D&D 5E (2014) Warlord Name Poll

[Miladoon]

You ask something you are not willing to do yourself. I will post my class and you can post your class and we can compare them.

No copy pasting from the 4E PHB!

Ready lets do it!

 

[Tony Vargas]

You ask something you are not willing to do yourself.

I don't have any insights into the relative pillar-focus of different sub-classes to share, no - other than to note that the game has always seemed decidedly combat-focused.
If you do, feel free. Or not. I'm not looking to compete or lay a trap for you.

 

[Miladoon]

Get educated on 5E and play the game. I want to compete and compare our classes. Not to win, but to glean ideas from each other. Talk is cheap.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

I don't have any insights into the relative pillar-focus of different sub-classes to share, no - other than to note that the game has always seemed decidedly combat-focused.
If you do, feel free. Or not. I'm not looking to compete or lay a trap for you.

Its the same basic problem always. Combat is filled with exigencies and opportunities to add interesting class features/spells/powers/whatever. Everyone, pretty much, fights eventually, and most players fight often. So 50% of the book is always going to be more-or-less about fighting.

Actually if you go measure how much of each edition's material is combat-related, its always roughly a constant at around 50%.

 

[Aldarc]

Cute, but that's not meaning, it's etymology.

Was your rudeness here necessary?

Shape-changing was a power attributed to the Druids of myth & legend. Though D&D diverged in other ways and over-emphasizes reverence for nature rather than for pagan tribal deities, some associated with nature, "shape-changing nature priest" isn't far off.

Shape-changing was a power attributed to basically everyone who did magic: shamans, wizards, bards, necromancers, deities, magical creatures, etc.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Get educated on 5E and play the game

I've been playing the game since 1980, I ran Next through the playtest, and 5e since it came out. I don't know what you think you're accomplishing with your childish posturing, but you've lost my respect, and my attention.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Was your rudeness here necessary?

The level of 'rudeness' in question was entirely necessary, yes.

Shape-changing was a power attributed to basically everyone who did magic: shamans, wizards, bards, necromancers, deities, magical creatures, etc.

To varying degrees, at one time or another, sure. So was divination. So were a lot of things. Divination and Shapechanging, though were things Druids of myth were particularly known for. By D&D standards, half right isn't bad.

 

[Marandahir]

Depends on what you define a druid. Shamans, Witches, and Sorcerers of the Americas were considered shapechangers, particularly known for this ability. Merlin was usually considered a Wizard and was well known for shapechanging. Some have considered him a Druid for this and to tie him to early mythological/folkloric entities of Britain, but that reveals another problem: Both Myrddin Wyllt (Lailokan) and Taliesin, early mythic figures who inspired the character of Merlin, were considered Bards by the early medieval poets (notably, Emrys Wledig, a third influential figure on the character, was a Warlord and Seer, possibly emulatable in D&D by a College of Valor Bard, but you could also go with a number of divination-user classes that have martial bends). The identities of Bards and Druids and Wizards and Sorcerers and Warlocks and Clerics, really ALL SPELLCASTERS, are confused in mythic stories, because the boundaries as defined by D&D don't exist in real-life traditions. Some boundaries are made in some cultures, but these are the exceptions, not the rule.

The great thing about 5e is that you can take the class chassis and build your concept in many different ways. If you want to be a Green Knight character, you could be a Paladin (Oath of the Ancients), a Ranger, a Totem Warrior Barbarian, even a Nature Domain Cleric (due to its martial elements). If you want to be a Shaman, you might be a Nature Cleric, a Druid of the Land, a Druid of the Moon, an Archfey Patron Warlock of Book or Chains, you might be Divination Wizard, you might be a Wild Sorcerer. You might be a Bard, even.

So how does this relate to Warlords? A Warlord could be many different things, each with their own names, but approaching similar concepts.

 

[Umbran]

Was your rudeness here necessary?

The level of 'rudeness' in question was entirely necessary, yes.

Guys, really? This is how you want to behave?

Allow me to mention that, given the post reports we are getting on you two, your peers think neither one of you comes out of this looking very good.

So, really, cut it out - or use the Ignore List, or find some constructive avenue for your frustrations, please.

 

[El Mahdi]

Looks like this thread/poll has run its course.

The clear favorite appears to be: Warlord!

Here's the final chart, including ideas proposed within posts (the Other option). I left out some results for the sake of keeping it an usable size, eliminating the clearly joke-ideas (including my own), and names that are already used for other classes/subclasses (with the exception of Herald...wouldn't want to be accused of bias after all...).

This was the most comprehensive Warlord name poll I've seen here at ENWorld (I did a search and read all of the Warlord name polls/threads I could find all the way back to the introduction of 4E). So I guess we can say, definitively, Warlord is the best/most-accepted name for the class. (Though I'm sure someone will feel compelled to take issue with that conclusion - cue "It's not scientific."; "It's self-selecting."; "It's....etc, etc, etc...")

Thanks to everyone that participated constructively, courteously, and/or entertainingly.

See you in the next Warlord name thread/poll/discussion in a few months...