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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6753213" data-attributes="member: 2067">More. The point was only that not everyone is a caster in any of my D&D campaigns. If you agree that not everyone is caster in 5e, then we can move on. Keep in mind this is 1e, so we might be seeing one encounter per day, and an encounter could be over with very quickly. It's not like it needs to go for 30 rounds a day, it can cast a spell in every round of every encounter and only cast 2 spells/day (ESPECIALLY the cleric, since restoring cleric heals is the main reason to rest in 1e, meaning that when you CAN'T be a heal-bot each round, it's time to get those spells back).AD&D monks chatter with chipmunks at level 4 (IIRC), the same thing you decided ruled out your druid, and that's only if you want to imagine that their inherent combat abilities, speed, slow fall, etc. aren't magical. My point here is just that your definition of "low magic" seems squishy, if you can talk with chipmunks and pinpoint evil at will and still be "low magic." By that definition, D&D's never really been great at supporting low-magic campaigns out of the box, even with warlords in 4e (you still needed a controller, and guess what that was doing at-will, every round?). 5e does it at least as adequately as any other edition. That doesn't mean there's not room to offer it more support, but it does mean that you don't require a "cleric replacement" (warlord or otherwise) to make this work. Not having a Charles Atlas class that can heal as well as the cleric doesn't invalidate the approach. It's also apparently true that having a Charles Atlas class that can heal as well as the cleric in 4e was unnecessary, since you could do it in 1e with a cleric. So the warlord isn't the make-or-break thing here.</blockquote>

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