What classes will be in the martial power book?

[Belorin]

I think they may go in a different direction, putting in more options for different builds of the base classes already presented, maybe a couple of new classes and definitely new paragon paths and epic destinies.
Maybe different weapon styles for various weapons, unarmed combat, etc.
And I agree about the martial controller, unless they allow some kind of grenadier type class.

Bel

 

[Grymar]

Barbarian
Knight

and

Ninja

You can't expect them to bypass the ninja. They may even replace the barbarian with a pirate so you could finally have the pirate vs ninja vs zombie battle.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

For the martial controller, I could see a class that uses whips, nets and spiked chains to entangle and disable groups of enemies. It should be called the Dominatrix.

And the Assassin is obviously the divine striker. They should work for the Old Man of the Mountain, need to consume large quantities of hashish, and all their class powers should involve suicide attacks.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Source?

The Races and Classes book implies pretty heavily that barbarians won't be martial characters, but will draw on the same nature/primal power source that druids do.

 

[Sadrik]

The Races and Classes book implies pretty heavily that barbarians won't be martial characters, but will draw on the same nature/primal power source that druids do.

But the nature/primal source is supposed to draw from the feywild? Feywild=Arcane is what I thought I read. So if that is the case are we going to have an arcane barbarian and an arcane druid. The druid bothers me none what-so-ever. The arcane barbarian does bother me though

 

[Generico]

Ninja should definitely be in there. I imagine it as a striker class that could possibly combine the martial and the arcane power sources. In myth, ninjas are known for their seemingly magical abilities more than just their martial prowess.

 

[Mouseferatu]

But the nature/primal source is supposed to draw from the feywild? Feywild=Arcane is what I thought I read.

Nope. The Feywild may have a lot of arcane aspects, but it's not the source of arcane magic.

And I have no idea if the natural/wild/primal/whatever power source that druids call on is Feywild-based or not. But they're definitely not arcane characters.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

But the nature/primal source is supposed to draw from the feywild? Feywild=Arcane is what I thought I read.

I don't think they've ever said that the primal source has anything to do with the feywild. I'm guessing it will be connected to the elemental chaos and the primordials.

 

[The Little Raven]

Hmm, that is good.
Shadow power source classes:
Illusionist (Controller)
Necromancer (Leader)
Assassin Shadowdancer (Striker)

As Veiled Assassin is one of the paragon paths, I don't think Assassin will be a base class in any official D&D material. The spellcasting assassin of 3e will probably disappear entirely.

Monk should be a psionic striker

Keep your psionics away from my Ki!

and samurai should be a warlord or fighter hence martial.

If Samurai is to be a core class, then it would be Ki. If you want to represent a samurai (the caste) as fighter/warlord, then that's entirely different than a new class.

Source?

Races and Classes.

 

[Darkwolf71]

As they've already stated that the Barbarian is the same power source as the Druid, I highly doubt he'll be in this book.

Hmm, I had forgotten that.