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<blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8610723" data-attributes="member: 6937590"><p>More misc. thoughts/comments:</p><p></p><p></p><p>One thing I noticed in fiddling with the 6-class challenge myself is that half-casters don't fit in it very well. All the existing half-caster classes have a very strong theme and half-casting is too powerful to add as a subclass level feature if the balance of the ammended classes is equivalent to current 5e. What you did there is interesting, a new class with its own relatively strong theming--stronger theming than the fighter or rogue anyway--but with even more strongly themed component subclasses. (I assume you are thinking in terms of subclasses--the mechanics these many class collapses and how they're organized mechanically is generally unstated, so I'm just thinking of how I'd do it)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Considering how strongly 5e leans toward classes using magic, maybe putting <em>everything</em> that doesn't use magic into the widely-thought-to-be-bland fighter class is a good solution to the challenge. 1/6 non-inherently-magic classes isn't a whole lot less than 4/13 non-inherently-magic classes. (yes I know neither of you suggested that, I'm just musing)</p><p></p><p></p><p>If those two classes became one with a unified set of mechanics, it would say something curious about the nature of magic in the implied setting. I'm not sure exactly what, but it'd make the bard less of a one-off musician who also knows arcane magic (with explicitly called out colleges) to music being inherently sorcerous or sorcery being inherently musical.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="squibbles, post: 8610723, member: 6937590"] More misc. thoughts/comments: One thing I noticed in fiddling with the 6-class challenge myself is that half-casters don't fit in it very well. All the existing half-caster classes have a very strong theme and half-casting is too powerful to add as a subclass level feature if the balance of the ammended classes is equivalent to current 5e. What you did there is interesting, a new class with its own relatively strong theming--stronger theming than the fighter or rogue anyway--but with even more strongly themed component subclasses. (I assume you are thinking in terms of subclasses--the mechanics these many class collapses and how they're organized mechanically is generally unstated, so I'm just thinking of how I'd do it) Considering how strongly 5e leans toward classes using magic, maybe putting [I]everything[/I] that doesn't use magic into the widely-thought-to-be-bland fighter class is a good solution to the challenge. 1/6 non-inherently-magic classes isn't a whole lot less than 4/13 non-inherently-magic classes. (yes I know neither of you suggested that, I'm just musing) If those two classes became one with a unified set of mechanics, it would say something curious about the nature of magic in the implied setting. I'm not sure exactly what, but it'd make the bard less of a one-off musician who also knows arcane magic (with explicitly called out colleges) to music being inherently sorcerous or sorcery being inherently musical. [/QUOTE]
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