Do You Want 9 New D&D Classes?

StormbringerAUS · May 28, 2019

No thank you

The Myopic Sniper · May 28, 2019

YES, PLEASE!!!!

jgsugden · May 28, 2019

Have you investigated the possibility of getting yur materials onto D&D Beyond?

LuisCarlos17f · May 28, 2019

I said it and I say it again:

The keys to design a new class are:

- Right balance of power, of course.

- Fun gameplay. Class features have to be interesting, useful and not too complicate. A bad example is the psychic enervation by the psionic wilder class.

- Interesting concept. Each class is like a mark of identity, as clothes by urban tribes or Halloween costumes. A class isn't only a list of superpowers but it has to be its own source of inspiration of new stories. A bad example of this are the incarnate and the soulborn from "Magic Incarnum", practically paladin clones with soulmeld powers. At least the lurker from "the complete psionic" could be to create characters like the ones from the videogame saga "Assasin's Creed".

cbwjm · May 28, 2019

LuisCarlos17f said:
I said it and I say it again:

The keys to design a new class are:

- Right balance of power, of course.

- Fun gameplay. Class features have to be interesting, useful and not too complicate. A bad example is the psychic enervation by the psionic wilder class.

- Interesting concept. Each class is like a mark of identity, as clothes by urban tribes or Halloween costumes. A class isn't only a list of superpowers but it has to be its own source of inspiration of new stories. A bad example of this are the incarnate and the soulborn from "Magic Incarnum", practically paladin clones with soulmeld powers. At least the lurker from "the complete psionic" could be to create characters like the ones from the videogame saga "Assasin's Creed".

You make some good points butI can't tell, are you for or against these classes?

Bluewizard gaming · May 28, 2019

Yes, i am interested to take the 9 New D&D Classes.

orial · May 28, 2019

For me there are more than enough player options in 5e (like basic and 2nd) , If I wanted that many options I could have stayed at 3e or play Pathfinder instead.
It's just my opinion, so don't bash

Rellott · May 28, 2019

jgsugden said:
Have you investigated the possibility of getting yur materials onto D&D Beyond?

Beyond currently only works with WotC. There had been some discussion of plans to get 3PP in there in the past, but they haven’t talked about that in a while, best I can tell. Not sure if that plan has changed (read: cancelled) or just been pushed way back on their timetable.
Putting material on there as Homebrew is an option, except A) Beyond doesn’t let you make homebrew classes, and B) then you couldn’t charge money for your product.

LuisCarlos17f · May 28, 2019

I liked the concept of psionic wilder, but I didn't the "punishment" of the psychic enervation. In the pathfinder version this was fixed with other options of "punishment".

I miss the magic of incarnum but the soulborn and incarnate were paladin clones too closed to alignment and with boring powers about buff and almost without ranged attack. The totemist were better because it was a class about getting some monster traits.