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When did the Fighter become "defender"?
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<blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 5905898" data-attributes="member: 20805"><p>Go back a couple years on this board and look up the "class as group of abilities" versus "class as character" debate over the barbarian.</p><p> One side contended that you can not take a level of barbarian after 1st level because barbarian means being raised in an uncivilized tribe.....</p><p></p><p>Regarding the edition war.. got two sides here. One is saying that the one first level class ability forces a player of a fighter to play bodyguard.</p><p> The other side is saying that the one first level ability allows the Pc to be better at the stereotypical role of the class, but other choices allow you to build up other abilities.</p><p></p><p> The first view goes counter to my experience, as related back on page 4 or so, where the fighter in my group ties up and beats down on the bad guys so much that the rest of the group is protected from damage.</p><p></p><p> Those proponents of the first view are relentless at restating their position without acknowledgement of the other sides view and experience. So for me, thanks for playing... but I have nothing more to add that hasn't been ignored already.</p><p></p><p>Peace out!</p><p></p><p>Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 2</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Primitive Screwhead, post: 5905898, member: 20805"] Go back a couple years on this board and look up the "class as group of abilities" versus "class as character" debate over the barbarian. One side contended that you can not take a level of barbarian after 1st level because barbarian means being raised in an uncivilized tribe..... Regarding the edition war.. got two sides here. One is saying that the one first level class ability forces a player of a fighter to play bodyguard. The other side is saying that the one first level ability allows the Pc to be better at the stereotypical role of the class, but other choices allow you to build up other abilities. The first view goes counter to my experience, as related back on page 4 or so, where the fighter in my group ties up and beats down on the bad guys so much that the rest of the group is protected from damage. Those proponents of the first view are relentless at restating their position without acknowledgement of the other sides view and experience. So for me, thanks for playing... but I have nothing more to add that hasn't been ignored already. Peace out! Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 2 [/QUOTE]
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