D&D 5E The Warlord shouldn't be a class... change my mind!

[Don Durito]

Back seat driver

 

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This thread now has the shortest average comment length of this exact thread.

Wait.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer series immediately jumped to mind btw.

Willow is clearly a wizard or warlock, with the "Researcher" feature from the Sage Background.

 

[Garthanos]

Willow is clearly a wizard or warlock, with the "Researcher" feature from the Sage Background.

Clearly you play your wizards as creating emotional buffs for your fighters for many many adventures without any spell casting at all then suddenly boom you are actively casting potent magic. (and lose a chunk of that ability to inspire and now needing a sidekick who becomes an emotional buff for you personally as well as an in story source for some of your gained lore)

 

[Garthanos]

Buffyverse feels way more like a game of fate to be honest it handles widely different grades of explicit game world power with explicit story power granted by the game well, and generally speaking really D&D doesn't. (I used a descriptive technique for presenting Joxer and his abilities as luck and accident in spite of accomplishing a lot so I am not saying it can never work just that it was not designed for it)

 

[Aldarc]

I'm just gonna throw this Reddit Fan Creation out there. It is a revised fighter for 5e that gives maneuvers to every subclass and part of the base class. It features both a Banneret and a Tactician. But this shows how WotC could have made sufficient room for the "Warlord" within the Fighter had they used the Battle Master as the base for the Fighter.

 

[Garthanos]

I'm just gonna throw this Reddit Fan Creation out there. It is a revised fighter for 5e that gives maneuvers to every subclass and part of the base class. It features both a Banneret and a Tactician. But this shows how WotC could have made sufficient room for the "Warlord" within the Fighter had they used the Battle Master as the base for the Fighter.

Interesting, though I think its probably missing ingredients like level gated maneuver effects

 

[Aldarc]

Interesting, though I think its probably missing ingredients like level gated maneuver effects

Sure, but my main point is how WotC could have built the Fighter differently in a way that would have actually made sufficient room for the Warlord within itself.

 

[Garthanos]

Sure, but my main point is how WotC could have built the Fighter differently in a way that would have actually made sufficient room for the Warlord within itself.

This seems written rather conservatively

 

[Dausuul]

Clearly you play your wizards as creating emotional buffs for your fighters for many many adventures without any spell casting at all then suddenly boom you are actively casting potent magic.

Never played an AD&D wizard, then?