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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stoat" data-source="post: 3983488" data-attributes="member: 16786">I suspect that it will be difficult to play a party lacking one of the four roles without the DM taking some effort to tailor the game accordingly.  That is, I suspect that a typical adventure will contain a mix of encounters, some of which are significantly more difficult without one of the four roles.  In particular, I am not yet convinced that a party could go the distance without some sort of designated healer.However, it should be possible (particularly after a few more classes are released) to play a party lacking one of the various power sources.  Thus, in world without divine magic, you could replace the cleric with a warlord.  In a land where arcane magic is outlawd, you could replace the wizard with a hypothetical divine controller.  In other words, you could run a campaign where all players were members of a wizard's academy, or divine agents of a church, or hard-bitten mercenaries with no magic talents.  This I like.</blockquote>