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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8429944" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I find blank canvases incredibly daunting. Analysis paralysis means I never get anywhere. It applies to almost every creative thing I do--give me a prompt and I can write wonders, ever since I was a kid that was the case. Give me the non-prompt "Write a story that interests you" and I'm completely lost. It's a bit like someone saying, "Cook me food that's tasty" when you have the option to cook literally actually anything. There's so many things that could qualify as "tasty."I've always been drawn to classes that have some kind of story or direction to them, with only one noteworthy exception. I love Paladins, Sorcerers, Warlocks, Shamans, Avengers, Swordmages, Monks...all classes with a starting flavor or style. In the rare cases where I don't like that flavor or it doesn't work for my purposes, I'm quite comfortable asking if it can be tweaked or changed. I find the reverse--taking an ultra-generic class and adding flavor to it--an almost unachievable thing.The one and only time I've found a "generic" option compelling was the 4e Brawler Fighter. Chokeslamming dragons is just to gorram frellin' metal to not be compelling. I've no idea what I'd DO with it, but I always wanted to do something.Edit: For a hopefully useful analogy, a class with built-in flavor is like having one restaurant very close to where you live, and other restaurants far away. You can choose to go elsewhere if you wish to, you aren't shackled to that one close one. But it's convenient. For me, choosing which class I play is like choosing which of 7 otherwise-identical apartments to live in, which have one restaurant next door and all other restaurants at least a mile away.An "open" class (I personally prefer "blank," but I get that these are colored by our biases) is like picking a similarly identical apartment where all the restaurants that I like are equally far away, so it's always the same amount of effort no matter which one you want to eat at. I'm left paralyzed by indecision, because I like all of the restaurants equally and they're all equally difficult to get to.Alternatively, if you're familiar with Buridan's ass, that's exactly what it is. I am caught perfectly between metaphorical hunger and metaphorical thirst, and thus die of starvation and dehydration despite being within sight of fixes for both issues.</blockquote>

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