Recent content by Undrave

Oh! I forgot my Ardent Soul subclass! This is the Psionic subclass and it's whole schtick is to hand out temp HP all the time, and then they, as well as any allies in a certain range, can trade any temp HP they have for additional fire damage on their weapons attack! At a later level they unlock...

I have a hard time conceiving of a Warlord with CORE class features that just improve themselves that wouldn't just be a Fighter feature. That said, what I do have are multiple subclass abilities that work with the fluff I've laid out that do improve the ability of the Warlord themselves. For...

That's just a Fighter. Basically. If the Warlord isn't making its allies better than it's not a Warlord. The 4e Warlord did have some powers that could buff/heal themselves but that wasn't the norm. The Warlock is such a good framework...

I wish Support Class wasn't verbotem...

Pink feels very Feywild. I would think Shadow Magic is just black or charcoal.

Fishblade 2nd edition?

And if it's not magical it doesn't really matter if it's a spear or a hammer. Same. I really like the mix and match approach and I feel the Cleric would have been perfect for it, with one choice being the style (Laser or Melee) and the second being the domain. I wonder how things would have...

And that's why people play Bear Barbarians instead of the lame Beserker.

Yeah we got the Echo Knight, the Clockwork Soul and the Rogue with its token but that's as crazy as it's gotten since the PHB. Remember the Psionic Dice and it's neat mechanic of 'burning out' if you rolled too well? Apparently it was confusing so no wild mechanics for us. Heck, the PHB...

I think only a few people ever realize they WANT to see sacred cows slain and the rest only realize it when they're already eating the Sacred Steak that results.

There's a ton of spells on the Ranger spell list that are basically 'a trap that you set up with magic instead of having to develop a whole trap making subsystem'. Probably a lot of factor, like fear of scaring away people with bloat, or no thinking the class is that popular, or simply not...

Hey, it was a new edition it was the perfect time to slay some sacred cows, even just a little. I guess you could reframe it as saying ‘they refused to take any specialty away from the Wizard to protect the Psion’s niche’. This is just more Pro-Wizard bias where it ABSOLUTELY has to be able to...

That's not a principle of 4e. You're right, there is a ton of Warlord-like mechanics in 5e, including on the Monsters side. The monsters are a little bare bone but I can see it. Really, the issue is pulling them all into a single class progression. ... I'm not sure how this relate...

lol it really is!

I agree that you can't just port the 4e Warlord, you need reinvent it through the 5e prism. I think, if the Warlord is to endure beyond 4th edition, it NEEDS to show it can be reinterpreted for a different rule systems. When I went through my various versions of the Warlord I realized I had to...