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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8169185" data-attributes="member: 7023887">The Drakewarden =/= Dragonrider. A dragon rider gets to freaking ride a dragon before level 25. A dragon is born with wings, not given the choice of wings at level 7. A dragon doesn't have to drain a spell slot in order to be summoned. A dragon doesn't start out as an overgrown cat familiar with scales, it starts with the real deal: wings, breath weapon, blindsight, and permanence. No, it wasn't done for mechanical balance. Beast Master Companions and Steel Defenders don't have a time limit or require you to summon it using spell slots. Dragon Riders are a fighter archetype, IMO. Not a ranger. Rangers prowl the wild and protect it from enemies. Dragonriders ride the backs of flying dragons and stab enemies with Dragonlances (this last part isn't really 100% a requirement, but it is for Dragonlance's Dragonriders, and Drakewardens should not be using lances if they're rangers that can't even ride the "drake" until level 15). Drakewardens fit into the setting just about as much as an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer fits into Dark Sun. Sure, "psionics" is Dark Sun's gimmick, just like dragons are Dragonlance's gimmick, but the mechanics and theme of the Aberrant Mind Sorcerer doesn't fit Dark Sun, just as the mechanics and theme of Drakewardens don't fit Dragonlance. Similar theme =/= fits into the settingIf they invented a UA subclass to introduce a base class to a setting, they're doing something wrong. Theros gave advice of reskinning monks as spear-slinging, Spartan Hoplites. I'm sure a possible Dragonlance setting book could do something similar without changing the lore of the world by introducing a brand new draconic monk subclass.</blockquote>

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