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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knuddelbaer" data-source="post: 5815871" data-attributes="member: 6679697">Hello!One of my players wants to ditch his eladrin psion, because he finds the class quite boring. I am totally fine with that, but I am afraid that one problem could arise: The party roles could become "unbalanced", since he wants to play a dwarf ranger. The party would then look like this:2 Defenders (battlemind, paladin)1 Leader (ardent)3 Strikers (warlock, monk, ranger)0 ControllersI am not inclined to tell a player "No!" unless he presents a fishy rule interpretation <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> and I don't want to discourage this particular player since he is quite new to 4E.The questions where I ask for advice now, since I cannot clearly gauge the impact on out game, is this: Is it ok for a party to have 0 Controllers or do I have to worry that they get totally overrun and swarmed in an encounter? Beaten to pulp by the next solo? Has someone had experience with that? Or should I rather present alternatives to him to keep all the roles filled?I generally do not feel bad about dishing out a lot of damage and the presence of 3 Strikers encourages me even more. But since we have had several close encounters so far I am afraid that the whole battle can go down south if we lack the debuffs and AoEs the psion provided.</blockquote>

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