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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VinylTap" data-source="post: 6007116" data-attributes="member: 6697217">I think the design team's goal is to offer fluff as a guiding tool,  rather than a strict world setting. There are lots of people out there  more than happy to play in a generic fantasy setting. Take the fluff or  leave it, the option is there, the challenge of the design team isn't  really here, its in making the Ranger-warrior subclass "feel" different  enough from a sword-and-board warrior that a player doesn't feel  disappointed that he can't play what he wants. Success, in a large  part of this initial system, is to convince him/her that, "this is the  way in which we want you to play what you want". Everyone wants CS  dice for the other classes, and this is a way to do it. Its a lot more  simple to balance because you have less classes to work with. Just a  wide variety of play styles within a handful of classes. Your two "physical" damage classes will be "rogue" and "warrior", one who focuses on combat, and one who's flexibility dips into skills at the cost of a  play-style that includes a lot of situational requirements (like advantage) to balance out his edge in skills. He won't do less damage necessarily, just more situational.  While the fighter will be more straight-forward, in your face and martially focused.   A lot of  people's reaction is somewhat defensible, people want to be catered to  and a "fighter-ranger" doesn't really feel as special as a "ranger", if  that's where your passion lies. But those players are going to have to wait. Most people want to play a modular  form of DND, not the core rules they're producing , that's where their passion for the hobby lies.  Unfortunately  having a solid core means limiting a lot of options that people are  going to expect. Those options will be more robustly supported in future  releases, but WOTC is going to have to be really careful and not gut any  potential excitement of future modules with an initial release of DND  Next that doesn't assure people that they should be excited for what's coming next (no pun  intended <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" />).</blockquote>

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