Most popular no-core classes?

[LuisCarlos17f]

If you could choose a handbook with new or returned classes what didn't appear in the core player handbook, which would you want?

I miss the binder and vestiges pacts from 3.5 pact of magic, and the martial adepts with the maneuvers from "3.5 Tome of Battle: book of nine swords". I would like something like the archetypes from Pathfinder rpg with martial maneuvers for swashbuckler, samurai, monk and ninja, and warlord. The warmage would be a mixture of armored sorcered with special martial maneuvers.

I bet we will see the return of the psionic powers, I am not sure about beyond mystic class. I like the psionic ardent to create stories about love-hate relations with the rest of divine spellcasters. We also will see a "arcane paladin" like the duskblade or hexblade.

I imagine the shaman like a hybrid class, mixing druid and the totetism from magic of incarnum. The soulborn and incarnate were too close to paladin to be incarnum soulmeld classes. My suggestion for incarnum (or arkasha) classes would be about a pathfinder summoner, a 3.5 favored soul with soulmelds about monster traits (or templates), and a mixture of incarnum and aegis (psionic manifester class by Dreamscarred Press). Other idea is some class with Runesmith or alchemist, like a incarnum version of artificer class from Eberron. How would work the soulmeld powers in 5th Ed? Something like temporal feats, could be changed each day, or a softer version of a monster template (half-celestial, for example).

My own version of favored sould would be a spontaneous divine spellcaster with armour and subclasses about monster templates (half-infernal, half-fey, half-celestial, half-dragon)

I am not sure about a mysteries caster class like the shadowcaster from 3.5 Tome of Magic, but I like the idea of elementalist with their own game mechanic.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Hmmm. I think I’d like to see the Thief-Acrobat make a return. I could see the class being a lot of fun, working better in 5e than in past iterations. Other than that, there’s not too much I’m in need of, class-wise.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

I think at one point Mike Mearls said he was looking at a warden that was separate from the oath of the ancient paladins, maybe as a barbarian subclass. I would like a more "form of" based warden class or subclass.

 

[Gradine]

Two of my favorite PCs I've ever played were an Incarnate and an Archivist, respectively. I don't really expect Incarnum to ever come back in any official capacity, but I could Archivist as a divine-spellcasting Wizard archetype, complete with some knowledge-based buffing abilities.

 

[Seramus]

A slightly more balanced Blood Hunter would be a great official class.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

I'd like to see the Swordmage return.

 

[Eltab]

- A Warlord. (You knew it was coming, now it's been said and we don't have to hold our breath any longer. The reasons for and against have been tested, by flame, multiple times already.)

- A Truenamer, whose mechanic is neither super-easy nor super-clunky compared to existing spellcasting. For ambiance, I prefer the caster, rather than his/her targets, to make all the rolls.
- A Druid who can create persisting zones that inflict status conditions on his targets/victims. I'd like to be able to do that again (my 4e Dark Sun character did it). I expect natural development of the Druid to make this possible eventually.

 

[TwoSix]

I already have good third party supplements for alchemist, gunslinger, witch, warmage, warden, magus, and warlord. I wouldn't mind seeing a good 5e version of the avenger, probably my favorite 4e class.

 

[smbakeresq]

Summoner. The lack of summoning spells kills the conjurer.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Thanks for your answers. I forget to mention the knight and the assassin, and the gladiator.

I imagine the assassin like the psionic lurker but with powers like a mixture of shadow magic and martial maneuvers, and the knight like a mixture from 3.5 version and the one from pathfinder. The gladiator from Dark Sun was like the father of the archetypes from Pathfinder. I would like to see it like a warrior without heavy armour but with a special defensive bonus if he wear shield or armour in the arm.

The archivist was interesting, but many players would miss the armour. I guess somebody used to multiclass with arcane spellcasters.

I have thought about a reboot of psionic wilder with some touch of incarnum soulmelds. Yes, a fool or crazy idea.

The truename was a interesting concept, but with limited options for gameplay. Sometime I thought about a version of bard with "music of the spheres", a game mechanic equivalent to the truename. If the truenamer comes back it has to be also with the "words of creation" (from Book of exalted Deeds) and the dark speech (from Book of Vile Darkness).