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General online insistence for at will attack granting (see this thread).
5E has a different paradigm its not D&D Tactics: The Miniatures JRPG game.
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If you read the intro to the Bard in the PHB, you'll find they already planted the seeds for the Warlord many moons ago, like so many other Easter Eggs you can find in the Core 3...
To be an in-combat healer in 5e, you really only need one function; the ability to bring someone from 0 hp to positive hp. Out-of-combat healing in 5e is either addressed with Hit Dice, or someone has taken one of the many ways to make it almost trivial (Life Cleric + Goodberry, Healing Spirit, Lore Bard w/Aura of Vitality).Those classes do not also heal though, at least as well as a cleric. Something has to give either the attack granting or the healing rate and I do nto think attack granting at will is a good idea in 5E (you could use more superiority dice than the BM fighter) because of how it interacts with things like Rogues (any), Hunter Rangers (basic atack + 1d6+1d8 is great vs clerics anaemic damage)..
[Citation (actual citation, not the "go look" rubbish) needed]Mearls out right stated they split it between the BM Fighter and Valor Bard.
I don't think nayone cares to much about the Warlord concept existing a few 4E players want fully functional 4E warlords and then get upset when WoTC won't give it to them.
5E Paladins and Wizards do not work the way it used to, Speciality priests died with 2E. Is it reasonable to expect a Warlord in 5E yes, is it reaosnable to expect a fully functioning/empowered 4E style warlord in the game well not really.
D&D Tactics: The Miniatures JRPG game.
Is there a 5e third party warlord that folks are generally happy about?
People can't be "generally" happy with third party solutions, since lots of groups play with WotC official material only, or play in the Adventurer's League.
General online insistence for at will attack granting (see this thread).
5E has a different paradigm its not D&D Tactics: The Miniatures JRPG game.
Except you can. It was done without complaint for the oh-so-cherished Wizard and their Haste spell.I love the smell of edition warring in the morning.
However, I fundamentally agree with the point made: the core problem with recreating the Warlord in 5E is... 5E.
5E is a very, very, very, very simple game. The core game's engine doesn't have the bandwidth to handle a class like the 4E warlord. You can't simply take concepts from different editions and try to adapt them to games that work with fundamentally different action economies and mathematical engines.
So to follow from your example (but removing the edition warring bit), if 4E is chess, 5E is Uno. You can't port mechanics from one to the other.