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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 7170985" data-attributes="member: 1003">Interesting take. I have my thoughts but you seem to be saying "No" to every suggestion, so don't bother to reply if you're just going to shoot it down. Instead take this post as how I'd do my own DS 5E.The Templars are now Warlocks. No, they don't defile. They just use the Warlock rules as written but get their powers from their SK sponsor. There can be Blade, Tome, and Pact Templars, each playing their own roles within their city's bureaucracy. Blade Pact is especially good on DS since it short circuits the restrictions on metal weapons. I'd probably make new Patron packages for each SK and also new Tiny Elementals for the Pactlocks. Plus I think it makes more sense that Templars be a Charisma class rather than Wisdom; they essentially get their powers by kissing up to a Sorcerer King, and must also navigate city politics. They're magic politicians.Monks are reskinned as a Psionic class. Ki is psionics. They just channel their Psionics into physical effects, rather than mental. The mental psionicists are the Mystic class. Sorcerers are Defilers, Wizards are Preservers (and hence why "Sorcerer" Kings are all Defilers). I think this works thematically that the Sorcerers are wild and intemperate. You have to study the spells very carefully and cast them in a very specific way in order to not harm the planet while doing so. Sorcerers also get Ritual Casting and can cast ritual spells from spellbooks. Arcane Recovery is only available via Defiling. Yes those two rules combined make Sorcerers more powerful than Wizards; that's the point. Defiling is easy and powerful. Defilers only "defile" when they burn Sorcery Points however, not every time they cast a spell.Fighters vs Gladiators. There's really no reason to make these separate classes. Just add a Gladiator background. The Background gives you Perform (Combat) and Medicine (extensive experience treating your own wounds, or the wounds of your friends in the pits). The background feature might be some camaraderie benefit, like the Soldier background gets you, but among current and former gladiators instead.</blockquote>

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