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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3985052" data-attributes="member: 13966">None of the poll options are what I'd vote for.  Heck, two or three of them are basically the same thing just with different spin.Also, your point about the DM tailoring stuff is already doable regardless of any internal balance or lack thereof.All classes need not be equally powerful, but they should be equally useful and fun.  The DM can always adjust the number of traps, or melee brutes, or golems, or blaster mages, or social encounters as he or she needs to keep things fun for everyone.  Internal balance between the usefulness of the classes should still exist.That said, just because Class A can do something nobody else can do, or can handle a particular kind of situation/encounter that nobody else can, does not mean that Class A should just be left as-is if it sucks the rest of the time.  If Class B can handle a different kind of situation well, and happens to also be halfway-decent in some other cases, then by rights Class A should also be halfway-decent in some situations outside its main area of expertise.And of course, since D&D is firstmost a combat-oriented game (with plenty of roleplay and such though in some groups, like my main group), every class should be able to contribute in some meaningful way to a battle.  Not necessarily a major contribution, not necessarily a constant contribution (getting in one or two good hits against a key opponent, then keeping a mook or two busy the rest of the fight, would suffice).</blockquote>

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