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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7467819" data-attributes="member: 996">Which is fine, if the scout & slayer & such seem fine, I guess.  I'm curious about working within (the very first post) or lopping bits off the AEDU structure, so you'd theoretically retain more consistency......I'm not so worried about balance, the cut-down options are supposed to be mechanically inferior, to enable different modes of play the - the Stalwart & Savant, particularly, the former to provide a simple but still contributing option, the latter to provide a greater resource-management challenge to experienced players (in essence, to give them the option of accepting a sort of handicap).  The Companion may be less clear, but the idea is that some players want to engage the game on the tactical level and have some fun with it, but don't necessarily want to be the great-hero type at the center of everything. ...another thing using those options might enable is the kind of storytelling where there /is/ one Hero in the party who's kinda the center of everything, the 'first among equals,' and the others are more supporting cast, acting as enablers, confidants, etc...</blockquote>