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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5261427" data-attributes="member: 87792">And for the difference between classes, I'm going to walk through my level 1 Warlord (now level 5). Human.  Battlefront Leader, Bravura PresenceAt Wills: Brash Assault, Commander's Strike, Direct the StrikeEncounter: Powerful WarningDaily: Stand the Fallen?  (I forget the name - Immediate Reaction when an ally falls below 0HP, run over to them, attack, and they get to spend a surge).Feats: Harlequin Style, Armoured Warlord Martel loves the carnage of battle, and making sense of its rapid rhythms.  He's very seldom the first into the fray, preferring instead to analyse it and to point out weaknesses in the opponent's defences for his allies to exploit (Direct the Strike) or to actively create them by forcing the enemy's shield off its line (Commander's Strike).  And because he takes those seconds to analyse after the combat has started, he can see what the enemy is going to do before they do it, and knows his allies fighting styles well enough to not only warn them but tell what counter to use even before the enemy has launched the attack (Powerful Warning). That's not to say he's remotely stand-offish in combat.  He knows that he who hesitates is lost and because he understands the way the enemy moves so well, when he himself attacks he takes seemingly insane risks calculated to expose flaws in the enemy's combat styles (Brash Assault/Harlequin Style), and enemies who try to exploit his seemingly poor defences quickly find themselves entirely out of position with respect to everyone else.  Ask Martel and he'll just say that combat is risky and that he who hesitates is lost, but there's one time when his seeming recklessness is in fact true recklessness.  He saw his elder brother cut down in front of him - and the sight of one of his allies about to fall causes him to break whatever his current battleplan is and rush to their aid, irrespective of what's in the way. There's far more to his backstory - but he plays exactly in line with the cold calculating combatant who will buy time to understand the enemy, and beat them with his head - before risking his life on his understanding of them. Your challenge for 10: Make me an artificer or a cleric who plays anything like that.  Or anything in any previous edition.  (Start with the idea of allies rather than the PC making the majority of his attack rolls).</blockquote>

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