D&D General Druid vs. Paladin - March Madness 2024 - Final Round!

[el-remmen]

Like a ….Job system?

Cause I do love me some Job systems.

I wouldn’t have called it a job system but there is some similarities if I understand what you mean by that. I was thinking more like BECMI’s version of prestige classes or whatever they called them except you have to choose a new one every few levels and can’t just stay a rogue or whatever.

 

[el-remmen]

maybe i'm lacking information on how you would be implementing it and the things it would effect, and i understand the desire to distinguish the two magics, but i'm not seeing a huge benefit to separating the two right now, unless there's specifically a class which uses both arcane and divine magic who's skill bonuses don't progress at the same rate,

I should probably start a thread just for talking through this project but anyway. Since these bonuses are also used for using or resisting different sources of magic the difference could matter. Saving against divine magic could be weaker for a wizard than a priest and vice versa. But like I said I am still working through it and originally I did have them as just magic but balancing the math across three for four classes was more difficult.

 

[Clint_L]

Looking like paladins, huh? Not what I predicted, but given how good they are in 5e and their long lineage, not a total shocker. Druids getting this deep, on the other hand, I would never have expected.

 

[ichabod]

Does anyone even play those classes anymore in 5e? In my experience playing nearly exclusively with people who never played before 5e, I can't remember the last time I saw a Cleric, Wizard, or Rogue, and only really see Fighters as multi-class dips for Action Surge. All I ever see are Bards, Sorcerers, Barbarians, Paladins, Warlocks, Rangers, maybe the occasional Monk or Druid

My group has a fighter, a cleric, and a rogue in it. So, yeah, people do play those.

 

[ezo]

Yeah, I'm not expecting Druids to pull it out. I think the Druid would have taken the Fighter, but the Paladin is too awesome for it's own good. The class is so powerful you don't even need a subclass for it.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Conceptually paladin is easily the class that appeals me to the least, to the point that it is fair to say I dislike it. Druids on the other hand are among my favourite classes.

 

[Gradine]

Yeah, I'm not expecting Druids to pull it out. I think the Druid would have taken the Fighter, but the Paladin is too awesome for it's own good. The class is so powerful you don't even need a subclass for it.

There's still quite a bit of time left, and Druids have the tie-break by virtue of being lower on the alphabet.

 

[CreamCloud0]

I wouldn’t have called it a job system but there is some similarities if I understand what you mean by that. I was thinking more like BECMI’s version of prestige classes or whatever they called them except you have to choose a new one every few levels and can’t just stay a rogue or whatever.

i've wished for a while now that 5e's subclasses had been designed to be more class independent, to be able to mix and match them with different class bases for different resulting playstyles, your idea sounds interesting.

 

[ezo]

There's still quite a bit of time left, and Druids have the tie-break by virtue of being lower on the alphabet.

LOL, that would be awesome!

 

[el-remmen]

i've wished for a while now that 5e's subclasses had been designed to be more class independent, to be able to mix and match them with different class bases for different resulting playstyles, your idea sounds interesting.

My response to people who poo-poo multiclassing was “what if it was only multiclassing all the way down?”