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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9349334" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Arguably, the only classes that are truly necessary are fighter and magic user. The question one has to answer is why have more classes? In D&D, the answer is mostly “because a previous edition had it,” and if you follow that chain back far enough, you hit the bedrock of “because someone in Gary and/or Dave’s game wanted to play a media reference that the existing classes didn’t express well.” Clerics exist because the wizard didn’t do a good enough Hammer Horror VanHelsing impression. Rogues exist because the fighter didn’t do a good enough Grey Mouser impression. Paladins exist because fighters and clerics didn’t do a good enough Roland impression. And rangers exist because fighters and rogues didn’t do a good enough Aragorn impression.Do we still need those classes? Not necessarily. Do they expand the range of characters players can easily express? Yes.</blockquote>