D&D 5E Legends and Lore July 28: Keeping it Classy

[GrumpyGamer]

Looks like my ideal ranger did not make it, but with Oath of the Ancients and Eldritch Knight in the game I can see why ranger spell casting is getting downplayed. As long as they add a woodsman background I will be happy.

 

[TerraDave]

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How can I be Batman now. ...
Wanna show the dragon who is the night.

Way of shadows monk?

 

[Nebulous]

My one sad thought: a diplomatic, fast-talking merchant rogue subclass. Who remembers Silk, from the Belgariad? To me, Silk is the quintessential rogue, thoigh I rarely see his character expressed mechanically...

But, hey, kudos to the fifth edition design team. I'm excited!

I bet a background, skill choice and roleplaying would recreate this pretty well.

 

[Li Shenron]

I am shocked that they didn't include either the Thug Fighter or Brute Rogue. Both are iconic in 3e and 4e.

Even more, I think some sort of "treasure hunter" Rogue would have been very nice.

IMHO the quintessential Rogue is always Indiana Jones, and he's not exactly a thief and even less an assassin or an arcane trickster.

No, but its not very needed. Specializing gives you some extra powers and a bonus to a certain school, but no limitation on schools available. So invokers can use spells from all eight schools, they just get a bonus to one type of magic that they tend to focus on. (Which is fine by me; most wizards I saw ended up focusing on a few schools anyway but never picked a specialty because they didn't want to give up that one good spell from X school; invisibility, magic missile, dispel magic, etc).

I am also very glad there if there is no trace left of "barred school". I generally really despise that sort of limitations. You can multiclass and learn stuff that's way faraway from your area, but you can't learn some spells from your own class list.

 

[Sadrik]

Way of shadows monk?

Speaking of which can they use weapons or will ninja be weaponless?

 

[Branduil]

I am shocked that they didn't include either the Thug Fighter or Brute Rogue. Both are iconic in 3e and 4e.

How can I be Batman now. Fighter/rogues never cut it. They never do.

Wanna show the dragon who is the night.

Batman would probably be a Hunter Ranger.

 

[Li Shenron]

Speaking of which can they use weapons or will ninja be weaponless?

I know this is not what you are looking for, but I often think that the simple cosmetic change of letting the Monk use a weapon (but keep it functionally identically to unarmed attacks, including damage) would go a long way to help me accept the Monk in a classic western medieval setting.

 

[gyor]

To buff the magic side of the Eldrich Knight get Ritual Caster (Wizard) and War Caster, ritual caster allows you EK to cast more spells of a higher level, without using up slots, and war caster help with casting spells at melee, as well as allowing you to cast a spell as a reaction.

 

[Sadrik]

I know this is not what you are looking for, but I often think that the simple cosmetic change of letting the Monk use a weapon (but keep it functionally identically to unarmed attacks, including damage) would go a long way to help me accept the Monk in a classic western medieval setting.

I feel the exact same way. My house rules for 3e allowed them to use any weapon and gave them bonus damage in lieu of unarmed damage bonus.

 

[Steely Dan]

Monks can now deal 1d6 with a dagger, right?