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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6603801" data-attributes="member: 92511">Champion: "I'm a fighter. I fight." Hit hard. Hit often. Don't apologize for it. I can be the "easy/low work" entry level class. I can be the prototypical zero-to-hero. I can be the complex background, the hard-edged heart of gold, the risen slave and the warrior-king. I can be heavily specialized or deadly with anything I pick up. I might have trained years or just figured out how to swing an axe this morning. I am the mercenary, the guardsman, the swordsman, the gladiator, the archer. I can be the battled-hardened solider, the shining knight, and barbarian, too, if I want.Battlemaster: "I am a student of the art of battle." I have trained. I have practiced. I size up the battlefield. I strategize. I have maneuvers and tricks that effect others' attacks, as well as my own. I am more likely to be an officer in the army than the fodder. A leader, at least in potential, moreso than a follower. I am the studied/formally trained knight, the samurai, the warlord, the captain-at-arms. My specialization and education gives me more options on the battlefield and off, for a player that might want a more complex character/options to choose from. Eldritch Knight: "I am a Fighter/Mage." I am of a specialized order/training that combined martial prowess with magical know-how. My weapons aid my magic, my magic aids my weapons. I do not hit as hard as the Champion. I do not command a battlefield like the Battlemaster. But I have magic to assist me in combat and/or get me out of tight spots. As others have said, the B/X/BECM "Elf", the quintessential AD&D Fighter/Magic-user multiclassed elf, the Bladesinger, Spellsword, and a hundred other archetypes magicky-warriors...You just don't have to be an elf anymore. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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