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<blockquote data-quote="Frozen_Heart" data-source="post: 8925168" data-attributes="member: 7029687">Yep this is something I've been saying for ages. A class needs a story. 'swings sword + cast spell' isn't a class. It's a subclass or multiclass. An arcane gish would need its entire background, theme, and story building up to be worth something before adding.Witcher is a one which I like. With subclasses taking aspects of different creature types which it hunts.And yeah, that steps on Blood Hunters toes. But that's not an official class so that's fine. Ironically I've found the blood hunter to be the most enjoyable swordmage in 5e.You can see how much more important story is than mechanics when it comes to the sorcerer. It's a class which has tons of story behind it, but next to no mechanical identity. Its previous mechanical feature became standard for every caster, and so it got built around the metamagic feat instead. The entire class is just a fleshed out feat, but because it has an amazing theme and story, it gets into the PHB.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frozen_Heart, post: 8925168, member: 7029687"] Yep this is something I've been saying for ages. A class needs a story. 'swings sword + cast spell' isn't a class. It's a subclass or multiclass. An arcane gish would need its entire background, theme, and story building up to be worth something before adding. Witcher is a one which I like. With subclasses taking aspects of different creature types which it hunts. And yeah, that steps on Blood Hunters toes. But that's not an official class so that's fine. Ironically I've found the blood hunter to be the most enjoyable swordmage in 5e. You can see how much more important story is than mechanics when it comes to the sorcerer. It's a class which has tons of story behind it, but next to no mechanical identity. Its previous mechanical feature became standard for every caster, and so it got built around the metamagic feat instead. The entire class is just a fleshed out feat, but because it has an amazing theme and story, it gets into the PHB. [/QUOTE]

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