D&D (2024) Do you see Fighter players at your own table?

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

My current impressions are:

• Fighter is a useful, versatile, enjoyable, and popular class.
• Players use the Fighter class in very different ways.
• There are about as many "old school" nonmagical Fighters as there are Monks.
• A significant segment − roughly 30% − never see this kind of nonmagical Fighter.

Actually your poll was for just the last year. Since campaigns can last years, your poll skews things a bit

• The Fighter has already become the magical, "gish", "wuxia", "mythic" warrior for many players.


Certainly, the nonmagical Fighter enjoys popularity − and is iconic − and is appropriate for 50th anniversary edition.

The surprise is, this kind of Fighter is irrelevant for very many players today.

Very many? How do you get that from the poll?

 

[HammerMan]

And that doesn't mean you get to add STR or prof.

I asked about subbing Str and dm said yea. Were you not following. I added prof and expertise in arcana (look at that can get both with a bonus fighter feat)

 

[HammerMan]

Of course we don’t need it, but some people clearly want it. Maybe that is the disconnect?

No some people just want to argue to yuk someone else’s yum.

If you like fighter as is that great but if you want more that is a big fight

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

No some people just want to argue to yuk someone else’s yum.

If you like fighter as is that great but if you want more that is a big fight

It’s also a fight if you don’t want that. It cuts both ways!

 

[HammerMan]

It’s also a fight if you don’t want that. It cuts both ways!

No the fight is if you want it.
No one says “hey if we get a warlord or sword sage it doesn’t have to be called fighter” and still it goes in for days trying “explain” why we don’t need more

 

[Emberashh]

Oh so if it was Prismatic Wall instead of Wish it would work?

Sure. Roll Arcana at disadvantage, no mods or proficiencies.

Good luck.

 

[HammerMan]

Sure. Roll Arcana at disadvantage, no mods or proficiencies.

Good luck.

How do you roll a prof with no prof?

 

[HammerMan]

Sure. Roll Arcana at disadvantage, no mods or proficiencies.

Good luck.

So roll 2d20 take the lowest nothing adds and you aren’t saying the DC.
I can’t imagine you calling out other DMs for being bad at improv if this is what you got.

 

[Incenjucar]

Sure. Roll Arcana at disadvantage, no mods or proficiencies.

Good luck.

What does "no mods" mean? Is this you just saying the player can't use anything that can possibly cause them to reach DC 30?

 

[HammerMan]

What does "no mods" mean? Is this you just saying the player can't use anything that can possibly cause them to reach DC 30?

I think he just means “I said I can’t tell you it’s impossible and I don’t like the DCs being between 5 and 30 and a fighter can take a feat for a skill prof and expertise so at level 17 they have 12 plus stat to that roll so I need to make something up where that can’t happen”