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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6705477" data-attributes="member: 6777454"><p>Why does there need to be a "Paladin" class? Why not just multiclass Fighter and Cleric.</p><p>Why is there a "Ranger" class when you have the ability to be a Fighter who takes some Rogue and Druid levels?</p><p>And why is there a "Bard" class? Surely you can just be a Rogue and mix in a level of Fighter and a couple levels of Wizard.</p><p></p><p>Certainly nothing is stopping you from calling yourself a Paladin, Ranger or Bard under these circumstances.</p><p></p><p>Granted, perhaps the issue with the Fighter/Bard mix is that Fighter really isn't giving you anything worthwhile that you aren't getting as a Bard and levels invested in Bard you are required to carry around a musical instrument and a not insignificant portion of your character is "spent" on buying up illusion and enchantment spells.</p><p></p><p>I think the goal at some point was to be an alternative choice to Cleric since it is weird that the only required character for every party that goes out there to have is the evangelical holyman who is quite likely out there preaching about a god the rest of the party isn't dedicated to. I suppose you can go with the wild nature holyman in a pinch and taking the guy who strokes his flute in the middle of battles is supposedly an alternative though a bad one, but is that really any sort of choice?</p><p></p><p>I really don't know why there is so much focus on trying to make a Warlord that is so much like the Fighter instead of being a lot more like a Cleric that doesn't use spell-slots. The more one insists it stand in for the Fighter, the more it will fail to be an alternative choice to the Cleric.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 6705477, member: 6777454"] Why does there need to be a "Paladin" class? Why not just multiclass Fighter and Cleric. Why is there a "Ranger" class when you have the ability to be a Fighter who takes some Rogue and Druid levels? And why is there a "Bard" class? Surely you can just be a Rogue and mix in a level of Fighter and a couple levels of Wizard. Certainly nothing is stopping you from calling yourself a Paladin, Ranger or Bard under these circumstances. Granted, perhaps the issue with the Fighter/Bard mix is that Fighter really isn't giving you anything worthwhile that you aren't getting as a Bard and levels invested in Bard you are required to carry around a musical instrument and a not insignificant portion of your character is "spent" on buying up illusion and enchantment spells. I think the goal at some point was to be an alternative choice to Cleric since it is weird that the only required character for every party that goes out there to have is the evangelical holyman who is quite likely out there preaching about a god the rest of the party isn't dedicated to. I suppose you can go with the wild nature holyman in a pinch and taking the guy who strokes his flute in the middle of battles is supposedly an alternative though a bad one, but is that really any sort of choice? I really don't know why there is so much focus on trying to make a Warlord that is so much like the Fighter instead of being a lot more like a Cleric that doesn't use spell-slots. The more one insists it stand in for the Fighter, the more it will fail to be an alternative choice to the Cleric. [/QUOTE]
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