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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ximenes088" data-source="post: 4180334" data-attributes="member: 59899">I'd have to agree with the designers' statements that they don't see any merit in forced symmetry. There's simply no need for every power source to have representatives for every role. Magic can plausibly let a PC do any job, but sheer muscle and prowess can't plausibly do mass crowd control unless you start bringing up magical/technological devices or martial maneuvers that might as well be magic.The one case in which I could see someone wanting a martial controller would be for campaigns that explicitly exclude magic. Even in that case, I think it's pushing the genre; Conan almost always beats the stuffing out of anybody who faces him one-on-one, but when he's taken down, it's equally almost always a matter of a mob of mooks pulling him under. No-magic campaigns _should_ make swarms scary.I don't think there's anything particularly immoral or badwrongfun about playing fill-the-grid with character classes, but I think things'll move much more smoothly and with much better intrinsic balance if multiclassing rules are used to get the kind of hybrids you're describing.</blockquote>