Ash Mantle
Adventurer
So, a random idea, what do you all think of decoupling subclasses from their current home classes and having them work within other classes?
Of course, some subclasses would form more of a cohesive recoupling compared to other subclasses.
For example, currently the eldritch knight is part of the fighter, but you could essentially lift out the subclass mechanics from the eldritch knight and have them be a wizard arcane tradition instead.
You'll need to modify the Eldritch Knight martial archetype to edit out the spellcasting and to edit in fighting styles, and you'll need to reconfigure the eldritch knight archetypal class features to adhere to when the wizard arcane tradition features come into their levels, but it could work pretty well. They may also need to have something similar to the bladesinger who gets extra attack at 6th level. Being part of the wizard they may lose their name to something else.
Conversely, you could have the bladesinger branch away from the wizard and become part of the fighter. They could keep their bladesong as is, and their archetype might instead come into effect at 3rd, but they'll obviously lose spells.
What do you all think?
Of course, some subclasses would form more of a cohesive recoupling compared to other subclasses.
For example, currently the eldritch knight is part of the fighter, but you could essentially lift out the subclass mechanics from the eldritch knight and have them be a wizard arcane tradition instead.
You'll need to modify the Eldritch Knight martial archetype to edit out the spellcasting and to edit in fighting styles, and you'll need to reconfigure the eldritch knight archetypal class features to adhere to when the wizard arcane tradition features come into their levels, but it could work pretty well. They may also need to have something similar to the bladesinger who gets extra attack at 6th level. Being part of the wizard they may lose their name to something else.
Conversely, you could have the bladesinger branch away from the wizard and become part of the fighter. They could keep their bladesong as is, and their archetype might instead come into effect at 3rd, but they'll obviously lose spells.
What do you all think?