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There are no rules specific to this situation. Probably because this is a prime "Rulings, not rules" area where there's no reason for WotC to make a hard and fast choice for everyone when each DM can make the decision on their own.

That is true. But I suspect people might question-- were you in this same situation as @ECMO3-- whether "testing the system" was a more important thing than letting your player have fun and be happy? Now granted, in your current situation I would imagine your players are all in with you on...

One of the issues of treating low stats as some sort of "character flaw" of course is that "low stats" don't actually make your PC all that bad. Not when you are adding up to 20 points to any check you make using the d20. Even if your INT is a 6 and you have a -2 modifier... in theory a...

In theory... although I found that having a Flaw that was described with a sentence, rather than just a singular word of belief or attitude was more difficult for players to "act". Assuming of course a player was actually interested in "acting" in character in the first place. Which is not...

I do not tend to rely on just the six ability scores to find the particular flaw or hubris my PC is going to have that will be fun to roleplay. Rather, having played the original 7th Sea for many years in several campaigns-- where each PC takes a specific Hubris that can be activated by the GM...

I submitted mostly Green for everything. The only specific place where I was a hard Yellow were the four Disciplines that gave bonuses to paired spell schools. If you look at the schools that the Psion's spells come from, there is a HUGE difference in the numbers. For 1st and 2nd-level spells...

Yup. Exactly. Heck, to support your thesis, the Warlock is no different than the other casters either, even with their "different" spellcasting format. Between each Rest the Warlock will cast a couple powerful spells and a whole bunch of cantrips... which is exactly what all the other casters...

I would imagine its because WotC probably determined most of their millions of players care more about ease-of-use and the story results of using a feature than needing more unique mechanics to acquire and organize those features. Once a player determines that the story of who their character...

Heh heh... it probably would have come down to how many times as the guy who did Sage Advice he had to deal with people sending questions and comments about how pact magic worked and whether it was actually balanced or not. ;) After all, we still get all kinds of complaints about the "balance"...

If you are talking about the play test attempt to make the warlock a standard half-caster, they might have done that not because they thought pact magic was a mistake, but just that so many people kept asking for an arcane half-caster that they were curious whether more people preferred it over...

The change in spine away from the red might be a conscious decision by the team so as to not have people treat books released after the revisions as "5E24" books... which therefore would perhaps subconsciously make customers think that all the books with the black spines were now old and no...

How dare you namecheck Stroker Ace but then use a GIF of the Bandit! THEY ARE TWO SEPARATE CHARACTERS!!! I SUPPOSE YOUR PC HAD A COMPANION NAMED CAPTAIN CHAOS TOO, DIDN'T YOU?!? SHAME!!! CROSS-CASTING YOUR BURT REYNOLDS MOVIES LIKE THAT!!! SHAME!!! :D

🤷‍♂️ They probably aren't going to make it regardless... but even if they did make it, the odds are such that you most likely are not going to get what you specifically want. I mean that's the case with every single thing WotC makes-- they cannot and will not please every single person. No...

Well of course. My comment was referencing people under the assumption that the product had gotten made. If the Warlord gets made with non-magical healing of hit points, those people who are bothered by that will just have to deal.

Tactician, Inspiring Voice, Resourceful combatant, and Medic (to name just a few inspired by the 4E Warlord types.) Tactician moves allies around the battlefield and grants them actions or activities. Inspiring Voice buffs allies and makes them better at doing what they are doing. Resourceful...

And of course the other way to look at it is that the new members of the design team just might not have an issue deciding that for this one specific class that is being introduced 12-14 years into the game's lifespan (at the time of its eventual release) that "hit points are a narrative...

Because they are all working on 17 different projects at once, their playtesting is outsourced and when the documents come in there's probably multiple people working on trying to bring all of that documentation together, the amount of time they have to iterate on certain parts of certain books...

There is zero reason why a Warlord-like class could not exist within the game. Hell, you can take a Bard right now... make a handful of specific spell selections... remove ALL the fluff from the class, its features, and its spells... and create the foundation of a Warlord. The Bardic...

This is actually the time when a Warlord might actually gain traction-- when the preliminary work on books for late 2026 and into 2027 are occurring-- because these are the books that will not have input from the two remaining names that were on 5E14 that decided not to make a Warlord in the...

You know... at this point I think with everyone getting so bent out of shape about all of this junk related to the Psion and psionics, I think it's best that we all vote 'Red' on the upcoming survey and kill psionics once again. Obviously people can't handle having it in the game.