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I like the idea of prestige classes but am not a fan of this example. There is little to no flavour and a Deneir-specific cleric subclass using the same mechanics plus a feat for others to dabble with rune magic would have been significantly more flavourful IMO (and would have supported their...

Number of monsters (action economy) and HP matter. If your monsters can surround a single PC and each of them get 2 attacks, they can drop a PC (not kill, but get below 0 HP) without too much trouble. That PC can then get up again, but they can also be dropped again (each time they get back up...

Discounting the single time that I had an all-fighter party where they took many rests (after dropping to near 0 HP) in one day, about 1-2 is the common amount. This is with me putting no meaningful clocks on the party at all (it's typically based on geographically separate areas and how...

I "came from" Pathfinder. The reason "came from" is in quote marks is because I do still play Pathfinder. 2 years ago I moved interstate and left two gaming groups. One played 4th edition while the other played Pathfinder. After moving I played various different games, none of them regularly...

The fighter's second wind already defines this. At level 1 they can go from "death's door" to "Fully healed" a few times a day (with a bit of luck). If we go with hit points are flesh then we already have to compromise that definition somewhat to accommodate the fighter. This advocate argues...

H Well to take things as step further when some people are saying they want a warlord what they're saying is they want a non-magical alternative to the existing healing classes that is comparable in the job of healing when compared to these magical classes.

No-one has said they want this. What they've expressed a desire to have is a warlord that can heal on par with a cleric. That is quite a ways short of "heal whenever you want".

That was not my intent at all. What I'm saying is two people can have different definitions of what constitutes balance. Neither of them are necessarily wrong (in so much as I define balanced as using these two options two players will be equally effective). Two people can look at the exact same...

As I said, I do not believe it to be unbalanced UNLESS your belief is that it was unbalanced in it's pre-5e iterations. You've made it clear you believe it was, therefore you see it as imbalanced. Given your stance on the 4th edition lazy lords I doubt there is a functional class that relies on...

Here's a summary of it, although it's not enough for you to judge how balanced the class is. Short of reproducing the text there isn't much I can do about that though. Agreed. That explains why you think the battlemaster is acceptable then. It fits what your looking for in a warlord. Your...

Those who hate the Warlord won. There is no Warlord in the PHB, they never have to open up their 5th edition rules and see the terrible warlord staring at them.mit's time to let it go and let those who enjoy what the Warlord brought to the table actually enjoy the warlord without needing to...

As I've mentioned the Noble class from EN5ider looks pretty balanced to me. It doesn't have the direct firepower of the fighter and yet it's still able to contribute meaningfully in combat as a warlord-esque class. The noble class I've mentioned allows for the lazylord archetype to be fulfilled...

This is incomplete. If you are optimising for combat than yes you are correct, +5 damage on all attacks is almost always the better choice. If however you are optimising as the party face and will have minimal contribution to combat than this is a terrible optimisation choice. I had a wizard...

It has enough mechanical depth and thematic aspects to warrant being it's own class. If you don't believe me, you can check out the Noble Class I linked to before. Or you can simply believe me when I say it is mechnically distinct enough to be ill suited to ONLY existing as a fighter subcass.

I was not saying that warlords should not be in the game. I spent a good portion of my post praising and describing a 5th edition take on the warlord so I'm not sure where you got the impression that I think the warlord should not exist. As you point out, there is room in the game for Eldritch...

To me the Battlemaster is to the Warlord as the Eldritch Knight is to the Wizard. For those keen on a warlord I would highly recommend shelling out $2 for a month's subscription to En5ider. It recently ran an article called Chessmasters and Commanders: The Noble Class by A. Nova which is a very...

That would make sense, except they're keeping the website. And if WotC are truly so worried about the bottom dollar that the meager savings they make by deleting the content instead of marking it as read only (and to be honest, I doubt there are any actual savings) then I truly wonder how much...

I understand the corporate structures are responsible for a lot of how WotC operates these days. I do not understand how Hasbro has any impact on a forum given D&D is going gangbusters. If Hasbro is micromanaging WotC down to whether their website is permitted to host a forum than I don't see...

It is sad to see at a time when Paizo have developed their forums into a tool that creates a friendly environment and a critical tool in not only engaging the community but in fostering and building their community that WotC chooses to close and delete their forums. It truly is indicative of the...

So how do you think a group (looking to embrace the gonzo aspect) should approach this? With similarly gonzo characters? Or straight laced characters in an alien world? I'm imagining a drow from a post apocalyptic future whose travelled back in time to save a little girl whose gone down into...