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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5798193" data-attributes="member: 92511"><p>I'm spinning this off of the "Classes of 5e (now with 90% less speculation)" thread.</p><p></p><p>As posted by Aldarc</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am so intrigued with this, I thought I'd make this separate thread for exploring just this.</p><p></p><p>I am leaving out the "What makes a...?" question.</p><p>1) Because I think it meshes a bit with "How are --- conceptually different from other classes?"</p><p>2) I feel it might get into the mechanical minutia that just begs for arguments and edition citations, which is not what these questions are designed to answer. If the only difference of "what makes a ---" is its mechanics, then that doesn't seem to be enough, imho.</p><p>and 3) Really is/could be answered in "fluff/flavor" terms which, I feel, then would be narrowing of perceptions of the archetype...which I think should be kept broad to facilitate whatever the player wants to do with the class and, again, lead to undesirable disagreement. </p><p></p><p>So...for the purposes of this thread: Take a class and answer these basic but poignant questions.</p><p></p><p>Try to keep it brief...if it can't be done in, say 1-3 sentences...ok, let's make it 4 (since I know once we move into more specialized classes more specific details might be necessary)...if it can't be done in 4 sentences or less it might be worth questioning the validity/importance/necessity of making that separate class. </p><p></p><p><strong>1) What is a ---?</strong></p><p><strong>2) How do --- conceptually differ from other classes?</strong></p><p><strong>3) What justifies the existence of --- as a class?</strong></p><p></p><p>It would be my contention that a class that can not answer these questions really has not business a) being a class in the first place or b) at least getting relegated to some supplemental material, but not appear in the initial release.</p><p></p><p>I responded, in the previous thread, with Aldarc's example. So, to get things started:</p><p> </p><p>And Happy Sunday, all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>--Steel Dragons</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 5798193, member: 92511"] I'm spinning this off of the "Classes of 5e (now with 90% less speculation)" thread. As posted by Aldarc I am so intrigued with this, I thought I'd make this separate thread for exploring just this. I am leaving out the "What makes a...?" question. 1) Because I think it meshes a bit with "How are --- conceptually different from other classes?" 2) I feel it might get into the mechanical minutia that just begs for arguments and edition citations, which is not what these questions are designed to answer. If the only difference of "what makes a ---" is its mechanics, then that doesn't seem to be enough, imho. and 3) Really is/could be answered in "fluff/flavor" terms which, I feel, then would be narrowing of perceptions of the archetype...which I think should be kept broad to facilitate whatever the player wants to do with the class and, again, lead to undesirable disagreement. So...for the purposes of this thread: Take a class and answer these basic but poignant questions. Try to keep it brief...if it can't be done in, say 1-3 sentences...ok, let's make it 4 (since I know once we move into more specialized classes more specific details might be necessary)...if it can't be done in 4 sentences or less it might be worth questioning the validity/importance/necessity of making that separate class. [B]1) What is a ---? 2) How do --- conceptually differ from other classes? 3) What justifies the existence of --- as a class?[/B] It would be my contention that a class that can not answer these questions really has not business a) being a class in the first place or b) at least getting relegated to some supplemental material, but not appear in the initial release. I responded, in the previous thread, with Aldarc's example. So, to get things started: And Happy Sunday, all. :) --Steel Dragons [/QUOTE]
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