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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7674801" data-attributes="member: 22779">Going back to the practical aspects of adding a new Warlord class, there's a few big stumbling blocks.1.  Warlord healing isn't really needed in the form that it was in.  In 4e, because combat was generally so long, the group needed mechanisms to "unlock" healing surges during combat.  So, all the leader classes got lots of powers that let you heal in combat.  But 5e doesn't work that way.  Combats are generally only 3-4 rounds at most and you aren't really healing in combat all that much.  The fighters can self heal anyway, so, it's not like they need a second character stroking their HP every round to keep them on their feet.2.  Tactical positioning in 5e is less important.  In 4e when every single class had burst and blast effects, it really mattered where characters were on the battle map.  Additionally, since 4e combats tended to focus on larger scale encounters with a dozen or more PC's and NPC's on the board at once, it was very important to know where everything was.  So, the Warlord got lots of battle map friendly powers to change the positioning on the map.  5e, where you have far fewer opportunity attacks, far, far fewer area attacks and, again, much shorter combats, means that tactical positioning in combat is far less important.So, I'm not sure what a 5e warlord would actually look like.  I understand why they didn't bring it forward.  A lot of its raison d'être simply doesn't exist in 5e.  What I think I'd like to see is a non-magical Bard of Valor who has some of the 4e style tactical options, but a lot simpler than a 4e warlord.</blockquote>

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