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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6762687" data-attributes="member: 16814">I'll give you my answer:  because having classes be rigidly defined in the setting takes work.  I have to write that into my fiction.  I can't just go with warrior being a catch all for martially focused characters and NPCs, I now have to have a game fiction for why a fighter is concretely different from a no-spell archetype ranger.  Yes, they have slightly different mechanics, but they both effectively do the same things -- kill stuff with weapons.  Further, I have to have a reason to separate the different archetypes under each of the classes.  The material provided doesn't do this, either in the PHB or in the various (light) settings provided.  So either I have a case where people know things about other people based on a class name without good reasons (default), which breaks narratives for me, or I have to do the work to give in-game reasons why people might know why a Fighter is different from a Ranger.Now, that's my hangup, certainly.  I have the need to present an internally consistent narrative, to a first approximation at least.  I don't want to create groups and fiction and schools for all of the various classes, and then do it again if I introduce a customized class due to a player request.  I'd much rather keep such things below the level of 'reality' in-game and have people identify, not by class, but by feats and possibly membership in known organization (like being a Guild Mage, which has a specific meaning with most members being abjuration wizards, but there's room for other casters in their ranks).</blockquote>

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