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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7841618" data-attributes="member: 20564">Okay, the blacksmith with a sword&quot;, or rather &quot;the commoner who takes up a weapon and makes good&quot; is a common archetype found through stories, legends and myths.&nbsp; D&amp;D needs to be able to handle it.&nbsp; I think the fighter can describe those people just as much as the soldier or what have you, and the system provides a background to help define this.You specifically call out that I said sometimes, so your position seems that the fighter can never be this.&nbsp; Please let me know why if I want to play a commoner who picks&nbsp; up a weapon and does well that you disagree the fighter class can be a right choice to play that character.Again, I in no way said that is the only position for the fighter.&nbsp; The fighter can be a vet - take the Soldier background.&nbsp; They can be well traveled - take the Outlander or other well travelled background, they can be a lot of things.&nbsp; But they can also be a folk hero, a criminal, or a sage.&nbsp; So any argument that a fighter can be other things does not support your point, only that they can not be that common archetype.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7841618, member: 20564"] Okay, the blacksmith with a sword", or rather "the commoner who takes up a weapon and makes good" is a common archetype found through stories, legends and myths. D&D needs to be able to handle it. I think the fighter can describe those people just as much as the soldier or what have you, and the system provides a background to help define this. You specifically call out that I said sometimes, so your position seems that the fighter can [I]never[/I] be this. Please let me know why if I want to play a commoner who picks up a weapon and does well that you disagree the fighter class [I]can[/I] be a right choice to play that character. Again, I in no way said that is the only position for the fighter. The fighter can be a vet - take the Soldier background. They can be well traveled - take the Outlander or other well travelled background, they can be a lot of things. But they can also be a folk hero, a criminal, or a sage. So any argument that a fighter can be other things does not support your point, only that they can not be that common archetype. [/QUOTE]

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