Xeviat
Hero
Hi everyone. Rather than talk about rules specifically, I want to talk about how the rules reflect on the flavor of the game. I really like that classes in 5E are representative of things in the world, and that subclasses fine tune that place.
I'm not a big fan of reflavoring classes to be different things, and would rather make new classes or subclasses to represent new things. But there's times where it feels necessary, because there isn't a strong enough mechanic to make a separate class for something.
This thought got me to look at the Sorcerer and Warlock. There feels like quite a bit of overlap between them conceptually. Sorcerers have magic in their blood, and Warlocks make a pact to get magic. These two could be rolled together thematically if they wanted to. Their strongly different mechanics, with sorcerers being long rest and warlocks being short rest, keep them separate, but it wouldn't take much effort to blend them. Were you born with your power? Did you make a deal for it?
Now, of all sorcerers were transformative, then they'd be differentiated enough for me. I was just thinking about making a fiendblooded Sorcerer, but would it just be a warlock-light?
This then got me thinking about the psion. Mechanics aside, is a psion just a "mental sorcerer"?
What do you see as the thematic differences between these classes?
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I'm not a big fan of reflavoring classes to be different things, and would rather make new classes or subclasses to represent new things. But there's times where it feels necessary, because there isn't a strong enough mechanic to make a separate class for something.
This thought got me to look at the Sorcerer and Warlock. There feels like quite a bit of overlap between them conceptually. Sorcerers have magic in their blood, and Warlocks make a pact to get magic. These two could be rolled together thematically if they wanted to. Their strongly different mechanics, with sorcerers being long rest and warlocks being short rest, keep them separate, but it wouldn't take much effort to blend them. Were you born with your power? Did you make a deal for it?
Now, of all sorcerers were transformative, then they'd be differentiated enough for me. I was just thinking about making a fiendblooded Sorcerer, but would it just be a warlock-light?
This then got me thinking about the psion. Mechanics aside, is a psion just a "mental sorcerer"?
What do you see as the thematic differences between these classes?
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