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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gloombunny" data-source="post: 3862608" data-attributes="member: 54916">Man, when I first brought up how I was sad to hear that the 4e fighter wouldn't have Int benefits like the warblade... well, I really meant like the warblade.  Have y'all read Bo9S?  Warblades have Int-related abilities on top of the usual warrior stuff, but they're not MAD.  The abilities in question just let them add their Int bonus to various specific rolls, all of which already add Str bonus.  (e.g., rolls to confirm criticals, attack rolls against flat-footed opponents, rolls to resist being disarmed or tripped, etc.)  A warblade who diverts some points out of Str into Int isn't really gaining anything, he's just losing less than a fighter would.  And that's a very good thing, because it makes it more feasible to play a warrior who's not just a violent moron, but doesn't stop you from focusing on Str if that's what you want to do.  It adds a level of flexibility to the class that the fighter sorely lacks.  (There's a few other ways warblade does this, like the drastically improved class-skills list, but I thought the Int-based benefits were a particularly clever design.)</blockquote>