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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 7818338" data-attributes="member: 926"><p>I don't see what you mean. The Fighter Class is the one that is dedicated most purely to combat and would therefore count the greatest number of professional warriors and soldiers among its numbers, and it gets History as a skill option precisely because it encompasses Military History. Just because Wizards and other scholarly Classes get the History skill as well doesn't detract from the fact that History encompasses Military History. Fighters get the History skill for exactly the same reason that officers and soldiers have studied History throughout the actual history of our real world: to learn about the maneuvers, formations, and tricks that warriors have tried in the great battles of the past, so as to discover what worked and what didn't.</p><p>I don't know why you would say <em>"the 5e characters who most often actually have History are certainly not the characters one would first expect to actually understand practically applied battlefield tactics, and in many cases quite the opposite." </em>If the Fighter Class didn't get History that might be the case, but they do, and of all the warrior Classes the Fighter is the one Class that is most likely to be held by a professional soldier. I don't see how that could qualify as "most chracters"</p><p>All that being said, I do think that History should have been included in the Soldier Background rather than Athletics or Intimidation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron L, post: 7818338, member: 926"] I don't see what you mean. The Fighter Class is the one that is dedicated most purely to combat and would therefore count the greatest number of professional warriors and soldiers among its numbers, and it gets History as a skill option precisely because it encompasses Military History. Just because Wizards and other scholarly Classes get the History skill as well doesn't detract from the fact that History encompasses Military History. Fighters get the History skill for exactly the same reason that officers and soldiers have studied History throughout the actual history of our real world: to learn about the maneuvers, formations, and tricks that warriors have tried in the great battles of the past, so as to discover what worked and what didn't. I don't know why you would say [I]"the 5e characters who most often actually have History are certainly not the characters one would first expect to actually understand practically applied battlefield tactics, and in many cases quite the opposite." [/I]If the Fighter Class didn't get History that might be the case, but they do, and of all the warrior Classes the Fighter is the one Class that is most likely to be held by a professional soldier. I don't see how that could qualify as "most chracters" All that being said, I do think that History should have been included in the Soldier Background rather than Athletics or Intimidation. [/QUOTE]
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