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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GnomeWorks" data-source="post: 5867182" data-attributes="member: 162">Right... I'll agree that combat is a large part of D&D. There are going to be many classes good at it, but when you distill them down, they're almost always "fighter with a different flavor/approach/other non-combat stuff."Meh? I think I disagree. It's right there in the name: Fighter. If you want to be good at other stuff, too, don't play a fighter. Or multiclass. Or some other option. But the default stance of the fighter should be all about fighting.You're right, they won't. But that doesn't mean that everyone should be able to be good at everything.You are not your class. If they have any kind of functional multiclassing, this should be an obvious statement. Fighters should be, to use your metrics, 100/0/0 (or close to it). If you want more variety, invoke multiclassing. In this manner, if you want a mage who has some combat skill, take a level of fighter... likewise, if you want a fighter good at social stuff, take a level in a class that is good at that. Treat the classes more as parts of a buffet that each level grants you things that say "I am good at X," rather than considering them as strait-jackets.You don't "play a fighter." You play a character with fighter levels. An important distinction. This (hopefully) isn't going to be 4e with its weird roles and heavy-handed restrictions and take on multiclassing. Character design via classes will hopefully be a lot more fluid, similar to 3.5, without the higher-level fail that that method entailed.I'm not really sure what I think an assassin should be, but it would be a useful dumping ground for the rogue's combat ability. *shrug*In which case you would probably be of the opinion that the few base classes should cover as different ground as possible to ensure maximum coverage of the in-between areas.It doesn't make sense, in that vision, that both fighters and rogues should have combat ability, even if it's different. Rogues should be more exploration-focused, and fighters combat-focused. If you want to mix and match, then mix and match classes.</blockquote>

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