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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5999566" data-attributes="member: 92511">Note: all of the below are looking at things through a "default class"  lens. Variants of any or all of the classes are obviously going to be  possible. I'm just thinking in the "without having to add or change  anything" vein.Acrobat: a Scheme or Specialty available to Assassins, Rogues or Fighters.Assassin: Best at killing. How?--Rogue class = Skills heavy/dependent: Stealth, Poison  Knowledge/Use/Creation, Disguise, Spying (so needs things like opening  locks and removing as well as laying traps) and Information Gathering,  etc...etc...--Sneak/Kill Attack...how to make it better/more effective [or even if it should/has to be?] than a Thief-Rogue's I don't know.--More Str. than Dex. dependent, better armor and weapon options?Avenger: a Specialty available to Assassins, Fighters, Rogues, Rangers or Paladins.Bard: Best at filling in the gaps/jack-of-all-trades. How?--Rogue class = Skills heavy/dependent: Stealth, any number of Knowledge/Lore, Healing, Performance: Music, etc.. etc...and/or lump it all together under a "Bardic Lore" package/mechanic.--Bardic Magic/Spell[song] use: dependent on their music with a Bard  spell list mixing: illusions and enchantment (mage-lite), some minor  healing and bolstering (cleric-ite) and mostly druidic/natural type  magic (abandon the strong "Arcane" affiliation of former editions for  their druidic origins).--choice of any Rogue, Druid or Fighter specialties.Cavalier: a specialty available to Fighters and Paladins.Cleric: Best at bolstering/support. How?--Channel Divinity: for extra powers "per day" that are related to their deity's domains/spheres of influence.--Domains: extra spells, feats, and/or powers (already in).--Clerical/Divine Spell use: "general" cleric magic [usable by any  cleric] is focused more on protection and support (healing, resisting/dispelling natural or magical  harm or effects, etc.)Druid: Best at advocating and protecting nature/the natural world. How?   --Natural/Druidic spell use (their own spell list again, some overlap with  mages, some overlap with clerics, but a lot that are just their own). It  emulates some of the clerical magic "support/bolster" spells (minor  healings, neutralizing poison, purifying food and water, etc.), some of  the mage's command of the elements, and connecting/influencing weather, animals and plants, over which  neither clerics or mages (MOST of them, anyway) have very much sway   --Use the Channel Divinity Mechanic (call it "Channel Nature" or  whatever) to utilize (and LIMIT!) a list of various extra "powers": Shapeshifting  being the most obvious, resistances or immunities (possibly as an area  effect) to natural energy attacks (fire/cold/etc), Speaking with  animals, (maybe commanding elementals?) etc...[if you must insist on a "Summoning [Nature's Ally]" kinda  thing be built into the druid for the default, then put it HERE! The  protectors/advocates of the natural world should NOT be endlessly  conjuring animals to go to their doom/do the druid's fighting for them. I  have ALWAYS hated that!]   --Something similar to the paladin's "Detect Opposition/Danger/spider  sense" kind of mechanic that applies only to "disturbances" to the  surrounding natural world (detecting undead or demons or a particularly  "Evil" or "Holy" artifact in the area for example, something that throws  off the "Balance" of the natural world). Fighter: Best at fighting. How? --best/all armor and weapon options  --choice of fighting styles/manuevers/specialties (including weapon  specialization) or all three if they make them different things, that  allow for any warrior archetype/concept. --Combat Superiority (which we already know about/already in)Illusionist [and Necromancer, et al. Specialist mages]: a Specialty/"Tradition" available for Mages.  Mage [nee Wizard]: Best at harnessing/using arcane magic. How?--Mage/Arcane Spell Use: fire n' forget/increasing spell slots as one studies and learns more, capable of wielding more power.--Mage specialties: for the Illusionists, Necromancers,  etc...extra/specific spell lists and special "powers" related to their  chosen "tradition."--Gain more/better magic-specific "skills" or "feats": like Reading and  Detecting Magic being at-will things, spontaneous casting of lower level  spells as higher level spells are gained, Counterspelling, maybe  incorporate some "metamagic" type of abilities at higher levels.Paladin: Best at championing (a cause, a god, religion, alignment, whatever). How?  --[Holy] Favors: extra damage smites, laying on hands, relevant limited  use/"per day" abilities relevant to their "patron" (nature/fluff of the  paladin is a table-by-table decision).  --Boons: Detection of "Danger/Opposition", Immunity to Disease and  Poison, relevant powers from their "patron" (be it a deity or ideal),  etc...  --choose from any Fighter AND/OR Cleric specific Specialties.    Ranger: Best at ranging. How?  --Skills heavily built into the class, regardless of background or  specialty: Tracking, Survival, Nature Lore, Herbalism, Healing,  Geographic or Environmental Lore, Local History, etc..etc...  --Quarry/Favored Enemy mechanics that apply to a regional foe with whom  the ranger has specific experience studying, hunting and fighting. Start  with one and add to the list as you level/have experience with various  creatures (NOT anybody I happen to be fighting at the moment...now  they're "quarry" for extra damage? No thanks.)  --Favored Environment/Terrain mechanics [Urban, Arctic, Desert, Marshlands, Woodlands, etc. etc.] that give additional  terrain/environment-based skills or "feats". Start with 2, maybe?, and add others  as you level/experience other regions/terrain types.Rogue/Thief: Best at exploring. How?  --Rogue = Skill heavy/dependent...all about the skills. Stealth, Picking  Pockets, locks, traps, etc. etc. would seem to be the most  common/default. But also such things as Information gathering, Local  history/gossip/lore, Rope Use, Climbing...Any sort of Int. or Dex-based  skill, actually.    --Schemes for specific archetypes/extra/special skill-bundles. (already in).   --gains more/new skills throughout their career faster/more than other classes.Sorcerer: a specialty available for Mages for all-spontaneous casting.Warlock: Best at...ummm, cheating their way  to magical power? No?...how 'bout "directly channeling arcane  energies." Sure, we'll go with that. How?--The PACT! root of all Warlock power...first and foremost imbuing at-will "powers" (I do not consider the magic used by warlocks to be  "spells" per se...though they are capable of casting them.) from an extradimensional (infernal or demonic) patron  entity.--Favors & Boons from their patrons. Basically the Paladin and  Warlock use the same mechanics...just fluffed differently. Favors are  more common/"combat oriented" effects that are limited in number of  times but are "renewable" [short rest stuff?]. Boons are more  constant/less flashy abilities (protections/resistances, divinations, etc).--Magic item use: ability to use any magic item a Mage can without the  need for command words or specific spell knowledge or anything, they  just kinda "turn the item on" with their imbued arcane energies...and,  the flipside, some sort of "magic draining or stealing" mechanic that let's  them refresh their allotment of "favors" by siphoning off power from  items or magical places (and/or persons?).Warlord: a specialty available to any class.</blockquote>

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