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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3789687" data-attributes="member: 14159">More often than not in my experience.I've always seen it as a fallacy that you "need" a certain party composition, I've played in way too many D&D games where there was no magical healing at all, or no heavy fighters, or no primary arcane casters, and had lots of fun, to believe that you "must" have a wizard/sorcerer, a rogue, a cleric/other healer and a fighter-type.The first D&D game I ever played in, I was the 10th PC and joined the game after it had been running for over a year (playing monthly, starting with 4 PC's, most of those quitting, so 8 of those PC's joined after the campaign was in progress).  I was just learning D&D and decided to try a Cleric, and I was playing the only cleric.  Every other PC was was a Wizard, a Fighter/Wizard, a Rogue, a Paladin, a Ranger, or a Psionicist.  That game was lots of fun, and from what I was told was doing fine without a cleric.Another campaign I was in was 6 PC's and the only healing was one Paladin, and no single-classed fighters (all were either hexblades, or fighters with PrC's that weren't combat oriented), and it was just fine.I played in a 3.0 Oriental Adventures campaign where every PC except for one was a Samurai , Fighter, or Monk, and the one other PC was a Fire Shugenja (so very little healing), and the game went just fine with very little healing and no rogue-type charactersOne 3.0 campaign I was in that I still hear stories of to this day was all bards, druids and monks.  They had fun and played the game just fine without any rogues or clerics or wizards/sorcerers.Designing 4e from the ground up to not work right if you don't have certain niches is a design flaw, because no prior edition of D&D, and that includes 3.x is like that, I've played in too many D&D games where there was no/minimal healing, or no arcane magic, or no primary melee combat characters and everybody had fun and nobody felt like the game was "broken" without them.</blockquote>

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