Argyle King
Legend
Ardent. It was not so much a psionic warlord as it was a psionic leader class.
Fluffwise, I remember the descriptions of the powers sounding warlordy to me. I never played one because I preferred the Warlord.
Ardent. It was not so much a psionic warlord as it was a psionic leader class.
Yep. In a way, the warlord was a more iconic example of the "leader" role, in 4e, than the Cleric which had originated it, when limited mainly to healing.Ardent. It was not so much a psionic warlord as it was a psionic leader class.
The 4E Warlord could never shout a person's arm back on anymore than a cleric can Cure Wounds a person's arm back on. That whole thing was Mike Mearls's own strawman.
It might chuff people the wrong way, but I think the best Warlord reskin is simply... Cleric. Knowledge, Life, Order, Trickery, and War are most the most fitting domains, and it's extremely easy to pick spells that suit the themes of the Warlord and say they are not magic. I've played a Life Cleric that bellowed inspiration at people and it went extremely well as long as we didn't think too hard about Dispel and Counter.If you want to play a Warlord in 5E, you can play a Paladin multiclassed into battlemaster, or, even, just a paladin. The Warlord's main abilities have already been so spread-out and cannibalized that a Warlord class would seem underwhelming if released now.
A portion of it is explicitly flesh. Cuts and bruises start being a part of hit point loss at 50% hit points, and hitting 0 results in a direct strike causing significant trauma.I like actual HP because it's abstract and not flesh anyway.
I recognized that it was a joke, but okay. As Tony Vargas said, Mearls may have been joking but that did not stop those against 4e and the Warlord from using it as a rallying cry.Dude. It was a joke. Complete with a funny .gif to make that super clear.
Doesn't work. 5e's concept-first, natural-language design approach gets in the way. Spells are magic designed & 'balanced' as such. You can't just re-skin them as inspiration or psi powers or whatever and take away their components or render them immune from being countered or dispelled, for instance.TL;DR Use magic. Say it's not magic.
I recognized that it was a joke, but okay. As Tony Vargas said, Mearls may have been joking but that did not stop those against 4e and the Warlord from using it as a rallying cry.
Coincidentally, I was fairly lukewarm on the Warlord until the same debates put me firmly into the Pro-Warlord side due to how disrespectful I felt others were being towards the pro-Warlord side. Funny how perspective can change things. But you know, how many years after that joke and the pro-Warlord people are still waiting for the class in 5e? I guess you should be happy that other people's fun is soured.No man, talk about a strawman! I was very much pro 4e and the Warlord. It was the over the top nature of the advocacy for the Warlord, and the seriousness the topic was treated with even in face of Mearls' blatant joke, which turned me off to it. It's become my rallying cry against the Warlord because people can't help but take themselves too seriously when it comes to this class.