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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5526634" data-attributes="member: 78116">More diverse PC classes are as good for me as a DM as they are for players. More options means more diversity in choices and means those choices are just as competitive. For me, I can understand if a PC says "I don't want to play a seeker" because it's plain garbage at the moment and goes with a wizard. One is a mostly broken class desperate for support while one has about 10 boatloads of stuff dumped on it on a regular basis. What would you rather play?Here is the stick though and you seem to have missed the point. The point is out of all of that what is getting support just thrown at it from every book that is released? The same stuff that has been since the start. I don't regard Slayers/Knights/Scouts/Thieves as anything more than bland boring Fighters/Rangers/Rogues. So we can write those off. The Hexblade has proved very confusing rules wise and has some issues, but ultimately they are a Warlock variant. At the same time, I do like the Warlock and wouldn't mind seeing what they're like once the class compendium article buffs their damage.The problem is though what out of that looks like it's going to get support? Oh, you mean every book published recently is giving the Wizard, Cleric, Paladin, Fighter, Rogue and Ranger support? Why yes, that's basically what has been happening lately. I mean I still get plenty of diversity, but that diversity isn't going to last if PCs figure that certain classes just won't have anything to look forward to in future. All the while Wizards pile yet more options onto the Mage/Wizard class. This means that some of those options just look worse and worse. Why play a controller likely to never get anything else when you could play the "I do everything and get endless support" Wizard?And yet I do. Because you seem to have missed the core point that people play what is best supported.You know why you don't see certain classes? Because they don't work well due to having no support or looking like they will get any. I didn't need to when Wizards were releasing interesting options and actually supporting them. I see things like Psionic characters because the support is actually good with PP. Lots of interesting builds and options. Stick a poor class like the Runepriest with hardly any options, some majorly confusing class features to get to grips with and no potential support ever - do you think that's a viable option?I have monsters for that same purpose actually, I get a lot of joy out of making new monsters, scenarios and traps. I get even more joy out of doing it to party compositions I've not seen commonly before and so will deal with it in different ways.I would of course love to be wrong, but right now I don't see a good future to DnD unless you're a wizard. The BoVD isn't a part of any future of DnD I am particularly interested in, because right now I've had very little to give me any faith in Wizards as a company are going to publish things I want.</blockquote>

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