All CHA classes synergise well anyway, but provided the cohorts scale, this would potentially enable a brutal Paladin / Princess pet build. Ask your GM to let you fluff your heavy armour as a fairly extravagant gown - all those bones in the corsetry have got to have some protection value, right? - and not even Exalted would have anything on this.
Princess doesn't need to wear physical armor. She has Charismatic Armor, the equivalent of Unarmored Defense using CHA instead of CON. If nothing else, I am robbing this feature.
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I will try to keep that from happening again
I feel like level 1-20 is presented out of sense of completeness and it is not necessary or even desirable to use those higher levels. I cap at 12 because that is roughly akin to the peak of heroic human potential- Conan, Merlin, John Carter, etc. Beyond that you start getting into superhero powers that require a measure of rules mastery to adequately challenge players.
I love that game. It's bad, but it's fun!
If the guy who made Age of Barbarian would publish his lore/Writer's Bible I would flesh it out into a 5e setting. It has everything I want in a setting: loincloth barbarians, bikini heroines, dinosaurs, Lovecraftian monsters, ape men, savage wilderness, and lurid action-driven gameplay.
Could be fun.
Should not be too hard, as the 5e chassis pretty transparent and robust. The tier pattern for 20 levels is 4,6,6,4 -- so just halve twenty levels to ten, then do same to that pattern: 2,3,3,2. After that you can play named level domain games or whatever. Also given each class gets like 4 ASIs (some like the fighter getting 7 ASIs) that cuts down compression and editing quite a bit. Nothing mandates stat boosts and feats to be tied to the level track so tight, if even used at all (e.g. the lack of ASIs could excuse higher than +2 magic gear).
What sort of classes, and their feature priorities, do you wish focus on? This would be a rather easy exercise for another 5e DIY topic.
Yeah, it's a really good mechanic. I think it would work really well as a feat, because it's slightly stronger than an armour proficiency alone, but it's probably all close enough to not really matter much.
(e.g. Reducing Tier Two from 6 levels to 3 means plucking out three XP lvls, so choose every other one to maintain the progression rate.)
To be fair, WoTC has been making some odd decisions of late that have nothing to do with D&D then forcing them INTO D&D.
Necrozius Unfortunately I find it impossible to ignore culture war garbage on Twitter so I don't have an account either even though I'd like to follow a few favorite creators. I couldn't agree more. Bagging on 5e is about as transgressive as trashing Walmart.
The larger and more omnipresent it gets, the more vocal its detractors will be and the more vocal supporters of alternate versions will be to try and cut through the 5e signal. Nature of the beast. Black Flag may not have been concerned with Poison, but Black Flag fans probably laughed at Poison every chance they could. If we had Twitter back then, who knows what the fandom would have gotten up to?
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Doesn't sound that dramatic. It sounding like Wizards is adapting Adventure in Middle Earth backgrounds.
It does make me worry a bit that we'll end up with a bunch of characters that all share the same "unique" background which has the most powerful 3-4 features... I'll reserve judgement until I see the final version though.
I think you could easily enough just give 2 levels for every level. +2HD and whatever leveling benefits.
I haven't run 5E, but I have played it and run plenty of other D&D editions. I have no problem with setting rules on what classes are permissible. The Druid strikes me as one of the most reasonable classes to ban. It's an alternate version of another class, and its existence comes with setting assumptions. It's signature shtick of shapechanging doesn't say "druid" to me either. Like the D&D Barbarian, it fails to capture my vision of that archetype.
Yes, the Monk, it's that kid who only ever wants to play 'A Ninja', he has to have the super sword, the pajamas and the magic abilities. It doesn't matter if Arabia, India, Renaissance Italy or a super science fiction in an alternate galaxy. It just doesn't fit MOST D&D settings.
