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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9439157" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Worth noting: In my next release, Martial Artistry, I introduce the Champion as an A5e class compatible with 5e and presumably 5.5e.While not a half-caster out of the gate, they do have a "Righteous Cause" that they follow at level 1 which is pretty oathlike. And at level 6 they get the ability to set out Quests for themselves as a goal to achieve before the next long rest. So long as they're progressing toward that goal they gain some nice benefits... but if they fail to achieve it before they bed down, they get some repercussions.One of the benefits of Questing is that you ignore the penalties for fatigue/strife/exhaustion while questing. So you could totally set yourself a goal to travel the entire way across a nation state to bring word of the invading army's approach, do a forced march for 72 straight hours without taking a long rest, then burst into the king's courtroom, warn them of the incoming danger, and immediately die of exhaustion, your quest fulfilled.Sort of like how Pheidippides ran all the way from Sparta to Marathon to Athens to declare the Greek victory over the Persians then immediately collapsed and died.Having the Paladin not be utterly generic gives designers like me these additional design spaces to create new classes and class concepts which fill in narrative gaps and provide different ways to approach the same principles within the mechanics.Also you could -totally- tear off all the combat maneuvers from the Champion and add in a half-caster progression of spells and it'd work just fine! Or just use the already extant "Mystic Champion" archetype with the Arcane Knight martial tradition for quasi-magic martial maneuvers to make a relatively faithful 4e Sword Mage. Especially if their Righteous Causes is Supernatural Patron which basically gives them the Green Flame Blade spell but with multiple attacks.</blockquote>

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