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<blockquote data-quote="Delazar" data-source="post: 8048362" data-attributes="member: 71130">Regarding classes, I'm not sure if we need to decide &quot;all templars are warlocks&quot;. In the end, only Player Characters have a class, all the rest of the world is a stats-block.I DMed a DS campaign using 5e rules for 2 years, and sometimes my Templars used the &quot;warlock of the fey&quot; stats block, sometimes the &quot;acolyte&quot; stats-block, sometimes the &quot;warpriest&quot;, other times the &quot;cultist&quot;.As a DM, you just need something that fits your concept, you don't have to assign them a &quot;class&quot;.For what concerns PCs, kind of the same. If a player wants to be a Templar, he could be a Warlock, a Cleric, even a Paladin. Heck, I guess he could be a Fighter if all he wants is to serve in the ranks of the Sorcerer-King as a general.I did a lot of re-fluffing, and even those players that were DS veterans had no objections. Fun fact: I had a new player that wanted to play a &quot;psychic warrior&quot;. He had experience with 3.5, but not with 5e.So I copy/pasted the full text of the Paladin in a Word doc, I renamed all his Class Features to something more &quot;psionic&quot;, and changed all instances of the word &quot;radiant&quot; with &quot;psychic&quot;. I changed a few choice words in his spells.Then I handed him the document. He played that character for 6 months, never noticed it was a Paladin by any other name...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Delazar, post: 8048362, member: 71130"] Regarding classes, I'm not sure if we need to decide "all templars are warlocks". In the end, only Player Characters have a class, all the rest of the world is a stats-block. I DMed a DS campaign using 5e rules for 2 years, and sometimes my Templars used the "warlock of the fey" stats block, sometimes the "acolyte" stats-block, sometimes the "warpriest", other times the "cultist". As a DM, you just need something that fits your concept, you don't have to assign them a "class". For what concerns PCs, kind of the same. If a player wants to be a Templar, he could be a Warlock, a Cleric, even a Paladin. Heck, I guess he could be a Fighter if all he wants is to serve in the ranks of the Sorcerer-King as a general. I did a lot of re-fluffing, and even those players that were DS veterans had no objections. Fun fact: I had a new player that wanted to play a "psychic warrior". He had experience with 3.5, but not with 5e. So I copy/pasted the full text of the Paladin in a Word doc, I renamed all his Class Features to something more "psionic", and changed all instances of the word "radiant" with "psychic". I changed a few choice words in his spells. Then I handed him the document. He played that character for 6 months, never noticed it was a Paladin by any other name... [/QUOTE]

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