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Best Name For A “Leader” Class?
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<blockquote data-quote="ClaytonCross" data-source="post: 7914298" data-attributes="member: 6880599"><p>The thing is "background" implies its in the past and "Inspiring Leader" may initially feel like it grants a leadership but players read it and realize its just a speech that inspires for a bonus. Classes and Sub classes carry different weight. For example, even experienced players who have not played a warlock before often come to the table with hexblade warlock wielding a legendary sword (their supposed patron) and when its noticed and asked why they think they get that they say "I am hexblade, this is my patron"... to which we tell them time and time again... no where in the hexblade class does is say you get an artifact weapon ever... infact you don't get a weapon from the class at all and could be a very effective pact of the tomb caster never touching a melee weapon in the entire campaign but using hex worrier for just for better armor and a shield. </p><p></p><p>My point is naming class/subclasses with loaded names is far more dangerous to players who don't read every line of the text before building a character. Flavor or otherwise. I can't tell you how many player I have seen who didn't read anything past level 3 for there character and didn't read the flavor text. It just creates misunderstands. Warlord backgound can work if they are clear backgrounds are the past, the warlord/leader etc class will be picked for a cool name and cause problems later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ClaytonCross, post: 7914298, member: 6880599"] The thing is "background" implies its in the past and "Inspiring Leader" may initially feel like it grants a leadership but players read it and realize its just a speech that inspires for a bonus. Classes and Sub classes carry different weight. For example, even experienced players who have not played a warlock before often come to the table with hexblade warlock wielding a legendary sword (their supposed patron) and when its noticed and asked why they think they get that they say "I am hexblade, this is my patron"... to which we tell them time and time again... no where in the hexblade class does is say you get an artifact weapon ever... infact you don't get a weapon from the class at all and could be a very effective pact of the tomb caster never touching a melee weapon in the entire campaign but using hex worrier for just for better armor and a shield. My point is naming class/subclasses with loaded names is far more dangerous to players who don't read every line of the text before building a character. Flavor or otherwise. I can't tell you how many player I have seen who didn't read anything past level 3 for there character and didn't read the flavor text. It just creates misunderstands. Warlord backgound can work if they are clear backgrounds are the past, the warlord/leader etc class will be picked for a cool name and cause problems later. [/QUOTE]
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