Class Compendium: The Warlord (Marshal)

[Incenjucar]

Class Compendium would have been more or less a revised PHB. They just realized that the community would balk at the idea of paying for the PHB again.

 

[brehobit]

Aura 5. An ally in this aura who spends a standard action to make an attack gains 5 temporary hit points.

or

Aura 5. When an ally in the aura first becomes bloodied in an encounter, he may spend a healing surge.

The first one is a bit too grindy and would need to scale with level in any case. I think the second is also a bit too much, but really close to right. How about:

Aura 5/7/9 (by tier). A bloodied ally in the aura gains level/5+2 temporary hit points at the start of their turn.​

Still grindy, but given the new monster damage rules, being bloodied isn't a place you generally want to be...

Mark

 

[DEFCON 1]

Class Compendium would have been more or less a revised PHB. They just realized that the community would balk at the idea of paying for the PHB again.

And yet we still see dozens upon dozens of posters here on ENWorld who constantly complain that WotC doesn't reprint their books with all the errata included.

This is why WotC's in a no-win situation. Half the people complain if WotC doesn't print a fully-updated PHB because they insist they like having hard copies of the books and don't want to just "rent" them via the Character Builder. And the other half of the people complain that WotC is wasting time and money producing this material all over again when they should be working on any number of other "new" projects.

And we wonder sometimes why Wizards doesn't bother listening to most of our caterwauling. Based upon every subject having people coming down on both completely opposite sides equally... I wouldn't either.

 

[Ryujin]

And yet we still see dozens upon dozens of posters here on ENWorld who constantly complain that WotC doesn't reprint their books with all the errata included.

This is why WotC's in a no-win situation. Half the people complain if WotC doesn't print a fully-updated PHB because they insist they like having hard copies of the books and don't want to just "rent" them via the Character Builder. And the other half of the people complain that WotC is wasting time and money producing this material all over again when they should be working on any number of other "new" projects.

And we wonder sometimes why Wizards doesn't bother listening to most of our caterwauling. Based upon every subject having people coming down on both completely opposite sides equally... I wouldn't either.

Drat: "Must spread experience around..."

I certainly would have bought a revised PHB, provided that it wasn't going to be subsequently subject to errata that made it worthless, within 6 months time.

 

[Neverfate]

And yet we still see dozens upon dozens of posters here on ENWorld who constantly complain that WotC doesn't reprint their books with all the errata included.

This is why WotC's in a no-win situation. Half the people complain if WotC doesn't print a fully-updated PHB because they insist they like having hard copies of the books and don't want to just "rent" them via the Character Builder. And the other half of the people complain that WotC is wasting time and money producing this material all over again when they should be working on any number of other "new" projects.

And we wonder sometimes why Wizards doesn't bother listening to most of our caterwauling. Based upon every subject having people coming down on both completely opposite sides equally... I wouldn't either.

Erm...equally? If players came down on everything equally, WotC would have cut their losses on this book and sent it to print just for the half that would support it. Because that's what would have happened with every other book.

Certain things are just going to fair better than others. While I don't deny there is a subset of people who want this book, I can't imagine it was enough to warrant printing it.

Technically, when all is said and done, you could take every "article" and have a book made out of it for probably the same that you would have bought it for. (Providing the rest of the articles remain free)

 

[Incenjucar]

And we wonder sometimes why Wizards doesn't bother listening to most of our caterwauling. Based upon every subject having people coming down on both completely opposite sides equally... I wouldn't either.

That and WotC is also COMPOSED of the same people.

 

[Knightfall]

I'd love to get a book with the PH1 classes clarified and re-formatted like this.

I would buy that too. The new format is just... better. (IMO.)

I wonder if any of the PHB 2 & 3 classes will get this treatment.

 

[RangerWickett]

The first one is a bit too grindy and would need to scale with level in any case. I think the second is also a bit too much, but really close to right. How about:

Aura 5/7/9 (by tier). A bloodied ally in the aura gains level/5+2 temporary hit points at the start of their turn.​

Still grindy, but given the new monster damage rules, being bloodied isn't a place you generally want to be...

Mark

New idea. Tracking temporary hit points round by round is a bit fiddly, but what if you have an aura that grants your allies resist X all while within it. Probably a very low number, but it achieve a leader-esque effect: prevent damage instead of healing HP.

 

[Mengu]

Sure the errata is needed. However I guess I'm one of those who finds the effort of essentials reformatting pointless. The new formatting doesn't change how I'm clicking around in CB to build or level up a Warlord, nor does it change how I play my warlord. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but that's all I care about. The update page is what I needed, to stay informed. Everything else will be in the CB as should be.

 

[aurance]

The extreme amount of wasted space in the new format hurts my head. A lot.

For instance, what is the need for every power to have two entries for flavor text? And the title twice?