Chessmasters & Commanders: The Noble Class
Added 2015-08-28 18:12:11 +0000 UTCWe have a special treat to round out August - a new class! The full 20-level noble class is able to command and inspire through three paths - the Path of the Heart, the Path of the Brave, and the Path of the Tactician. By A. Nova; illustrated by Ellis Goodson and Shannon White.
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So I backed your patreon, and I came over to look at this article first, because I am interested in this type of character, and it is a good judge article as to whether I want to continue backing. Here is the problems: 1. The no proficiencies thing is just silly. Give them Simple weapons at the least, I would also give light armor proficiency. 2. There is no reason to remove proficiencies with Path of the Heart, giving them disadvantage is strong enough of a penalty to discourage ever actually striking with a weapon. Also, because of their 10+Cha+Dex AC, removing the light armor proficiency is completely unnecessary. REMOVING things is weird, what happens if you retrain out, do you regain them? What if you are multiclass, and pick up Noble later, do you somehow forget how to use weapons? 3. The way the starting equipment is written just shows an ignorance of how those lists are written. What about a high dex Noble? Might want to start with Leather armor instead. What about a dagger? or maybe a ranged weapon of some type. 4. Path of Tactician bonus proficiencies basically railroad characters into the writer's perception of "tactical weapons" which apparently means "the ones constantly abused in builds because of reach and polearm master". They are already some of the strongest weapons in the game, so why not just give martial weapon proficieincy to allow actual variety. 5. Vicarious Attack and Direct Ally are basically the same ability (until it allows the use of 1 action spells/attack action). It is clunky duplication, especially on the exact same class. This is the kind of class I would be very interested in playing, but it feels like this was written by someone who did not grasp 5e well enough to be writing for pay.
Nicholas Palmer
2017-04-18 20:47:38 +0000 UTCIt has no proficiencies! None! Not a single class gets no weapon proficiency. I mean yeah the subclasses grant them, but given they all grant simple weapons /except/ the one that already makes them lose proficiency, why not start them with simple weapon proficiency? Edit: You have path feature listed at 18th, but the features themselves say 17th. Edit numero 2: Is it just me or does the Path of the Heart seem more tactical than the Path of the Tactician?
Yunru
2015-09-26 20:16:36 +0000 UTCI really didn't want to like this because I was hoping to write up a 5th edition Warlord myself. But this is actually a really solid class and I'm impressed. Well done.
John Lynch
2015-09-18 17:13:16 +0000 UTCNo blue link below and to the left of the preview image?
DnD EN5ider
2015-08-29 02:22:26 +0000 UTCThere is no link to download <no punctuation="" to="" make="" up="" for="" the="" extra="" punctuation="" in="" the="" previous="" post="">
Eric Vaessen
2015-08-29 02:15:53 +0000 UTCI'd need more information, and possibly fewer question marks, to attempt an answer to that question! What appears to the the problem?
DnD EN5ider
2015-08-29 02:11:30 +0000 UTCHow come I can't download this??
Eric Vaessen
2015-08-29 01:59:57 +0000 UTCReally good on first read! My friends and I are simultaneously laughing at Path of the Heart and really tempted to try it out. Several character ideas already.
Fiona Elliott
2015-08-28 20:56:51 +0000 UTC
