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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7083312" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>[MENTION=82504]Garthanos[/MENTION] had a theory that the caster|fighter double-standard that pervades D&D was a 'revenge of the nerds' power-fantasy.  D&D is a nerd game, nerds and jocks didn't exactly get along in high school, intellectual casters are the stand-in for the nerds, big dumb fighters & barbarians for the jocks.  Since the nerds made the game, the nerd-identification classes are Tier 1, while the Jock-identified classes are Tier 5.  I suppose we could go into more detail mapping D&D classes to high school cliques, and Bards would be, IDK, band geeks.</p></blockquote><p></p>