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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8250978" data-attributes="member: 6796468">I'm saying that Fighter means a -lot- of things in almost every setting.Fighter means Knight, and Pit Fighter, it means Warrior and Bruiser. It means Archer and Soldier and more. It doesn't have a single definition in most settings. And again, this isn't about Nomenclature, Minigiant. If your setting has Grofpbits in it who function as Sorcerers, the class. Who do the Magical Lineage/Random Chance/Whatever it is for your setting, then Sorcerer and Grofpbit are synonyms and the class fantasy for Sorcerer exists in the setting under the name &quot;Grofpbit&quot;.If your setting has Lineage Sorcerers as &quot;Inheritors&quot; and Freak Accident Sorcerers as &quot;Aberrants&quot; and people who gain Sorcerer abilities from Exposure to Magical Powers as &quot;The Afflicted&quot; then the class fantasy of Sorcerer exists in the setting and Sorcerer -means- something as a class in the cultural narrative, even if all of these Sorcerer-types use different subclasses. It also means that someone could role up a Fiend Warlock and claim that rather than a Patron they're an &quot;Inheritor&quot; of power from a Tiefling Ancestor (Assuming those things all exist) 'cause the concept is represented in the setting.Whether it has a single definition or is an umbrella term for multiple things it still gets represented in the narrative and -means- something.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8250978, member: 6796468"] I'm saying that Fighter means a -lot- of things in almost every setting. Fighter means Knight, and Pit Fighter, it means Warrior and Bruiser. It means Archer and Soldier and more. It doesn't have a single definition in most settings. And again, this isn't about Nomenclature, Minigiant. If your setting has Grofpbits in it who function as Sorcerers, the class. Who do the Magical Lineage/Random Chance/Whatever it is for your setting, then Sorcerer and Grofpbit are synonyms and the class fantasy for Sorcerer exists in the setting under the name "Grofpbit". If your setting has Lineage Sorcerers as "Inheritors" and Freak Accident Sorcerers as "Aberrants" and people who gain Sorcerer abilities from Exposure to Magical Powers as "The Afflicted" then the class fantasy of Sorcerer exists in the setting and Sorcerer -means- something as a class in the cultural narrative, even if all of these Sorcerer-types use different subclasses. It also means that someone could role up a Fiend Warlock and claim that rather than a Patron they're an "Inheritor" of power from a Tiefling Ancestor (Assuming those things all exist) 'cause the concept is represented in the setting. Whether it has a single definition or is an umbrella term for multiple things it still gets represented in the narrative and -means- something. [/QUOTE]

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