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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6125947" data-attributes="member: 7006">There's no false choice.  If you want to make a Pirate Samurai... go ahead!  But you can do that the same way as when I suggested the person chose to be a pirate in the previous post-- the player said "My character is a pirate."  He just made that decision.  It wasn't the game assigning him a specialty of "pirate" or a background of "pirate" or a class of "pirate" or anything like that.  His character concept was a pirate and he build the character to BE a pirate.  But unlike these Fighter sub-classes... none of the other choice points he makes (from race to class to background) run counter to that choice.By the same token... if that player decided his character concept was Samurai Pirate... he can put that story and fluff onto his character without any need for the game to do it for him right at the beginning.  But what happens when he goes through the whole character design process and then finds out that he wanted his Pirate Samurai to be lightly armored and focus on light weapons... and yet the only Fighter sub-class whose expertise dice (or whatever mechanic the fighter now has) goes towards light armor and light weapons is a SCOUT... well, now he has to be a Pirate Samurai Scout!  For absolutely no reason.I really just cannot see what is gained by making Fighter sub-classes JOBS, rather than fighting styles or weapon groups.  I just can't.  It's a proliferation of fluff that adds only a little to a small subset of characters, but changes most other Fighter characters completely on their head when the player doesn't want it.And as far as your continued use of the Assassin as an example... I'm not exactly crazy about the rogue schemes in that way either.</blockquote>

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