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Absolutely disagree with Binder as a subclass of warlock. When 4e did that they killed all the unique flavour of the Binder. Yes Binders and warlocks make pacts, but Binders don't use arcane magic, the Binder doesn't draw power from the weave or its shedded equivant, or from the life force living creatures like in Darksun, it, draws power from vestiges, beings trapped between existance and obivion, not even close enough to reality to even be undead. There magic itself is a violation of reality in a way even the far realms can't do. In 3.5 the binder had supernatural magic, which meant many antimagic tricks didn't work on it because it wasn't normal magic, it didn't follow the normal laws of magic because it was outside existance. This being outside existance is why you could use the Karus vestige not just in the realms, but in Athas and any other world because obivion is an equal distance from everywhere and having previously in one world and not another doesn't change the fact that you don't exist now, every where.

I want them to bring back the sigils and all the wierdness of Binders, the creepy voyeristic quality, the occasional phyical and mental manifestations, the tragic and/or horrorifying stories of the vestiges, all of it.

I always wanted to play a Synad Binder who learns the sigils from the darkest recesses of collective, the parts of the collective born of Synads that had gone mad studying forbidden lore.

Oh and they shouldn't use con, the origional used charisma.

Btw the spellplague shouldn't have effected Binders, they didn't use the weave or any source power in reality.

Another thought if elemental magic is the building blocks of other forms of magic, then Binders would be an exception because they're magic comes from obivion and its mere existance is a violated of existance. Its not even shadow because shadows existance, they have a place in reality, vestiges aren't even shadows.

I have thought about the archtype of warrior monk, like jedi from Star Wars.


I like look for names using words from Latin and Greek (I don´t know other languanges) and I have chosen the word "cofrater". Is like Spanish word "Cofrade" (= "brother", member of a "cofradia" or religious brotherhood).

The D&D cofrater class....would be a ki+incarnum, psionic or divine class? One of three if gamer chose the corresponding subclass. If avenger was a 4th Ed class...why not use the "cofrater" idea to create a wannabe jedi D&D class? 


* I like the idea of factotum like thief + "divine" hybrid class.

And bard using game mechanic for magic songs like the truename from "Tome of Magic".

* Crusader is a interesting archetype. That name should used for a true class. I imagine its background like the avenger, the divine striker from 4th ed, with a open door to use (ki) maneuvers. More offensive that paladin.

* Urban Druid? I would use the name "aurispice"

* Witch doctor? I don´t like that name, it is horrible, I would rather "Tagati" or "umthakathi"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagati

I think umthakathi is more politically correct to name a Hougan (male voodo priest) like spellcaster. Vodoo is a real religion, and maybe we shouldn´t use that name for D&D characters (but generic names). 

* Other name I have thought is "sequitor", (From Latin,) follower of a cult, group or leader.

I thought the name Fidel (=faithful, loyal, devoted, believer) but it make us rebember Fidel Castro and I changed my opinion.

 * I like the idea of the favored souls like "cousins" of clerics. It is a open door to create stories about fictional D&D religions. 

Clerics, favored souls and (psionic) ardents can have got a hate-love relation, antagonism sometimes, grazing heresy sometime, or confront official teocracy directly.

 But they need something more about background and game mechanic. It can´t be only the divine equivalente to arcane socerer and wearing armour. Maybe a special gift to counter-spell.

* A alternative name for runepriest could be scribe.

* Can the vates (=prophet) be a D&D class?

 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vates

I have found a new word: Cataphract, the classic "knight/cavalier", fighter with heavy armour.

Other name for knight or noble could be hidalgo (=son of "something"). 

* I think some classes need more that a build or subcalls, need a true variant, like from "Unearther Arcana" 3.5. Ed.

We only need some changes in the basic list of class features, for example the fighter loses heavy armour proficiency and get other benefit to be a swashbuckler or a gladiator. 

* A alternative name for warlord could be "adalid". 

* I would like a paladin variant to play a warden without heavy armour closer to 4th Ed version, like a mixture of paladin and ranger...

* Do you rebember the oriental wu jen? Wu means socerer or shaman. I think there is a great potential, because in the otaku fiction magical girls are very popular. I imagine the wu jen like a mixture of wizard and shaman, like a civil servant for the Celestial Court.  





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