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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8307013" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Three questions nagging at me right now...1) How important is it to have the related classes get totally separate write ups if they follow much of the same rules and tables and share, say, 1/2ish of the fluff?&nbsp; How bad would it be to have a Wizard, Bloodline Wizard, Witch, and full-caster Bard all written up together as the&nbsp; &quot;incanters&quot; or &quot;arcanists&quot; who study spells, but then have them pick a school, bloodline powers, a patron and hexes, or songs res[ectively?&nbsp; If you do that, is it bad if some of the spells are lower level for one variant than the other?&nbsp; Would you still refer to them as four separate classes? 2) In Pathfinder, Magus fills the &quot;1/2 fighter 1/2 wizard slot&quot;.&nbsp; What is the name for a 1/2 fighter 1/2 witch?&nbsp; Should there be a 1/2 thief 1/2 caster?&nbsp;&nbsp; What is an all caster bard?&nbsp; 3) Should all the caster types you find in the world actually be usefully playable as PCs? I can imagine game worlds where there should be folks who enchant items, alchemists, people doing things with runes, and full-on healers.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; One option is to just have separate rules for them, but then you get complaints they do things no PC could ever do.&nbsp; Is it bad to have them have a class... like an old NPC class... that most PCs would never choose but I guess they could multi-class into?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or does there need to be a variant like in PF where the alchemist can go all Jekyll and Hyde and throw explosives to make them combat useful but not fit the usual stereotype?&nbsp; If there was&nbsp; a full-caster non-melee cleric, 1/2 caster cleric, and minimal caster paladin in the world at large, does the full-caster non-melee cleric need to have an option to make them like a blaster or super-buffer , or is it ok that there are just some character ideas that would stay at home?&nbsp; (Is it ok that the stay-at-home sage with a sponsor, friends, and budget knows a ton more about things in general than the bard who spends a huge chunk of their time fighting and singing too).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8307013, member: 6701124"] Three questions nagging at me right now... 1) How important is it to have the related classes get totally separate write ups if they follow much of the same rules and tables and share, say, 1/2ish of the fluff? How bad would it be to have a Wizard, Bloodline Wizard, Witch, and full-caster Bard all written up together as the "incanters" or "arcanists" who study spells, but then have them pick a school, bloodline powers, a patron and hexes, or songs res[ectively? If you do that, is it bad if some of the spells are lower level for one variant than the other? Would you still refer to them as four separate classes? 2) In Pathfinder, Magus fills the "1/2 fighter 1/2 wizard slot". What is the name for a 1/2 fighter 1/2 witch? Should there be a 1/2 thief 1/2 caster? What is an all caster bard? 3) Should all the caster types you find in the world actually be usefully playable as PCs? I can imagine game worlds where there should be folks who enchant items, alchemists, people doing things with runes, and full-on healers. One option is to just have separate rules for them, but then you get complaints they do things no PC could ever do. Is it bad to have them have a class... like an old NPC class... that most PCs would never choose but I guess they could multi-class into? Or does there need to be a variant like in PF where the alchemist can go all Jekyll and Hyde and throw explosives to make them combat useful but not fit the usual stereotype? If there was a full-caster non-melee cleric, 1/2 caster cleric, and minimal caster paladin in the world at large, does the full-caster non-melee cleric need to have an option to make them like a blaster or super-buffer , or is it ok that there are just some character ideas that would stay at home? (Is it ok that the stay-at-home sage with a sponsor, friends, and budget knows a ton more about things in general than the bard who spends a huge chunk of their time fighting and singing too). [/QUOTE]

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