D&D 5E "Warlord" Fighter sub-class from MMHFT podcast. Further duscussion.

[Tony Vargas]

Maybe it's because I played 1e then missed a few decades and started back up with 5e...

Nah, you could've blinked & missed the Warlord, it was a playable class in the last edition.

Of course, I must've blinked some time between Asteroids & Space Invaders and missed 'Warlords' - I had to look it up.

The only substantive objection I have to this is the name "Warlord"

Battle Captain, from the Paragon Path might be a better name for this sub-class.

 

[CapnZapp]

That's quite a tactical genius, right there. As a DM, I'm always terrified that the PCs might group up into another a tight bunch to get healing, because there's nothing I can do to punish PCs for standing together in a small area.

Fireball?

 

[Guest 6801328]

Fireball?

I think he was being facetious.

 

[Guest 6801328]

Battle Captain, from the Paragon Path might be a better name for this sub-class.

In general he did a pretty good (but not perfect) job avoiding objectionable fluff suggesting that this character is a superior giving orders to his/her peers. I'd hate to spoil that with the name.

P.S. Also, I'd love to find a name that suggests this character is quick-thinking and 'tactical' in all situations, not just in combat. (Even if the current palette of abilities don't really reflect that...)

 

[CapnZapp]

Placing effects on areas?

That's a totem warrior if I ever saw one.

Please drop the ridiculous idea a "tactician" needs to "study" a (small) area and whose benefits somehow are restricted to just that area.

This class needs a supernatural explanation, stat.

 

[TwoSix]

I think he was being facetious.

But I wasn't expecting magic to appear in my martial class utopia!

 

[CapnZapp]

But I wasn't expecting magic to appear in my martial class utopia!

Then save the area effects for the totem shaman?

 

[TwoSix]

Then save the area effects for the totem shaman?

 

[Guest 6801328]

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/target Totem
/cast Moonfire

(spam)

 

[Gardens & Goblins]

/target Totem
/cast Moonfire

(spam)

Dude's got to farm a node sometime.

*Lurks in stealth*