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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9465880" data-attributes="member: 7030563">In modern D&D that advice has little mechanical value.  While there is some advantage you get from covering bases, that is no longer a function of class specifically.  You can play with 4 of a single class and be fine as a group (or even OP if it is 4 Sorcerers or Wizards).  Conversely you can balance the group along class lines as they suggest and not have a group that can cover all bases.The "party healer" is not really required at all since potions of healing (and now scrolls of Cure Wounds) are basic adventuring gear.  Most of the Clerics I play are not "healers" anyway.  They have Healing Word to throw around and play "whack a mole", but it is really on party members to manage their own hit points.  I actually take high-level healing spells more with Bards than with Clerics.Similarly magic can take care of most of the exploration pillar making your Rogue (or Ranger or Bard) unecessary.  Often magic can do it better than a Rogue or Ranger could anyway, then have a couple characters get thieves tools with a background.The Tank is again done better by a Wizard optimized for it than by a Fighter, Barbarian or Paladin, but can also be accomplished effectively by a Cleric or Bard relatively easily and by a Rogue without much work.  That said at low level you do generally need someone who is going to get in the front and get attacked frequently.  At high level you can use summons for this role, but until you have enough spells to do that someone is going to have to plan to be attacked, so this is actually required at level 1, but any class can do it.The offensive controller can be done by any caster, including half casters, with the right choices.</blockquote>

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