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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8251041" data-attributes="member: 6796468">I understand your point from a grammatical standpoint. But to quote the Bard:“What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; so Romeo would, were he not Romeo called.”Fighters are roses. There are many kinds of fighters, as many kinds as there are breeds of roses. But a Floribunda Rose, for all it's beauty, is not all that a Rose can be, nor a Knight all that a Fighter can be.Nor does the title of &quot;Rose&quot; become diminished just because there's only a single &quot;Corpse Flower&quot; (Amorphophallus Titanum) in the whole plant kingdom.There is a point where words becoming meaningless by definition, so dilute and diverse that they essentially mean nothing. But fighter? I do not agree that it is anywhere near that point.Because it's about the Class Fantasy. And the Class Fantasy of Fighter is &quot;Hits other people with a weapon -really- well!&quot;. And yeah, it's definitely a hell of a lot broader than the class fantasy of a Warlock... but it's not impossibly so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8251041, member: 6796468"] I understand your point from a grammatical standpoint. But to quote the Bard: “[B]What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; so Romeo would, were he not Romeo called[/B].” Fighters are roses. There are many kinds of fighters, as many kinds as there are breeds of roses. But a Floribunda Rose, for all it's beauty, is not all that a Rose can be, nor a Knight all that a Fighter can be. Nor does the title of "Rose" become diminished just because there's only a single "Corpse Flower" (Amorphophallus Titanum) in the whole plant kingdom. There is a point where words becoming meaningless by definition, so dilute and diverse that they essentially mean nothing. But fighter? I do not agree that it is anywhere near that point. Because it's about the Class Fantasy. And the Class Fantasy of Fighter is "Hits other people with a weapon -really- well!". And yeah, it's definitely a hell of a lot broader than the class fantasy of a Warlock... but it's not impossibly so. [/QUOTE]

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