For me, though, it completely fails to do what it ought to do. This definitely bumps the Fighter up a tad. The most popular homebrew Fighter is probably Pathfinder's (yes I just called Pathfinder homebrew, I'm just winding you up ). I would rather Fighters not be able to do 1000 damage on a Charge if that's their one trick, and instead do a lot more things moderately well. Right now, a Fighter can do a lot of things if he picks the right feats, but long feats chains and feat taxes mean that even with all those bonus feats it's hard to get everything you could want, and the nature of 3.5 means that you really need to focus in on just one or two things. Thus, our aim should be to diversify the Fighter's abilities. They also tend to have few options, if any, other than hitting things. The problem is dealing with all the other stuff which is stopping them from being able to hit things.

Martial characters tend to work pretty well at the low levels when 'hit things' is a very viable strategy and in fact one of the deadlier ones, and even at low levels they tend to be able to hit things pretty well just from full BAB etc. Worth noting that if I were redesigning 3.5 from scratch, I'd do things differently since I'm thinking of houserules for a game, the smaller the number of changes and the simpler, the better (so, 'Fighters get feats every level' gets bonus points as compared with some complex set of new mechanics).Īlso, I'm just kicking around ideas here I'm less concerned about a finished thing and more about the principles. I'm not planning on running another game any time soon, though, so I figured I'd throw my ideas out for discussion/comments/suggestions/whatever. However, I agree the Fighter could use a bit of love and so next time I run a game I'm planning on applying some houserules to bump it up a teeny bit (or full-on homebrewing a new version of the class, more or less). I've commented critically on a proposed homebrew Fighter or two, even. There've been a few discussions on these boards about the Fighter (and martials vs casters, etc).

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