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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 6029703" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>Sort of.</p><p></p><p>The meat and bread is the basic concept of the class (the fighter hitting things with weapons). Without these you don't have a sandwich...you have something else entirely. </p><p></p><p>The cheese is all of the essential stuff that binds the bread and meat together...skills and feats, for example. Without them you still have a sandwich, but most might think it was unsatisfying. (That said, lots of people take a "less is more" approach to sandwich building, and they prefer to leave the cheese out. That's cool too.) When I describe the cheese, I'm describing the skills/feats/weapon mastery/themes/etc.</p><p></p><p>The mayo is the extra stuff, all of the bells and whistles that are added solely to enhance the flavor of the sandwich, that you can't exactly scrape off if you don't want it. Some people think that the fighter is too dry and bland without special abilities (or powers, or maneuvers, spells, whatever) each round, for example, while others think that these things overpower the flavor of the class, and make it taste like something different. (Or worse: they make it taste like everything else on the menu.)</p><p></p><p>I know that the analogy starts to wear a little thin after a while. But this is what I was going for, more or less.</p><p></p><p>Now that is just evil.</p><p>*tummyrumble*</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 6029703, member: 50987"] Sort of. The meat and bread is the basic concept of the class (the fighter hitting things with weapons). Without these you don't have a sandwich...you have something else entirely. The cheese is all of the essential stuff that binds the bread and meat together...skills and feats, for example. Without them you still have a sandwich, but most might think it was unsatisfying. (That said, lots of people take a "less is more" approach to sandwich building, and they prefer to leave the cheese out. That's cool too.) When I describe the cheese, I'm describing the skills/feats/weapon mastery/themes/etc. The mayo is the extra stuff, all of the bells and whistles that are added solely to enhance the flavor of the sandwich, that you can't exactly scrape off if you don't want it. Some people think that the fighter is too dry and bland without special abilities (or powers, or maneuvers, spells, whatever) each round, for example, while others think that these things overpower the flavor of the class, and make it taste like something different. (Or worse: they make it taste like everything else on the menu.) I know that the analogy starts to wear a little thin after a while. But this is what I was going for, more or less. Now that is just evil. *tummyrumble* [/QUOTE]
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