New name for Warlord

[shilsen]

Warlord is just fine with me, but then I generally don't give a damn what a class (or anything else) in the game is called, and I never make assumptions about something based on the name. All that affects my attitude to, and treatment of, a class is the mechanics. They could call the paladin "monkeyboy" and if the mechanics were the same I'd use it exactly the same way.

 

[Henry]

I would have said to ask Monte Cook for permission to call it "Warmain." That name works even better for me.

 

[Nifft]

Marshal could get confused with Martial pretty easily.

"... and your PC is named Marshall?"
"Exactly."

-- N

 

[Klaus]

Damn, look at all the people who think warlord is "fine".

You mean "look at the minority who think warlord is "fine".

30% of the voters so far think warlord is fine, but almost 70% think it's not, and suggest something else.

 

[drothgery]

Does anyone else think they ended up with 'warlord' mostly because they didn't want to call it 'noble', which is the usual name for a class with the role the warlord seems to be heading for?

(still thinks the 4e core classes should be cleric, fighter, mage, noble, ranger, and rogue, with paladin as a PrC)

Warlord's not awful, but they could do better.

 

[Wormwood]

Warlord is not "fine".

Warlord is in' METAL!

 

[hong]

Does anyone else think they ended up with 'warlord' mostly because they didn't want to call it 'noble', which is the usual name for a class with the role the warlord seems to be heading for?

Err... I fail to see how granting extra actions, buffs, healing and stuff, has anything to do with nobility.

"Leader" in this context just means force multiplier. What is it with this fixation with the role labels?

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Warlord sounds unheroic to me.

Travis Morgan would disagree.

 

[RangerWickett]

I think Commander is best. 'One who commands.' If we look at D&D minis, that's the term they use for someone who leads a group.

Captain implies he has a boat or something.
Warlord implies he's going to conquer people.
Marshal has the problem of being a homonym.

 

[Wormwood]

You mean "look at the minority who think warlord is "fine".

30% of the voters so far think warlord is fine, but almost 70% think it's not, and suggest something else.

As of this posting, Warlord is the single most popular name (even beating out 'something else').