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Statistics? No. General feedback? Yes Compiling those kind of statistics from over 4,000 posts - data that would require in-depth reading of every single post, and a lot of "reading between the lines" - would take an impossibly prohibitive amount of time. I have however, gained a general...

Yup. Inspirational Recovery is predominantly Emotional, not Intellectual. Emotion is mostly an instinctive, non-rational thing - not one of understanding. Not only is emotion to a large extent, uncontrollable - our cognition is informed by emotion far more than we'd like to admit. It's...

Too true. They do seem arbitrary, don't they... I hate that, but it does seem a design aspect that can't be ignored. In my games I'll ignore the majority of them, but when designing something to be official/semi-official, I guess it can't be. Good point.

That makes much more sense to me too.

Obviously, unconscious characters, as per the rules, can't make perception checks - but this has nothing to do with inspirational recovery. (...so I'm not sure what your point is here?) As to sleeping, nothing in the description of the unconscious condition mentions it at all, and I see...

I doubt it. I am not. IMO, "See" is an unnecessary restriction. The ability to see is not a factor - or even mentioned - in any narrative of inspirational recovery I've seen or read. I can however, imagine inspiration purely by voice, even in complete darkness. "Hear" should absolutely be a...

@Aldarc You've accused me of pedantry, prattling, condescension, and purposeful insults - and accused anyone who has a different preference than you of actively trying to sabotage a potential Warlord class - and I'm the one harassing you?!?! Yeah, conversation over. When you're ready to have...

Really? While going through all of these threads, post by post, collating the scattered feedback and opinions concerning a Warlord, there's one thing that has really stood out to me...there are far more than a half-dozen ardent fans. I'm not even half-way through all of the threads and posts...

That's not even what pedantry means. You're twisting things around and bending them so far out of shape that it's coming across like you're desperate to justify an untenable position. This is a specious argument. Of course Leadership is a real-life concept. Despite D&D being a fantasy game...

Why? You keep making statements like this as if they are self-evident fact. Can you explain why you think this is so?

It wasn't condescension. Any such interpretation of what I said or how I said it, is yours and yours alone. If you really think that's what I'm doing, then report it. Otherwise, just ask me if that's what I intended. I'm sure we can have a friendly conversation without needing to throw...

I disagree. 4E did not "explicitly" state that it doesn't give you the ability to lead, it said you weren't necessarily the group leader; which is a different thing entirely. That is actually a pretty good representation of what real-life Leadership is. Leadership is not about telling people...

I agree completely that a tactician/strategist is not necessarily a leader, but getting others to buy-into your tactical/strategic expertise does require Leadership. Therefore, since a Warlord is not just a tactician/strategist, they need Leadership in order to convince others they're worth...

Fair enough. I will refocus on this: A Warlord is a Leader - someone who has cultivated the skill of Leadership and exercises that skill. I'm not sure what issue you have with Leaders, but it's obvious you want any mention or representation of this expunged from a potential 5E Warlord...

It was labeled as a leader because that was part of its concept. As to your opinion (as opposed to your earlier objective declarations), I'd say "Cool!" I don't agree with your opinion, but your opinion is as good as anybody else's. What does that have to do with addressing the point? You...

Support is a part of its archetypal role. It's also very explicitly labeled a Leader. Leadership is an explicit part of the concept, and one we've been working on modeling in the Warlording the Fighter thread with a very real mechanical effect. Sorry if that bothers you...:( Why is that...

:erm: I realize you were joking - to an extent - but to an extent you also weren't joking, and revealing some of the bias in your argument. Leader archetypes have been around far longer than 4th Edition - far longer even than RPG's - far longer than recorded history itself. And the Warlord is...

Yoda, the ultimate Fighter/Wizard, takes everybody! And he's a Gnome on top of that!!!

Sorry, but can't do it. I use both, and neither is primary. They are just tools to me. I use whichever tool works best at the time. I always have my game mat out but only draw out locations when necessary. Figures are always on the table for general relative positioning, and used for exact...

As often as it's used to laugh at a joke (or maybe even more), people are using it on posts that are obviously not jokes, and doing so as a form of "negative xp" or a way to bypass ENWorlds rules as concerns civility. It's being done all over the place. So, not to be snarky but legitimately...