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Message: <blockquote data-quote="1of3" data-source="post: 6299502" data-attributes="member: 48555">Tying the concept to character classes incurs the following problems:- You cannot have Niche Protection, if you have two members of the same class. Which is obviously not the case. You can have characters with the same class that are very different.- If two different classes use different mechanics, by your reasoning, they have different niches, so they won't compete for spotlight. That is not the case. You can either use thief skill to scout a dungeon, or hit it with divination spells.- Assuming that niche = class, also means that you cannot choose abilities within a class. Because once you choose a class feature, you will lack certain others. Therefore you cannot possibly "fill" your niche. - Also you cannot account for different campaigns and play styles.If you believe that niche protection is on a fundamental level tied to classes, you have to disbelieve my whole argument right from the beginning, because then it does not reliably serve spotlight management.</blockquote>