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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9023668" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Yeah...no.There is no world where D&D takes off to the degree that it did, where that particular facet remains in effect. "Race as class" is a very, very disliked concept by most gamers, as we can pretty clearly see in the MMO space. Same issue as gender-locked classes, or only having one playable gender for a given race. Heck, even faction-locked classes are not entirely well-liked, which is why Blizzard very quickly gave the Horde some Paladins (first Blood Elves, then Tauren later on, and finally much later a variant group of Trolls), same for giving the Alliance Shaman (Draenei, later Dwarves, and later still a regional Human subgroup.)Race as class forbids you from a huge variety of potential stories. It would go over like a lead balloon today to tell people that their elf clerics and dragonborn bards and gnome paladins are verboten because "elf" is a fighter-wizard mashup, "dragonborn" means being a <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/dragon-reflections-53.685512/#post-8533262" target="_blank">magic-eating sorcerer-paladin</a>* exclusively, and "gnome" has to be a kooky, quirky illusionist and could never, ever, ever serve a deity as a pious warrior.*Note, as I posted in that thread, I actually find the argas concept very cool, and it's probably one of the only situations where I might be willing to accept race-as-class. But that's mostly because it is pretty much perfectly directed at my interests, since I love dragons, sorcery, serving the cause of good, and the generically paladin-like nature of the concept. Yet even with it being almost tailor-made for me, despite it being printed before I was even born, I'm still on the fence because of just how severely limiting race-as-class is.</blockquote>

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