Gallowglass fighter archetype, feedback requested

[MostlyDm]

Cool.

As far as people saying it's an unnecessary archetype... I mean, yeah, it is. Of course it is. Heck, half the archetypes in the PHB are unnecessary, as are 2/3 of the classes.

But they're still fun. Nothing wrong with adding more archetypes to fit a niche you want filled.

Have fun!

 

[The Glen]

It's fills a strategy that none of the fighter archetypes fulfill, and I've never liked the barbarian going all the way back to 1st. If you want to play a barbarian just take the outlander background and get angry a lot. Gallowglass is a guided missile, a little one dimensional but the Scottish warriors of that time period had one strategy, rush the Redcoats before they could reload. So I've got a hard to kill fighter with a big honkin' sword. It's a one trick pony, but it's a hell of a trick. In the setting fighters in Glantri have to close before the wizard kills them, it's their only hope in that nation. Rarely works, but still they try. Trying to capture as many different aspects of the setting for the handbook as I can.