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Why everyone think that Battlemaster is better than Samurai?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7846869" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I feel like it was only called Samurai because the other archetypes had subclasses already named after them. It clearly fits the "cultured, spiritual warrior" archetype that exists in dozens of cultures around the world, and in our game it was taken as such immediately. Samurai is the most obvious "pop culture" reference for it so I suppose there's that.</p><p></p><p>It is hilariously OP when the 5MWD is in effect, I note, which is most days where overland travel is happening in D&D. We have a level 13 one and basically any NPC who gets in front of him is toast. He does fall back to reasonable levels as the number of encounters increases.</p><p></p><p>Name-wise he probably needs a non-real-world-related name. Samurai isn't great and something like Beau Sabreur is fun but would cause even more confusion, especially if people looked it up. Cavalier would have been perfect if generations of idiots hadn't superglued that name to horse-warriors. </p><p></p><p>Hero, Gallant or Vanquisher would be my top suggestions. All meaningless but Gallant sounds right and all would allow people to take the class for what it is without being confused or put off by the name. The player in my campaign had the name issue until we looked through the abilities and he was like this is "exactly right for my concept!".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7846869, member: 18"] I feel like it was only called Samurai because the other archetypes had subclasses already named after them. It clearly fits the "cultured, spiritual warrior" archetype that exists in dozens of cultures around the world, and in our game it was taken as such immediately. Samurai is the most obvious "pop culture" reference for it so I suppose there's that. It is hilariously OP when the 5MWD is in effect, I note, which is most days where overland travel is happening in D&D. We have a level 13 one and basically any NPC who gets in front of him is toast. He does fall back to reasonable levels as the number of encounters increases. Name-wise he probably needs a non-real-world-related name. Samurai isn't great and something like Beau Sabreur is fun but would cause even more confusion, especially if people looked it up. Cavalier would have been perfect if generations of idiots hadn't superglued that name to horse-warriors. Hero, Gallant or Vanquisher would be my top suggestions. All meaningless but Gallant sounds right and all would allow people to take the class for what it is without being confused or put off by the name. The player in my campaign had the name issue until we looked through the abilities and he was like this is "exactly right for my concept!". [/QUOTE]
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