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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6523685" data-attributes="member: 6790260">This feels like talking past each other because of definitions. Subclasses as a whole are not "options" in the sense that all characters need one in order to not fall vastly behind everyone else. Individual subclasses are "options" because you can choose among those available.As for the "generic"-ness, I think a portion of your problem--not all, but a solid chunk--lies in taking the book-fluff as the way it has to be. For some things, I can see that, e.g. the Chaos Sorcerer is inherently "luck-based," and I can understand someone not wanting to veer too far away from that. (For instance, I think it could make a great "action cartomancer," flinging Tarot cards or the like.) For others, like the Dragon Sorcerer example given previously, it just seems like...we all need to apply some "kid with a cardboard box" thinking. A cardboard box is a spaceship, a time machine, a cloning device, a mirror-world portal, a racecar, an airplane, a submarine...doesn't matter that it says "B&Q SHIPPING" on the side, it is what I say it is because I say it is. People throw around the word "reskinning" a lot and I've seen a lot of skepticism for the idea, but it really does seem to be something our hobby should reach for as a weapon of first resort, with these kinds of problems.</blockquote>