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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5996904" data-attributes="member: 54877">We do need some of that tight link, but to the extent we have it, it is about as far as one can get from &quot;modular&quot;.&nbsp;You can't finesse this issue.&nbsp; Either you have options or you don't.&nbsp; Either you have protected niches or you don't.&nbsp; Either class is the finest grain of main character option, or you have some tweaks at a finer level (e.g. specialties and backgrounds with meaning).&nbsp; You can make good decisions to have a good mix of all of them (what I would advocate), but it will be a mix.&nbsp;Moreover, since the play experience and archetypes overlap, I would expect the mechanics to do so as well, even accounting for your view.&nbsp; That's an argument for reusing a mechanic carefully, not avoiding it altogether--which in fairness you said in your reply to Umbran.&nbsp; I begin to suspect that it is the inability to finesse what real modularity means that is the root of our disagreement.&nbsp; I'm not willing to settle for false choices in the name of flavor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5996904, member: 54877"] We do need some of that tight link, but to the extent we have it, it is about as far as one can get from "modular". You can't finesse this issue. Either you have options or you don't. Either you have protected niches or you don't. Either class is the finest grain of main character option, or you have some tweaks at a finer level (e.g. specialties and backgrounds with meaning). You can make good decisions to have a good mix of all of them (what I would advocate), but it will be a mix. Moreover, since the play experience and archetypes overlap, I would expect the mechanics to do so as well, even accounting for your view. That's an argument for reusing a mechanic carefully, not avoiding it altogether--which in fairness you said in your reply to Umbran. I begin to suspect that it is the inability to finesse what real modularity means that is the root of our disagreement. I'm not willing to settle for false choices in the name of flavor. [/QUOTE]

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