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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6761858" data-attributes="member: 11146">Do class have a concrete meaning in my games?It depends!Sometimes classes have a concrete meaning, and sometimes they do not.  Not only can it vary from one game to the next whether classes have concrete meaning, it varies intra-party in the same game.  Happily, 5e is especially accommodating of my brand of waffling.  I'll clarify a little.  I mostly DM.  I like my players to have a broad spectrum of source material available to them as they draft their characters because I have found the broader their selection, the more frequently a player will be inspired by a class, archetype, feat, piece of equipment, spell, or option.  And it's really the inspiration that I find exciting.  Heck, the player may not even take the option that inspired her, choosing instead to draft a more mainstream character concept...but the idea for that concept will remain and have been born of some quirky tidbit she read elsewhere.  This is a Good Thing!  Some of my players seem to prefer characters that draw on classes that have concrete meaning.  They'll create, for example, a LG Paladin and cite the Paladin class's rules mechanics as support for their must-save-the-downtrodden roleplay.  Others of my players dream up a character in their head, then use the available source material to support their vision.  And so that's how I wind up with a mixed-bag party, some who expect classes to have concrete meaning during play and others who don't.  Both are valid design choices.When I play, I tilt more toward drafting characters that I dream up in my head first and attempt to shoehorn into an existing class second.  So, yeah, it depends.  I'm constantly learning, so I wouldn't want it any other way.</blockquote>

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