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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 4572315" data-attributes="member: 23977">It's not a huge difference really. I'm not going to claim that roles are the greatest addition to the game since pizza... It's more an organizational/informational thing really.I can, as a DM instantly look at the role and know how the new character is going to function overall in the game. There will be flash and flavor differences sure, and "exactly" how the accomplish what they do will be different, but overall with just one word I can tell how your decision to replace a defender with a striker will impact the game.In the end I guess what I'm saying is they didn't make the rules better, they made using the rules better.I think part of the issue is right now there aren't a huge number of classes to choose from.If you're dead set on playing a certain role, then yep, they'll be just as restictive as classes have been in the past. But if say your concept is a knight in shining armor, but the group needs a striker, the roles idea makes it much easier for you to locate a class that fits your concept, while still within the role that's needed.Again it's more of an ease of use organizational thing, but little things like that often impress me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Not having to play a cleric and not having to have a leader in the group are two seperate issues. In the first case, you can play a warlord for instance if you're not into playing a worshiper of divine beings. You end up serving the same function, but with a different look and feel.In the second case, yes healing surges do go a pretty long way towards allowing the party to function without anyone in the leader role. (Although allowing to function and function well are different stories,...)</blockquote>

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