Most veteran players will tell you fighters are amazing. (Who guessed it?) And they don’t feel that way when all they do is attack less, do less damage, have less health, and less AC then a lot of people at the table. What new players actually wants is to be heroes. However, I find that, usually, this issue of players having too many things they don’t understand comes more from having too many players and a bad DM. New players will understand what is happening in-game better when they have the abilities in front of them spelled out perfectly. They’ll ask “Why don’t I have these crazy abilities? I want to be able to summon a storm from the sky.” A Champion Fighter is great for players of ALL experience levels.īut let’s be real, no matter what, new players still will be sitting there in confusion as they notice any spellcaster at the table flinging spells. Getting so many extra attacks, a bit of healing, and buffing saving throws while augmenting their attacks with extra abilities means that a new player can spend their turn understanding all of the other rules of D&D instead of barely understanding their class. True, they don’t have a massive list of features a new player has to sift through whenever it’s their turn. However, it appears far too many of us think it’s for beginners because they don’t have much to worry about. The fighter, as a class, is considered great for new players – especially the Champion Fighter. To be clear, a Champion Fighter is a subclass that can be chosen at level three in the fighter class. You don’t know what seasoned players want either. If you think a champion fighter build can’t compete, you clearly don’t know what new players want. Experienced players want something with lots of abilities, and Champion Fighter can’t compete with other classes? That is not true. Apparently, the thinking is that – because they are so basic, boring and “easy” – more experienced players have no interest in them. When I hear, or read, that Champion Fighters are only for beginners, my blood boils. A Champion Fighter build in 5e is outstanding no matter what level D&D player you are. If you're the kind of person that like tinkering with the numbers, there's a lot of things you can do to adjust monsters and personalize them to the needs of your adventure.I hear all the time that Champion Fighters are really only for new players. Maybe you're playing in the world of Greek Myth, and this Medusa is THE Medusa - the cursed priestess from whom all later medusas take their name - maybe she has 19 Hit Dice, and a +4 to Constitution? Or maybe her armor class is higher, because she uses a shield, and she has reach because she has longer hair and uses a spear. And, of course, you can turn that around. Reducing the Medusa's effective level like that would also, one would imagine, mean that she has a weaker petrifying gaze, so maybe the save vs. You might say that this Medusa hasn't been a Medusa that long, so maybe they only have 14 Hit Dice, or 12, and drop both the Hit Dice and the Constitution multipliers. You can take that Constitution down from +3 to +2, or +1, and have a corresponding drop in HP. But let's say that your Medusa was sickly, or a plague victim prior to the curse - or that they were a child.
So you can reduce the HP by essentially reducing the monster's level. And that's a handy way to adjust existing monsters.įor example, if you want to include a Medusa in an adventure because they're cool and it makes sense in the story, but your players' characters are all 3rd level, it's likely that they're going to make a lovely addition to her statuary collection.
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