Excerpt: The Warlord

[Shroomy]

http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080421a

It's up.

 

[Hussar]

Crap, beaten to it.

 

[mach1.9pants]

me too, went off for a quick look at PPRuNe and Ninja'd!
Going back to read it now

 

[Sojorn]

Woo.

Info junkies go!

 

[Valerion Steele]

looks really nice...
thanks

 

[I'm A Banana]

Very early on in 4th Edition design, our work on character roles led us to the idea that any character serving as the party’s “cleric”—whether a bard, shaman, warlord, or whatever—needed to be as good at that job as the cleric or else we’d have yet another edition of D&D in which every party still needed a cleric.

Given this, it's weird that they're only including one Controller in the PH1....every 4e party for the first year will need a Wizard in it.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

A class with a lot of flair, especially the Tactical path. I love the idea of a smart fighter giving big benefits to his allies.

I wish they'd described the Inspiring Word power, since that looks to be the Warlords inherent healing ability.

And for the art, enter the efreet

 

[Acid_crash]

Looks quite awesome.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

Given this, it's weird that they're only including one Controller in the PH1....every 4e party for the first year will need a Wizard in it.

That's been puzzling me for quite a while; it's why, early on, I though the Warlock was going to be a controller. Three strikers and one controller still seems a bit of an odd choice in light of WotCs stated philosophy.

 

[AntiStateQuixote]

I'm a little disappointed with this preview because of the lack of at-will powers descriptions, but I love the idea of the Warlord class. I'm looking forward to seeing at least one, maybe two, in our new campaign!

The commanding presence class feature is bad ass. I also love the effect attached to the Bastion of Defense daily power. That's gonna get a lot of use! Woot! Healing without prayers!

Four available daily powers: commander’s strike, furious smash, viper’s strike, and wolf pack tactics . . . I just wish we knew what they did.