Dagredhel
Explorer
I see your point, and I did give a lot of thought to going that route. What kept me on a different course was the character I had in mind as my archetype for the class. I was thinking of a soldier, a seargent type, veteran of many campaigns, world weary and cynical, a pragmatist rather than a moralist, gruff and unromantic, but protective of his men, loyal to his friends, and perhaps even prone to a bit of self-sacrifice and heroism on occassion, but in the service of people rather than abstract ideals. I couldn't imagine old sarge slipping a dagger into a rowdy in a bar fight when a swift kick to somewhere sensitive might prove equally incapacitating. I could imagine him throwing in another couple of kicks just to make sure...