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Alternatively, you could gate maneuvers to various ability scores. If you want A, B, or C, you need to have INT X. But if you want D, E, or F, you need CHA of Y. Options G, H, I are only available to DEX or STR of Z. There's a lot of ways to do it. Personally, I'm not a super fan of the...

As I play in a public setting, mostly, that's a dangerous assumption.

If you decide to go the maneuver/CS dice route with a warlord build, to make your INT matter for combat, you could make the number of dice equal to PROF + INT mod

I'm not seeing this. If my INT mod is +3 instead of my STR mod at +3, wouldn't my attack bonus still just be PROF + MOD?

That only remains true if there isn't another option for the enemies. If you make the tank so hard to hit that the enemy literally can't hit it, they'll stop trying. And they'll smoosh your squishy wizard instead.

Contemplating a few new features: Educated Healer (1st level) A warlord can use Intelligence instead of Wisdom when performing Medicine skill checks. Smelling Salts (4th? level) When you successfully complete a Medicine skill check to stabilize an unconscious and dying ally, you restore them...

Did some updates.

I have no objection to turning my thread that lists the various existing homebrews into such a thread, or developing such a thread from that thread (I'd prefer for the list to be pinned so that it was easily findable, but whatever).

I honestly think at this point, people should stop arguing over 'how do we make a warlord?' and look at the various options that have been presented to find things that they like and don't like. Then, have the people who worked out those options try to balance a single class design that does...

Yeah, the project started as an attempt to produce simply a Swordmage, starting from the Paladin as a base class. Pretty quickly realized that the other gish-classes could be built on the same framework. It started with quite a bit more power in the first iteration as well, which isn't a...

I like this. It's very similar to the Arcane Warrior (for lack of a better name) class that I developed nearly a year ago for personal use. Slightly less complicated mechanics than mine, which is probably a good thing.

Kirfalas Type: Fighter Subclass Features: Dice Granting http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?439596-Homebrew-Martial-Archetype-Warlord&p=6586342&viewfull=1#post6586342 Jester Canuck Type: Fighter Subclass Features: Maneuvers http://www.5mwd.com/archives/2383#commander ChameleonX Type...

Made some changes to account for things I'm seeing in the various Warlord threads. Changes: Added Second Wind to level 2. Moved Expertise back to level 3. Added a second at level 10. Added a restriction on skill selection for Expertise. Removed Battlefield Healer as a Class Feature...

One thing to remember: While a Dex build is super bendy, if you're using a Finesse weapon in melee, you can use Strength to make the attacks and still get Sneak Attack damage. But I have a half-elf Dex paladin who uses a rapier and is multi'd into Ranger (cause OoV and FE fluff blends well)...

I don't see a problem with 'Catti-brie'. It's a soft cheese optimized for consumption by feline creatures, right?

I can't remember seeing such an item in 3, 4, or 5 (the limits of my experience). If I was going to make one (I know you said you don't want to), I'd make it a Quall's Feather Token, and link it to Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion spell. Then just give it a duration of (Until dispelled)...

If you're going with 1/2 caster as an option, it'll need to have an even number of levels, or it gets weird. IMO, anyway.

I know we had a level 1 join our table (of 5/6's) in the Monastery. They got ~2100XP that single night. It ought to balance out pretty quick. If you have some free time outside of encounters with your lower level players, run some low level expeditions so that they have enough DT to jump from...

A fighting style only applies if you meet the preconditions. So even if you have the style, it doesn't mean that you can use it.

100% mitigation and no healing would be really difficult to say "you can replace your cleric (bard, druid, paladin, ranger) with this", which I always felt was the best part of a warlord.