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"Having a fast-build melee character, an all-ranged party, a melee build with feats, a rogue build without feats, or not having a wizard in the party are all bad things."
FALSE: There is nothing wrong with any of these things.
If a party wants to go all-ranged because ranged characters are obviously better, or a melee character wants to take a fast build with feats because a fast feat build is obviously better than a slow featless build, or a player of an arcane character wants to play a warlock, bard or sorcerer rather than a wizard... that's completely okay. There are no issues with any of these character choices occurring, the players will all be happy, and the game will be fine! Yay!
You know... unless of course its the DM who is bored with seeing these same characters over and over and over again. But then again, who gives a hoot if the DM is tired of seeing these characters types repeatedly? They aren't the one playing the characters.
But if it really matters that much to the DM, maybe what they really need to do is either change how they dungeonmaster or get new players so that making these same character choices over and over and over again is not so important to everybody? These character selections are occurring repeatedly for a reason. If that's really an issue, maybe the DM just needs to change the reason from happening anymore? Dump the offenders who do nothing but min-mix all the time and find players for whom character comes first. Then the DM can finally see a party with a Swashbuckler Rogue, Eagle Totem Barbarian, and Transmuter Wizard.
"Having a fast-build melee character, an all-ranged party, a melee build with feats, a rogue build without feats, or not having a wizard in the party are all bad things."
FALSE: There is nothing wrong with any of these things.
If a party wants to go all-ranged because ranged characters are obviously better, or a melee character wants to take a fast build with feats because a fast feat build is obviously better than a slow featless build, or a player of an arcane character wants to play a warlock, bard or sorcerer rather than a wizard... that's completely okay. There are no issues with any of these character choices occurring, the players will all be happy, and the game will be fine! Yay!
You know... unless of course its the DM who is bored with seeing these same characters over and over and over again. But then again, who gives a hoot if the DM is tired of seeing these characters types repeatedly? They aren't the one playing the characters.
But if it really matters that much to the DM, maybe what they really need to do is either change how they dungeonmaster or get new players so that making these same character choices over and over and over again is not so important to everybody? These character selections are occurring repeatedly for a reason. If that's really an issue, maybe the DM just needs to change the reason from happening anymore? Dump the offenders who do nothing but min-mix all the time and find players for whom character comes first. Then the DM can finally see a party with a Swashbuckler Rogue, Eagle Totem Barbarian, and Transmuter Wizard.