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Just pointing out why the target being willing is an integral part of the warlord's abilities to work.

All which would be fine if Dark Sun was a separate game with its own PHB, DMG, and MM. But since its part of the larger D&D game, some refluffing is necessary to incorporate elements of the current rules into the setting without three 300 page tomes to catalogue every difference.

Depends on the edition. In AD&D, they get several benefits a human doesn't (infravision, slight resistance to sleep/charm) and have a wider selection of classes and multiclasses (ranger, druid, bard, cleric). Assuming you weren't expecting to play post 12th level, half-elf is strictly better...

Paladin: Your forces are beaten, Eye of Gruumsh. Surrender and I will spare you miserable life. Eye of Gruumsh: I surrender. ::Falls to his knees in front of paladins:: Warlord: He's too dangerous to leave alive. I use my commander's strike to make the paladin strike the Orc. Paladin...

Let it affect skills, saves, languagues known, and other "not as important to my day job" elements.

In 3.5, sure. In 5.5 they are much more complicated thanks to meta magic and sorcery points being a second resource to track.

When it comes to ability scores, BECMI had it right. Every score gives you a boost, but none directly affects your class except to boost your xp gain by 5%/10%. AD&D messed that up by making scores affect core competency in your class (Int affected wizard spells known and chance to learn, wisdom...

Ugh. No. I want ability scores to matter less, not more. As it stands, 5e actively makes you want to max your primary ability score to 20 ASAP for maximum effectiveness. While making attunement tied to con and or cha sounds like you are forcing hard choices, all you are doing is rewarding...

Consider this. My D&D game prior to Covid was a take on Savage Tides in Eberron. We got half way though one of the story beats when lockdown happened. We didn't get back to playing until over a year later and when we did, we started a new game. Does the Eberron game not count as a story because...

I won't say I know the details, but my guess is that classes are far more complex to put in the system and requires far more work to implement. More work = higher cost and maybe some publishers aren't willing to pay for it.

Classes are the hardest thing for them to put in char gen, and I think they charge a lot for them. Which is why there are only a handful (Artificer, blood hunter, gunslinger, illrigger and soon pugilist) that have been done.

Cmon Morrus. There has been a strong strain of people who refuse to even entertain the idea of allowing third party content (especially player options) because of the long standing belief 3pp is broken and amateurish. And that stain was formed in the early days of the ogl and products today...

Then the option is WotC ignoring you and most DMs remaining in the "no 3pp ever" stance that has been popular since the d20 glut exploded. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

You're never going to break the mentality that some things are more official than others. Some people will only buy dealership parts for their car or only use certified Microsoft products. Some people avoid fan patches for video games. The best you can do is have WotC give a thumbs up to 3pp...

Rewarding success is how I rather view it. Almost all the 3pp on beyond was already successful via word of mouth or Kickstarter. Nobody is saying Flee Mortals! Was nothing until WotC promoted it. But it did make it much easier for DMs who have been burned by 3pp content of dubious quality to say...

I've been thinking how you can make species traits more prominent and I'm increasingly at a loss except to give them moar powah! I mean, species already can fly, teleport, breathe fire, resist energy, heal with a touch, cast up to 2nd level spells, see in darkness, and grow large. What can you...

The one thing I can say with some certainty is that DnDBeyond integration has helped with legitimizing 3pp content with a larger selection of the player base. The blood hunter was essentially the D&D 13th class for a while, and there are people who will look at Grim Hollow or Crooked Moon or...

I legit wonder if mystic is more of a hint than we know at this time.

Thank you. [Office.gif] For everyone saying that the warlock is simple, they are forgetting it's the most complex class to build at level up. You have to decide if you are going gish or eb spam before you ever touch the class because that effects everything from your spells to invocations to...

It reminds me of the man who ate three eggs, a pat of butter, a cup of shredded cheese and some mushrooms, in order, and then declared he ate an omelette.