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[Voadam]

No, it should not be classless. But there should be some more generic classes such as d20 modern. And they should avoid empty levels where you gain no class abilities.

 

[Ylis]

No. I think that D&D should keep its classes. Classes are something that help define the game and the character in D&D, so getting rid of them would not be playing the same game. Of course, I think they could use a facelift, and perhaps not contribute quite so much to the character (acting more as a job rather than a defining point, as so many people treat classes).

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

D&D is the icon for class-based RPGs. Classes should be kept. However, I would happily endorse a good house-cleaning. Trimming back the proliferation of classes and PrCs and increasing the options within each class would be a wonderful thing.

 

[Trainz]

D&D should always keep classes.

That said, I think that 4.0 *shudder* could have a multiclassing system that adds on to your primary class instead of just switching classes back and forth. This way, you could be a warrior/arcanist that still advances as a warrior but that gains arcanist abilities at a lower rate than a pure arcanist, and you wouldn't be as good as pure warriors in combat.

edit: After rereading this, I think me and the poster above have similar ideas...

My Two Cents.

 

[John Crichton]

I'll go as far as to say that classes are D&D. Seriously. I can see many people leaving the game or simply sticking with earlier editions if classes are not included in 4e. They are tied into the carrot on a stick mentality and make the game universally understood by all players.

 

[Conaill]

I would *love* 4.0 to have a classless system. If it works for BESM, by not D&D? I dislike the class stereotypes almost as much as I hate the alignment system or the exponential power increases with levels.

 

[yangnome]

Keep teh classes, they are a mainstay of D&D.

 

[Poster Bard]

Classless? No. At some point you need to change the name of the game if you are going to be changing the rules that much because the game is no longer the same. I think they have changed about as much as they can, up to this point, without changing the name. I think they should leave D&D as it is for a decade, and maybe create a whole different game if they want to make major changes like to a classless system.

 

[Quickbeam]

Ya gotta have a class based system for it to be D&D IMHO, if for no other reason than it represents the foundations of the game itself. Change isn't a bad thing, but I'd rather not see D&D turn its back on the origins from whence it sprang .

 

[CrusaderX]

Classes and D&D go together like peanut butter and jelly. And I'm too old fashioned to want a change.