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Yes, but the sorcerer also doesn't have to prepare spells the way the cleric and wizard do. That's the limiting factor. Also, druid spellcasting works the same way, and their list was hugely expanded in XG for some reason while the Cleric's wasn't. With that said, I am inclined to get rid of...

But, why settle for that when you can have an enjoyable time creating a homebrew or class variant that properly represents a scholarly/wizardly cleric instead of doing it in a hand-waved or half-assed way? Clerics being more like divine wizards than holy warriors is a huge part of my campaign...

Yeah, I prefer the idea that they are a human subrace rather than an elf subrace. There are plenty of elf subraces, and it fits better into existing lore.

I incorporated the concept of divine recovery into the new channel divinity - faith renewal. I wanted clerics have that, but I didn't want it to be a copy/paste of the wizard's with just a name change. Plus, I like the idea of using CD with it to give cloistered clerics something different from...

It's not a stereotype, it's an iconic part of medieval fantasy. If new age Wiccans arbitrarily started calling themselves paladins, would we be having the same conversation about how the D&D paladin is such a stereotype? Yes, we would. Sheer silliness. And, yes, not every concept needs to be...

Yeah but that would not be my preferred way of doing it. There's enough behind the concept of a primal spiritual leader that's a spirit medium to make a full class out of it that is very different from the druid.

What an odd question - there are literally tons of ways to differentiate them mechanically. The possibilities for doing this are nearly endless. Again, there are several different versions floating around for some of these concepts already. If you're curious, go look some of them up on DMG...

I just simply don't see the problem with having additional classes if they are both broad and iconic enough that it's not difficult to come up with a full set of subclasses for them. After all, it's the name that tends to grab people more than anyone else. Not having a class called "witch" or...

The short answer to your question is that it doesn't actually matter. It's not that difficult a task to come up with a shaman that feels and plays altogether differently than the Druid. A number of people have already done this. If a class can hold a number of different and unique subclass...

This is not any more true of those concepts than it is of the concepts that make up the official classes. I don't think shaman fits into druid at all, and the witch is too iconic to not be its own class. The idea that a class needs a totally unique niche to justify its existence is a fallacious...

For your question on the cloistered cleric, yes. A shaman is a primal medium and a spirit user, which is very different from a druid. A witch is a mystic fortune teller or any number of other things. The simple truth is there are tons of ways you can differentiate classes. The ways that the...

http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/rkXty4cBG This is my attempt at making a cloistered cleric variant that turns the cleric into more of a wizard analogue. I originally wanted to go with a "prophet" flavor, but upon further reflection, I decided that was more appropriate as a domain...

Sure, but I don't think the official fighter, cleric, wizard, and rogue are designed in a way that makes them desirable for that. If I was to go with this approach, I would essentially create three or four new classes that are designed to cover a much broader range of concepts than any of the...

I don't think it's a good idea. For starters, those classes aren't as broad as everyone acts like they are. Clerics in particular are actually thematically narrower than a number of other "advanced" classes, IMO. The subclass system only adds a finite amount of range, given that, so far, it...

This is fundamentally an argument of semantics, as dumb arguments on message boards typically are. I'm not telling you your name is terrible. It's an interesting name. I'm just not conceding that it's better than argonaut for my concept, because it remains my opinion that it isn't. Argonaut has...

But it's important to build the class around a concept that incorporates these mechanical elements, rather than just trying to build a class out of the mechanics.

Nothing in this post makes any sense. Please explain to me why factotum, a word that means employee makes more sense than argonaut - a word that literally means adventurer, in describing a class that is conceptualized as a professional adventurer. Or any of the other words, for that matter...

Argonaut is only a proper noun in the context of the Jason myth. 2. also argonaut A person who is engaged in a dangerous but rewarding quest; an adventurer. also: see this - http://theargonauts.com/about/what-is-an-argonaut/ I'm telling you - people are dismissing this too quickly due to...

I've actually had that thought as well. But the only problem I see is that it has a racial origin, which places restrictions on how the concept could be fleshed out. Ultimately, it feels to me like it would just be a fighter-mage with no other real identity other than originating with a...

That's the thing - swordmage is not an inspired concept. It's just a class that represents combining martial combat with arcane spellcasting, which is something that can be done with a fighter/wizard or a dozen other things. Sure, you can give it some lore in your setting, but that doesn't make...