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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9774995" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Just to be clear:Designing the classes to fulfill a role does not mean "This is the only thing this class does or the only way to play this class".A Paladin is designed to be a tank as far as D&D terms go. So's a Barbarian. But you can play them both as tanks or skirmishers or whatever. Or design a Paladin Archer Archetype that allows them to Smite with arrows.Clerics are meant to be healers/support. But you can slap the War domain on those bad boys and wade into melee with Spirit Guardians on to wipe out chunks of the battlefield.These kinds of options would still be built into a Swordmage, for example. But the Swordmage class, conceptually, would be designed to fulfill the tank role in the same way the Paladin is. Does that help folks understand where I'm going with this?</blockquote>