See, to me that reads like the patron rules: more of a mechanical ribbon than a reason to buy the book and add it to your game.An expansion on D&D's social mechanics:
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They could always publish more spells, those always seem to be easy to make
There is quite a lot there actually, worth quoting a few key points:An expansion on D&D's social mechanics:
D&D’s Strixhaven campaign is about the ‘hot mess’ of college life
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mystic need a basic mechanical adventure party focus honestly I say make it cut closer to cleric, druid or even bard as we always need some decent devotionless support and bard is too musical for my taste.They could always publish more spells, those always seem to be easy to make
When they tried to make the Mystic they ended up crying to cram all 4e roles into a single class. If they just focused on a few aspect they could make it to work... like, we don't need a Psion to get the melee psionic stuff, we got two Psionic subclasses for that.
I could see a Plant Druid (folded into the Farmer Druid I think, Circle of Harvests?) and a Whirlwind Barbarians being good future subclasses, same for the Dragon Warlock. Cleric domains are also an easy possibility. A Brutal Thug Rogue who gets bonuses from STR and can use clubs to sneak attack would be neat. Or maybe as a Fighter subclass with a Rogue MC feel to it?
Personally, I'd like to see:
1- Warden Barbarian that transforms into embodiments of natural phenomena when raging
2- Gourmet Bard
3- Chaos Sorcerer as a retry on the Wild Magic Sorcerer
4- Retry of the Giant Blood Sorcerer
5- Some sort of Loreseeker/Tomb Raider Wizard, a guy who specializes in exploring old ruins to find magical secrets
6- College of Masks Bard, actors who can 'become' somebody else (basically modular skills/level of combat ability)
7- Some sort of Steel Monk who, while retaining DEX as a main stat, can make use of armour as an offensive tool
8- Some kind of class that use the Chinese 5 elements would be cool. Maybe a Wu Xing Monk to replace the 4 element one and an Onmyodo Druid?
9- Or a Monk of the Four Symbols, or even use that for a Paladin or Fighter if we don't want to slap all the Asian concepts into the Monk.
10- Some way to bring back the 4e Avenger.
I was thinking you'd have a list of choice to pick from (picking more as you level up) and when you Rage you pick what form to go into. They would provide some passive benefits and a special attack you could do. Lots of Warden power to take inspiration from "Form of Winter's Herald", "Form of The Harvest King", "Form of the Crashing Wave" that sort of stuff.
Admittedly the Chef feat kinda took the wind out of that particular sail. A chef is actually a good position for a spy. You can tell a lot about a country's state of affair by what food is available, and you get access to a lot of powerful people by working the right banquets. There's also the angle of a character who hunts rare food in dangerous places. I'm sure there's tons of delicacy in the world of D&D that can only be found by risking one's life (thought that part might be more of a Ranger archetype). The 'food' angle sounds silly at first but has potential.
I just want one where the chance of mishap isn't at the whim of the DM! I want a 'push your luck' Sorcerer who can risk it big for strong effects.
Basically the Wizard counterpart to the Arcane Trickster, a Wizard with a dash of Rogue instead of a Rogue with a dash of Wizard. Probably some extra physical toughness to handle ruin delving. Maybe they're good at handling magic wands? An Indiana Jones wizard, basically. Replace the whip with Mage Hand and the gun with a Wand.
I really don't know. Mostly medium armour and steel gauntlet and they use their Ki to make themselves ultra durable and able to just have attack bounce off of them?
Yeah I think the Onmyodo Druid is the better pick here. It could be good at divination. Maybe have a system where when you use a spell slot you enter the next 'phase' and each phase has different benefits. Like, if you go into the Fire phase you now know the Firebolt cantrip, that sort of thing?
It was a bit more like a Vengeance Paladin but with no armor. It was a Striker that punished you for trying to run away from them and had various skirmishing tricks and carried a big stick (their armor of faith didn't work with shield so they were incentives to go for the biggest weapon die possible). Basically, somewhere at on a Paladin/Rogue/Kensei venn diagram. Could work well as a Monk subclass I think.
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Yeah... Maybe they can deflect attacks onto other creatures? Maybe Reflect magical blasts like Fox McCloud in Smash?
That could work too, mechanically, but the Ranger has too much nature flavor that doesn't work. An Avenger is more of an assassin with Divine powers tacked on.
you hunt the enemies of the faith not as odd as it sounds plus the paladin absorbed the warden and we have yet to have the magic assassin to compliment the magic templar.Yeah... Maybe they can deflect attacks onto other creatures? Maybe Reflect magical blasts like Fox McCloud in Smash?
That could work too, mechanically, but the Ranger has too much nature flavor that doesn't work. An Avenger is more of an assassin with Divine powers tacked on.
I don't think it can translate current classes. IF you tried this the books we already have would just be wrong and obsolete. It is essentially a "sixth edition" and one that appears to be moving backwards in the direction of 3.5E. The fact you are giving more feats also means the levels will not map as efficiently to CR.
