fuindordm
Adventurer
Spinning off from another thread, what sort of tweaks to the fighter class would support the Warlord play style? The purpose of this thread is to propose and critique minor variations on the fighter that would help.
Personally, one player in my home game has a battlemaster fighter with the Parry, Commander's Strike, and Rally (heal ally--I might be misrecalling the name). He also has the mobility feat and does a more than adequate job bossing the rest of the party around while roaming around the outskirts of the battle getting his licks in.
Here are my two thoughts:
A "Tactician" fighting style that grants your allies advantage on attack rolls if you are adjacent to their target. This gives the player an incentive to move through the combats to support weaker fighters. I think that advantage should not apply to the fighter, because the style can grant advantage to multiple allies.
A possible Warlord subclass wouldn't be very different at all from the battlemaster subclass. However, we could consider replacing a couple of subclass features with the following:
"Get Back In There!" -- You can give your Action Surge to an ally who can hear or see you, unless they already used Action Surge in this battle. The ally can take the bonus action on your turn.
(capstone) "Desperate Charge" -- Spend your Action Surge. Each ally who can hear or see you can immediately take an Attack, Dash, or Withdraw action.
Personally, one player in my home game has a battlemaster fighter with the Parry, Commander's Strike, and Rally (heal ally--I might be misrecalling the name). He also has the mobility feat and does a more than adequate job bossing the rest of the party around while roaming around the outskirts of the battle getting his licks in.
Here are my two thoughts:
A "Tactician" fighting style that grants your allies advantage on attack rolls if you are adjacent to their target. This gives the player an incentive to move through the combats to support weaker fighters. I think that advantage should not apply to the fighter, because the style can grant advantage to multiple allies.
A possible Warlord subclass wouldn't be very different at all from the battlemaster subclass. However, we could consider replacing a couple of subclass features with the following:
"Get Back In There!" -- You can give your Action Surge to an ally who can hear or see you, unless they already used Action Surge in this battle. The ally can take the bonus action on your turn.
(capstone) "Desperate Charge" -- Spend your Action Surge. Each ally who can hear or see you can immediately take an Attack, Dash, or Withdraw action.