Eladrin, warlords, and unnecessary D&Disms

[Baby Samurai]

Master Chief.

There we go!

 

[theredrobedwizard]

Master Chief.

Cheers, LT.

"I need a weapon." would be a fantastic name for a per encounter ability. Heck, I think each of those games is one long encounter. I can't remember any point at which I didn't see an enemy for more than a minute.

AND it's built in marketing that probably writes itself. I think the only problem is that the owners of a certain X-Box franchise might find some way to make their lawyermen get all up on us for it. I know that it's an actual military rank, but any company that tries to use Master Chief will probably have Microsoft's Legal Beagles bustin' their door down.

Also, Stalwart? No. That's a Defender name, not a Leader name.

And now I've gone on far too long.

-TRRW

 

[Exen Trik]

I think Tactician is a great name, and nicely describes a martial leader role in opposition to the fighters... only thing is, I really have no idea if warlords martial powers have anything to do with tactics or not. I mean, I'm sure some do, but it may have no connection at all to half or more of the warlords abilities.

I think there would be much less arguing over the warlord if they went ahead and told us just what the heck he actually does.

 

[WayneLigon]

I'd recommend "Champion" or "Stalwart" in place of "warlord".

I don't have a problem with 'Warlord' but either of those is a better choice; to me, they sound more evocative. Challenger might not be a bad one, either.

 

[wgreen]

To me if someone says the warlord is coming...I expect the guy the king hired to run his entire army and conquer the world.

And before they chose that name for a class in DnD....didn't most of us?

Not me. But, then, I watched a whole lot of Hercules & Xena...and in those shows, "warlords" were a dime a dozen, and they were mostly just tough brutes who led bandits through fear and intimidation. So, yeah, I got no problem with a first-level PC-classed character being called a "warlord."

-Will

 

[pneumatik]

I think the idea of what the Warlord class does was established pretty well by Aragorn. He spends most of the books leading the Fellowship (a party) around. But when there's a big battle, it turns out he's a great military leader, too. I think that's what Warlords are supposed to be. The people who fight with them and under them just win more often. That's true whether they're leading 3 other people or 30,000 other people.

 

[Scarbonac]

I don't have a problem with 'Warlord' but either of those is a better choice; to me, they sound more evocative. Challenger might not be a bad one, either.

Good one. If we can come up with decent names, why can't WotC?

 

[broghammerj]

If drow are in there as their mirror image, then I think I'm warming to the concept, because the two words seem to work together on that level.

Still no love for warlords though.

The problem is why aren't asimars in with tieflings? I don't know why they didn't use planetouched. If drow are included in the PHB I'll be done. Too much elf love.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't see why so many people keep harping on this "classic sword & sorcery fantasy" nonsense; is it just grognardism? I, for one, am glad that WotC finally has the cojones to man up and change the "feel" of the game.

I love it. Especially when these same people harping on "classic sword & sorcery" are also wanting the game to reflect Tolkien very strongly. Because I guess in their minds, S&S and Tolkien are the same thing, I presume.

But I like laughing to myself at people who don't know what they're talking about, but really think that they do and believe very ardently about it to boot.

 

[Desdichado]

No doubt. I even heard that the 4e version of Complete Warrior will be called "Barbera."

That's if the character is a male. If she's female, it will be "Barbarella."