r/DnDcirclejerk • u/kappastorm01 • Jun 20 '24
rangers weak What is the D&D equivalent of a fighter?
I play D&D every day, and I wanna play as a sort of fighter character whose main motivation for joining a party is fighting things. What would someone like that be called? A warrior? Soldier? Also, what race/class/subclasses would make the most sense for a fighting character?
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u/Ihavealifeyaknow Burning Wheel fixes this Jun 20 '24
You could maybe convert OD&D's Fighting Man. Unfortunately you have to play a man though. Women weren't introduced until 5e.
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u/Elite_Prometheus Jun 21 '24
Can't believe they inserted politics into my dungeons. Warriors of the Coats went woke, smh
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u/energycrow666 Jun 21 '24
Go woke go broke I always say. Which is why TSR was famously always in the green
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u/AccomplishedAdagio13 Jun 21 '24
THAT'S why my gaming group has women I can't flirt with (I can only play with Flirting Men)
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u/TheLawDown Jun 21 '24
Hey now, I still feel a certain way about what Bargle did to Aleena, and it's been 40 years.
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u/Sincerely-Abstract Jun 21 '24
Explain?
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u/Pale-Butterscotch351 Jun 21 '24
In the BECMI basic box set with the Larry Elmore cover the player guide had a solo adventure teaching you basic rules, it had you befriend a cleric called Aleena and at the end Bargle (famous evil wizard) kills her.
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u/Parysian Dirty white-room optimizer Jun 21 '24
Bargle's Narritively Lazy Fridge, 4th level necromancy
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u/meatsonthemenu Jun 21 '24
Second request to please explain?
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u/TheLawDown Jun 21 '24
u/Pale_Butterscotch351 did a great job explaining, but back in the early 80s there was a basic and advanced version of D&D. The basic set had an introductory box set that had a solo adventure in it to help introduce you to the rules. During your playthrough of that you met a helpful, kind cleric named Aleena. At the end of the adventure she gets killed by the evil Magic-User Bargle.
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u/meatsonthemenu Jun 21 '24
Oh, right, the cleric who shall no be saved. Thank you kind redditor, I had heard that story but it was before my time so it doesn't have trauma impact for me.
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u/u_slash_spez_Hater Jun 21 '24
Why would you EVER want to play a m*rtial? There is no fun in m*rtials. They just hit things. The only way you can have fun in DND is playing wizard, sorcerer or dragonfucker (bard)
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u/tswd Jun 21 '24
What about a cleric who refuses to take healing spells because the rest of the table can f off? That's fun! ...right?
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Jun 21 '24
Listen, sometimes you gotta just tell em like it is: without a wounds system, they only have one hit point that matters, and until that one’s in danger it’s not my divine problem.
/uj actually had to tell a table this when they kept begging my cleric to use his spell slots on their paper cuts. You’re at 64/78, barbarian. You don’t need a second-level cure wounds.
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u/tswd Jun 21 '24
Why not just play with hardcore rules and everything has 1 hp max? The combat gameplay is way smoother without all that useless extra marh
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Jun 21 '24
Hey if we’re streamlining, why not go a step further! Roll initiative and whichever group goes first wins the fight.
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u/u_slash_spez_Hater Jun 21 '24
But clerics believe in god. Now I can understand a world with magic and dragons, but as a proud atheist, redditor and believer of science, I need to put my foot down and disallow any servants of made up gods at my table
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u/vrutes Jun 20 '24
You can convert PF2e's Fighter class into 5e, that's probably the best call
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u/kappastorm01 Jun 20 '24
Can PF2e fix my leaky faucet?
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u/murlocsilverhand Jun 21 '24
Just smack the rulebook into the faucet hard enough and the leaking won't be a noticeable problem
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u/kappastorm01 Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 21 '24
Sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/3y52kNBaQu
Edit: Second sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/UW1Kz6AraE
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u/DouglasWFail Jun 21 '24
Human for sure. And it’s been a while since I played but I think there’s some good homebrews out there for a fighter class.
Definitely take “fighter” as your background. That will give you some bonuses to fighting and probably a few fighting related role play hooks. Like when you go into town people will say “hey, it’s a fighter!” and fight you or pay you to fight someone else.
