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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 6090919" data-attributes="member: 22882">For me to even consider buying D&D Next, the Warlord class would have to be:1. Extant. It's my favorite class in all of D&D, and its inclusion or exclusion makes a statement about whether my interests are remotely connected to what Next is trying to achieve.2. Potentially a purely martial character. I don't care if the Warlord has magical options, but it must be possible to play one from level 1 to level (wherever the level cap is) without taking a single magical option.3. A full cleric replacement. A party with a Cleric and an otherwise identical party with a Warlord must be approximately equally effective at adventuring.That doesn't have to mean healing, but balancing a non-healing Support role is exceedingly difficult, and the kind of person who objects to Warlord healing will almost certainly object to the huge numbers any healing-equal damage mitigation would have to involve. A 1st level damage mitigation Warlord needs to be handing out around 30 points of temporary hit points to equal a Cleric (and even then he can't function in panic mode), and that scales, hard.Of course, explicit or implicit acknowledgement in the rules that hit points = physical damage is, itself, an instant no-sell for me. I can't contextualize a world in which that's the case, and it violates what HP have been declared to be since OD&D. If that's in the game then the game is not one I'll purchase.EDIT: I take it back, the earliest case where I know HP are defined is in AD&D:</blockquote>

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