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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8312385" data-attributes="member: 23751">Yeah.  I like how The Book of Nine Swords did it.  Some maneuvers were martial only and others were supernatural.That's pretty meaningless other than he shares that opinion.  But that's the entire point.  It's not supposed to be for people who want to do a lot of different things.  That's its function.  If you want to do a lot of stuff, don't be a Champion.The only problems here are that 1) 4e failed miserably at balance.  Some classes that were better than other classes at damage, control, etc., and 2) you're wrong.  For two classes to be balanced, they have to be identical.  Once you give one class a different ability, it becomes better at some things and worse than others.  The more different abilities you give the classes, the more those things shift and you will not end up with two classes that are equal.  There will always be imbalance.  The only thing that remains after that is how much imbalance is acceptable.  4e and 5e did pretty well keeping the imbalance in acceptable ranges.And yet if you google FFXIV classes, you will find some that are better at DPS than others.  Some that are more versatile than others. And so on.  They are not balanced, but like 3e and 4e, within the acceptable amount of imbalance.</blockquote>