No, I just reacted to some posters considering a warlord psychic soulknife or so, to be equally archetypical like Conan the Barbarian or Robin Hood or Gandalf.
D&D 5E Archetypes to add to 5e
happyhermit
Adventurer
Teenage Hobbit Ninja Turtle Pirate
You joke but Tortle Monk with Pirate background, they really have covered a lot of bases (not sure what a hobbit turtle would look like, maybe that one halfling picture in the PHB?)
Xenonnonex
Hero
Speaking of which, a bard archetype that induces psychedelia in others would be frigging cool.
Xenonnonex
Hero
Without context or a quote your post reads as reacting in a drug filled haze.
Nope the teenage hobbit ninja pirate is a well established munchkin stereotype, you see,
Hobbit for being stealthy aka rogue aka backstab damage spike, but ninja=assassin for even more deadliness, and since pirates are so cool, who says we cannot have it all - it is a fantasy game after all.
It is a parody on all those guys who manage to draw aggro of the tank in an mmorpg raid due to their excellent instakill dpr, or those who maximize their build from a purely mechanical non rp point of view for the same purposes in tabletop.
Xenonnonex
Hero
English, do you speak it?
Does the text I wrote look like Chinese to you?
Sorry, if you do not know the abbreviations I used. Aunt Google might help you in this case.
I have no real need necessarily for any new subclasses officially released by WotC, because there have been more than plenty released on DMs Guild. Anyone who wants the Rogue who casts cleric spells only needs to pick up Xanathar's Lost Notes To Everything Else, as it has the Divine Herald subclass right there for you.
The Xanathar's Lost Notes is written and made by the Guild Adept program folks, so its not like people can claim this "3rd party" product is just a random person's work. The writers of this also write parts of many of the official WotC products, so the only real difference is that Crawford hasn't given his rules-once over 'thumbs up' to the results and it doesn't have the official D&D logo on it. I realize of course this immediately makes many of you say "Well, then it doesn't count! It's not official content!"... but it's as near as you can possibly get.
But if you want a rogue that casts cleric spells, a healing monk, an chaos/entropy domain for clerics, a lockpicking bard, an oath of predation for paladins meant for Dragonlance's Knights of Takhisis, the fey sorcerer, the genie warlock patron, and the beguiler and the healing wizards (as well as many others), then Lost Notes should be an easy pick up.
The Xanathar's Lost Notes is written and made by the Guild Adept program folks, so its not like people can claim this "3rd party" product is just a random person's work. The writers of this also write parts of many of the official WotC products, so the only real difference is that Crawford hasn't given his rules-once over 'thumbs up' to the results and it doesn't have the official D&D logo on it. I realize of course this immediately makes many of you say "Well, then it doesn't count! It's not official content!"... but it's as near as you can possibly get.
But if you want a rogue that casts cleric spells, a healing monk, an chaos/entropy domain for clerics, a lockpicking bard, an oath of predation for paladins meant for Dragonlance's Knights of Takhisis, the fey sorcerer, the genie warlock patron, and the beguiler and the healing wizards (as well as many others), then Lost Notes should be an easy pick up.
Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
There are a lot of suggestions that are just names. They sound cool but aren't really explaining the concept - what types of archetype do they enable? There are plenty of great ideas out there that D&D would need subclasses to build - but the point is trying to identify what 5e needs. JC said he's explored all the options - what reoccuring tropes are still missing?
I was asking for an example character because an archetype is a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology. Being able to point at someone is a easy test of this vs. a cool idea to expand D&D, but not one required by D&D just to cover the bases.
There have been lots of good ones already like the transforming barbarian. What other low hanging fruit can we find?
I was asking for an example character because an archetype is a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology. Being able to point at someone is a easy test of this vs. a cool idea to expand D&D, but not one required by D&D just to cover the bases.
There have been lots of good ones already like the transforming barbarian. What other low hanging fruit can we find?
