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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6198391" data-attributes="member: 2525">That's not how it works, and they've already explained that's not how it works.Wherever they categorize them.  As long as you can think of two primary categories they could be included in, tagging them with one of those will cause no harm, but will get all the benefits (listed at the end of this post).I honestly don't care - it's just a helpful tag to say "X is somewhat similar to Y", not color to aid your role playing.  Do you think you'd play your Assassin different if it had a Trickster label on it in the index? 3e had lots of prestige classes open to classes outside of the theme of the supplement they were listed in, did anyone get bothered about that?Aw come on, people have listed half a dozen explanations for the organizational and other benefits here, you just have not read any of those?They've explained there will be some rare items where they will include "Mages only" as a restriction.  It's not all, it's not most, it's rare, but that's helpful.They've explained "The King of Thieves only trusts Rogues in his lair" as a shorthand tool for using the class tag.  That's helpful.Several people have explained how the classes can be listed as "Warriors" in the index, with a sub-heading for each warrior sub-class, as a helpful way of organizing the material in the index.I've explained, at some length, how transitioning from a Basic set with four classes to an Advanced set with many classes is aided by the similarity of tags between the Basic and Advanced editions.All these benefits carry through to future supplements, and even sub-classes WOTC hasn't even thought of yet, provided they include the class tag on those future classes.Those are all small but real benefits from this system. There, now you can say you've read them - they exist.  You can disagree that they will be helpful for your game, but you can't say nobody will get use out of them.  I think I will.</blockquote>

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