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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8862353" data-attributes="member: 6795602">I think if I were to try and make a sword mage I'd give a pool of a few magical at will effects that he could perform while attacking.&nbsp; Let him know more than he can use at a given time.&nbsp; As he levels he gets to know more and combo more together.&nbsp; Also give him a limited resource that he can use to empower his chosen effects to be strong.&nbsp; Throw in extra attack at level 5.&nbsp; A class feature to fix AC for no armor/light armor.&nbsp; If we care there's a few ways we could branch out subclasses.&nbsp; Particular magical effects get tied to a subclass along with thematic abilities.&nbsp; Alternatively subclass could center more around how the sword mage defends allies.For me the bigger problem is that 'swordmage' is certainly a very broad fighter style class than a narrow thematic class and broad style&nbsp; combat focused classes are much harder to do subclasses well for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 8862353, member: 6795602"] I think if I were to try and make a sword mage I'd give a pool of a few magical at will effects that he could perform while attacking. Let him know more than he can use at a given time. As he levels he gets to know more and combo more together. Also give him a limited resource that he can use to empower his chosen effects to be strong. Throw in extra attack at level 5. A class feature to fix AC for no armor/light armor. If we care there's a few ways we could branch out subclasses. Particular magical effects get tied to a subclass along with thematic abilities. Alternatively subclass could center more around how the sword mage defends allies. For me the bigger problem is that 'swordmage' is certainly a very broad fighter style class than a narrow thematic class and broad style combat focused classes are much harder to do subclasses well for. [/QUOTE]

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