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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7050698" data-attributes="member: 996">Not 'adequately' for a concept focused on that, but 'adequately' for the 'anyone should be able to do it' side of the design conundrum, certainly.  That's already covered, and could be expanded if new optional mechanics are introduce.Not so much of a stretch with Robin Hood, since he was a classic 'leader' of a band of 'merry' men. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (Nor Robin, who'd be more the sidekick type, for that matter, oddly enough).  And, in 5e, where there's not the lead to keep the Warlord locked in the 'Leader'-Role box, 'tactical' could easily include tactics that use the terrain, or the enemy's proclivities (even strength) against them, as well as coordinating and enhancing allies in the more traditional 'support' way.But, yeah, in the past 'Batman' has more often been used to refer to an optimized Wizard build, of all things. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I see.  Yes, I can see how it'd get trickier to keep the mechanic viable/workable in the blanket anytime-you-provoke form, than in the active form.  I was thinking it could be actively applied when you'd otherwise provoke, giving it a protection-from-OA side, as well, for instance, as a maneuver or something.  For instance, you declare the maneuver when you perform a provoking action.  If the enemy goes for it, you can roll your CS die, applying the result to both the enemy's OA (as a penalty) and the ally's (as a bonus).  Yeah, that way there's a meta-game incentive for the DM to take the OA, since not doing so leaves you the CS die and you can do it again later.  A solid 'catch-22.' That last is certainly a much smaller set than 'all classes,' but it seems like 5e has many potential mechanisms to make new combat abilities embodied in a new version of a prior-ed core class available to members of other classes.  The class write-up could include feats akin to Martial Adept, a Background evoking a bit of the class's ability, or even archetypes of other classes using the new sub-system; if that's an expanded the maneuver sub-system, it could lift the BM on the same tide;  If it weren't, any ol' fan could design it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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