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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6729576" data-attributes="member: 42582">This was addressed pretty well by [MENTION=6749563]JohnLynch[/MENTION]. The warlord is a non-magical character. Much like the rogue or fighter. The warlord is not a magician or miracle-worker.Generally, I understand "reflavouring" meaning to change the flavour text but leave the mechanics intact.This means that there are limits to reflavouring. You can't reflavour a fireball as a cold ball, for instance, because mechanically it delivers fire damage rather than ice damage.In the case of the cleric, the bulk of the character's abilities are mechanically defined as spells: they have to be prepared (in spell slots), they have casting components, they are defeated by an anti-magic field, etc.That is the obstacle to reflavouring the cleric as non-magical.Conversely, nothing would stop anyone reflavouring a warlord as magical, because where using the spell mechanics is a sufficient condition for an ability in 5e being magical, it is not necessary. 5e uses a plethora of mechanics for representing supernatural ability (not just spells but all sorts of other class features like invocations, channel divinity, etc). Nothing about a 5e warlord's mechanics would get in the way of interpreting the abilities as supernatural.</blockquote>