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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8871309" data-attributes="member: 7006">I agree that the closest thing to a narrative identity for the warrior / arcane magician in pop culture right now is the Witcher.  That is a class identity with a story... one that is one par with the rugged outdoorsman survivalist of the Ranger that protects the wilderness, and the knight in shining armor of the Paladin that swears powerful oaths to protect and defend certain things.  But for WotC to make an arcane warrior half-caster like those two... I feel they won't do it until they have an identity and story for it like a Witcher.  If, and only if they had that story for the class like that would they ever actually make it.It is my belief that they will never make a fighter/mage or arcane half-caster class whose only reason for existence is mechanical.  Because that serves no purpose within the game world that isn't served already by just doing Fighter/Wizard multiclasses or Eldritch Knights.  Yes, there might be game mechanics that people feel are missing for certain types of fighter/mages that you would only be able to get by creating new class features for this supposed class... but WotC does not create classes just to present game mechanics-- at least not beyond the two "generic" base classes they have in the Fighter and Rogue.Add a story and a place in the world for the 4E Swordmage, and maybe they'd add it to the game.  Are Swordmages urban nobleman court mages that are sworn to protect kings and dukes?  Are they monster hunters that destroy abominations and anything from the unnatural world using the magic they have stolen from those creatures?  Are they bodyguards of Artificers, using the magic weaponry their patrons infuse to promote the use of magic and defend the arcane world?  Any story like that would be a good first step to making the class narratively specific and thus feel like it has a place in the game.  But if there's no story difference for the Swordmage than the Eldritch Knight... then why would WotC add it?</blockquote>

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