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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6718708" data-attributes="member: 996">That sounds like the formal defender role in 4e.&nbsp; It's mostly just better mechanical support for something melee types have always been expected to do.5e does have a number of backgrounds and feats that pull a little of the feel or function of a class so that anyone can avail a character of them and fold that concept into the main one of the character's actual class, even without multi-classing.&nbsp; If you want to be just a little bit Cleric, for instance, you can take the Acolyte Background.&nbsp; If you want to be a fighter, but also a bit of a mage, you can choose the Eldritch Knight Archetype.&nbsp; There are already feats (Inspiring Leader) and an archetype (Battlemaster) like that which are suggestive of the Warlord, and bring a little bit of it's original function to the fighter or to any other character.&nbsp; Just as such feats and sub-classes don't obviate the corresponding full classes already in the PH, they don't eliminate the desirability of a full Warlord class.And the same thing applies.&nbsp; There is already a feat, Sentinel, that does a little of what the Defender role did, and you can trick out a fighter to be passable - while still primarily contributing relatively high-damage via multi-attacking &amp; action surge - at that by mid-levels, earlier if a Variant Human.&nbsp; But a fighter (perhaps 'Knight' or 'Defender') or warlord (the 'Bravura' build is a good candidate) archetype might do it better &amp; sooner (3rd level), and a full class certainly could.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6718708, member: 996"] That sounds like the formal defender role in 4e. It's mostly just better mechanical support for something melee types have always been expected to do. 5e does have a number of backgrounds and feats that pull a little of the feel or function of a class so that anyone can avail a character of them and fold that concept into the main one of the character's actual class, even without multi-classing. If you want to be just a little bit Cleric, for instance, you can take the Acolyte Background. If you want to be a fighter, but also a bit of a mage, you can choose the Eldritch Knight Archetype. There are already feats (Inspiring Leader) and an archetype (Battlemaster) like that which are suggestive of the Warlord, and bring a little bit of it's original function to the fighter or to any other character. Just as such feats and sub-classes don't obviate the corresponding full classes already in the PH, they don't eliminate the desirability of a full Warlord class. And the same thing applies. There is already a feat, Sentinel, that does a little of what the Defender role did, and you can trick out a fighter to be passable - while still primarily contributing relatively high-damage via multi-attacking & action surge - at that by mid-levels, earlier if a Variant Human. But a fighter (perhaps 'Knight' or 'Defender') or warlord (the 'Bravura' build is a good candidate) archetype might do it better & sooner (3rd level), and a full class [i]certainly[/i] could. [/QUOTE]

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