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Agreed. I proposed the new fighting style as one possible way for warlords to do their thing nearly every turn. It might even be too powerful. Do you have some specific suggestions? Do you think the warlord needs something like a cantrip, or a class ability that adds a temp HP rider to their...

I guess the problem when comparing to the 4E warlord is that the battlemaster can't deliver as much healing as a cleric. But as a matter of personal taste, I would prefer if the warlord could still function as an effective fighter by building on the fighter chassis. I don't think the warlord...

Spinning off from another thread, what sort of tweaks to the fighter class would support the Warlord play style? The purpose of this thread is to propose and critique minor variations on the fighter that would help. Personally, one player in my home game has a battlemaster fighter with the...

Minor anecdote: In my current 5E game, 3/7 players are fighters (2H champion, archer battlemaster, and a very warlordy battlemaster). They all feel very different from each other, and they're all great at staying upright and dishing out damage. The Action Surge is HUGE--not just for DPR but...

If I remember right, when Aslan gave certain animals speech, the small ones became larger (say halfling size) and the large ones became smaller (say half-orc size at most). To answer your original question, I don't think I've every seen an adaptation of Narnia in any edition. Spellcasters do...

I tried to limit myself to a few options on each question. For settings, I love many of them but only voted for my top 3: Eberron, Dark Sun, and Greyhawk. I wish I'd thought of asking for a Binder update in the comments.

I would keep playing 5E, but I would be disappointed to be unable to give WotC more of my money for the kinds of products I like. I very rarely buy modules or APs, but I devour campaign settings and rules supplements.

I've noticed these discrepancies too, but after combing through the magic item list and trying to build a more sensible price table, I came to the conclusion that there weren't too many things that needed adjusting. I did divide each rarity range into three prices, and flag some items as being...

PF is a great game for people who like building characers. You can have hours of fun just designing your character, and it's satisfying to play the game with a character that has some intricacy. So I understand your players when they say they miss the feeling of control over character design...

Thanks for the link, Luz. Ben

I'd be more inclined to represent this with larger creatures using bigger damage dice, which might already be the case (I don't have my MM in front of me.)

You could make an argument for psionic necromancy under the umbrella of spiritualism, seances, and possession. I would put these in the clairsentience category, personally. e.g. Detect Evil Speak with Departed (like Speak with Dead, but you only need an item strongly associated with the...

Regarding ability score dependence: I would like the ability score driving powers to be intelligence, because we need more classes that are dependent on intelligence and because traditionally genius-level intelligence is something D&D associates with psionics (both characters and monsters). I...

You're right, that is a matter of personal taste. I like psychometabolism in my psionics, but not gross physical transformations like polymorph.

The same argument could be made about clerics and warlocks, yet they have very different spell casting features.

No, they're enough, I was just suggesting a little more granularity. For example, if we saw a 9th level spell that would be really appropriate as a psionic power, then we could add it to the table under rank 5 but also add an extra level prerequisite to that power. Alternatively, give each...

Not very important, the level of transparency can be a campaign option rather than baked into the class. But given the prevalence of magic spells in the game, I think it makes sense if the psion class has access to a couple of powers that interact with magic spells in any setting, like the more...

Steeldragons, your class is definitely heading in the right direction. Some brief thoughts: * There doesn't seem to be an equivalent to 6th-9th level powers, although Collective Cognition and some of the specialty capstones come close. Maybe when you reach 5 ranks in one of the disciplines, it...

Although I'm a strong advocate for mechanical and thematic differences between psionics and magic, I don't think it's necessary for them to have no overlap whatsoever. Consider: In many literary and real-world magical traditions, having "talent" is a prerequisite to learning ritual magic...

It's a good thing, but like any other thing it is a design tradeoff. You can't simplify without also making things more uniform. 4E took this to the extreme. I think 5E is a pretty good compromise, but I'd be willing to accept more complexity in exchange for more specificity among the classes...