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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8317395" data-attributes="member: 82524">In any event, I am one who believes that things can be fixed in basically any game. That's what additions, updates and errata are for.However, D&D has a unique problem in that it's legacy fanbase actively reinforces bad design choices and punishes attempts to improve them.It is very difficult to improve martial characters (rogue not withstanding because it has become Tradition that rogue be basically always the best balanced class) have to be inherently lesser than casters because the fandom skews toward letting the casters do whatever while martials have to be realistic and for some reason, realistic has to be strictly inferior to casters.Even when they pretend to make a class with options (Battlemasters) it has lesser effects, lesser options, and heavy restrictions. And then even the suggestion of a martial class not connected to the other martial classes that might be as interesting and useful as a caster--even a lesser caster--is slapped down just because martials are 'supposed' to be lesser.</blockquote>