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<blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 4071752" data-attributes="member: 32164">I think you're spot-on.However, I think that Third Edition put the designers firmly in the &quot;not-flexible&quot; class role - to an extent. Without some form of niche protection, you end up with classes like the bard, who have no niche, and therefore no role. They're suboptimal at everything, which is hardly conducive to play. At the other extreme, there are classes like the cleric and druid, who can outdo everyone else.Fourth Edition aims to change that, I believe, by protecting a niche for every class. That way, the rogue can't easily subsume the ranger's role, or the bard's, and make those classes utterly unnecessary. Likewise, the fighter just isn't going to be as good an archer as the ranger.To some extent, the wizard and cleric have always had this niche protection (maybe even TOO much). Nobody tramples on the wizard's mastery of the arcane, and nobody can heal quite like the cleric.But for the martial characters, it's always been a bit more of a free-for-all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnSnow, post: 4071752, member: 32164"] I think you're spot-on. However, I think that Third Edition put the designers firmly in the "not-flexible" class role - to an extent. Without some form of niche protection, you end up with classes like the bard, who have no niche, and therefore no role. They're suboptimal at everything, which is hardly conducive to play. At the other extreme, there are classes like the cleric and druid, who can outdo everyone else. Fourth Edition aims to change that, I believe, by protecting a niche for every class. That way, the rogue can't easily subsume the ranger's role, or the bard's, and make those classes utterly unnecessary. Likewise, the fighter just isn't going to be as good an archer as the ranger. To some extent, the wizard and cleric have always had this niche protection (maybe even TOO much). Nobody tramples on the wizard's mastery of the arcane, and nobody can heal quite like the cleric. But for the martial characters, it's always been a bit more of a free-for-all. [/QUOTE]

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