Robert Schwalb, who designed one of my favorite games (Shadow of the Demon Lord), with a version of one of my favorite classes? Sold.
It's charisma creep.
I've posted on this before, and it's definitely worth its own topic, but charisma has morphed from a dump stat that was often confused/conflated with "physical attractiveness" back in the day to a world-eating stat that will soon envelop all of Intelligence and Wisdom.
Nom nom nom.
I get criticized for being unfun, old crotchety, etc but using Variant Encumbrance cleans up a lot of the CHR builds. To me the problem is a lot of the CHR builds dump STR but then get medium armor, shield, all their other stuff without any trade off. If you use variant encumbrance then medium armor and shield will encumber most builds, which most players won’t want to trade AC for, so they will wear less armor, which balances them out somewhat.
Beside with Variant Encumbrance game elements like powerful build, dwarf armor trait, Mithral armor, boots of striding, portable holes, bags of holding, etc all mean more. That’s important to our group as long time players we value the iconic items. I view it as a balancing element.
Yeah, gonna have to agree. Nothing against Rob as he is a talented designer and clearly has struck on something people are clamoring for. But, IMO, the base class does seem like a glorified Valor Bard with the Inspiring Leader feat and perhaps even has the Aid and/or Bless spells through magical secrets. No TPP truly necessary.
I dunno. I think the very notion of a bag of holding is a boring way to get around encumberance rules.
I almost like it (I don't know what the subclasses look like, though), ....
I can't seem to find it in D&D Beyond, so.....Does this mean we don't need any more threads asking for Warlord?
Sold.
I can't seem to find it in D&D Beyond, so.....
Yes, you need to explain this, as creating a class is not possible on D&D Beyond. Only subclasses.....so you're going to type it in yourself?
Geez do I have to explain everything?