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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6343214" data-attributes="member: 1465">I think you're worrying too much.First, just because Mearls says their overall damage is even, it doesn't mean it is exactly, so we'll have to see.Second, the choices made by the DM and the adventure designers have an impact on how much you can exploit your tactical fighter's flexibility. Thus being flexible and rules-savvy enough to exploit that, can result in a sometimes significant and sometimes insignificant advantage anyway.Third, the relation between a Battlemaster and a Champion is not that different from the relation between a Wizard who uses 10 different spells per battle vs a Wizard who casts magic missile or other damaging spells all the time. It's mostly about the playstyle: the simple wizard's and simple fighter's players feel rewarded by playing it simple (few choices to make: which foe to target this round, what weapon to use in this battle) while the complex wizard's and complex fighter's players feel rewarded by being able to try out lots of variations.Generally speaking, being flexible is better because there are always situations when choice X doesn't work. Maybe the monster has DR or a shield spell blocking magic missiles. The flexible character has many more alternatives than the simple character, and that already is an advantage, without specifically doing a larger damage (although, it might mean effectively a larger damage on the large scale, if you count the higher possibility of "outage" affecting the simple character).But without getting too much into the details of statistics or corner cases, WotC's idea is sound when they designed both the complex and the simple fighter to be on par on most situations. If anything, IMHO they could have spent some time to create a similar low-complexity version of the Wizard, Cleric and Rogue, instead of stopping at Fighter.</blockquote>

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