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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7167056" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=86136]Evil_DM[/MENTION] Nice clean layout. However, I'll tell you straight up: You'd be making Colin McComb, who wrote The Complete Book of Elves, proud with the degree of over-powered brokenness of this class in its current form.At first blush, here's what I'm noticing:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Full caster with Ritual Casting, with Extra Attack equivalent to an 11th level fighter, AND *seems* to be able to cast cure wounds (at least judging by your explicit mentioning of cure wounds in absence of an actual Bladesinger Spell List). Seems overpowered to me.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bladesong Styles are superior to Fighting Styles (compare Dust in the Wind – add 1/2 your prof. bonus to AC – to the fighter's Defensive Fighting Style – +1 AC – as an example of what I mean). Overpowered again.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Insightful Movement, and have a scaling bonus to AC as icing on the top. Totally overpowered. Already my reasons for playing a fighter or a wizard over a bladesinger are practically nil.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">And on and on. I got the gist of how overpowered this is already, so that kind of killed my enthusiasm to read anymore.</li>
</ul>Any class or subclass homebrewing needs work and playtesting. However this is so egregiously overpowered. It would take a lot of revision to get this down to something more reasonable, but I'm sure its possible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7167056, member: 20323"] [MENTION=86136]Evil_DM[/MENTION] Nice clean layout. However, I'll tell you straight up: You'd be making Colin McComb, who wrote [U]The Complete Book of Elves[/U], proud with the degree of over-powered brokenness of this class in its current form. At first blush, here's what I'm noticing: [list][*]Full caster with Ritual Casting, with Extra Attack equivalent to an 11th level fighter, AND *seems* to be able to cast [I]cure wounds[/I] (at least judging by your explicit mentioning of [I]cure wounds[/I] in absence of an actual Bladesinger Spell List). Seems overpowered to me. [*]Bladesong Styles are superior to Fighting Styles (compare [I]Dust in the Wind[/I] – add 1/2 your prof. bonus to AC – to the fighter's Defensive Fighting Style – +1 AC – as an example of what I mean). Overpowered again. [*]Insightful Movement, and have a scaling bonus to AC as icing on the top. Totally overpowered. Already my reasons for playing a fighter or a wizard over a bladesinger are practically nil. [*]And on and on. I got the gist of how overpowered this is already, so that kind of killed my enthusiasm to read anymore.[/list] Any class or subclass homebrewing needs work and playtesting. However this is so egregiously overpowered. It would take a lot of revision to get this down to something more reasonable, but I'm sure its possible. [/QUOTE]

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