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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4654265" data-attributes="member: 32536">As has been mentioned, many of those that you mentioned worked quite well at fulfilling certain roles. The Duskblade is probably one of the clearest Strikers of 3E. The Psychic Warrior is a solid Defender that leans towards Striker. The 3E Warlock is a Stiker that slightly leans towards Controller. Most of the Tome of Battle classes are a little bit blurrier, but the Warblade and Crusader are roughly Defenders, and the Swordsage is a Controller. A greater focus on role and effectiveness is what helped this set of classes to be so good. I will admit that many others, like the Binder and the Incarnum classes, are both fun and a bit less focused, but that lack of focus does hurt them (they are not as useful and easy to play as a class with a role).As for new roles... I doubt it. The four current roles cover it quite well. The Defender runs defense. The Striker runs offense. The Controller enables defense. The Leader enables offense. I am not sure that you can really fit anything else into there. There will probably be new ideas on how to implement these roles in entirely new ways, but not entirely new roles.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 4654265, member: 32536"] As has been mentioned, many of those that you mentioned worked quite well at fulfilling certain roles. The Duskblade is probably one of the clearest Strikers of 3E. The Psychic Warrior is a solid Defender that leans towards Striker. The 3E Warlock is a Stiker that slightly leans towards Controller. Most of the Tome of Battle classes are a little bit blurrier, but the Warblade and Crusader are roughly Defenders, and the Swordsage is a Controller. A greater focus on role and effectiveness is what helped this set of classes to be so good. I will admit that many others, like the Binder and the Incarnum classes, are both fun and a bit less focused, but that lack of focus does hurt them (they are not as useful and easy to play as a class with a role). As for new roles... I doubt it. The four current roles cover it quite well. The Defender runs defense. The Striker runs offense. The Controller enables defense. The Leader enables offense. I am not sure that you can really fit anything else into there. There will probably be new ideas on how to implement these roles in entirely new ways, but not entirely new roles. [/QUOTE]

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