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Wow! Having run BECMI games a long time ago I'm impressed! Did you find this at the Vaults of Pandius website? If it's not posted there, I bet it would be a welcome contribution!

It's clear to me, given the frequent long threads about the warlord, that this class was very much loved by player's of 4E, and it appears to me very missed by a significant minority*. I DMed 4E for a few months, but none of my players played a warlord, so I've never seen it in action. I...

To answer the OP: not by default, but rather by character development. If there was a means to optionally boost a fighter's skills, without taking levels in another class, at the fair cost of a few combat features, that would be interesting to me - as long as the skills gained do not render a...

I just read the Consumptive Power feature of the mystic. Yup, I really like that for the sorcerer.

If a sorcerer is considered to have all their power in their blood, then to me this fits. HP is very much a generic measure of stamina/endurance, so magic in the veins can be argued to offer a sorcerer superior combat resilience compared to that of other arcane casters. Thus sorcerers take a...

They should have based the sorcerer's spell casting on CON rather than CHA. I see well being and stamina fit the sorcerer's story better than strength of personality. With CON as the sorcerer's "fuel" it would be quite logical for them to be able to burn through a few HD to boost their spell...

Great article. It has always bothered me that language and, even more so literacy, have often been treated as an after thought in gaming as well as film and TV. I find the matter of literacy can do much to enhance the suspension of disbelief in an RPG combined with fluency in languages. The...

Yes, indeed, I have my copy of SCAG on hand... page 116. Thanks for pointing that out. Re playtesting: I am developing my own campaign, and I am open to letting players try out what you developed, however, it would be a while before things get off the ground. I'll save this thread for the...

Interesting that the stigma isn't about LG, but about LG + Paladin. I've yet to read complaints about LG Fighters, or LG Wizards, or LG Clerics, or LG Rangers, etc. It's just the Paladin. So perhaps it really was the original Gygaxian class conditions that are responsible for all these years...

I remember these! I ran my 3.5E campaign in Kingdoms of Kalamar for over three years. My players and I had a good time. I also invested in the Midnight setting it was the only "dark" setting that appealed to me - although Farland has caught my attention. So regarding your 5E interpretation...

I like the idea of subraces for humans, but I would base them off of the human variant in the PH where I would replace the feat with a special ability - specifically something other core races do not have, and that can be justified by the level of ambient magic in the setting. In fact I would...

I happen to have my copy on hand as I am working on my own 5E campaign setting. I did not know Shadar-kai were originally elves, but now I see a way of blending the material of GAZ 13 with the Shadowfell and the elven kind that may be native there. I have already set the Drow as an evil...

Well done Elfcrusher! I love the flavour of this patron, you've done a great job capturing the essence of The Ice Queen as a warlock patron. +XP for you :) I am thinking now that powerful entities that have an elemental aspect would be a great choice to design further patrons - I can see The...

Yes, it is a rather short and thus incomplete blurb - admittedly somewhat tough to be good intro in just one small paragraph. I was influenced by the brevity suggested in Quickleaf's first reply to Slit518. I looked at each of four class intros in the player's free PDF from WotC and they are...

I too have thought a lot about the Druid as a template for the Witch, but not as a subclass because I don't see the Witch as a divine caster. The Witch I have been working on borrows plenty of the Druid's spells, and a powered down version of Wildshape. But I also looked at the Bard spells for...

I'll bite :-) The Witch is a mage of the old magical arts. She draws her power from her knowledge of the forces of creation: the skies, the seasons, the elements, and the spirits of Nature. While she works within the laws of the natural world, she has no time for the laws of gods and...

A few random thoughts to add: i) Witches, of all the arcanists, really need a familiar. And given how familiars are treated in 5E, it would be interesting to see if having more than one at higher experience levels would work. ii) The Witch's spell list should lean away from flashy spells and...

I too have been working on a Witch class (and a Shaman class as well). In my case I am also updating my old homebrew setting from the 2E days to 5E, and that exercise has fueled my interest in a few new classes to fill some niches. In the case of Witches, they are to fit a triad vs Warlocks...

Ah-Ha! An Immortal Edition! :cool:

I was initially disappointed by those 11 pages of human names. I agree that other material could be more useful to more people, but maybe WotC isn't ready to offer more, who knows? I am wondering if the human names are modern, or perhaps more interesting medieval/Renaissance names or names and...