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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 7864620" data-attributes="member: 6807784">Alot of stuff said here that basically amounts to "Because you can reskin it, you shouldn't want anything else." But if reskinning is a catch-all swish army knife then that means it is only providing a very basic experience. This basic experience can be argued as good or bad for the mainstream; that's not my concern. My concern is how it feels for me and my group.For me and my group, we enjoy using game mechanics to set aside different concepts. We believe that the mechanics of D&D are what brings a story to life. This is a belief shared by Mearls and Crawford, who have stated that when they design rules, they are designing it to emulate certain story or trope ideas.Because of this, playing a Sorcerer, ignoring all the fluff, and then pretending that a Dragon Origin is actually a elementalist is not satisfying to us. It might be satisfying to you, and that's good, but your argument comes from a place of personal bias, and you are attempting to use it to invalidate the experiences of others.In my experience, at my table(s), we do not enjoy reskinning. To us, reskinning is at best a way to make something look cool, and is not used to make something, like say a Barbarian, pretend to be a Psion. We want mechanics to differentiate these story ideas, because this makes us feel as if we are doing something fresh, unique, and interesting.By all means, keep reskinning. That's good that you enjoy it. But everyone who comes into this thread and says "You should not want more classes because we can reskin stuff and we like that" does no favors for the conversation. It just ends up with people feeling attacked and invalidated because you people are so insistent on your way being the right way.EDIT: Pros and Cons is different then what is in a lot of this thread. A lot of this thread is instead people saying that we shouldn't want a new class because it can be created through some manner of frankenstein concepts and/or reskinning. There were some cons mentioned, like about class bloat and what not, but largely this conversation has just been about invalidating one side and pretending that your thoughts and feelings deserve a rebuttal.</blockquote>

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