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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 6723518" data-attributes="member: 5142">And I wish more people would at least take this attitude with the Warlord. Some campaigns will say &quot;no elves&quot; or &quot;no monks,&quot; and those options become off-limits. That's why I think there are those making a bigger deal about an inclusion of the Warlord than necessary. The amount of energy to say &quot;no Warlords&quot; at the table should be sufficient, while still letting people who want official Warlords available to have them. I disagree. 1) It should not be explicitly &quot;slightly magical,&quot; because although it would make &quot;most problems go away&quot; for you, that's not true for many warlord fans who want something more mundane. Its abilities should exist in the ambiguous space between the extraordinary and supernatural. But the moment you declare it to be either fully mundane or magical, it turns off about half of the potential fanbase for the warlord. Then 2) IMHO, its inclusion in Dark Sun was brilliant! Elemental clerics always stuck out like a sore thumb, and the warlord only further highlighted that issue for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 6723518, member: 5142"] And I wish more people would at least take this attitude with the Warlord. Some campaigns will say "no elves" or "no monks," and those options become off-limits. That's why I think there are those making a bigger deal about an inclusion of the Warlord than necessary. The amount of energy to say "no Warlords" at the table should be sufficient, while still letting people who want official Warlords available to have them. I disagree. 1) It should not be explicitly "slightly magical," because although it would make "most problems go away" for you, that's not true for many warlord fans who want something more mundane. Its abilities should exist in the ambiguous space between the extraordinary and supernatural. But the moment you declare it to be either fully mundane or magical, it turns off about half of the potential fanbase for the warlord. Then 2) IMHO, its inclusion in Dark Sun was brilliant! Elemental clerics always stuck out like a sore thumb, and the warlord only further highlighted that issue for me. [/QUOTE]

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