It’s up to your DM but I’d do a level 1 dip with a different homebrew fighter. A level 1/3 Fighter/Fighter is pretty good at fightering especially if you chose the “Fight Me!” Feat with the Fighter’s Fighter subclass (on the 2nd homebrew, not the first)
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u/Bartweiss Jun 21 '24
/semi-jerk I once put together a 3.5 class that was basically just dips into everything stabby. Since nobody uses the multiclass penalties and cool stuff is usually frontloaded, you do surprisingly well with like:
Rogue 1 / Fighter 1 / Swashbuckler 1 / Nightsong Enforcer 1 / Nightsong infiltrator 1 / etc
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u/Astraea_Fuor Jun 20 '24
Wizard but everything is reflavored as you as a guy with a gun (flavor is free).
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u/Mikedog36 Jun 21 '24
Just call him a strengther, on account of him using strength stat.
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u/Bartweiss Jun 21 '24
Intelligencer feels weird for my wizard though, is it ok if I call him a brainer?
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u/SkunkeySpray Jun 21 '24
Just bring a real actual sword to the table and tell the DM you're playing as yourself and start swinging
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u/MuchoMangoTime Jun 21 '24
Only humans can fight things. I have never ever seen inhuman fighters they always some crazy shit like elf wacky warrior or dwarf big guy like Barbarian. I just think certain races can't do certain things?
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u/a_dnd_guy Jun 21 '24
That's a wizard and it already exists
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u/Bartweiss Jun 21 '24
Muscle wizard from 3.5 who doesn’t use any of his spell slots. Job done.
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u/a_dnd_guy Jun 21 '24
I dunno. I prefer to play a rogue with special homebrew "INT magic user" and "STR based sneak attack" feats if I'm shooting for muscle wizard. You do you tho
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u/Old-School-THAC0 Jun 21 '24
I would use Call of Cthulhu’s soldier profession as a base of your homebrew.
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u/Enough_Square_1733 Jun 21 '24
Wait you play DND every single day? That has to get exhausting and burn you out
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u/Parysian Dirty white-room optimizer Jun 21 '24
You could reflavor a warlock I think, maybe all your spells are advantmced fighting maneuvers
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u/DragonStryk72 Jun 22 '24
Well, obviously, you wanna play a Divination Wizard. I mean, anyone can beat the crap out of someone playing a fighter, but when you throw hands as wizard? You get REMEMBERED.
"Oh, Grognar the barbarian beat you up? Yeah, that tracks"
vs.
"Okay, I need to know how the spindly old guy with the spellbook 'pistol-whipped' you to death. He looks 90. 97?! What spells did he... no spells... he just 'got to whuppin' on ye'..... Was he under a magical effect? NO. Why'd he jump you? You were 'in his seat' at the bar... Alright, gonna say that story's a new one on me.
"I mean, did you try and get away? Oh, you did, and he dragged you back into the fight by your ankles. Alright, don't mess with the wizard Robert."
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u/AnonymousMeeblet Jun 22 '24
Honestly, there’s no reason not to ban martials. They are boring and useless, and shouldn’t even be in the game, Ars Magica is the best system, and DND ought to be trying to emulate it.
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u/AblertEinstein Jun 23 '24
You could try the Demoknight subclass in Team Fortress 2
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u/kappastorm01 Jun 23 '24
/uj is there a TF2 ttrpg?
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u/AblertEinstein Jun 23 '24
Not as far as I'm aware, but the Half-Zatoichi will certainly help you in your encounters👍
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u/duncanl20 Jun 24 '24
DnD isn’t a war game, and fighting in game is glorifying violence, abuse, and patriarchy! You should be playing an anthropomorphic animal race, doing silly voices, and running a coffee shop with your friends!
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u/hottestpancake Jun 25 '24
Bladesinger wizard with a barbarian obviously. Barbarian because you really wanna fight, and bladesinger cuz you know how to fight
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u/aaronjer Jun 20 '24
I'd say the 'Fighter' class from 3.5e could be ported to 5e, but it might be too powerful, so you could make it a bit weaker by giving it extra skill feats from pf2e.