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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7834198" data-attributes="member: 18">People saying the Rune Knight should be a Barbarian really need to re-read the actual abilities and theme. It's not really Barbarian-suitable at all. Only the turn-into-a-giant thing even seems vaguely like that in a sort of Incredible Hulk way, but even that is tenuous at best. You'd end up with some far more plain and passive if Barbarian was the base.It's actually an extremely interesting class design, swapping out the steady power of other Fighter subclasses for actual utility (without losing Fighter flavour - the association between Giants, runes, and warriors is a one with a history so long even WoW noticed), whilst also giving tactically interesting short-rest abilities. It's very good design and I think a lot of people are missing that.Swarmkeeper isn't quite as mechanically interesting but it's fantastic thematically, and solid mechanically. It's also perfect for a lot of the sort of players who actually want to play Rangers, particularly as the spirits can be anything, so as cutesy or creepy or creepy-cute as you like!Revived is a natural thematic choice for a Rogue, I think. You could have a race like this but Rogue fits thematically with how such revived beings tend to act. I do think the death bolt is a bit clumsy or weird. Mechanically it's okay, but thematically it's... odd... even within the context of a revived being.Seems like another strong UA. Looking forward to whatever book(s) this heralds.</blockquote>

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