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Oh I see what you mean. I think it's fine for it to not be good all the time, as long as there's no opportunity cost to have it available. If we're talking the Commander Strike's Maneuver on the Battlemaster, you really need to know your party before you actually pick it, but if it's like... one...

The 4e Monk was a Striker, I don't know what the 5e Monk is good at because to make it be good at anything on a baseline level they need to spend their limited Ki point. They've got terrible AC without Ki, and their HP is too low to tank, and their damage sucks without Flurry of Blow which also...

Exactly? How is it an issue? We have Commander's Strike right there! Let's compare Commander's Strike to two other Maneuvers: Lunging Attack and Maneuvring Attack. All three can be grabbed at level 3 and all three use 1 superiority dice. All three ad the superiority dice to the damage of the...

If you know you're trying to build a Striker you'll know what helps accomplish that goal and be able to see if it has a place in your class. It's fairly simple. Low gear thing is fair but 4e had rules to just buy magic items and invented magical tattoos you could use as a monk. Plus a bunch of...

Oh I see what you mean... hmm... well we could always have it drain Hit Dice instead? Or, if you wanted to be fiddly and really damaging: each turn you lose a Hit Dice and put it aside. When the buff end, you take all those put aside hit dice and roll them: that's the damage you suddenly take...

Well that's good to hear. I'll check it out when it's properly published. I could swear I heard good things about it. I didn't have a chance to see it in play in 4e. At least it was built for a specific purpose.

Having a different vibe from just a higher level spell seems like a good thing? You WANT a different vibe between martial maneuvers and spells. Maybe it's not the right vibe but it's just a starting point. Maybe play up the maintenance cost aspect of martial exploits by requiring specific...

The 5e Monk sucks because it's not a proper translation, it's just a bunch of features that past monks had piled onto a 5e class with no real thought put into how 5e works or how they synergize together.

Okay then, I wasn't following your conversations. For what it's worth, we shouldn't NEED Antimagic zones or counter spells, magic just shouldn't be that problematic.

How is that not an extra cost? It's basically a maintenance cost for the ability imposed on the person granting the ability. That's why the Monk sucks.

My last attempt at the Warlord doesn't immediately grants an attack, rather if the target of their ability takes the attack action on their next turn they can do an extra attack. I settled on that formula because I didn't want to rob the melee guys of their opportunity attacks and to prevent...

Sounds like a nightmare to adjudicate if the system isn't built from the ground up to accommodate it, and it doesn't take into account non-PC allies being a thing. Not all class powers are equal. But I think it would be cool to have a Warlord ability that lets you roll the Concentration Check...

Like a Monk. That seems like it would be terrible to word properly. Why would you assume it wouldn't have downside? We could easily add them in a way that fits the theme. The Warlord gives someone the benefits of Haste? Well then they get Exhaustion right after the duration and the duration...

"The Theme Song Victory Flag has been triggered! There's no way we can lose now!" an AkibaRed Warlord!!!! We have sidekicks in Tasha's. They even have three different classes: Expert, Spellcaster and Warrior.

Oh! I forgot my Ardent Soul subclass! This is the Psionic subclass and it's whole schtick is to hand out temp HP all the time, and then they, as well as any allies in a certain range, can trade any temp HP they have for additional fire damage on their weapons attack! At a later level they unlock...

I have a hard time conceiving of a Warlord with CORE class features that just improve themselves that wouldn't just be a Fighter feature. That said, what I do have are multiple subclass abilities that work with the fluff I've laid out that do improve the ability of the Warlord themselves. For...

That's just a Fighter. Basically. If the Warlord isn't making its allies better than it's not a Warlord. The 4e Warlord did have some powers that could buff/heal themselves but that wasn't the norm. The Warlock is such a good framework...

I wish Support Class wasn't verbotem...

Pink feels very Feywild. I would think Shadow Magic is just black or charcoal.

Fishblade 2nd edition?