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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8254399" data-attributes="member: 6779196">They just aren’t very similar. Their powers do substantially different things. You could make a class with some of the rogue powers and some of the ranger powers (in fact, that’s exactly how the hybrid class system worked), but it wouldn’t really play like a rogue or a ranger. It would play like a different class that had some similarities to both, but was its own thing.See, I think a huge part of the disconnect people had with 4e was that 4e classes are just a different thing than classes in other editions of D&D are. People are used to thinking of classes as character archetypes, which the mechanics are designed to express. 4e classes are first and foremost sets of powers, which fill a combat role, by way of one or two power sources. In very basic terms, 4e classes are about what you do rather than who you are. Could you combine the narrative elements of rogue and ranger into a new class? Absolutely. But in the 4e design paradigm, that class would have a set of powers that would set it apart from both the ranger and the rogue.</blockquote>