D&D 5E powers and manuivers

[ChrisCarlson]

...while the Lazylord opens up entire swathes of character archetypes.

Like what/whom?

 

[Tony Vargas]

Yes.
But why would you do that?

Because you can?

You would boost the wizard on his big spells, and the fighter the rest of the time.

That'd make sense. And, if your boost was n/day, you'd boost the wizard's big spells exclusively and be of no use to the fighter. Or, in an all-martial party, just be less useful than in one with casters.

Not sound'n good.

Or if your talking about a generic "all allies within 30' get +2 to hit or increase their DC by 2 all day", then you could have 1 warlord empowering 300 people.

Now you're talkin'

Which is fun and fitting, but not balanced.

Like you said, if it can be broken, it can be balanced (which I have reservations about: a mechanic can be balanced, but still problematic, like multi-attacking, for instance). For instance, if the benefit a warlord handed out was based on the lower of his level or the targets' then boosting a bunch of lower-level soldiers might not be that broken. Well, not much more broken than Bounded Accuracy already makes having a bunch of lower-level allies on your side.

 

[mellored]

well.. crusader's mantle exsist, buffing unlimited troops... which is crap in a 2 person party, or near broken with a necromancer.
or something like mass cure wounds would be better. you buff upto 6 people in range, which prevents the army scenario.