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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6816831" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm not a designer. Especially not for 5e.But I'm pretty confident that a game that can support barbarians with their rage, monks with their ki, the variety of casting classes that exist (including their various spell lists and spell progressions), and battle masters with their strong multi-attack plus manoeuvres, has the design space for a martial support character who is a second-tier warrior and is able to provide inspirational healing and buffing of both bonuses and action economy.Your argument that it can't be done - which, somewhat confusingly, you seem to assert simultaneously with the claim that it has already been done - appears to boil down to the claim that different people want slightly different things from the warlord. To me that's no different from the fact that people want different things from the ranger, from psionics, from sorcerers, etc.Part of the skill of design for a game like D&D that has a vary wide player base with varying desires is to come up with designs that manage to satisfy as many different players as possible, in part by including options and in part by finding clever ways to realise multiple conceptions or aspirations through a single mechanic or class feature. The biggest failure in this respect, as far as 5e is concerned, seems to be the ranger. There's no apriori reason to think that a well-designed warlord would do any worse than this, and it could well do better.</blockquote>

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