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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6149506" data-attributes="member: 8461">First of all, exercise some moderation of your tone, please. Saying "what part of X didn't get across" comes across as a very aggressive response. Don't make me report you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />The problem with this statement is that it moves the goalposts - we're talking about the issue of narrative areas of the game where the fighter has relevant options for directing/affecting the flow of the narrative. The question of the "style" of those options - which seems to be the in-game contextualization of how they're exercising those options (e.g. "it's magic" versus "it's non-magical inspiration," when both have the same game results) - is a separate (though related) consideration.As such, as [MENTION=2303]Starfox[/MENTION] very cogently pointed out, the issue with "style" is a separate consideration. The warlord has a different style than the fighter, but that doesn't broaden where they have narrative options; they're still all combat all the time. They just have a slightly different set of options for the same narrative.For the purposes of this thread, I'm saying that if you're unhappy with the narrow breadth of narrative options available to a fighter, then you shouldn't play a fighter. The style of the class is a secondary concern, in this instance - if you really want to be a character that's focused on exploration, then a fighter isn't going to suit that theme very much, even if you don't like that the more-suitable druid class is so heavily slanted towards "priest of nature."That's the point - they're not fighter-like; they have greater breadth of narrative options, at the (ostensible) cost of some combat mastery.So are questions of style, which is why (as I mentioned above) the OP gently rebuked you for citing the warlord as an example of a solution to this particular issue.You've moved the goalposts back to the original complaint, here. Warlords will be just as bored in that particular regard as fighters, despite their stylistic differences.</blockquote>

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