GMforPowergamers
Legend
Okay so I played around with the idea of making a warlord or warblade off teh warlock frame... but I was thinking.
Imagine a class that the fluff was about being physical fit, a hero, legendary and uses weapons armors and tools.
Now imagine that class got 1/2 the choices a wizard does.
so at first level you could choose 1 or 2 at will abilities that scale (cantrips) from a list of 10+ and you get 1 or 2 more as you level
you get 3 abilities you know, but if you find more of your kind (warriors studying combat and martial exploits) you could learn from them and add it to your list of abilities. (this is a stand in for the 6 spells)
but you can only have so many 'readied' and you can only use so many per long/short rest
each level you get 1 more auto added to your ability to do things... and new and higher level more powerful abilities... at 5th level abilities you can choose are the equivalent of 2nd level spells... and at 8th 3rd level and at 11th 4th level and 14th 4th level and 17th 5th level...
would this be too powerful? would it make the fighter obsolete?
You can't give them everything fighters have ON TOP of that... so no action surge no 3rd or 4th attack inuless it is built into a 1/day 'not spell' no reroll of save (again unless it is the learned ability) no action surge
also you can't keep at d10s so lets make this d8HD class
how would this change the landscape of the game?
what if we used clerc instead... so instead of 'learning' new ability or two per level you get a whole sett of abilities you can prep from?
Imagine a class that the fluff was about being physical fit, a hero, legendary and uses weapons armors and tools.
Now imagine that class got 1/2 the choices a wizard does.
so at first level you could choose 1 or 2 at will abilities that scale (cantrips) from a list of 10+ and you get 1 or 2 more as you level
you get 3 abilities you know, but if you find more of your kind (warriors studying combat and martial exploits) you could learn from them and add it to your list of abilities. (this is a stand in for the 6 spells)
but you can only have so many 'readied' and you can only use so many per long/short rest
each level you get 1 more auto added to your ability to do things... and new and higher level more powerful abilities... at 5th level abilities you can choose are the equivalent of 2nd level spells... and at 8th 3rd level and at 11th 4th level and 14th 4th level and 17th 5th level...
would this be too powerful? would it make the fighter obsolete?
You can't give them everything fighters have ON TOP of that... so no action surge no 3rd or 4th attack inuless it is built into a 1/day 'not spell' no reroll of save (again unless it is the learned ability) no action surge
also you can't keep at d10s so lets make this d8HD class
how would this change the landscape of the game?
what if we used clerc instead... so instead of 'learning' new ability or two per level you get a whole sett of abilities you can prep from?