D&D General What Classes Would You Add to D&D?

[Azzy]

Warlord (I never played 4e, but it sounds like a fun class... and it'll fun watching the wailing and gnashing of teeth).
Psion (3.5e style).

 

[Tonguez]

Warlord
Priest (non militant)
Diplomat/Merchant
Witch/Shaman

 

[Minigiant]

1. Shifter. Druid + More Wildshapes - Spells
   • Like the Movie Druid
   • More Wildshapes, turning into no animals, shapeshifing into people
2. Chosen. Warlock + More Invocations - Spell
   • Your Patron Gives you MUSCLES instead of spells
   • Think Captain America, Lady Thor, Shazam, He-Man, Warhammer's Grail Knights and Chaos Marines
3. Arcanist/Warmage: Wizard + More Cantrips - Spells
   • Buff multiple Cantrips not just one
   • Great class for beginners
   • No resource management unless you spec into spells as a subclass
   • PEW PEW 5 different ways

That's along with the Duelist and Warlord.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I miss the psionic mystic and the "ardent", the psi-cousin of clerics and paladins.

I love the concept of the vestige binder.

Something like the shadowcaster, but elementalist, for all type of elements. But this can await.

"Nahualt", a primal defender focused into beast shapesifting.

I have thought about shaman like a merger of the vestige binder and the incarnum totemist.

An update of the martial adepts (crusader, warblade and swordsage) but with a simple and faster gameplay.

Something like a remake of the incarnum soulborn or incarnate, but more focused into some summoned allies or ectoplasmatic exosuits.

Duskblade, but more like a remake of the swordsage, using arcane maneuvers instead classic spells. It wouldn't be at-will catrips, but the reload should be fast and simple, maybe only a concentration check. Or dracolyte like an arcane fighter.

Slayer, like a remake of avenger class, a remake of assasin, mixture of stealth and divine power to terminate undead, infernal and other unholy monsters.

The factotum from Dungeonscape could be like a "choose a different subclass every day". It could be useful to playtest new classes with special game mechanics.

 

[Clint_L]

Maybe shaman? But that could probably be a sub-class of druid. I dunno - I'd rather have fewer classes than more, TBH. Most of the suggestions seem like they could work just fine as sub-classes.

 

[James Gasik]

Maybe shaman? But that could probably be a sub-class of druid. I dunno - I'd rather have fewer classes than more, TBH. Most of the suggestions seem like they could work just fine as sub-classes.

Maybe a variant Druid that strips out Wild Shape for Totem abilities like the Wolf Totem power of the Barbarian (that I've never seen taken over Bear, but seems pretty good).

 

[Frozen_Heart]

Ah this thread again. Ok these are the ones I'd pick for a 'PHB 2'

• Warlord - Support based martial.
• Swordmage - Arcane half caster with an elemental theme. Spellstrike as main class feature.
• Psion - Will points caster.
• Pet Class - Pathfinder calls it the summoner, but that's a pretty bad name. Single pet, with different creature types being subclasses. Can also work as a mount if you go a particular route.
• Artificer - Being in a PHB 2 means it actually gets support.
• Maybe Shaman - I see tons of mentions of the class, but know almost nothing about it.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

I find the number of classes to be very dependent on edition. 5E has a hard time justifying a new class, usually only to fit into a specific setting. Older editions tended to use new classes as a way to add new character concepts, which 5E just uses sub-classes for. The only one I feel that could be added (if they ever decided on how to work it mechanically) would be the Psion.

I feel this works in theory, but in practice 5e subclasses are such a tiny part of the power budget that they completely fail to scratch the same itch as when they were a full class.

Some classes are worse than others for this.

If subclasses were a big part of the mechanical identity, I wouldn't mind going down to just 3 or 4 classes.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I imagine the monster-trainer class with game mechanics of the incarnum.

And the warlord would be a martial adept with the maneuvers of the school of the white raven. Of course it would need a lot of playtesting because the effects could be radically different when it is a little group of heroes or an army in a mass battle.

 

[CreamCloud0]

this was mentioned in another thread recently so i have my list primed

warlord
swordmage
psion
dedicated shapeshifter/monster class
dedicated summoner/pet class

i wonder if you could eek out a ranged weapon focus 'sniper' class, like ranger is often assumed to be that but it doesn't really have a ton of tools to lean into the playstyle beyond a small handful of those ranged weapon based spells