Whizbang Dustyboots
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You're skipping part of what I wrote.Fenes said:Then play a fighter/rogue multiclass. Very viable as a duelist.
A rogue is balanced by having all of its abilities. A player choosing not to use some of those abilities to fit into a concept has an unbalanced (in the direction of being underpowered) character by definition.
A duelist shouldn't have the choice of being a crippled ranger or a crippled rogue. It's a major archetype -- certainly more vastly more prominent than the D&D cleric -- that simply cannot be built with just the PHB and measure up to other PHB characters. And when speaking of a combatant, that's an essential issue.