Jester David
Hero
This particular subset of the conversation was unrelated to the warlord, but instead focusing on the necessity of defining what martial characters are capable of:Having a warlord be able to grant buffs, or manipulate the action economy, doesn't change what anyone can do in the fiction. It doesn't make people fight who couldn't, for instance. These are various mechanical devices that D&D makes available for expressing the rather simple idea in the fiction that the presence of this person inspires his/her fellows.
http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...drink/page58&p=6851893&viewfull=1#post6851893