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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4271193" data-attributes="member: 22424">The barbarian had very few options available. Arguably, this was a good thing, as it provided a continuum from easy classes to play (Barbarian) through moderately difficult classes (Rogue, Ranger, Paladin), to the most complex classes (Wizard, Cleric). Alternately, it could be seen as a weakness of the design, in that the class was straight-jacketed.The Rogue was customised through skills (just because received wisdom was that you had to spend all your skills on the same eight core skills every time didn't actually make it so), and through those abilities gained at 10th level and above.Of course, both classes could then be multiclasses with others in various combinations. Pick up a few levels of Fighter for the feats, or a couple of levels of Sorcerer for some stealth-based spells, or whatever.Truth is, though, the game would have benefitted from those classes (and Monk and Paladin), in particular, being rather more flexible.In my experience, 90% of the options in 90% of the books I owned never saw use. Either some options were clearly superior, and so were used to the exclusion of all others, or all the options were pretty much the same, in which case the players would just pick one option and stick with it. (And an awful lot of material was just broken, and so saw use once and then never again.)Will 4e be any different? It's far too soon to say. However, I would expect that the first few rounds of the PHB/DMG/MM will be very solid books, as they detail the 'missing core' to the same depth as the existing options have.</blockquote>

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