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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mattachine" data-source="post: 5827294" data-attributes="member: 6678226">Like some of the other threads on this board, it seems one camp is arguing, "Please make the game only play this way, my preferred way," and another camp is arguing, "Make the game this way, my preferred way, but include the option to play it another way or ignore it."What is the harm in starting from a baseline where all classes can be effective in each area? Individual players are still free to make a character (and play that character) as unskilled or reluctant in given situations. It's a roleplaying game.Example: In a long 3.5 campaign I played a rogue/wiz/arcane trickster, from level 1 to level 19. Though, in game mechanic terms, he became fairly powerful, I always played him as a bit of a coward, very cautious in combat, often fleeing for the first round and then coming back with stealth or a spell. He was also the comic relief. I could have played him differently, but I established a certain personality for him that was great fun.Now, one might say, "Well, you played him as a coward, but with his hit points, saves, and abilities, that was unrealistic." My answer: "The other PCs can't see his character sheet."Though the game gave me the ability to be good at combat (baseline), I CHOSE to play one less focused on combat, and more focused on being the comic relief.</blockquote>