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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4786477" data-attributes="member: 29398">How many classes are enough?Depends what you want a class to do.If you're looking to give mechanics to an archetype, you can probably get by with maybe 10-12:Fighter (general heavy militia type)Cavalier or Paladin (knight in shiny armour type)Ranger (woodsy fighter type)Thief (pick locks and pockets, sneak)Scout or Swashbuckler or Archer or Monk (combination of Thief and Ranger, a no-armour light-duty fighter; class' name is irrelevant)Assassin (combination of Thief and Fighter, sneaky killers)Cleric (healer type that can fight)Druid or Nature Cleric (combination of healer type and Ranger)Wizard or Magic-User (spell slinger, no fighting)Bard (magic-like effects through sound)Anything else is just a flavour-based tack-on to one of those.  I'm ignoring all the specialist classes of Cleric and Wizard; they're the same thing only with different spells, big deal.  I'm also ignoring attempts to combine mutually incompatible types e.g. the stereotypical Fighter-Mage; I've come to the conclusion those can't be done in any edition without breaking either by being too good or too useless.  And, I'm only looking at field-adventuring classes, as opposed to other non-adventuring class-like things such as Diplomat, Sage, etc.If, however, you're looking for a class to mechanically (as opposed to flavourfully) reflect every little thing you want your specific character to do; or if you're looking for something you can break the game with, then an infinite number of classes still is not enough and never will be.Lan-"fighters, like Baskin-Robbins, come in 31 flavours"-efan</blockquote>

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