Matticusrex
2017-04-12, 12:52 PM
This an attempt to get all martials closer to the power and versatility of a caster while still keeping their identity. The changes made here give the classes more to work with while fixing some of the problems in their under preforming archetypes. There are also a few homebrew archetypes not tested yet so keep that in mind.
These two homebrews have seem a couple months of play now in one of my groups (full of optimizer types) and so far it has been a success in getting those kinds of players to enjoy these classes more without making them too overbearing (although wizards still trump them :P). From testing I have found that while casters can still get ahead, the power gap in both combat and rollplay is much better like that of a paladin or revised ranger. I'm sure there is still some tinkering needed as some of the changes are big so I would like to get your specific opinions on individual mechanics within the classes.
My group plans to work on barbarian and monk next and eventually reach a new bar of power level as we dont enjoy the current bar.
Also theses are not meant to be multi-classed currently.
Fighter
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MDSR8W_RAQzoVi4kpkGu3zYP1k0oO2YT5xRFm7w2jjU/edit?usp=sharing
Rogue
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YzipRQ8YRgnl2UHGTrMr_zan515Pj_3nfkDW4js4WzU/edit?usp=sharing
These two homebrews have seem a couple months of play now in one of my groups (full of optimizer types) and so far it has been a success in getting those kinds of players to enjoy these classes more without making them too overbearing (although wizards still trump them :P). From testing I have found that while casters can still get ahead, the power gap in both combat and rollplay is much better like that of a paladin or revised ranger. I'm sure there is still some tinkering needed as some of the changes are big so I would like to get your specific opinions on individual mechanics within the classes.
My group plans to work on barbarian and monk next and eventually reach a new bar of power level as we dont enjoy the current bar.
Also theses are not meant to be multi-classed currently.
Fighter
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MDSR8W_RAQzoVi4kpkGu3zYP1k0oO2YT5xRFm7w2jjU/edit?usp=sharing
Rogue
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YzipRQ8YRgnl2UHGTrMr_zan515Pj_3nfkDW4js4WzU/edit?usp=sharing