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Have you perhaps heard of the 5 Room Dungeon contest? http://roleplayingtips.com/5-room-dungeons/ -The Gneech :cool:

I'd like more varied encounter role critters to mix in. The 5E MM seems very heavy on "high hit point melee foes" and very light on anything else. Let's have some corporeal undead with ranged attacks, some controllers in the CR 1/2 - 2 range, and more critters with interesting powers generally...

Not real keen on this particular flavoring myself. Psionics entered D&D as a way of mixing sci-fi into the fantasy, and really I'd prefer it stayed as such. In a pulpy S&S-style setting where spaceships crash in the Barrier Peaks and you can get ahold of lasers as long as you get through the...

I love this one. :) -TG :cool:

Cure wounds is limited by spell slots available (which is probably in the single digits), and Healer is limited by either the number of kits you have (and dependent on the DM allowing feats). We're talking about a class feature here. If you make it spammable, a party with a warlord never has to...

Because it was a first draft off the top of my head, and I prefer to err weak and buff things up when messing around with rules. :) With an ability like this, you need to compare it not only to the Healer feat, but also to Cure Wounds, Healing Word, and healing potions. 1d6+mod is a pretty...

Actually, when I saw the emphasis on "bring back a fallen foe," the Healer feat ability was the first thing that jumped into my head. It could be made into a class feature fairly easily, and could be tied to Inspiration/Superiority (or "Leadership") dice. Something like: Stand the Fallen. On...

Not in this particular case– the foes were all undead being motivated by a larger force, so, there wasn't a lot of negotiating to be had. Keep in mind, this group loves doing that sort of thing when they can: their best moment in the campaign so far was posing as one BBEG's minions while...

I like the sound of this. I suspect #3 would be something you did with your reaction rather than an aura, thus keeping it from hosing the action economy, and would combine with #5. -The Gneech :cool:

The session I ran last night was specifically crafted to push the bounds of what the party could do, being essentially a series of "difficult" to "deadly" encounters (with no single creature with a CR higher than the party level, but lots of creatures generally), and I learned some very...

Only that it was a thorough and cogent analysis. Well done! -The Gneech :cool:

That's perfectly valid and is largely a matter of your group's play style. My interest is in finding a way to make something "warlordy" with the resources at hand, and I freely admit that a "spells as martial abilities reskin" is something that would take a lot of buy-in from the DM. Speaking...

Well it depends on the fight in question; most of the recent fights we've had have not been particularly complex affairs, so she hasn't been doing a lot of tricky stuff since hitting 4th level. Keep in mind also that I have not been using her to emulate a warlord specifically– she was actually...

See, this the kind of specific, "warlords can do X which bards can't" answer I was looking for! This is something that can be addressed and a problem that can (at least theoretically) be solved. Thank you. :) At least now I know what we're looking for. Actually addressing these specific issues...

But you just perfectly described the bard. It's what I do every session when I'm a player. -.- This is why I am still confused. It's like you won't take yes for an answer. Hmm. According to my own copy of Rules Pulled From My Hat, the first rule of reskinning is "As long as the numbers don't...

"Fulfilling its role" doesn't tell me anything. What specific actions do you want the character to take? What is the role in question that isn't covered? The "without spellcasting" part I get, which is why I mentioned reskinning. -The Gneech :cool:

Seconded! My character is a lore bard (with the Battle Mastery feat) whose whole premise is that she doesn't fight, that's what she's got staff (i.e., the rest of the party) for– but she sets up tactical situations, heals and buffs, and occasionally pulls out the whip and trips or disarms her...

DM not player here. The one fighter in my group is a very casual player and tends to forget things like action surge and second wind, only remembering the improved crit because it's marked next to the weapon stats on their character sheet. That said, the player is still having fun and feels...

That sounds like a hella fun character, actually. Why am I imagining Patrick Warburton doing the voice? -The Gneech :cool:

Except they pretty much are; the whole scaling schema (particularly in regard to skill challenges) is based on this. Page 42 lays it all out for you. The difficulty in convincing the king to do whatever it is you're trying to convince him of isn't a fixed number until you know the party level...