Shieldhaven
Explorer
Chris_Nightwing -
They do, kinda. They don't tell you what you're allowed to buy, but they give you exclusive lists of benefits, with at-wills, signature or domain spells, and so on. It only makes sense that they'd have to structure the fighter and rogue options a bit differently to accommodate their "always-on" style - that is, they refresh all of their options at the top of every round.
Personally, I think that if they're not going to go with the 3.x and 4e (and WoW, and so on) vision of the rogue as a melee DPS monster, then I'd like to see the rogue focus on skill use and such as a means of being a melee or ranged debuffer. They might add to this the ability to "store up" expertise dice from round to round on a target, preparing for that single devastating strike.
Listening to Mearls and Crawford talk about various classes just now has been, for me, a good reminder that they're still at an early stage of their development process, and it's still completely okay if an iteration falls apart. The poll-responding community is reasonably united in its particular reactions, positive and negative, and I know they're right because they agree with me. (Ahem.)
Haven
They do, kinda. They don't tell you what you're allowed to buy, but they give you exclusive lists of benefits, with at-wills, signature or domain spells, and so on. It only makes sense that they'd have to structure the fighter and rogue options a bit differently to accommodate their "always-on" style - that is, they refresh all of their options at the top of every round.
Personally, I think that if they're not going to go with the 3.x and 4e (and WoW, and so on) vision of the rogue as a melee DPS monster, then I'd like to see the rogue focus on skill use and such as a means of being a melee or ranged debuffer. They might add to this the ability to "store up" expertise dice from round to round on a target, preparing for that single devastating strike.
Listening to Mearls and Crawford talk about various classes just now has been, for me, a good reminder that they're still at an early stage of their development process, and it's still completely okay if an iteration falls apart. The poll-responding community is reasonably united in its particular reactions, positive and negative, and I know they're right because they agree with me. (Ahem.)
Haven