D&D (2024) Brawler is out. What subclass should replace it?

[mellored]

Battlemaster, Champion, and Eldritch Knight are good to go, but the Brawler is getting cut.

What should he the 4th fighter subclass?

 

[aco175]

Most called knight or cavalier feel like paladin sub-classes. I see that arcane archer is another part caster sub-class like eldritch knight, so I'm only meh about it and thought we needed an archer class.

 

[Minigiant]

Other

Brute.

Instead of eschewing weapons, the fighter of the PHB should stick to them. Stick to them hard.

 

[Clint_L]

Eh, archer is already well covered by ranger and rogue, so I've never understood the need for a fighter version. IMO Matt Mercer's Gunslinger is a way cooler and more unique ranged fighter subclass. (If you add that option, it gets my vote). Also, you can already make a much better archer fighter with a dex-based Battlemaster, if that's your jam.

From these choices, Echo Knight doesn't need anything - it's already flipping amazing and getting better with the general upgrades to fighter. I mean, it's probably arm wrestling Twilight Cleric for the title of most OP sub-class as we speak. So I'm voting Rune Knight as I love the concept but the current execution just doesn't deliver on it.

 

[deganawida]

Cavalier, but just call it knight. Lose the mounted stuff, add in something else, but keep the marking and go further with it.

 

[mellored]

So I'm voting Rune Knight as I love the concept but the current execution just doesn't deliver on it.

If your talking about ones that need a adjustment to execution the most, that would probably be the purple dragon knight.

 

[Parmandur]

Whelp, we know that whatever it is isn't getting UA attention, so that means it's probable either the enemy Knight or Psi Warrior taken straight from Tasha's without any changes, similar to the other Tasha's subclasses going into the new PHB.

Either would work fine, but I think the Psi Warrior would fit best as a contrast with the other Fighters allowing a Jedi character without juggling the Spell system or Runes.

 

[FrogReaver]

1. Add in some of the cavalier defender stuff to the champion.

2. Add in a cunning/stealthy fighter.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Purple Dragon Knight, exactly as printed in the SCAG. As a joke.

 

[FrogReaver]

Whelp, we know that whatever it is isn't getting UA attention, so that means it's probable either the enemy Knight or Psi Warrior taken straight from Tasha's without any changes, similar to the other Tasha's subclasses going into the new PHB.

Either would work fine, but I think the Psi Warrior would fit best as a contrast with the other Fighters allowing a Jedi character without juggling the Spell system or Runes.

Agree. Psi Warrior makes the most conceptual sense.