February Subclass Poll (Patreon)

Hey Folks-

Here's the February subclass poll, as well as the winners of the last subclass poll.

#1 Winner of the December Subclass Poll, Thug Rogue with 40 votes.

This is a pretty straight forward idea—there's others out there, but this is my take on it. The idea is that they are a brawler that specializes in exploiting advantages and beating down opponents, though cannot quite soak up the same punishment as something like a Fighter Brawler or a Way of Outcast Monk. A lot of the features are just mitigating the effect of specializing in Strength (armor, shields, etc), but they won't play like a classic Rogue.

The great at grabbing and beating folks though, which is what I wanted to make sure they had nailed down giving the theme. It'll need some tweaks for D&D 2024 users where Expertise doesn't interact with Grappling. Will put a note in for that at some point.

The 5th level feature comes from 5e++, which is why its optional, and why I didn't mind it integrating with my other content.

#2 Winner of the December Subclass Poll, Way of the Closed Fists... wait, what? That's not what won...

Let me explain. The second place winner was Way of a Thousand Fists. And I made it that. But when I posted some early looks on it, some people felt it needed more juice—more stuff.

At the same time I was also having people ask for 'what about the opposite, a Way of One Punch' or something like that.

So, after some discussions on the Discord in the Drafting Room, I decided to follow suggestions and put up mini-lightning round poll over there if I should expand the subclass into a broader concept—one that could keep most of the original features, but also cover this second concept, by being more of a Battlemaster of Monks—a 'build your own fist fighter' style approach, that can go toward either extreme.

I realize that the name theme are a bit weaker, but I think it makes up for that by letting the player have a bit more freedom. After all theme and narrative are what players bring to their character, so its probably fine if the subclass is a bit more generic if gives them all the tools they need to build a character.

Note: these have not been added to the Playtest Packet. The Playtest Packet is currently being edited. I will add these to it as soon as I get it back from editors.

For the time being, they are in a temp doc here: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-Oj3pDMH8_fj7ZOxpd-Z

February Subclass Poll

Now... onto the next poll! This poll is curated by having only classes that have 1 or fewer classes in the Playtest Packet. The current breakdown is:

Bard: 0

Barbarian: 1

Cleric: 3

Druid: 1

Fighter: 1

Inventor: 2

Monk: 3

Occultist: 2

Psion: 1

Paladin: 0

Ranger: 1

Rogue: 2

Sorcerer: 1

Spellblade: 1

Warden: 1

Warlock: 2

Warlord: 0

Wizard: 3

So that leaves Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Fighter, Psion, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Spellblade, Warden, and Warlord. Going to drop Psion from that list since development of those takes a bit longer, so it'll be restricted to another Kibbles-class Poll.

As always, you can vote for all the options you'd like to see. Poll will run for a week.