D&D 5E Fighting With Style, Fighting Styles as Level 1 subclass choices

FrogReaver · Jul 12, 2019

doctorbadwolf said:
@Garthanos With respect, I do not care about not picking examples of zero to hero narratives. I’m not here to follow every possible rabbit hole of a debate that ever presents itself. Rand is a farmboy, his dad barely trains him, and I’ve read these books 7 times. You aren’t going to badger me into agreeing with you, so just drop it.

I've no idea who Rand is, but we need more of this!

doctorbadwolf · Jul 12, 2019

I’ll probqbly just go with 1d4 damage to any target within 5 feet when you make a weapon attack, once per turn.

FrogReaver · Jul 12, 2019

doctorbadwolf said:
I’ll probqbly just go with 1d4 damage to any target within 5 feet when you make a weapon attack, once per turn.

That's the simplest. Seems a little weak especially in tier 2 and 3 though.

Horwath · Jul 12, 2019

doctorbadwolf said:
That seems like a good bit more oomph than what other fighting styles get

Not really, as those cantrips compete for Action slot with weapon attacks, all other fighting styles add power to existing weapon attack or armor.

They add more versatility than power.

Garthanos · Jul 12, 2019

My solution to the thread is don't play zeros... start at a slightly higher level then there is less inclination to front load the class;

In general I think the first 4 levels were designed to draw out multi-classing as a multi-level resource expenditure and from a character design point of view making level 1 more feature heavy increases class dipping

If nothing else its a potential problem to keep your eyes open for.

doctorbadwolf · Jul 12, 2019

FrogReaver said:
That's the simplest. Seems a little weak especially in tier 2 and 3 though.

Other than Archery and Defense, they mostly do get less impactful as you level.

FrogReaver · Jul 12, 2019

doctorbadwolf said:
Other than Archery and Defense, they mostly do get less impactful as you level.

Even the damage ones scale with extra attack which is a level thing

Xeviat · Jul 12, 2019

Garthanos said:
My solution to the thread is don't play zeros... start at a slightly higher level then there is less inclination to front load the class; .

I start at 3rd or 5th level for that reason.

doctorbadwolf · Jul 12, 2019

FrogReaver said:
Even the damage ones scale with extra attack which is a level thing

I doubt that the numbers actually keep up relative to Extra Attack. Thus, “less impactful as you level” rather than “don’t scale”.

FrogReaver · Jul 12, 2019

doctorbadwolf said:
I doubt that the numbers actually keep up relative to Extra Attack. Thus, “less impactful as you level” rather than “don’t scale”.

Slightly less so sure as your base attack goes up in damage slightly as you gain ASI's. But that's really the only negative type scaling provided to the fighter's damage based fighting styles.

A fighters weapon damage only goes up a tiny fraction as they level. generally from 9.5 to 11.5 or 11.33 to 13.33.