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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 3844782" data-attributes="member: 29398">So, 4 Fighter variants, 2 Wizard variants, 1 Cleric, and 1 Rogue.&nbsp; What does that tell us?Well, for one thing it indicates the &quot;middle&quot; of the party is being largely downplayed in design in favour of working on the &quot;front&quot; (the warrior-types) and the back (wizard-types) for now; the cleric and rogue types are cut back to just their own-name classes.Interesting to note that original 1e had 3-2-2-2 plus Monk as an oddball and Bard as a prestige class.&nbsp; Original 2e had 1-1-1-1.&nbsp; It's harder to pin down for original 3e (and not helping is that my 3e PH isn't here and I can't remember exactly what was original 3e and what came later) but I seem to recall it was a more even spread than the projected 4e.Does 4e's 4-2-1-1 spread mean more in-game emphasis on physical combat and less on spell-work?&nbsp; Interesting...Are Eladrin the new Aasimars?&nbsp; Warforged would be an Eberron-only thing, and as Eberron is already known to be an &quot;official&quot; 4e setting I think we can assume they'll be in as a setting-specific variant.I'm glad they (so far) seem to be staying away from the half-Ogres and half-Dragons and half-everything-else's...the only annoyance to me there is Tiefling, and that's easy enough to <s>nuke</s> <s>destroy</s> <s>obliterate</s> fix. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 3844782, member: 29398"] So, 4 Fighter variants, 2 Wizard variants, 1 Cleric, and 1 Rogue. What does that tell us? Well, for one thing it indicates the "middle" of the party is being largely downplayed in design in favour of working on the "front" (the warrior-types) and the back (wizard-types) for now; the cleric and rogue types are cut back to just their own-name classes. Interesting to note that original 1e had 3-2-2-2 plus Monk as an oddball and Bard as a prestige class. Original 2e had 1-1-1-1. It's harder to pin down for original 3e (and not helping is that my 3e PH isn't here and I can't remember exactly what was original 3e and what came later) but I seem to recall it was a more even spread than the projected 4e. Does 4e's 4-2-1-1 spread mean more in-game emphasis on physical combat and less on spell-work? Interesting...Are Eladrin the new Aasimars? Warforged would be an Eberron-only thing, and as Eberron is already known to be an "official" 4e setting I think we can assume they'll be in as a setting-specific variant. I'm glad they (so far) seem to be staying away from the half-Ogres and half-Dragons and half-everything-else's...the only annoyance to me there is Tiefling, and that's easy enough to [S]nuke[/S] [S]destroy[/S] [S]obliterate[/S] fix. :) Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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