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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9502531" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I did not say they were incapable of it. I said that they don't need it in order to do the task of being a meatshield. Which is simply true. You don't need a brain to be a spiky, hard-to-move barrier blocking the enemy. An inanimate object does that just fine. That's what fortifications with barbed wire are, after all. If "meatshield" is the long and short of what the martial character is doing, they are contributing nothing more than what an inanimate object could contribute (or, at most, an automaton.)An inanimate object cannot survey the battlefield, evaluate which spell would be most effective for that battlefield, and then deploy that spell in, hopefully, the most effective location. You need either an actual sapient brain, or something equivalent.What possible decisions can one make about "stand between allies and enemies, tanking hits, and retaliating"?What free thinking, thought, and care???Seriously. What thought is required to be an emplaced fortification?</blockquote>