D&D 5E (2014) Sorcerer vs. Wizard: Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better?

[Mistwell]

Even if it seems more powerful at first or second glance... I'm of the opinion you're probably still better off trying it and using it so you actually have a Warlord at your disposal in your game, rather than not using it and waiting hope against hope that WotC gets around to it. After all... in the years it would take for you to finally see a WotC-designed Warlord get published, you and your tables could be running and playtesting the Level Up Marshal and balancing it as needed as you go along. Heck, in truth you'd probably get it balanced for your table's needs way before WotC will actually get around to releasing theirs.

So if having a Warlord is really such a big deal to you and your game... I say don't wait! Take what's available and run with it. (Same holds true for any Psion or Arcane-Half-Caster stans out there.)

It's obviously not a big deal to me. It's on my want list, but it's not on my must-have list or else I wouldn't have been playing without one all these years and would have just made one up.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It's obviously not a big deal to me. It's on my want list, but it's not on my must-have list or else I wouldn't have been playing without one all these years and would have just made one up.

Since you said you didn't read closely, I want to note that Level Up characters make meaningful choices at every "level up". Many of the abilities you were looking at are either/or.

 

[Mistwell]

Since you said you didn't read closely, I want to note that Level Up characters make meaningful choices at every "level up". Many of the abilities you were looking at are either/or.

Yeah I got that. It's basically a caster disguised as a melee character.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yeah I got that. It's basically a caster disguised as a melee character.

Except they don't use magic. What's your definition of a melee character?