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D&D General What Classes Would You Add to D&D?
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- Shifter. Druid + More Wildshapes - Spells
- Like the Movie Druid
- More Wildshapes, turning into no animals, shapeshifing into people
- 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
- 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
LuisCarlos17f
Legend
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.
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.
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
Hero
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
Hero
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
Legend
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.
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
One day, I hope to actually play DnD.
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
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
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