D&D 5E Character Concepts you cannot make in 5E

[Gradine]

A guy who doesn't fight in any way- you know, a "face" type character. Granted, I couldn't do that in any edition of D&D...

I pulled that type of character off twice in 3.5. Granted, they weren't super combat-heavy campaigns, but they were both quite useless in combat and still very fun, useful characters overall.

 

[Arutar]

What are some character concepts you cannot make in 5E that you could in previous editions. Please explain why you cannot make them also.

For me I find it hard to make a light armor, heavy weapon fighter with any penchant for skills or socialization.

First of all, I do not dispute that at the moment you might have some difficulties to make every charcter concept work, considering they just released the Player´s Handbook for 5E and nothing else.

However, I am confused as to why the skilled light armor, heavy weapon fighter should be a problem. I would even go so far as to say that building such a character in 5E is better possible even right now than in any previous Edition.

Even if you for some reason ignore multiclassing (e.g. Rogue2/FtrX), you can easily bump both strength and dex as a Fighter, given your extra feat/ability slots. Plus, 5E does not require strict maxing of the main stat as 4E did anyway, so there is even room for different stuff.

Heck, as a variant human you could have 18 Str and 20 Dex by lvl 8 as a Fighter. Or 18/18 and a couple of extra skills via feat. Not hard at all.

EDIT: oops, posted in a necro thread

 

[Plaguescarred]

The avenger from 4e is the closest I can think of. You wear no armor but wield the biggest sword you can. That said the avenger didn't have the ac of a fully armored fighter either

I agree, but the avenger is not a fighter. The OP was specifically talking about making a fighter with this concept when i answered that.