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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6149162" data-attributes="member: 8461">Right, but under those circumstances it is, as you said, that the fighter is a bit of a problem "for you." The issue in that case could justifiably be considered to be that the player simply made a bad choice in picking a fighter to play, rather than something needing to be done because the fighter class isn't serving non-fighting interests.This gets back to what I was saying previously, that there's an idea that it's simply better to have a character with some degree of narrative options in most kinds of narratives, rather than someone who has a very large degree of options in one narrative area, and very few in all others. Now, the idea of "good at most things, but the best at nothing" is certainly a viable option, and a popular one, but I'm not sure that it's necessarily the better option. Some people do want specialization at the cost of broad options.Moreover, if we view these two choices for a characters' style of narrative options as being the ends of the spectrum - and given that the game includes both of these, and several option in between - why is there necessarily a problem with the fighter? It's there for those that want it, and can be avoided by those that don't. If people feel that playing a fighter isn't giving them enough narrative options for combat that's commensurate with the lack of options elsewhere, doesn't this mean that they've either made a bad decision in playing a fighter, or that the fighter's narrative combat options are being comparatively de-valued by other classes that have near-comparable narrative combat options?</blockquote>

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