D&D 5E Homebrewing the Battlemaster and Champion

[NotAYakk]

Two-Weapon Fighting
* The other "extra damage" scale in fundamental ways with # of attacks.

This ... doesn't.

What I did was merge Dueling, Thrown and TWF into one style:

When you make an attack with a melee or thrown weapon in one hand, you add +2 damage. You can draw a weapon as part of the action of making an attack with it.

+2 per tap is better than +attribute for TWF before you have +4 attribute (which is level 1 to 3 at least).

By level 5, +2 per tap beats +5 to attribute. Only at level 4 can you possibly fall behind.

I then folded "attribute bonus to damage" into an improved dual wielder feat, mainly because I like the idea of the PC not caring which weapon hits when attacking with paired weapons.

 

[Stalker0]

On Icon of War, I would just say "once they save they are immune" and be done with it. That's how most fear auras work, and its already a very good ability on top of the big extra attack (and +1 extra to basically everything)...I really don't think they need more.

I can do this all day. It feels like we are stepping on the toes of the barbarian here. You have already given the fighter a nice increase in survivability due to the second wind increase, I think this is overkill. The "keeping fighting even when brought to near death" is the barbarian's schtick.

What I did was merge Dueling, Thrown and TWF into one style:

When you make an attack with a melee or thrown weapon in one hand, you add +2 damage. You can draw a weapon as part of the action of making an attack with it.

I did something similar but I did my merging a little differently.

Merged TWF, Dueling, and Great Weapon Fighting into:

Offense: Gain +2 damage on all melee attacks, +3 if the weapon is heavy or versatile and used in two hands.

 

[NotAYakk]

On Icon of War, I would just say "once they save they are immune" and be done with it. That's how most fear auras work, and its already a very good ability on top of the big extra attack (and +1 extra to basically everything)...I really don't think they need more.

I can do this all day. It feels like we are stepping on the toes of the barbarian here. You have already given the fighter a nice increase in survivability due to the second wind increase, I think this is overkill. The "keeping fighting even when brought to near death" is the barbarian's schtick.


I did something similar but I did my merging a little differently.

Merged TWF, Dueling, and Great Weapon Fighting into:

Offense: Gain +2 damage on all melee attacks, +3 if the weapon is heavy or versatile and used in two hands.

Not bad.

My GWF does "if you roll an even number, add 1/2 of the max value of the die". I also permit you to use it with any versatile or two handed weapon wielded in both hands.

1dX gains X/4 additional damage. So it adds 1/4 of the max damage your attack can do, on average.

2d6 gets +3 on average, 1d12 gets +3 on average, 1d10 gets +2.5 on average, 1d8 gets +2 on average.

It scales with crits, and it keeps some of the difference between 2d6 and 1d12 (2d6 is more reliable with 0.5 extra damage on average, and 1d12 is swingier).

 

[Chaosmancer]

On Icon of War, I would just say "once they save they are immune" and be done with it. That's how most fear auras work, and its already a very good ability on top of the big extra attack (and +1 extra to basically everything)...I really don't think they need more.

Potentially, but this is a fear aura at level 20. A lot of things are immune, a lot of things have great wisdom saves. Sure, this keeps the mooks from charging you, but I liked the idea of potentially slowly demoralizing the Boss because you are killing those minions one after the other.

Still, you might be right.

I can do this all day. It feels like we are stepping on the toes of the barbarian here. You have already given the fighter a nice increase in survivability due to the second wind increase, I think this is overkill. The "keeping fighting even when brought to near death" is the barbarian's schtick.

Yeah. I loved the suggestion from... crap I forgot who suggested it. But once I saw both features combined I started thinking it was far too much.