Reasons to have paladins and rangers as classes

[Crazy Jerome]

[MENTION=2067]Kamikaze Midget[/MENTION], that last quote wasn't me. I agree with it, and said something very much like it earlier, but it wasn't me.

 

[Remathilis]

Don't make me dig through Mearls's Twitter account or the Q&A transcripts to find the quote that directly contradicts you where the lead developer for the game states unequivocally that there are attack and damage bonuses in the dwarf fighter pregen that come from both the fighter class and the slayer theme. I will if you force me, but I really have other far more productive things I could be doing with my time.

Sorry, but I'm gonna call BS on this one...

Cite sources or retract.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Hehe....oops. Sorry [MENTION=54877]Crazy Jerome[/MENTION] . Should be better now!

Do we want All class features of the ranger, bard, druid, paladin, monk, barbarian, sorcerer, warlock, warlord, assassin, avenger, and god-knows-what-else classes to just be a bunch of feats any fighter, wizard or rogue can take?

If you answer yes, we want very different D&D Next games and I'm afraid we've come to loggerhead...

So, I'd answer, basically, yes. Part of the philosophy of that yes is that I don't believe that class identities are exclusive. The rogue is the class that is good with sneaking and traps and daggers, but they don't have to be the ONLY class that is good with that to be good with that.

Maybe you can help me understand what is valuable about having exclusive class abilities that no one else can ever have?

 

[Abstruse]

Yay, I get to waste time looking up stuff that's easy to find if you pay attention!

*30 minutes later* Yeah, I'm done wasting time. I have things to do today. Over the past few months, I've followed every developer on Twitter, read every interview and Q&A I could get my hands on, watched all the videos, read all the transcripts, and basically spend hours upon hours trying to dissect what Next will be like. I am not doing it again just because I can't remember exactly where I read what one sentence. You want to find it, go look for it. You want me to post it or you won't believe me, then don't believe me. I frankly don't care anymore.