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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9751772" data-attributes="member: 6796468">3-4 Subclass levels over the course of a 10 level class so you get some strong flavor without it overwhelming the core mechanics. Probably with some Social/Exploration ribbons tied to 2-3 of them, as well.Ah, very simple: I don't want to make people wait to play their character concept. It's why I made Motif Classes a thing.Kinda, yeah. But it's one of those "I can't chop up this sacred cow, so I'll design around it to keep it from being too abusable."That's what a lot of these elements are. There's sacred cows in the game that you "Must Have" for it to be D&D. Fireball, for example. Sacred Cow. I'm not sure I could even make that one into a feature of the Evoker Subclass because of the outcry that would likely result.Fair. Not everyone's gonna like the same stuff. Have you seen my Esper? You can get the class, powers, and martial tradition for free on DriveThruRPG.Com if you'd like to see how it goes.Healing Word/Cure Wounds doesn't use a spell slot. So neither would Rally. Definitely doesn't count as magic, though, no.The difference would lie, most likely, in how it's applied. For my part, I think it'd make sense to have Rally rely on your target's Hit Dice availability rather than a pool of dice the Marshal can dole out. Probably have it start out as multitarget, in fact, while a Cleric has to work up to multitarget, but gets a pool of their own healing to throw out there.Could be a way to build in mechanically reinforced narrative differences into the classes, after all.Spellcasting Mechanics variety pretty much refers to spell availability. Full versus 3/4 versus 1/2 caster. Though the Sorcerer and Druid are both, at least in theory, able to play around with their spells a bit more for power/variation.Would absolutely add in more mechanical finagling for martial characters, however. As it's an attempt to give them some level of combat variety beyond "I move to the nearest enemy and stand in his face while hitting him until he is dead."You and I probably have different tolerances for "A lot" of complexity, if weapon masteries introduce a lot. I feel like they're far too barebones and simplistic. Some of them actually have an impact (Vex, Nick) but others are largely irrelevant (Slow).Very fair.Fair.Crits can be fun... or frustrating as hell. Really depends on whose on which end of it and how often. And a player choosing to sacrifice their ancestor's sword/shield/armor/whatever to save themself from certain death can be a pretty fun and dramatic moment, too.Sizing them up -like- that. Like "Is their proficiency bonus bigger than mine?" could help you figure out whether you've got a decent chance of convincing them of stuff. "Are they tougher than me?" tells you whether or not to try Intimidating them. Things like that.Personally? I want the players to feel strong without making them feel out of line with the world.I also really want to be able to Magic Missile 5 goblins and be relatively sure 3 of them are gonna die of the damage 'cause they've only got 3-4 hp each when I'm in the 5th to 6th level range and we're dealing with swarms of enemies that are built to have varying levels of durability to make Single Target and AoE abilities equally important on the field of battle.Again, it's really just about maintaining the Sacred Cows while trying to combine the best things I've seen from various editions of D&D (and some other systems) together in as harmonious a way as possible.</blockquote>

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