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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 9720469" data-attributes="member: 2067">My position on the subclass's thematic design is that a "battlefield commander" style fighter is the heroic fantasy of a Purple Dragon Knight, and that if you're going to make a set of mechanics with the label "Purple Dragon Knight," it should fulfill that heroic fantasy. If it was a chainsaw-wielding barbarian or a mounted archer or a wilderness rogue or some kind of warlock (with a pact with the lost Sixth Chromatic Dragon!) or whatever, it would fail at being a Purple Dragon Knight.My position on the lore is basically this:It's giving "the audience of Midwestern Moms won't like that joke about the President, so we better replace it with the funny dancing pony." That's a pre-judgement, though. Highly speculative educated guess on the stupidity there.If you have a old lazy cat named Thomas that means nothing to me and I steal your cat and replace it with an energetic young parrot named Thomas, and tell you that a parrot is objectively a better Thomas than your grubby old cat was (look he can even SAY his own name!), you asking for your cat back is not a sign of you being too stodgy and unwilling to change. It might be an excuse I use to shame you for asking for your cat back, and it might even be TRUE that you are a little stodgy and unwilling to change, but wanting your cat back isn't really about that. You're not scared of all change, you just liked what you had originally and don't think this new thing is much of a replacement. Not every change is a good one, and a proposed change needs to earn its place. Wanting a PDK to be a battlefield commander isn't, at least in this case, some bid for the authority of nostalgia. It's based on appreciating what's already there, and wanting to see that grow.</blockquote>

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