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<blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 2281491" data-attributes="member: 10825">That's exactly how it works, though. &quot;My lord, an orc horde is on the path.&quot; &quot;Well, assemble your men and prepare for battle. I'll make the plans, delegate, and give orders. I'll get my advisors, we'll mount up our horses, and we'll sit in our tents planning or trot around the back lines keeping formation and directing units. You guys do the fighting, I'll focus on leading.&quot;Leaders aren't supposed to be heroic. They're supposed to be leaders. And they don't last long as leaders by hanging around the front lines. They do say &quot;Gee, go kill it for me.&quot; Because that's what leaders do - tell other people to do something. They just say it with authority and command. Now, the aristocracy was often a warrior class. But their equipment generally far out-stripped anyone else's, they went mounted and, perhaps most importantly to note, they didn't get killed! They generally wound up getting kidnapped and ransomed off. A leader without the proper social skills is going to end up getting knocked out of office, because the level 20 so-and-so who can take on anyone, but lacks the diplomatic skills to keep out of war, the knowledge skills to win a war, and the savvy-skills to realize he's going to be betrayed, is going to wind up being kicked out of office by the level 9 Aristocrat who's focused on Bluff, Diplomacy, Knowledge (tactics), and Sense Motive, who knows that people don't get into office by being the most powerful, they get into office by having the most powerful friends. As Yair said, the best, most appropriate class for a leader is a bard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trickstergod, post: 2281491, member: 10825"] That's exactly how it works, though. "My lord, an orc horde is on the path." "Well, assemble your men and prepare for battle. I'll make the plans, delegate, and give orders. I'll get my advisors, we'll mount up our horses, and we'll sit in our tents planning or trot around the back lines keeping formation and directing units. You guys do the fighting, I'll focus on leading." Leaders aren't supposed to be heroic. They're supposed to be leaders. And they don't last long as leaders by hanging around the front lines. They do say "Gee, go kill it for me." Because that's what leaders do - tell other people to do something. They just say it with authority and command. Now, the aristocracy was often a warrior class. But their equipment generally far out-stripped anyone else's, they went mounted and, perhaps most importantly to note, they didn't get killed! They generally wound up getting kidnapped and ransomed off. A leader without the proper social skills is going to end up getting knocked out of office, because the level 20 so-and-so who can take on anyone, but lacks the diplomatic skills to keep out of war, the knowledge skills to win a war, and the savvy-skills to realize he's going to be betrayed, is going to wind up being kicked out of office by the level 9 Aristocrat who's focused on Bluff, Diplomacy, Knowledge (tactics), and Sense Motive, who knows that people don't get into office by being the most powerful, they get into office by having the most powerful friends. As Yair said, the best, most appropriate class for a leader is a bard. [/QUOTE]

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