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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5258580" data-attributes="member: 78116">The only thing that would concern me is things that boost stances, which aren't limited by a Knight class feature fighters could potentially get. Being able to make the fighters already incredibly good stances like Rain of Steel better doesn't seem like a good idea to me. If they limit this to improving the Knights stances that will work pretty well overall. Additionally, as his "mark" powers require the aura this is an immensely easy way of preventing the original fighter stealing any of those feats.I do agree though that I cannot see how the Knight can be "compatible" with the original Fighter on reflection. If the Knight can take Fighter stances, he basically removes all his at-will powers - albeit probably for a better benefit - for the whole encounter. If the knight can't, then I wonder if they get improved encounter length stances of their own or what they replace things with. Given that they have moved most of their powers into class features, it's easy to make the knights feats and similar completely exclusive. It is harder IMO to make the knight compatible with other things like existing feats (Mark of Warding) and items (Oathkeeper Weapon IIRC). Particularly those elements that rely on a mark unless he can mark an enemy and I wouldn't be surprised if he has his aura and a dedicated mark too (one class feature sounds distinctly mark like). The question has to be if everything in essentials should be compatible with previous material or not. It's pretty clear the Mage and Cleric are, so maybe if something really wants to be different like the knight for the benefit of the game it should be relatively incompatible with portions the existing fighter class and vice versa for balance.Edit: Also, hilariously I just realized that some PPs like Pit Fighter are much reduced in effectiveness for the Knight. Because melee basic attacks don't count as being from your class the main feature of the pit fighter - wisdom to damage - doesn't work at all for the knight who only has a melee basic attack. So that's an example of a pretty silly "incompatibility". I imagine though the Knight will have its own PPs that probably boost its aura or change how that works.</blockquote>

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