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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8522571" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Are they? Can you build a Witcher in 5e's current class system. Eragon? The Knights Radiant (thematically, they're paladins, but ability-wise, almost all of them are Arcane Gishes)? Isaac and Hector from Castlevania (they cover their weapons in unholy fire that transforms the people they kill with those weapons into demons/undead monsters under their control)? Zuko from the last Airbender (a master of dual wielding swords that makes his attacks even better using Firebending)? Can you truly build any of those without multiclassing so much that you no longer have a functional character? I'm not saying that an "Arcane Warrior" class has to be able to make all of those different types of characters playable . . . but I am saying that there are character options in other fantasy settings that don't currently have a good way of translating them to D&D 5e. If there were an Arcane Warrior class, and it were at least as open up to different fighting styles as the Paladin is, you could play characters similar to those concepts. A dual-wielding pyromancy-focused Arcane Warrior that has the Noble Background and a class feature that lets them heat up their weapons with magical fire would be a satisfying way to play a Zuko-like character in 5e. A subclass in the Arcane Warrior class that focuses on "dark magic", like Necromancy and communing with Demons could be similar in concept to a Forgemaster and fulfill the playstyle of "I stab people with flaming weapons that transform their corpses into horrible monsters when they die". An Arcane Warrior that uses a throwing hammer and stores lightning spells in their weapon could evoke the feeling of being a character like Thor in ways that the current options cannot (Storm Herald Barbarian? Tempest Cleric? Paladin?). A subclass inspired by the Swordmage that casts teleporation spells in order to lock down enemies and protect their allies could also be included. Do you see any way that those could be played in 5e without having to take several feats, multiclassing with bad class-combinations, and being held back in progress when compared to the rest of the party?</blockquote>

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