D&D 5E What classes do you want added to 5e?

[Jester David]

Here's an exercise. Try continuing your participating in this thread without making any arguments that weren't also made during the edition war. Just try it.

Guns were used during the Vietnam war.
You're firing a gun.
Therefore, you're participating in the Vietnam war.

Yeah.... I think this discussion has run its course. The warlord is dead to me again.

 

[Tony Vargas]

As someone who has never even heard of the Warlord class, what is so very special about that class that everyone wants it? I don't see the necessity.

Not that there's a necessity for any class, but it does do some concepts very well that the few extant non-supernatural sub-classes don't. And, it also enables play at very low-/no- magic levels, either in terms of a party where no one particularly wants to play a certain sort of caster, or a campaign where they're not appropriate.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Guns were used during the Vietnam war.
You're firing a gun.
Therefore, you're participating in the Vietnam war.

Guns were used in many wars, they're used outside of wars. The rhetoric of the edition war was quite specific, it coined new terminology, engaged in revisionist history, and was really quite unique.

A more valid similar analogy would be asking America to refrain from the use of Agent Orange.

 

[Dargrimm]

I'm not sure I want more classes (except for a psionic class). What I really want is more option for the classes we have now.
Something like:

Cleric: more domains and a rune priest.
Fighter: a ranged fighter (archer?), warlord, a DEX focused fighter (for spears).
Warlock: shadow patron, celestial patron.
Wizard: blood mage

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Guns were used in many wars, they're used outside of wars. The rhetoric of the edition war was quite specific, it coined new terminology, engaged in revisionist history, and was really quite unique.

A more valid similar analogy would be asking America to refrain from the use of Agent Orange.

Or nuclear weapons. Only one nation has used nuclear weapons offensively. Lots of other nations possess them now, but I'm pretty sure they leave a distinct mark and aren't directly comparable to most other weapon types. It might not be repeating WWII to use one, but you're probably risking at least another global conflict if you do.

 

[SkidAce]

Dark Sun is D&D for people who hated everything about D&D but the rules. It's pretty far from what most people would consider D&D.

While I think I understand what you are trying to say...this is not a true statement.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

Well I saw "how many 5e fans want a warlord/warden" threads and it got me thinking, now that 5e has been going on for a while, what classes do you want? What classes do you think we need? What class do you want first? Why?

None please.

Subclass proliferation would be more acceptable than class proflieration. If you want more fighter archtypes, knock yourself out. But let's not create billions of classes--twelve is plenty.

 

[Bluenose]

That doesn't mean D&D should choose to name their character classes after people who give prepubescent children addictive drugs and then send them off to fight with automatic weapons.

Do you have the some objection to a class where a perfectly good example is someone who'll burn down a building to kill someone's wife and children in the hope that this will provoke them into coming to fight them? (Paladin, btw).

 

[TrippyHippy]

Dark Sun is a cool D&D setting. That is all.

 

[yoshikawa666]

Ninja, Warlord, Assassin, Swashbuckler, Gunslinger, Summoner, Artificer and Rogues and Rangers similar to their 4e counterparts.