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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6149045" data-attributes="member: 8461">There's another aspect to this, though. The fighter is supposed to be better at affecting that particular narrative than other characters, which gets into questions of the degree to which a character can influence a narrative versus how many narratives they can influence at all. If you put that on a graph, a fighter has very little measure on the X axis, but is very high on the Y.Now, there are some areas of debate in this, mostly in terms of "spellcasters trample all over the fighter's combat mastery" and "some narrative ability in multiple narrative areas is better than narrative mastery in a single area at the cost of being able to affect any other." The latter, however, is an opinion that's going to vary from person to person (including ideas of how much trying to make the fighter effective in other narratives will dilute his theme as a fighter), whereas the former is a question of whether this should be fixed by busting down spellcasters' combat prowess, or raising up the fighter's even more.</blockquote>