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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9671982" data-attributes="member: 7006">There is zero reason why a Warlord-like class could not exist within the game.  Hell, you can take a Bard right now... make a handful of specific spell selections... remove ALL the fluff from the class, its features, and its spells... and create the foundation of a Warlord.  The Bardic Inspiration mechanic stripped of its bardic flavor; Cure Wounds and Healing Word spells stripped of their "magical healing spell" flavor; spells like Bane, Command, Heroism, Aid, Mirror Image and other in-combat spells stripped of all of their 'magic' and 'spell' flavoring and just use the game mechanics by themselves layered with a martial fluff and bent; and if necessary remove the "spell slot" mechanic for determining how often an ability can be used per day and at what power level and replace it with 'martial points' or 'martial dice' to spend instead (or even depower the features such that you can use one every turn at-will if that's preferable.)Every single mechanical thing in the game can be reduced to basically adding or subtracting a number from another number or changing how often a character is allowed to do something or how they can do it.  And how often you can do that, how many characters it affects, and how large those number can get is determined by the level at which the feature comes into play.  So just take all the existing mechanics in the game, select the ones that would apply to a 'Warlord' type of class, determine how often and at what character level they can be used (and thus how weak to powerful they can be), and then just fluff all of it with names that denote a military guy giving orders or making tactical recommendations to their fellow characters.  You now have a Warlord class for 5E.</blockquote>

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