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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 5999401" data-attributes="member: 1465">Overall I agree with the OP, but the subject is complicated by at least the following factors:- tradition: a game without Druids, Paladins, Rangers and Bards is probably quite unfamilar for most of those who played previous editions of D&D at least starting from AD&D- available space in the PHB: I definitely prefer to have less classes and more material for each of them in the PHB, than a lot of classes but each of which having so few options to choose from that you cannot make significantly different PCs of a class without buying splatbooks- multiclassing: is 5e multiclassing going to work really well? If that was the case, then we probably need less classes overall. But if it happens that after solidifying the rules of 5e, it turns out that it's just too hard to find a multiclassing system that works, the designers could then compensate by introducing many additional classes to represent hybrid concepts. IMHO it's much more important to get single classes (all of them) work really well, and then check if multiclassing is possible and smooth with these current classes or not, rather than forcing multiclassing in the game at the expense of lowering the quality of the base design.</blockquote>