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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pweent" data-source="post: 4007861" data-attributes="member: 15256">What I'm interested in seeing is whether the new "Roles" formulations loosens up party structure any more than the current edition. In our current party, the Cleric player wants to swap out his character with a Monk for a while. This is sending serious repercussions through the rest of the party as people try to figure out whether the Dragon Shaman and healing wands / potions can pick up the slack, or whether someone else will also want to swap out their character for a new primary healer. (This is in a 5 player party - Fighter/Barbarian, Binder, Beguiler, Dragon Shaman, Cleric.) To date, healing is the only really mandatory class slot we've HAD to have filled out. I'd love it if the 4e roles end up being more flexible, what with everyone having a certain amount of self-healing potential. I'm worried that we might find an even tighter situation though, where we're hosed unless SOMEONE is playing a defender, for example.</blockquote>