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😄 Funny you'd mention WOTC elves, I dislike their characterizations... also the cartoonish dildo-ears don't help... reminds me of WoW elves or something.. but that's me, I feel like less-is-more.... so I am happy with less WOTC Goliath, unless they did a good job I guess, but more likely they go...

Yeah, I think the road I keep rumbling down is Warlord as fighter subclass, the more I look at what I wrote 😀 I will say you have a team full of players (fighters). You have this gifted quarterback (warlord). The players all have the same gifts (fighters) BUT they just don't have the "IT"...

Friction in the party is a great roleplay mechanism. Isn't that very dispute between the intel officer and the field commander a tale as old as time? I see the flipside narrative of this all the time where people intellectually bully the barbarian with eye-roll stuff... but it is all an...

This seems like an odd, taking it personally deal. Narratively, if your muscle-head fighter offers tough love inspiration route.. the PCs can RP it however they want. Mechanically, it is sacrificing your own oomph (probably DPR) to give actions to others. You are not forcing actions, but you are...

Fair. The limiting prerequisite differentiation would probably be: veteran + higher charisma = follow me and we win or at least live (the true narrowing narrative). Not all fighters would be cut out to lead fighting men, hence charisma would not be a dump stat for these guys. To me this is a...

Anyway someone's gotta tell that filthy layabout wizard to take a shower and shine their shoes

I think I'm at a disconnect here (could be the late-night moonshine). Maybe it is archetype pigeon-hole that you dislike? The fighter would not have to necessarily be the drill sergeant per-se but it is one real life example of a martial support ("warlord") that accomplishes "magic" results...

I don't think there is too much juice in that squeeze either, especially if you are not talking about adding much for damage dice. OR make them only play a buff roll to other martial abilities and now you really are setting reasonable limitations

Agree to disagree. A good drill sergeant can accomplish some amazing things. Make those 🍜-armed weenies do amazing things they never knew they could do. Old-world warlords (small-units) could make a mid-sized band accomplish great and horrible things... no need for magic... Give up a bit of your...

I too would kill thousands of psions for this. Or at least give thousands of wedgies to them

Drilled nonverbal cues trained into your travel companions Pavlov's dog style. Your advanced ability of singing "make a man out of you" - Mulan style to your party. The ability to train up anyone to follow your cues when you create an opening for them... the magic of battle

Nice pull. I like this. Fighter shell means it is still competent in isolation as well

I like how the results of hybridization can be so unpredictable. Usually diversity coming together creates some sort of advantage but it rarely results as predicted... That's why I love spontaneity and chaos in their background. 2 giant things couple?.... and the results is.... pint-sized? But...

These ➕️ the usual Arterial strikes: successful attack will add the wounding weapon, bleeding condition Attrition strike: successful attack confers -2 AC to opponent for rest of combat (stackable?)

Then I would actively 👎 the lore they DO have, if they are separate lines along elemental divisions. That makes them even less cohesive as a defined species

Awesome! I hadn't read this yet and had posted about the Warlord... yes warlord lite that can only do it again few times a day :( ... also, as cool as commanders strike is, you do still give up an attack

I dislike the fact that they cannot fulfill my ideal of the fighter that can just "go all day"... fortunately the new Champion can. Plus, I agree that Lv 15 is past the mark a lot of players will even reach to really start stirring the pot. They should probably make Lv 10 a more universal...

I li I like this. Might be fun to take a page from 'Cuckoo's Nest' and have a chief-like dude who thinks he's "small" compared to some of the big-personality characters. Now if I can find an HVAC unit to throw through the windows in DnD...

I don't know about how common racial special traits vs PC specials should be in the world, something tells me the answer is somewhere in the middle. In my game magic is rare, so that probably skews that answer. I think there are some alright ways to unify goliaths as one despite the whole...

So, one is a failed supersoldier. The other stems from prehistoric humans that consumed the blood/magic GMO of ancient and powerful Giant overlords. From those ancient foundations, to newer developments, to the micro/character level focus it has been easy to figure character tropes