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<blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 4049328" data-attributes="member: 15999">Yeah, I can see that from the 4E point of view with its focus on roles.Myself, I am used to 2E's approach, where the fighter class is just a set of abilities that can be used to model dozens of archetypes.&nbsp; &quot;The questing knight, the conquering overlord, the king's champion, the elite foot soldier, the hardened mercenary, and the bandit king...&quot;&nbsp; The fighter was also the best class to use for an archer because of weapon specialization's effect on ROF.&nbsp; Then there were the kits that fighters could take: swashbuckler, gladiator, samurai, barbarian, and many more.&nbsp; While I certainly understood that some types of fighters would be in the thick of things trying to draw attacks, others would work more at avoiding attacks.&nbsp; Starting in BECMI, I probably did have a pretty limited view of what the fighter class was.&nbsp; Then 2E showed me &quot;The fighter class is ALL of these things, not just the tank.&quot;&nbsp; 3E kept that going, with its very flexible multiclassing system and the benefits to playing a mobile, tactical fighter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brother MacLaren, post: 4049328, member: 15999"] Yeah, I can see that from the 4E point of view with its focus on roles. Myself, I am used to 2E's approach, where the fighter class is just a set of abilities that can be used to model dozens of archetypes. "The questing knight, the conquering overlord, the king's champion, the elite foot soldier, the hardened mercenary, and the bandit king..." The fighter was also the best class to use for an archer because of weapon specialization's effect on ROF. Then there were the kits that fighters could take: swashbuckler, gladiator, samurai, barbarian, and many more. While I certainly understood that some types of fighters would be in the thick of things trying to draw attacks, others would work more at avoiding attacks. Starting in BECMI, I probably did have a pretty limited view of what the fighter class was. Then 2E showed me "The fighter class is ALL of these things, not just the tank." 3E kept that going, with its very flexible multiclassing system and the benefits to playing a mobile, tactical fighter. [/QUOTE]

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