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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GM Dave" data-source="post: 5853698" data-attributes="member: 6687992">Personally, class rarity is a silly reference for players or campaign world building.1>  Amongst players telling them they can't play a class because someone else is playing an uncommon or rare class is not going to earn any fun scores.  Players want to play what they want to play.  RPGs are a mind kick game and anytime that a silly rule gets in the way of having that kick of fun the rule is going to get turfed.2>  As a world building tool it makes less sense because players do not represent normal people having normal encounters.  Normal people don't deal with kings and assassins but these types of encounters are very common for adventurers.  How many ninjas does a normal person encounter?  Rare is a good description but to an adventurer or a ninja hero they appear in every restaurant in a city they might choose to eat at.A farmer might never see a high priest of an evil god but players regularly hunt them down along with vampires, mummies, dragons, and dozens of other things that would be described as rare or unheard of to the regular person.3>  Finally, when selecting something for an encounter, I'm not going to stop from choosing a Druid because I used a Druid in my last encounter.  If I've decided that I currently have a druid fetish then I'm going to select another Druid and not care how rare some person in an office looking out at the fog thinks these type of events should be.  I'm just going to choose what I want for the monsters side based on what I think is a fun challenge for my players.I'm planning for my PF sat game.  I'm borrowing ideas from Warhammer Fantasy and their line of Skaven because they are kwel ideas and some of my players are familiar with the model line (a couple own Skaven armies) and one player choose a Ratling type of race from PF Bestiary 3.I don't care whether the book says and supports rules for Slaves, Clan Rats, Doom Wheels, or Eshin Assassins or how rare these might be.  I had a vision of a few interesting encounters and filled in the pieces.  One of my player's is playing a Ninja so I choose to put the Eshin in the encounter to give a little counter play.  I have a player using an alchemist; so, I'm putting in a Doom Wheel in one of my encounters (also gives a bypass in the lighting bolts generated for the player running around with DR 5 and Fire Protection 5).I used slaves like minions in an encounter to give the negative channeler something to blast in another encounter.I give people challenges and interesting story opportunities to push them from using the same tactics each time.  If that means I might need to lean into one group or another then that is what I will do.</blockquote>

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