this proficiency. These are the armor proficiencies that would come with one level in the following: (Yes, all classes have requirements for multiclassing.)Ĭongrats, you’re a level 5 monk, level 1 barb, thus taking most of the benefits of what a level 1 barbarian would have. At the next level up, you decide to put one level into barbarian, which requires a Strength of 13. Perhaps you’re a level 5 monk and you want to beef up a bit. Multiclassing is when you decide to incorporate a second class into your character. War domain (cleric): heavy armor ( PHB, pg 63).Twilight domain (cleric): heavy armor ( TCE, pg 34).Tempest domain (cleric): heavy armor ( PHB, pg 62).Order domain (cleric): heavy armor ( TCE, pg 32).Hexblade (warlock): medium armor ( XGE, pg 55).Forge domain (cleric): heavy armor ( XGE, pg 19).College of Valor (bard): medium armor ( PHB, pg 55).College of Swords (bard): medium armor ( Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, (XGE) pg 15).Bladesinger (wizard): light armor ( TCE, pg 76).Armorer (artificer): heavy armor ( TCE, pg 115).Here are the armor proficiencies you get from those:


Cleric: light and medium armor ( PHB, pg 45).Barbarian: light and medium armor ( PHB pg 45).Artificer: light and medium armor ( Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, TCE, pg 10).Hobgoblin: light armor ( Volo’s Guide to Monsters, pg 119).Githyanki: light and medium armor ( Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, pg 96).Mountain dwarves: light and medium armor (PHB, pg 20).To ensure you have those proficiencies, you will want one of the following: Races No one likes to fall on their face when a owlbear is hunting you for lunch.
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