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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 5823798" data-attributes="member: 924">While it's certainly true that popular culture was behind adding more classes to the game, I think the real main reason is that people simply want to play themBack then, people would read a book or watch a movie/show and think "Hey, I'd like to play that in a game".And D&D was open enough that they could do that. Sure, maybe it doesn't make sense, sure some things overlap, but D&D was always meant to be a game first.Nowadays it seems like people want to simulate things first, worry about the game later.The Monk was clearly from Kung-Fu. The Ranger obviously from Tolkien. The Paladin from 3 of Hearts, 3 of Lions.The Assassin was from I think the first Kane novel, where Kane had a sidekick named Arbas the Assassin.Arthur is an interesting one - while I would imagine that the movie Excalibur probably was the reason for the Cavalier class, some versions of the stories probably would put Arthur and many of his men as Barbarians.</blockquote>