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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7040948" data-attributes="member: 996">5e currently does exactly none of those to an adequate degree.  The deficiency is more profound when you look at the way it dips a toe into some of them, and compare it to the support other classes have gotten.Take the 'Practitioner' for instance, a PDK/banneret (SCAG) is in that vein, but what does it do, a handful of hps restored once between each rest, and they can't help downed allies?  Compared to the Warlord's most basic Inspiring Word at least twice per encounter, that's nothing.  Compared to a more conventional support character's spellcasting, it's less than nothing.  Or consider the Battlemaster, who chooses 3 maneuvers from a list of 17 or so, any of which are presumably suitable for a 3rd level PC to use, vs the Warlord's hundreds of exploits right up into epic levels.  Compared to a more conventional support character's spellcasting, the Battlemaster is like a Cleric who can only ever use 1st level spells!  Now, you could fake any of them - the sorts of mechanics are mostly there, in fragmentary bits, a sub-class ability here, a feat there - but only in the same sense you could fake a Cleric by playing a Champion with the Acolyte Background if the game didn't present the Cleric or Paladin, but that's about as much credit as you can give 5e for covering the Warlord so far.</blockquote>