D&D 5E Archetypes to add to 5e

[Garthanos]

Fighting Man Person.

Magic User.

Anything after that is gravy. Who needs a Core Fore when you have the Nu Two?

But you need the premade hybrid... no wait not if multi-classing was well not a trap designed for optimizers so yeh.

 

[Xenonnonex]

We need an Armchair Warrior.

 

[Tony Vargas]

We need an Armchair Warrior.

Is that like a backseat adventurer?

 

[Garthanos]

The only reason I would approve of that nomenclature is that, by implication, it shows that Wizards are decidedly NOT HEROIC.

Someone already mentioned a non-combatant ritualist...
And the closest caster like the D&D ones from legend and myth that I have found was in Celtic Myth (sorcerers) and they did have heroic ones which were the few who were fast casting in battle where as the others were just ritualists.
The heroes like Cu Chulainn knew and learned something called ahem feats

 

[Xenonnonex]

Is that like a backseat adventurer?

For the lazy adventurer who can be strapped to the back of another member of their party.
As a bonus action this lazy adventurer can command their mount to walk them closer to the enemy for close proximity hitting.

 

[Tony Vargas]

The heroes like Cu Chulainn knew and learned something called ahem feats

First thing I thought of when I first looked through the 3.0 PH.

 

[Garthanos]

First thing I thought of when I first looked through the 3.0 PH.

Cu was mentioned in the PHB of 2e...

 

[Mister-Kent]

Armchair warrior and Backseat adventurer are almost too active for my tastes! What about a class for Quest Giver - They gain experience by paying others to kill rats or collect bear asses for them and whatnot

 

[DammitVictor]

That'd be full-circle to the proto-D&D Dave Arneson demonstrated to EGG, where your choices were Hero or Wizard.

There's a D&D/OSR hack for Barbarians of Lemuria that does exactly this.

 

[Yaarel]

I do think there's a space in 5E for a spirit-channeling shaman type, but not sure where it'd fit best. Circle of Spirits Druid? Domain of Ancestors Cleric? Perhaps even a Sorcerer bloodline or Warlock pact? It's often hard to make real world mystic traditions fit D&D to a T.

Shamans are more like diplomats between the human and the nonhuman members of the aboriginal community.

In most aboriginal cultures, the ‘community’ includes both the human population and the populations of various natural features around them.

Shamans dont ‘channel spirits’. But they do perceive minds/spirits and thus can relay information back and forth between humans and nonhumans, bringing the case of each to the other.