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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7673108" data-attributes="member: 22779">If the classes were generic, wouldn't it be fairly easy to slot them into a specific setting?&nbsp; I mean, Dragonlance isn't that far from baseline D&amp;D.&nbsp; But, as Mercule said, the changes are because the classes, like the bard, radically changed from edition to edition.&nbsp; Bards were emphatically divine in 1e - they were full on druids.&nbsp; 1e didn't have all bunch of half caster classes which would make things like the Towers of High Sorcery problematic.Now, that being said, it's certainly not impossible to convert Dragonlance to 5e.&nbsp; Obviously that's not impossible since we're actually playing it right now.&nbsp; The point I'm making is that the classes in 5e are not generic at all.&nbsp; Every class except maybe the fighter and rogue, come pre-loaded with significant setting material.&nbsp; They always have.&nbsp; I was responding to the earlier point that psionics had to be stripped of all setting material in order to be usable.&nbsp; I forget the poster's name, and I'm too lazy to go back and look, but, the point was made that he thought that clerics were useless because 5e forced you to have gods.&nbsp; I made the point that all the classes come with at least as many setting elements baked in as clerics and probably always have (again, barring fighter and rogue).&nbsp; Do you disagree with that?&nbsp; Do you think that the classes don't have setting elements baked in?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7673108, member: 22779"] If the classes were generic, wouldn't it be fairly easy to slot them into a specific setting? I mean, Dragonlance isn't [i]that[/i] far from baseline D&D. But, as Mercule said, the changes are because the classes, like the bard, radically changed from edition to edition. Bards were emphatically divine in 1e - they were full on druids. 1e didn't have all bunch of half caster classes which would make things like the Towers of High Sorcery problematic. Now, that being said, it's certainly not impossible to convert Dragonlance to 5e. Obviously that's not impossible since we're actually playing it right now. The point I'm making is that the classes in 5e are not generic at all. Every class except maybe the fighter and rogue, come pre-loaded with significant setting material. They always have. I was responding to the earlier point that psionics had to be stripped of all setting material in order to be usable. I forget the poster's name, and I'm too lazy to go back and look, but, the point was made that he thought that clerics were useless because 5e forced you to have gods. I made the point that all the classes come with at least as many setting elements baked in as clerics and probably always have (again, barring fighter and rogue). Do you disagree with that? Do you think that the classes don't have setting elements baked in? [/QUOTE]

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