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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 1239219" data-attributes="member: 5834">reI don't think the class needs to be historically accurate, but it should be customizable to fit a variety of visions of the Samurai. The OA Samurai did this just fine. The Samurai basically is a fighter with a few tweaks, and I don't see why it needed any seasoning considering it was nicely customizable. The Prc's in OA allowed a Samurai to individualize his or her path to an even greater degree. They should have just made a few Prc's specifically geared towards the Samurai in the CW, rather than making a limiting Samurai core class.This new Samurai limits the playable Samurai archetypes. And for those of us who like Samurai and know about the various archetypes, the new Samurai is far too constraining.Like me for example, I am currently playing a fictional Samurai based on the Samurai in the film Yojimbo, a two-handed Katana wielder. That movie really made me want to play a Samurai. If only the CW version of the Samurai were available, I wouldn't be able to do it. Now it seems to me that James Wyatt did alot research when making OA. He made a customizable Samurai class that could fit a variety of archetypes as well as do well in a fantasy setting. I don't see why the designers of the CW couldn't see that James Wyatt's version of the Samurai was far superior to their creation for a core class.Now if this new Samurai were a Prc, I wouldn't have batted an eyelash. Why? Because it would have simply been a way to create a particular Samurai archetype, and that would have been fine. Instead, this new version of the Samurai is a core class forcing a particular archetype on anyone who wants to play a Samurai. IMO, that shouldn't have been the case. It shows a lack of research by the designer of the Samurai core class into the variety of Samurai archetypes (fictional and historical-for example, there were even female Samurai that used a polearm as a primary weapon) that exist.</blockquote>

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