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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6016727" data-attributes="member: 3192">All of these things overlap. A creature is made of magic for a magic-user to explore, a combatant for a fighter to fight with or against, and has some degree of sentience for a cleric to aid or abuse. There is no magic encounter or fighter encounter, though some may have less to do with some classes than others. (It's hard to talk your way through a locked door for example --- but the cleric might through people on the other side or those with keys.)Different classes facing the same encounter are going to receive different XP amounts for doing different things even though they all were in on the action. And that still doesn't stop players from acting outside their class role, just for how they receive XP for the session. If everyone is best off fighting fisticuffs, then every can do so (at least those with fists). It's about niche protection, who's best at what, and what you came to play for. You pick the game play / play style that you prefer with the understanding that under certain game situation you'll still find it easier to step outside of that focus to achieve your goals. [Part of deliberately limiting some classes like Paladin in scope is to design for these temptations, providing benefits for working within the smaller space, and losses if one opts not to.] Overall objectives set by the team in a cooperative game can be more interesting when the team can bring more options to the table and all that variety then intermixes making things fun (and even more challenging since it isn't Hulk Smash every time).</blockquote>

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