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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.
The only substantive objection I have to this is the name "Warlord" which remains one of the worst class names ever.
Nod.It's so easy to get bogged down in the names.
I've grown increasingly dissatisfied with the "Barbarian" name. Person from a tribal culture is now reflected in the Outlander background. And that was a great move.
But now the Barbarian class seems to now be filled with a hodgepodge of guy that gets angry/nature guy that get's angry or maybe has primal instincts that look like getting angry/getting angry with godly power/getting angry with elemental power/getting angry with ghost power. Should all those things be associated with "Rage?" At what point does "Rage" start to take take on a whole new meaning, or a bunch of new meanings?
Leadership can be part of it ("lead from the front" got repeated a number of times), just not legitimate authority or implied superiority. A character that allies follow, not because they have to, but because he's usually going the right way.A non-leadership style but Tactician like name would be great. And like the Favored Soul Sorcerer it wouldn't surprise me to see the concept get a new name if it ever does come to fruition.
Nod.
Leadership can be part of it ("lead from the front" got repeated a number of times), just not legitimate authority or implied superiority. A character that allies follow, not because they have to, but because he's usually going the right way.
One of the 6 official builds of the Warlord was 'Tactical' and this sub-class seems heavily focused on that one build, so Tactician, though not at all implying the 'lead from the front' bit, nor the tremendous personal weapon combat/DPR focus of the fighter, sounds obvious. The Warlord build that more suggested the Tank aspects of the fighter that necessarily come to the forefront with any fighter sub-class was the Bravura, a pretty obscure name.
Yeah, I would lump in Bravura with Banneret. As in I have no idea what it actually is or what the word is meant to convey to me as a concept beyond being brave or carrying a banner.
The bravura build was typically tougher than other warlords and emphasized risk-taking and aggression, encouraging the same in his allies.
It's only a fit to this one because of a fighter sub-class necessarily being tougher and much harder-hitting than any warlord.
As to definitions:
Definition of bravura
1 music : a musical passage requiring exceptional agility and technical skill in execution
2 : a florid brilliant style
3 : a show of daring or brilliance
banneret
: a knight leading his vassals into the field under his own banner