Level Up (A5E) What are your favorite archetypes?

[xiphumor]

Simple question, and you can reference third-party archetypes and classes if you’d like. Just curious to hear what tugs on people’s heart strings.

 

[Grant at Broken Synapse]

I really like the Kitchen Witch. It just is so dialed in as a theme and fills an interesting niche.

 

[xiphumor]

I really like the Kitchen Witch. It just is so dialed in as a theme and fills an interesting niche.

@zombusey

 

[Corinnguard]

The Elementalist class in the Manual of Adventurous Resources: Complete.

 

[xiphumor]

The Elementalist class in the Manual of Adventurous Resources: Complete.

But what's your favorite archetype for it? All of them?

 

[Corinnguard]

But what's your favorite archetype for it? All of them?

It would have to be the Myrmidon. I have spent more time looking at it than the other three.

 

[Corinnguard]

I have also taken a liking to MoAR: Complete's Steel Blooded Sorcerer. It kind of reminds me of the Battle Sorcerer in 3e's Unearthed Arcana.

 

[zombusey]

I really like the Kitchen Witch. It just is so dialed in as a theme and fills an interesting niche.

I'm so glad you like it! I put a little bit of myself into everything I make, but there's a little bit more of me in that one

 

[W'rkncacnter]

oh, i've got a few of these...

i love the judge cleric from MOAR complete. it's thematically really strong, and also excellent for investigations. the ecclesiarch marshal from the same book also feels like a nice niche for a marshal (and i wish i'd had it when i ran bonds of forced faith for a clergy party - i think the marshal would've loved it!).

i have to put the torch bearer archetype for the wielder here solely because the idea of playing a magical girl is hilarious. i also have to put the naturalist and unnaturalist from the GPG here for the same reason - the opposing names are just weirdly funny to me, and having them in the same party would be ridiculous.

i also love the armiger and thopterist artificers from the advanced artificers book. for the former inventing new weapons is just fun, and for the latter inventors making flying devices feels like a classic archetype, and getting free photography on top is REALLY nice.