Design & Development: Warlord Article UP!

[Voss]

Point guard, on the other hand, everyone should know, as basketball is a thoroughly international sport.

It is? Since when?

And... for the record, I've lived in the States for 29 years out of 32, and while I've heard the term, I have no idea what it actually does. I can only assume it doesn't guard points, since both teams usually get around 100, and only the last minute or so actually matters.

 

[withak]

WTF is a point guard or 1/4 back?

They're the on-the-court/field leaders of basketball and American football, respectively.

 

[Kvantum]

Even as a 4e hater/3e fanatic, I kinda like this. Except the name. "Warlord" still sounds like a prestige class for a barbarian or fighter who's right on the front lines leading hordes of lesser warriors into the middle of the fighting, not a guy helping other characters gain advantages in combat.

They should have stuck with Marshall, even if Warlord is more of a "kewl p0werz" type of name.

 

[The Little Raven]

2. WotC sucks at naming powers.

I know! I mean "Bull Rush," WTF?! Why would a medieval fantasy game use a modern American football term invented after the advent of the modern automobile?! They're trying to dumb this game down by using terms that only jocks use!

 

[Aegir]

Is it, I thought (Marshall) was also a class in ordinary D&D? If not, sorry, thought it was.

It is a normal DnD class. The minis handbook covered the rules for minis combat, but it also covered how to introduce mass combat to a DnD campaign, as well as creating the Marshall, which was all about auras and augmenting its allies (and could be horribly broken in some cases, if not monitored closely).

 

[Ktulu]

You know, I almost figure the quarterback is more of a controller, really. By choosing the play, he's essentially planning on whether the battle takes place up close, to the left, out right, etc... Sure, he could be assumed to be leader, but if he rolls out and passes the ball, he just changed everyone's attention downfield. Depending on how good he is at the play action, he's got everyone focused on the runningback and not the tight end, either..

He fits both, well, but I prefer controller (the leader, imo, is the coach).

Ktulu

 

[withak]

It is? Since when?

And... for the record, I've lived in the States for 29 years out of 32, and while I've heard the term, I have no idea what it actually does. I can only assume it doesn't guard points, since both teams usually get around 100, and only the last minute or so actually matters.

Basically, the point guard controls the offense by getting the ball to his teammates at the right times.

Basketball has been growing in popularity world-wide for a while now, so much so that it's not enough for Team USA to just show up at the Olympics and get their gold medals -- they actually have to work together and use strategy, which is not always a given...

 

[Voss]

This is such deliciousness.

Warlord doesn't look like an easy class to play, but it definitely looks deep and mechanically interesting.

Actually, it does look fairly easy. You hit things, and the other players do things. All you have to do is hit things and give your buddies the type of action or bonus they want.

In all seriousness, it will be a lot like the other classes, if things pan out. You get 3-4 class features, some racial abilites, and usually (except possibly humans and half-elves), 2 at will powers, 1 encounter power and 1 daily power. Use whichever seems best.

 

[arscott]

Does anyone know what he means by this? My bold:
It doesn't mention in the power desription that the 'pin' effect works if it misses but that text seems to imply on a miss the power pins but not damages...or something...
Am I completely reading this the wrong way?

The Effect entry of any attack (in this case, making it difficult for the target to shift) applies whether or not the attack hits. If it's something that only happens if the attack is successful, it'll be listed under hit.

 

[arscott]

I'm familiar with bullrushes, the plant, but I hadn't realized that the phrase was actually used in a combat-related context outside of gaming.

I've seen Bum Rush used several places, and I assumed that WotC coined bull rush as a less potentially offensive term.